Ideas
IDEAS is a place for people who like to think. If you value deep conversation and unexpected reveals, this show is for you. From the roots and rise of authoritarianism to near-death experiences to the history of toilets, no topic is off-limits. Hosted by Nahlah Ayed, we’re home to immersive documentaries and fascinating interviews with some of the most consequential thinkers of our time. With an award-winni
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- 1 Annihilation of CasteB.R. Ambedkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Born Criminal: Matilda Jocelyn Gage, Radical SuffragistAngelica Shirley Carpenter · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Caste MattersSuraj Yengde · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 ConfessionsJean-Jacques Rousseau · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Essentials of HindutvaVinayak Damodar Savarkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Hind SwarajMahatma Gandhi · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 History of Woman SuffrageElizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Jocelyn Gage · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 On HashishWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 The Annotated Wizard of OzMichael Patrick Hearn · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Teachers, Administrators, and ParentsHarris Cooper · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The City of GodSaint Augustine · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Discovery of IndiaJawaharlal Nehru · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits LearningEtta Kralovec · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Marvelous Land of OzL. Frank Baum · 1× across 1 episode
- 15 The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical ReflectionsSuraj Yengde · 1× across 1 episode
- 16 The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum · 1× across 1 episode
- 17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 18 Waiting for a VisaB.R. Ambedkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 19 Woman, Church and StateMatilda Jocelyn Gage · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Annihilation of CasteB.R. Ambedkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Born Criminal: Matilda Jocelyn Gage, Radical SuffragistAngelica Shirley Carpenter · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Caste MattersSuraj Yengde · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 ConfessionsJean-Jacques Rousseau · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Essentials of HindutvaVinayak Damodar Savarkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Hind SwarajMahatma Gandhi · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 History of Woman SuffrageElizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Jocelyn Gage · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 On HashishWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 The Annotated Wizard of OzMichael Patrick Hearn · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Teachers, Administrators, and ParentsHarris Cooper · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The City of GodSaint Augustine · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Discovery of IndiaJawaharlal Nehru · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits LearningEtta Kralovec · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Marvelous Land of OzL. Frank Baum · 1× across 1 episode
- 15 The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical ReflectionsSuraj Yengde · 1× across 1 episode
- 16 The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum · 1× across 1 episode
- 17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 18 Waiting for a VisaB.R. Ambedkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 19 Woman, Church and StateMatilda Jocelyn Gage · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Annihilation of CasteB.R. Ambedkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Born Criminal: Matilda Jocelyn Gage, Radical SuffragistAngelica Shirley Carpenter · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 Caste MattersSuraj Yengde · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 ConfessionsJean-Jacques Rousseau · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Essentials of HindutvaVinayak Damodar Savarkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Hind SwarajMahatma Gandhi · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 History of Woman SuffrageElizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Jocelyn Gage · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 On HashishWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 The Annotated Wizard of OzMichael Patrick Hearn · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Teachers, Administrators, and ParentsHarris Cooper · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The City of GodSaint Augustine · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Discovery of IndiaJawaharlal Nehru · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits LearningEtta Kralovec · 1× across 1 episode
- 14 The Marvelous Land of OzL. Frank Baum · 1× across 1 episode
- 15 The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical ReflectionsSuraj Yengde · 1× across 1 episode
- 16 The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum · 1× across 1 episode
- 17 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical ReproductionWalter Benjamin · 1× across 1 episode
- 18 Waiting for a VisaB.R. Ambedkar · 1× across 1 episode
- 19 Woman, Church and StateMatilda Jocelyn Gage · 1× across 1 episode
Adventures of the late great 'Bird Man' Bill Montevecchi
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How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Idi Amin's Uganda
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Unpacking the contradictions in America's ideals
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Human emotion behind AI chatbot design
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Ulysses
James Joyce
and then when someone makes a reference to ulysses or something and they're a graduate student you just assume that they have read so much more ▶ tap to play from here
A poet's journey from being exiled to gaining citizenship
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Eradication
Mayu Ali
in his memoir titled eradication but you described that river as a bridge between two worlds ▶ tap to play from here
What the far-right are borrowing from history’s fascism aesthetics
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What Mussolini's rise and fall reveals about modern authoritarianism
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From fascism to democracy
Robert Ventreska
you've written a book on the first democratic election in italy ▶ tap to play from here
How our education system is far from its original ideals
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Public education was built on this key concept — now it's gone
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Lucinde
Friedrich Schlegel
and so th there was like a segment of society that was liberated progressive the women played in a very important role and one of these people from yena who you know again the same group of people the humboldt and so on wrote a novel called lucinda ▶ tap to play from here
Bible
Various
bill dung the word first appears around the late thirteenth century when the bible is translated from latin into german ▶ tap to play from here
Emile: or, On Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
particularly in one book called the emile ▶ tap to play from here
For 40 years trains brought classrooms to children
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Confronting the escalating attacks on universities
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Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy Teaching, Learning and Researching While Black
Melinda S. Smith
she is the co editor of nuances of blackness in the canadian academy teaching learning and researching while black ▶ tap to play from here
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder
one of the greatest thinkers on this idea of on tyranny was actually recruit from the united states to university of toronto from from yale university ▶ tap to play from here
Should homework be banned for students?
