Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)

MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part Three SOCIALISM AND FREEDOM Karl Polanyi was a life-long socialist, but he opposed the tyranny and bureaucracy of Communism just as strongly as the rule of the market.

MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part One A marketplace whose ?laws? determine social possibilities is the dominant economic idea of our time. David Cayley explores the thought of Karl Polanyi, one of this idea?s greatest critics.

MARKETS AND SOCIETY, Part One A marketplace whose ?laws? determine social possibilities is the dominant economic idea of our time. David Cayley explores the thought of Karl Polanyi, one of this idea?s greatest critics.

Michael Enright, host of The Sunday Edition on CBC Radio One, explores the two aspects of optimism: Kay Redfield Jamieson talks about exuberence and Peter Kramer argues against depression.

Mongrel cities are a twenty-first century reality. Multiculturalism is an ideal about the kind of country we want to be and how we might live together. But can multiculturalism overcome the tribal tendencies that often accompany immigration? In the ...

All the rules change in emergencies. Or do they? IDEAS host Paul Kennedy and philosophers Michael Blake, Sophia Moreau and Arthur Ripstein discuss urgent?and topical?questions. Listen. Before it's too late.

Alexandre Trudeau deflates myths of Canada?s peacekeeping prowress during the Cold War and 1990s, and challenges us to become leaders in settling some of the today's messy conflicts.

Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major ...

Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major ...

Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major ...

Organic food has jumped from the margins to the mainstream and is now the fastest growing food category on supermarket shelves. What started as a social movement has become an industry with companies like General Mills, ConAgra and Kraft as major ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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. ...