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  • The World After COVID

    The Munk Dialogues on a Pandemic

    Edited by Rudyard Griffiths ...
    Series series The Munk Debates
    From the world-renowned Munk Debates comes a collection of dialogues by leading intellectuals envisioning our post-pandemic future.During this time of social distancing, the acclaimed Munk Debates series have been reimagined into a series of dialogues by leading intellectuals who examine the geopolitical, economic, technological, and historical angles of this unprecedented new era.How will the ... Read more

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  • The Munk Debates

    Edited by Rudyard Griffiths, Patrick Luciani ...
    Series series The Munk Debates
    The Munk Debates is Canada's premier international debate series, a highly anticipated cultural event and feast of ideas. Launched in 2008 by philanthropists Peter and Melanie Munk, these debates bring together some of the world's greatest thinkers to discuss the most pressing political, social, and cultural issues that are shaping the course of world events. This volume includes an Introduction ... Read more

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    Jinx

    by Melissa K. Magner, Patricia M. Kaspar ...
    Narrated by Marissa DuBois ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 23 min

    Things are quiet in the morning, especially in an unassuming town like Aledale. When sixteen-year-old Jan (often referred to as “Jinx”) and her best friend Shelley attempt to catch low tide early in the morning at the local cove, Jan uncovers a little box with a mermaid carved into the lid, adorned with shining emerald eyes and a mysterious message and locket inside. After putting the necklace on, ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Rise of Populism

    The Munk Debates

    by Stephen K. Bannon, David Frum ...
    Series series Munk Debates
    The twenty-third semi-annual Munk Debate, held on November 2, 2018, pits Stephen Bannon, the CEO of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, against columnist and author David Frum to debate the future of liberalism against the rising tide of populism.Throughout the Western world, politics is undergoing a sea-change. Long-held notions of the role of government, trade and economic policy, foreign ... Read more

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  • China and the West

    The Munk Debates

    by H. R. McMaster, Michael Pillsbury, Kishore Mahbubani, Huiyao Wang ...
    Series series Munk Debates
    The twenty-fourth semi-annual Munk Debate, held on May 9, 2019, pits former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs H. R. McMaster and Director for Chinese Strategy at the D.C.-based Hudson Institute think tank Michael Pillsbury against former President of the United Nations Security Council Kishore Mahbubani and president of one of China’s top independent think tanks, the Center ... Read more

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  • State Phobia and Civil Society

    The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault

    by Mitchell Dean, Kaspar Villadsen ...
    An examination of Foucault's work to determine the relationship between the state and civil society.State Phobia and Civil Society draws extensively upon the work of Michel Foucault to argue for the necessity of the concept of the state in political and social analysis. In so doing, it takes on not only the dominant view in the human sciences that the concept of the state is outmoded, but also the ... Read more

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  • Can Donald Trump Make America Great Again?

    The Munk Debates

    by Newt Gingrich, Robert Reich, Laura Ingraham, Jennifer Granholm ...
    Series series The Munk Debates
    Will Donald J. Trump be America’s next president? For some, his brash, politically incorrect campaign is the panacea for the Washington and Wall Street elites that have saddled the country with endless wars, an anemic economy, and growing racial division. Trump’s boosters believe he will usher in a Reagan-like era of domestic prosperity at home, and free America from a destructive global web of ... Read more

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  • The 2015 Canadian Federal Election Debate on Foreign Policy

    The Munk Debates

    by Thomas Mulcair, Justin Trudeau, Stephen Harper ...
    Series series The Munk Debates
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau squared off on September 28, 2015, in Toronto, for the first-ever federal election debate on Canada’s foreign policy.Too often, foreign policy issues have been afterthoughts in federal election campaigns. Now, for the first time, Canadians will have the opportunity to see the three federal party leaders ... Read more

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  • Does State Spying Make Us Safer?

    The Munk Debate on Mass Surveillance

    by Michael Hayden, Alan Dershowitz, Glenn Greenwald, Alexis Ohanian, Edward Snowden ...
    Series series Munk Debates
    Does government surveillance make us safer? The thirteenth Munk Debate, held in Toronto on Friday, May 2, 2014, pitted Michael Hayden and Alan Dershowitz against Glenn Greenwald and Alexis Ohanian to debate whether state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedom — the democratic issue of the moment.In a risk-filled world, democracies are increasingly turning to large-scale state ... Read more

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  • Are Men Obsolete?

    The Munk Debate on Gender

    by Hanna Rosin, Maureen Dowd, Caitlin Moran, Camille Paglia ...
    Series series The Munk Debates
    For the first time in history, will it be better to be a woman than a man in the upcoming century? The twelfth semi-annual Munk Debate pits Hanna Rosin and Maureen Dowd against Caitlin Moran and Camille Paglia to debate one of the biggest socio-economic phenomena of our time — the relative decline of the power and status of men in the workplace, in the family, and society at large.Men have ... Read more

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  • Has Obama Made the World a More Dangerous Place?

    The Munk Debate on America Foreign Policy

    by Bret Stephens, Fareed Zakaria, Robert Kagan, Anne-Marie Slaughter ...
    Series series Munk Debates
    The fourteenth semi-annual Munk Debate, which will be held in Toronto on November 5, 2014, pits Bret Stephens and Robert Kagan against Fareed Zakaria and Anne-Marie Slaughter to debate the legacy of President Obama.From Ukraine to the Middle East to China, the United States is redefining its role in international affairs. Alliance building, public diplomacy, and eschewing traditional warfare in ... Read more

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  • Can the World Tolerate an Iran with Nuclear Weapons?

    by Amos Yadlin, Charles Krauthammer, Fareed Zakaria, Vali Nasr ...
    Series series The Munk Debates
    With tensions between Iran, Israel, and Western powers reaching new highs over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear enrichment program, the tenth edition of the Munk Debates investigates how the world should respond to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.For some, the case for a pre-emptive strike on Iran is ironclad. An Iranian bomb would flood the volatile Middle East with nuclear weapons and trap Israel in a ... Read more

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