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1740 - How Hitler's 'favourite' reptile became a geopolitical symbol

IDEAS is a deep-dive into contemporary thought and intellectual history. No topic is off-limits. In the age of clickbait and superficial headlines, it's for people who like to think.

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1740 - How Hitler's 'favourite' reptile became a geopolitical symbol

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1737 - Do you truly live in a ‘free’ society? It’s complicated

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1734 - Democracies 'stay true to your values' tackling borders, says U.S. expert

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1733 - How a network of journalists uncovered billions and toppled world leaders

Tue, 08 Apr 2025
1732 - Can you return home? This author says revision offers radical possibilities

Mon, 07 Apr 2025
1731 - How a conspiracy theory becomes 'real'

Fri, 04 Apr 2025
1730 - Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step Three)

Thu, 03 Apr 2025
1729 - How Galileo revolutionized science to make way for modernity

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1728 - Joyce Wieland's art of nationhood embodied Canadian pride

Mon, 31 Mar 2025
1727 - Protecting childhood innocence is a disservice to kids, argues expert

Thu, 27 Mar 2025
1726 - Why a small town newspaper is thriving in a declining industry

Wed, 26 Mar 2025
1725 - A School that Feels like Home: Revitalizing Mi’kmaq Language in Cape Breton

Tue, 25 Mar 2025
1724 - How Iqaluit's learning institute gave a generation of Inuit adults a path back to Inuktut

Mon, 24 Mar 2025
1723 - We believe in artificial intelligence the same way we believe in ghosts

Wed, 12 Mar 2025
1722 - A rallying cry to extend human rights to our data-generating digital selves

Tue, 11 Mar 2025
1721 - How To Build An Empire: The Aeneid Guide to Understanding U.S. Politics

Mon, 10 Mar 2025
1720 - Believe in ghosts? Why people see spirits and sense visitations

Fri, 07 Mar 2025
1719 - How Inuit Storytelling and Modern Horror Fiction Come Together

Wed, 05 Mar 2025
1718 - How Christian ethics can inform a peaceful resolution to Russia’s war in Ukraine

Mon, 03 Mar 2025
1717 - The UN at 80: Successes, Hopes, Failures, and Challenges

Wed, 26 Feb 2025
1716 - Remember the Last Time Canada Feared the U.S. Would Swallow It Up?

Tue, 25 Feb 2025
1715 - Why learn improv? Your unscripted mind can surprise even you

Mon, 24 Feb 2025
1714 - Naming Life: The Race to Classify Millions of Unidentified Species

Wed, 19 Feb 2025
1713 - Writer Adam Gopnik on the Evolution of Antisemitism Into Anti-urbanism

Tue, 18 Feb 2025
1712 - Swinging and Singing: The Violin

Mon, 17 Feb 2025
1711 - IDEAS Introduces On Drugs | A Troubled Relationship With Alcohol

Thu, 13 Feb 2025
1710 - Rights vs Deservingness: How We Decide Who Belongs

Wed, 12 Feb 2025
1709 - Dreaming of Better: Living With Bipolar Disorder

Tue, 11 Feb 2025
1708 - North on North: Stories from the Only Independent Publisher in the Canadian Arctic

Mon, 10 Feb 2025
1707 - From Grit to Glory: Canada’s First Black Woman Publisher

Fri, 07 Feb 2025
1706 - Indigenous Journalist Calls for a Revolution of Genuine Action

Thu, 06 Feb 2025
1705 - 'Here lived Chava Rosenfarb' : A Profile of the Canadian Yiddish writer

Wed, 05 Feb 2025
1704 - The Many Lives of Maria Chapdelaine

Tue, 04 Feb 2025
1703 - The Amazing Henry Box Brown: From Fugitive Slave to Ingenious Entertainer

Mon, 03 Feb 2025
1702 - Loving Your Country in the 21st Century (Step Two)

Thu, 30 Jan 2025
1701 - Becoming Aaju Peter: A Guardian of Inuk Language and Culture

Wed, 29 Jan 2025
1700 - PT 2: What Lies Beneath the Surface: Anthropologist Wade Davis

Tue, 28 Jan 2025
1699 - Inuit Approaches to Conversation and Conflict Resolution

Mon, 27 Jan 2025
1698 - Reith Lectures #4: Can we change violent minds?

Fri, 24 Jan 2025
1697 - Reith Lectures #3: Does trauma cause violence?

Thu, 23 Jan 2025
1696 - Techno-Utopia or The Billionaires’ Wet Dream

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1695 - Who Owns Outer Space?

Tue, 21 Jan 2025
1694 - Polarizing Times Call for Nietzsche’s Practice of 'Passing By'

Mon, 20 Jan 2025
1693 - Searching for Truth: The Honourable Louise Arbour

Fri, 17 Jan 2025
1692 - Reith Lectures #2: Is there such a thing as evil?

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