Big Ideas Audio
Big Ideas offers lectures on a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bit
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Margaret MacMillan on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years
Oxford history professor, Margaret MacMillan, with her contribution to 9/11: ...
Oxford history professor, Margaret MacMillan, with her contribution to 9/11: Ten Reflections after the Passage of Ten Years: An Opportunity to Contemplate and Remember. It was recorded on September 13, 2011. The event was produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of the United States.
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Ron Levi on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years
Academic Director for the Munk School of Global Affairs, Ron ...
Academic Director for the Munk School of Global Affairs, Ron Levi, with his contribution to 9/11: Ten Reflections after the Passage of Ten Years: An Opportunity to Contemplate and Remember. It was recorded on September 13, 2011. The event was produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of the United States.
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Michael Ignatieff on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years
Writer, teacher, and former politician, Michael Ignatieff, with his contribution ...
Writer, teacher, and former politician, Michael Ignatieff, with his contribution to 9/11: Ten Reflections after the Passage of Ten Years: An Opportunity to Contemplate and Remember. It was recorded on September 13, 2011. The event was produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of the United States.
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Bill Graham on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years
Bill Graham, Chancellor of Trinity College, University of Toronto, with ...
Bill Graham, Chancellor of Trinity College, University of Toronto, with his contribution to 9/11: Ten Reflections after the Passage of Ten Years: An Opportunity to Contemplate and Remember. It was recorded on September 13, 2011. The event was produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of the United States.
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Ron Deibert on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years
University of Toronto political scientist Ron Deibert, with his contribution ...
University of Toronto political scientist Ron Deibert, with his contribution to 9/11: Ten Reflections after the Passage of Ten Years: An Opportunity to Contemplate and Remember. It was recorded on September 13, 2011. The event was produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of the United States.
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Natalie Zemon Davis on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years
University of Toronto history professor, Natalie Zemon Davis, with her ...
University of Toronto history professor, Natalie Zemon Davis, with her contribution to 9/11: Ten Reflections after the Passage of Ten Years: An Opportunity to Contemplate and Remember. It was recorded on September 13, 2011. The event was produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of the United States.
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Louis Century on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years
University of Toronto graduate student, Louis Century, with his contribution ...
University of Toronto graduate student, Louis Century, with his contribution to 9/11: Ten Reflections after the Passage of Ten Years: An Opportunity to Contemplate and Remember. It was recorded on September 13, 2011. The event was produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of the United States.
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Elspeth Brown on 9/11: Reflections after Ten Years
University of Toronto history professor Elspeth Brown with her contribution ...
University of Toronto history professor Elspeth Brown with her contribution to 9/11: Ten Reflections after the Passage of Ten Years: An Opportunity to Contemplate and Remember. It was recorded on September 13, 2011. The event was produced by the Munk School of Global Affairs in conjunction with the Centre for the Study of the United States.
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Alex Himelfarb on the consequences of tax cuts
How Did Taxes Become a Bad Word? The Former Clerk ...
How Did Taxes Become a Bad Word? The Former Clerk of the Privy Council, Alex Himelfarb, discusses why we should be investing more, not less, in our future. While today's political leaders exalt the benefits of increased tax-cutting, Himelfarb argues that further tax cuts will come with serious consequences, including cuts to services and deeper inequality. According to Himelfarb, what we need is nothing less than a re-think about what our future is worth. His lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
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Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram
Leonard Susskind of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics discusses ...
Leonard Susskind of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics discusses the indestructability of information and the nature of black holes in a lecture entitled The World As Hologram.
