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There has been an odd confluence of events over the past couple weeks that has managed to intensify the sense of a conflict between two of our most important democratic institutions: the law and the media.
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Does the failure on the part of Israel to enable the provision of humanitarian aid or to do everything in its power to prevent civilian casualties suggest âa blameworthy indifference to Palestinian livesâ?
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This isn't a bonus episode of The Minefield. Instead, we wanted to introduce you to a podcast we think of as a kind of kindred spirit to ours. Given the rapid increase in the number of podcasts over the last 7 years or so, it can be difficult to find offerings of real quality, intellectual curiosity, and genuine depth.
IDEAS from the CBC is a rich and wide-ranging exploration of contemporary thought and intellectual history. In the age of clickbait and superficial headlines, this is unapologetically a program for people who like to think and have their horizons expanded.
The clip you're going to hear from a documentary called "Our Bodies, Our Cells", which examines the microscopic cosmos of the body. The closer the IDEAS team zoomed in, the closer they got to some of the fundamental truths about life ⊠and found it even stranger, more wondrous, and more paradoxical than they could have imagined.
If it manages to pique your curiosity, you can find more episodes of IDEAS wherever you get your podcasts.
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It is important to remember that Thoreauâs motivation for withdrawing was neither escapism nor apolitical quietism. The fact that he departed on 4 July signals an invitation to discover a different way of living together.
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If Thoreau regards withdrawal and solitude as means by which we learn to escape self-deception, then they may well be little more than preparation for the moral demands friends make of one another.
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Solitude is neither alone-ness nor idleness. It is strenuous and takes practice. Solitude does not simply happen in the way that isolation or loneliness does â it must be inhabited.
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Are periodic bouts of withdrawal from lifeâs urgent demands and heated debates necessary to regain a sense of our shared humanity, and to renew the commitments that sustain the moral life?
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Waleed Aly, Scott Stephens and philosopher Stephanie Collins field questions from a live studio audience on crowd-behaviour, conformity and the importance of dissent.
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Ever since Plato, âcrowdsâ have been associated with irrationality, emotivism, conformism, short-term thinking, and herd-like behaviour. But what if it turns out that crowds are collectively more intelligent than their individual members?
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What are we trying to convey when we reach for a word like âevilâ? Is it something about a personâs actions or character? Is it what they do or the manner in which they do it?
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It is worth reflecting, not just on what is singular about Taylor Swift at this particular cultural moment â why she attracts both the loyalty and the animus that she does â but on what it is about live music events that now draw millions of people to them.
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Over the last 18 months, enormously powerful generative AI tools have been placed in the hands of anyone who wants them; as a consequence, the internet and our social media feeds have been inundated with wholly or partially synthetic content.
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Because it is sustained by nothing more substantial than a weave of trusted institutions, shared habits and moral commitments, democracies are highly susceptible to the corrosive effects of distrust; Jedediah Purdy joins Waleed and Scott to discuss the necessary conditions for democratic life.
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Ours is a time when institutional distrust, digital disinformation and mutual suspicion have become pervasive â but can democracy withstand epistemic and social fragmentation of this kind?
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Professor Maryanne Wolf joins Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens to discuss whether we are entering an age of widespread moral illiteracy â an incapacity to engage in the processes that make up the habit of deep reading.
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It is fair to say that boredom is a distinctly modern terror. But, as Stan Grant discusses with Waleed and Scott, what if existential boredom points us to our deeper need?
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Spanish painter Francisco de Goyaâs depiction of Saturn eating his son is a haunting portrait of lust and the fear of oneâs own finitude. Christos Tsiolkas joins Waleed and Scott to look into that darkness, and discover what looks back.
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Now that John Cleese has announced that the iconic series will return, itâs worth examining what made Fawlty Towers a masterpiece â and whether its interaction with the political climate of the 1970s had anything to do with it.
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Platforms like Spotify have transformed the way people listen to music through their use of recommendation algorithms and customised playlists designed to cater to either a particular activity or a particular mood.
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Australian novelist Briohny Doyle joins Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens to examine Charles Dickensâs unforgettable tale of misanthropy and remorse, and discover how its aesthetic techniques and ethical vision continue to speak to us today.
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