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    How Best to Make Slavery Reparations?

    How can governments and individual companies best make reparations for slavery?

  2. Whatever Happened to the Paperless Office?

    Why do we continue to use more and more paper?

  3. Do We Need the Commonwealth?

    What's does the Commonwealth stand for the 21st century?

  4. Globalisation Is Lopsided – Interview with George Soros

    We have a global market but we don't have a global society yet, says George Soros

  5. International Justice – War Crimes on Trial

    How the trial of Slobodan Milosevic gives hope for independent international justice

  6. Legacy of Colonialism in a Modern World

    Is the legacy of colonialism's brutal passage to modernity all bad?

  7. The Power and Politics of Food – Interview with Claudia Roden

    How food reaches every aspect of life: friendship, class, health, sex and politics

  8. Intellectuals – What Are They For?

    Are intellectuals just for thinking big thoughts or can they change the world?

  9. How Can We Best Talk about Equality?

    What do we mean by equality and how can we apply it morally and politically?

  10. Russia – 10 Years after the End of the USSR

    Special report from Saint Petersburg on Russia's first decade after the Soviet Union

  11. Bill Clinton on the 21st century after 9/11 – the Richard Dimbleby Lecture

    Former US President Bill Clinton on the fight for the soul of the 21st century after 9/11

  12. To Hope Is to Be Human

    Hope may spring eternal but is it a saving grace or the great deceiver?

  13. Living with Fear

    Can we conquer fear or should we learn to live with it?

  14. Special Report from Prague

    Have Czechs forged a new national identity since their release from the Soviet Union?

  15. Does Nation-building Work?

    Reconstructing Afghanistan could cost $20 billion but does nation-building really work?

  16. Civil Liberties – Liberty versus Security

    Will proposed new anti-terrorism legislation in Britain compromise our civil liberties?

  17. Is there a Connection between Globalisation and September 11?

    Were attacks on the USA a result of resentment fuelled by unbridled global capitalism?

  18. Why Does War Exist?

    Why do we fight wars? Is it inherent in human nature?

  19. 'Civilisation' in the Balance

    Is Western liberal democracy triumphant and if it is, will it remain so?

  20. In an Unreal World – Interview with Ivan Klíma

    Czech novelist Ivan KlΓ­ma on the big issues for a novelist after the fall of communism

  21. Islam and September 11

    How well does the West understand Islam and what did religion have to do with 9/11?

  22. Who Will Rule in Afghanistan?

    What is the future for the country if and when the Taliban are removed from power?

  23. Germany and Europe – 9/11 Is Upsetting the Balance

    How will 9/11 and the war on terror reshape the debate about EU integration?

  24. Time – Not a Moment to Spare

    No time to stop and think? The experience of fast and slow time in the information age

  25. The American Psyche after September 11

    How have the atrocities of 9/11 changed the way Americans think of themselves?

  26. The Future of US Foreign Policy after 9/11

    How the terrorist attacks might affect American foreign policy in years ahead

  27. Branding – Buying into a Lifestyle

    The power of branding: how advertisers get us to buy an idealised vision of ourselves

  28. Memory, Myth and Politics

    How can faulty communal memories of history be challenged and overturned?

  29. Life in Numbers – Interview with Sir Roger Penrose

    How can we learn to love numbers? Will computers ever replicate the human brain?

  30. Will the Euro Prove to Be a Good Idea?

    The Euro goes live in five months. The pros and cons of the single European currency

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