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The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning
Etta Kralovec
she's also co author of a book called the end of homework how homework disrupts families overburdens children and limits learning ▶ tap to play from here
The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Teachers, Administrators, and Parents
Harris Cooper
it's called the battle over homework common ground for teachers administrators and parents ▶ tap to play from here
How a German philosopher predicted our digital age
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin
benjamin wrote about the aura in an essay he published in nineteen thirty six called the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction ▶ tap to play from here
On Hashish
Walter Benjamin
here's what benjamin himself wrote in nineteen thirty a work later published with the title on hashish ▶ tap to play from here
How the principles of St. Augustine guide the Catholic Church
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Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
there from the confessions by saint augustin of hippo ▶ tap to play from here
How an 'untouchable' inspired resistance against inequality in India
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Caste Matters
Suraj Yengde
i'm an author of cast matters and a co editor of the radical in a badger critical reflections ▶ tap to play from here
The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections
Suraj Yengde
and a co editor of the radical in a badger critical reflections ▶ tap to play from here
Waiting for a Visa
B.R. Ambedkar
in his book waiting for a visa he writes about the time his father was working in another town ▶ tap to play from here
Annihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
in his book entitled annihilation of cast mbitkar saw hindu scriptures as the bedrock of the caste system ▶ tap to play from here
Why Gandhi's vision for an inclusive India never materialized
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Hind Swaraj
Mahatma Gandhi
if you read his first book you know hinswaraj written in nineteen oh nine you know it's written in an interesting kind ▶ tap to play from here
The Discovery of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
if one were to compare sour curs and dutwa his short book on and the tour and nehru's discovery of india ▶ tap to play from here
Essentials of Hindutva
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
if one were to compare sour curs and dutwa his short book on and the tour and nehru's discovery of india ▶ tap to play from here
The suffragist who was too radical for Susan. B. Anthony
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Born Criminal: Matilda Jocelyn Gage, Radical Suffragist
Angelica Shirley Carpenter
my name is angelica shirley carpenter i'm the author of born criminal matilda jocelyn gage radical suffragist angelica shirley carpenter's book about matilda jocelyn gage was published in twenty eighteen ▶ tap to play from here
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
and what i discovered is that you can't really talk about baum without talking about his mother in law matilda jocelyn gage and in fact one of the foremost awe scholars told me that without matilda the there might not be an oz at all ▶ tap to play from here
The Annotated Wizard of Oz
Michael Patrick Hearn
michael patrick hearn is the author of the annotated wizard of oz ▶ tap to play from here
Woman, Church and State
Matilda Jocelyn Gage
you you find in her controversial book woman church and state she talks about witches ▶ tap to play from here
The Marvelous Land of Oz
L. Frank Baum
and baum created one in the second oz book the land of oz where he restores the proper ruler of oz ozma ▶ tap to play from here
History of Woman Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Jocelyn Gage
she stanton and anthony have done the first three volumes of the history of women's suffrage thousand pages each ▶ tap to play from here
Where to find 'critical hope' in hard times
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Race Matters
Cornel West
but in his book called race matters doctor west writes that for as long as hope remains and meaning is preserved the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive ▶ tap to play from here
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
in her book the silent spring which helped launch the modern environmental movement she wrote those who contemplate the beauty of the earth and find reserves of strength in that will endure as long as life lasts ▶ tap to play from here
The overlapping truths of history and fiction
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Half-Blood Blues
Esi Edugyan
essie dugen has the remarkable distinction of being a twotime giller prize winner for her novels halfblood blues and washington black ▶ tap to play from here
Washington Black
Esi Edugyan
essie dugen has the remarkable distinction of being a twotime giller prize winner for her novels halfblood blues and washington black ▶ tap to play from here
Out of the Sun
Esi Edugyan
esse also delivered the twenty twenty one c b c massey lectures out of the sun on race and storytelling ▶ tap to play from here
All That She Carried
Tiya Miles
all that she carried just after she won the cundal history prize ▶ tap to play from here
Wild Girls
Tiya Miles
and we spoke again about her subsequent book wild girls ▶ tap to play from here
The Cherokee Rose
Tiya Miles
and most recently she's written a work of fiction titled the cherokee rose ▶ tap to play from here
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
harry beatrice dow's novel uncle tom's cabin published in eighteen fifty two ▶ tap to play from here
Turn to the power of 'freudenfreude' in times of despair
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Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning
Shannon Murray, Lisa Dixon, and Jessica Riddell
lisa dixon jessica riddell and i were finishing our book shakespeare's guide to hope life and learning ▶ tap to play from here
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
James Vincent
there's a wonderful book i recommend by james vincent beyond measure the hidden history of measurement from cubits to quantum constants ▶ tap to play from here
Creating Capabilities
Martha Nussbaum
something martha nusbaum argues so well in both of these books creating capabilities and not for profit ▶ tap to play from here
Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Martha Nussbaum
creating capabilities and not for profit ▶ tap to play from here
Utopia
Thomas More
even if you haven't read it you may know that thomas more wrote the utopia ▶ tap to play from here
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