Passages

Dennis Lee's poems sound the depths of human interiority, but also show that interiority has external (and political) correlates. The poems featured in this summer reading bonus episode are collected ...

4 Aug 20256min

For Andrew Coyne, Canadian democracy has become more ceremony than substance. His 2025 book The Crisis of Canadian Democracy maps the imbalances between government and Parliament, leaders and caucus, ...

1 Juli 20251h

Richard Kearney is keenly aware of the power and appeal of vision, but shows that it’s rather touch that we find at the heart of the senses, and the heart of philosophy. Kearney’s work is profoundly e...

25 Apr 20251h 13min

Human beings are forever drawn to simplify in thought what it is that makes us individuals. But there is an alternative, one that Shannon Hoff articulates in her book How to Read Hegel Now. Shannon Ho...

27 Mars 20251h 1min

If we dig deeply into and think richly about any particular topic, we usually unearth a perspective much wider than our planned excavation.Herodotus wrote in the fifth century BCE about the invasion o...

24 Jan 202555min

With winter solstice upon us, here's some holiday reading connecting up to themes from across this season of Passages. Depending on edition, this abridgement is of either chapter 34 or 35 of Herman Me...

22 Dec 202410min

Inexplicable interruptions can fill us with terror, but they also tear open a space for thinking, and for thinking otherwise. While we want to believe that our tools are adequate to our tasks and our ...

25 Nov 20241h 6min

While a lot has changed since 1867, something that stands the test of time in Karl Marx’s Capital is its aspiration to comprehensively understand the world by bringing to bear every intellectual and l...

6 Okt 202457min