BOOK CLUB: During a summer of pulling down statues and renaming buildings and streets, could the next step be the symbolic burning of books? Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a book about the burning of books in a future society that no longer reads them. Professor Dennis Hayes explores the construction and vision of the book as well as what it may or may not contribute to our understanding of the present.
#LockdownDebates: Morality during a pandemic, with Susan Neiman and Frank Furedi
#LockdownDebates: Has Covid-19 killed globalism?
#EconomyForum: Covid-19 and the US economy
#LockdownDebates: Is ‘gotcha’ journalism the new normal?
#EconomyForum: China, Covid-19 and the West
#BookClub: The moral dilemma of Ian McEwen’s Machines Like Me
#Arts&SocietyForum: How Salman Rushdie changed everything
#LockdownDebates: How much should we listen to experts?
#EducationForum: Is it time to reopen our schools?
#EconomyForum: Covid-19, from Germany to the developing world
#Arts&SocietyForum: The Burial at Thebes and the tragic imagination in poetry
#EconomyForum: How can we escape a coronavirus depression?
#EducationForum: Pedagogy and the ’Corona Classroom’
#EconomyForum: How will coronavirus affect Johnsonomics?
#PodcastOfIdeas: Is the lockdown lifting in Europe?
#PodcastOfIdeas: Has Coronavirus put an end to the generation wars?
#BookClub: Power, democracy and coronavirus in George Orwell’s Animal Farm
#SportscastOfIdeas: Missing the beautiful game
#PodcastOfIdeas: Facing the lockdown from Singapore to Johannesburg
#PodcastOfIdeas: The European response to Covid-19
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