Ideas

Your Duty: Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step Two)

Becoming Aaju Peter: A Guardian of Inuk Language and Culture

PT 2: What Lies Beneath the Surface: Anthropologist Wade Davis

Inuit Approaches to Conversation and Conflict Resolution

Reith Lectures #4: Can we change violent minds?

Reith Lectures #3: Does trauma cause violence?

Techno-Utopia or The Billionaires’ Wet Dream

Polarizing Times Call for Nietzsche’s Practice of 'Passing By'

Searching for Truth: The Honourable Louise Arbour

Reith Lectures #2: Is there such a thing as evil?

The Never-Ending Fall of Rome

A Minor Revolution: Prioritizing Kids' Rights Benefits Us All

What 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes would say about American democracy today

This episode of Ideas from the Trenches explores the political theory of Thomas Hobbes through the lens of anxiety, particularly in the context of contemporary democracies. It features Vertica, a PhD student, who argues that anxiety is a crucial but often overlooked factor in understanding political behavior. The podca...

ARC Ensemble: The Forgotten Music of Exiled Composers

The Reith Lectures #1: Is violence normal?

Woke Racism and the Language Police | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & John McWhorter

This Way to Re-Enchantment, with Philosopher Charles Taylor

What Lies Beneath the Surface of Modernity: Anthropologist Wade Davis

Nine: A Number of Synchronicity

We Give You Five: Odd in More Ways Than One