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In Search of A Better World

An essential analysis of the major human rights struggles of our times by an internationally renowned human rights lawyer and former UN prosecutor.

The Malaise of Modernity

In his 1991 CBC Massey Lectures, philosopher Charles Taylor elucidates the modern concept of self-fulfilment.

Payback

In her 2008 CBC Massey Lectures, Margaret Atwood delivers a wide ranging, entertaining, and imaginative look at the topic of debt.

The Educated Imagination

Northrop Frye's 1962 CBC Massey Lectures provide a wonderful and concise introduction to his theories of literature and literary education.

The Cult of Efficiency

Janice Gross Stein illuminates public education and universal health care, locally and globally, as flashpoints in the debate about their efficiency.

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing discusses personal freedom and responsibility in a world prone inherited structures of unquestioned belief.

Necessary Illusions

Noam Chomsky considers how a democratized media could give us more meaningful participation in social and political life.

Player One

Douglas Coupland explores modern crises by way of a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster.

Reset

Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the economy, the environment, and humanity.

The Return of History

A timely and fascinating analysis of twenty-first-century geopolitics by Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General Jennifer Welsh.

Nostalgia for the Absolute

George Steiner considers the decline of formal religious systems and the consequent moral and emotional emptiness in Western culture.

Biology As Ideology

Renowned geneticist R. C. Lewontin argues that science is a social institution and only by admitting its limitations we can appreciate its real value.