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Robert Adams reviews "An Equal Music" by Vikram Seth.
Bioethicists Margaret Somerville and James Hughes discuss the need of the moratorium on the development of nanotechnology.
Robert Kagan on America and Eruope - The Growing Division. Robert Kagan, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former State Department official, writes a monthly column on world affairs for The Washington Post.
Zach Hall, Dean of Research at the School of Medicine of University of Southern California, on Neuroethics: A Challenge for a New Age.
Lee Smolin of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics on Why Does Science Work?
Andrei Markovits of University of Michigan on American Sports Culture
Simon Winchester on his book The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Charles Krauthammer on Israel and the Middle East: On the Road to Where?
Seyla Benhabib of Yale University on Transformations of Citizenship: The Case of Contemporary Europe.
Thomas King on What Is It About Us That You Don't Like? Stories and the Native Canadian experience.
Mark Kingwell, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, gives two lectures on "Crossing the Threshold: Towards a Philosophy of the Interior"
Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University on A Case for Globalization
Lester Thurow of MIT on Fortune Favours the Bold: Building Global Prosperity
University of Manchester's Terry Eagleton on Terror and Modernity.
Christopher di Carlo of University of Ontario Institure of Technology. "The Evolution of Religion"
Gabor Mate and Gordon Neufeld introduce their book "Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Matter".
Novelist and essayist John Ralston Saul on the New Era of Irregular Warfare.
Journalist Robert Fulford on Canada and America: The Longest Undefended Neurosis in the World.
Terry Eagleton, of the University of Manchester, on "Beyond Terror".
Dr. Margot Badran of Harvard University discusses Islamic Feminism. Islamic Feminism: Explications, Circulations, & Practices.
Dr. Asma Barlas of Ithaca College discusses Islamic Feminism: Explications, Circulations & Practices
Prodessor Khaled Abou El Fadl of the UCLA School of Law on "Tolerating Differences in Islamic Law".
Lauren Greenfield, Photographer, discusses her work on "Girl Culture" and "Fast Forward" This lecture includes still photography by Lauren Greenfield throughout the show.
David Welch of the University of Toronto on Iraq: A Just War?
Frans De Waal, Emory University. on Moral Systems Among Primates
Lewis Lapham, editor emeritus of Harper's Magazine and writer Margaret MacMillan on Living with the Group of One: American Policies in a New Era.
J. Michael Dash, Director of African Studies, New York University on Disappearing Island: Haiti, History, and the Hemisphere
Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power discusses the book and the documentary with journalist Marc Glassman
Her Excellency Adrienne Clarkson, the Governor General of Canada, "A Forgiving Society"
Jennifer Welsh of Oxford University on Where Do I Belong? Exploring Citizenship in the 21st Century
Author and philosopher Christopher Phillips on his book Six Questions of Socrates
Author Tom Harpur on his book The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light
Noah Novogrodsky of University of Toronto on the International Criminal Court: Will it Work?
Janine Marchessault (University of Toronto) on Marshall McLuhan
Brian Greene is interviewed by Jay Ingram on The Fabric Of The Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Ron Pruessen of the University of Toronto on Sopranos in the West Wing: Television Clues Concerning American Behaviour in the International Arena
Sir Martin Gilbert - the official biographer of Winston Churchill on Churchill's War Leadership
British historian and biographer Andrew Roberts introduces his new book, "What Might Have Been: Leading Historians on Twelve What If's of History"
Victor Davis Hanson (California State University) on Israel and Defence of the West
Joseph Nye (Harvard University) on Soft Power and the War on Terror
Journalist and TV Producer Patrick Watson: "First Class Media, Second Class Message"
Molefi Asante of Temple University in Philadelphia on The Roots of Violence
Paula Goering and Michael Shapcott on Social Inequality and Mental Health
Dark Age Ahead: Broadcaster Andy Barrie interviews Jane Jacobs
Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy for HIV/Aids, on Global Health.
Adam Nicolson introduces his book "God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible".
Niall Ferguson (Oxford University) on his book Colossus: The Price of America's Empire
Robert Fisk on The Fantasy War: Weapons of Mass Destruction and Democracy
Donna Gabaccia (University of Pittsburgh) on The Transatlantic Creation of "Italian Cuisine"
Jeffrey Pilcher on the question, Was the Taco Invented in Southern California? The Americanisation of Mexican Cuisine
Martin Manalansan (University of Illinois) on A Palatable Multiculturalism?: Fusion Cuisine and a Culinary/Political Make-Over
Bambi Haggins on Miscegenation is Manhattan: Post 9/11, Post Racial Mentality and Interracial Relationships on Sex and the City and Friends
Robert Adams reviews "Family Matters" by Rohinton Mistry.
Christopher Dewdney on his book Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark
Anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist Alberto Manguel discusses his book "A Reading Diary - A Year of Favourite Books".
Fouad Ajami (Director of the Middle East Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University) on Iraq and the Struggle for the Arab World
Robert Adams reviews Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter on their book The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't be Jammed
Dr. Michael Banner on Genetics and Human Nature. Dr. Banner is an evangelical Anglican ethicist, director of ESRC Genomic Policy in the School of Molecular and Clinical Medicine at University of Edinburgh.
Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, delivers a lecture based on her book "Exuberance: The Passion for Life".
Ralph Wood of Baylor University (Waco, Texas) delivers a lecture entitled, Tolkien and Lewis: Friends and Combatants.
Journalist Margaret Wente on being An Accidental Canadian
