Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Canadians have come to believe that the diversity we enjoy in our country is familiar and reassuring. But, what about the future of a Canada which lives with difference but does not understand it? Is it necessary to prepare for a future in which ...

Lawrence Wright spent five years researching the history of the events leading to the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers in New York City. His book about the subject, The Looming Tower won the 2007 Lionel Gelber Prize, and the 2007 Pulitzer ...

Two giants of twentieth century psychology, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, mapped the unconscious in ways that still resonate today. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy interJosh Cohen and David Tacey, authors of books on Freud and Jung, respectively, in Granta Books? ...

Peter Watson is the author of Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud. He describes the history of ideas from antiquity to the present day. He reveals the links that travel down through the ages, from religion to science to the arts.

Mark Jaccard is a professor of environmental management at Simon Fraser University and an internationally acclaimed energy economist and consultant. In this lecture he challenges the assumption that fossil fuels will be the death of us and posits that ...

The modern world seems bent on its own destruction. A theological movement called ?Radical Orthodoxy? believes it has uncovered the roots of the modern mistake. David Cayley talks to the movement?s founders and leading writers, John Milbank and Catherine ...

Harvard history of science professor Steven Shapin assesses whether science really defines how we think, and questions if we actually mean anything when we say ?scientific method.?

Harvard history of science professor Steven Shapin assesses whether science really defines how we think, and questions if we actually mean anything when we say ?scientific method.?

Harvard history of science professor Steven Shapin assesses whether science really defines how we think, and questions if we actually mean anything when we say ?scientific method.?

Harvard history of science professor Steven Shapin assesses whether science really defines how we think, and questions if we actually mean anything when we say ?scientific method.?

Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition, in conversation with the Canadian philosopher, thinker and winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize, Charles Taylor.

From his beginnings in a residential school in British Columbia, to his current position at the top of the international art market, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun says he paints because it allows him to speak the truth. He talks with IDEAS host Paul Kennedy.

One night in 1986, near the small town of Chernobyl, Ukraine, there was an explosion in Reactor 4 at the nuclear power station. Around the town today is a ?Zone of Absolute Exclusion,? where no one is supposed to live, and nothing should be harvested. ...

One night in 1986, near the small town of Chernobyl, Ukraine, there was an explosion in Reactor 4 at the nuclear power station. Around the town today is a ?Zone of Absolute Exclusion,? where no one is supposed to live, and nothing should be harvested. ...

Have you ever read Don Quixote? There are several English translations of it. Which Don Quixote was it? Or how about Anna Karenina? Unless you are fluent in the original languages in which these works were published, you?ve read them through the prism ...

Have you ever read Don Quixote? There are several English translations of it. Which Don Quixote was it? Or how about Anna Karenina? Unless you are fluent in the original languages in which these works were published, you?ve read them through the prism ...

Science is exposing the secret life of sleep. But why we spend a third of our lives cut off from the world is still a mystery. Jeff Warren follows the cycles of sleep and dreams?and what they reveal about who we are.

Science is exposing the secret life of sleep. But why we spend a third of our lives cut off from the world is still a mystery. Jeff Warren follows the cycles of sleep and dreams?and what they reveal about who we are.

Is British society Western civilization's "canary in the mine"? A British psychiatrist and writer traces the descent of a culture towards wanton self-destructiveness and alerts us to the new face of barbarism.