Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow our education system is far from its original ideals
Acclaimed author Gabor Maté joins the conversation in part two of our series exploring Wilhelm von Humboldt’s public education system. Maté is a form…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Meet Alex Neve, the 2025 CBC Massey Lecturer
Ahead of the Massey tour, Alex Neve sits down with Nahlah Ayed to talk about his lectures, Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World.
Thi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Public education was built on this key concept — now it's gone
Two hundred years ago, Wilhelm von Humboldt created the education system as we know it today. At the heart of his philosophy of education was the con…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
How this 19th-century Indian feminist defied colonial customs
In the 19th-century, feminist and scholar Pandita Ramabai travelled America delivering lectures on how the caste system and patriarchy shaped the tra…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Why there's no place like Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was an instant bestseller in 1900. It's still popular today, with a sequel to the movie Wicked coming out this fall. For 1…
6 months ago
Lessons from last century’s failed Mideast peace deal
When Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat met in Washington to sign the first Oslo Accords…
6 months ago
How the principles of St. Augustine guide the Catholic Church
Pope Leo XIV has been deeply influenced by St. Augustine, and so, the fourth century titan of Western thought has re-entered the global conversation.…
6 months ago
Are we 'born obsolete'? How technology makes us feel ashamed
Günther Anders predicted the exact technological crises we’re facing today… but 70 years ago. The uncanny relevance of Anders’ thoughts about technol…
6 months ago
What does it mean for a river to be ‘alive’?
Renowned natural history writer Robert Macfarlane traveled to Ecuador, India and Quebec, pondering the question of whether rivers are living beings -…
6 months, 1 week ago
What Chinese Science Fiction Has to Tell Us
With vengeful alien civilizations, virtual realities and hologram wives, Chinese science fiction is in its heyday — not just in China but around the …
6 months, 1 week ago