Ideas : brilliant thinkers speak their minds /
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Fredericton, N.B. :
Goose Lane,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- "The best ideas you'll hear tonight" / Bernie Lucht
- Apocalypses: prophecies, cults and millennial beliefs through the ages / Eugen Weber
- Woodcock on anarchy / George Woodcock
- The empty society / Paul Goodman
- On religion and language / Northrop Frye
- The secular messiahs / George Steiner
- Dictatorships and democracies / Ronald Wintrobe
- Community and its counterfeits / John McKnight
- The public good in Canada / Michael Bliss
- Debating the welfare state / William Kristol, Bob Rae, Abraham Rotstein, John Crispo
- Common culture, multiculture / Charles Taylor, Bernie Farber, Bob Davis
- The ethics of humanitarian intervention / James Orbinski
- Remembering Rwanda / Roméo Dallaire, Gerald Caplan
- The legitimacy of violence as a political act / Hannah Arendt, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Robert Lowell, Noam Chomsky
- We the people: a prescription for ending the arms race / Helen Caldicott
- A polemicist's journey / Tariq Ali
- How the world has changed / Ursula Franklin, Robert Fulford, Janice Stein
- The American stake in Europe and the European stake in the United States / Richard Holbrooke
- What has changed: the impact of 9/11 on the Middle East / Bernard Lewis
- The next ideology / Tony Judt, Margaret MacMillan, George Monbiot
- Global interdependence / Sylvia Ostry.