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This week we are talking about the composer Ri...

Today's topic is slavery. Enslavement – reducing a human being to be the property of another – is one of the worst things people do to each other. We probably think of it as something belonging to the past, with spectacular historical examples like th...

Today's topic is postcolonialism, which is perhaps the most important modality of the past fifty years in the humanities – the study of history, the arts, literature and culture. The most significant event of modern history was the rolling back of the...

The Big Idea this week is an architectural space, but it’s also a big idea. The synagogue is the house of prayer for Jewish people the world over. Synagogues come in many shapes and sizes, but they all share a number of functions. The synagogue is a ...

What is the most frightening word in the language? Today’s subject is cancer. The lives of almost all of us will have been touched one way or another by this disease as it affects us, our family or friends. Despite the vast amounts of money spent on ...

This week on The Big Idea, Douglass Kerr and guests discuss probably the most important story to all of us - the idea of a life story, and how one writes about their own or someone else's life.

After the Revolution, the Constitution. In the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, the federal Convention of a new nation met in closed session to debate and to draft a new frame of government, which begins with this ringing opening sentence: “We the Peopl...

If Chinese culture has a heart, it is the written character. Chinese characters probably constitute the oldest continuously used writing system in the world. The characters may not really have been invented all at once in the reign of the Yellow Empero...