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Ideas · 2026-10-23 · 55 min · 7,770 words

How the Humanities can pull down the screens between us

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Understood the big bet. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC Podcast. A train appears on the screen, it speeds right at you. Watch out!

It seems as though the train will plunge into the darkness in which you sit. Welcome to IDEAS. I'm Nella Ayad. Turning you into a ripped sack of lacerated flesh and splintered bones and crushing into dust and into broken fragments this hall and this building so full of women, wine, music, and vice. Those are the words of an audience member from the early days of cinema, who was there. In eighteen ninety six

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