Shows
Lean Out with Tara HenleyDavid Cayley on the CBC's Populist EraIn recent years, we have seen heated debate in this country around the CBC and its future. With the question of defunding no longer looming, it is a good time to pause, to look back at where our national public broadcaster has been, and to talk through where it might go from here. My guest on today’s program is a veteran CBC producer who has written an insightful and well-researched new book about the institution — and where he thinks it went wrong.David Cayley is a Canadian author and broadcaster. For thirty years, he made documentaries for...
2025-10-0153 min
The End of TourismS5 #10 | The Samaritan and the Corruption w/ David Cayley (CBC Ideas)On this episode of the pod, my guest is David Cayley, a Toronto-based Canadian writer and broadcaster. For more than thirty years (1981-2012) he made radio documentaries for CBC Radio One’s program Ideas, which premiered in 1965 under the title The Best Ideas You’ll Hear Tonight. In 1966, at the age of twenty, Cayley joined the Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO), one of the many volunteer organizations that sprang up in the 1960’s to promote international development. Two years later, back in Canada, he began to associate with a group of returned volunteers whose experiences had made them, like...
2024-10-171h 09
Leaving Egypt PodcastEP#28 The Corruption of Christianity: the life and work of Ivan Illich - with David CayleyOur work is only possible with your support. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to enable us to continue with the podcast.Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with David Cayley about the insights of the Austrian Catholic priest, philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich (1926-2006). Through his work at the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) on the show “Ideas,” David came to know Illich personally and became one of his leading interpreters. David’s conversation with Al and Jenny outlines Illich’s main lines of thought. They discuss Illich’s insights into the negative consequences of modernity in terms of...
2024-10-101h 21
Lost Prophets#4. Ivan Illich (ft. David Cayley)Ivan Illich (1926-2002) emerged in the late 1960s as a radical public intellectual. Many of his most radical insights have today become conventional wisdom. The wonderful essayist George Scialabba once entitled an otherwise generally sympathetic piece on Ivan Illich “Against Everything.” That was surely because Ivan Illich’s critique of modernity runs deeper than that of almost any other thinker of his time. His books attacked the unquestioned sacred cows of the age, including schooling, institutional medicine, cars, and economic development, charging them with “terminal counter-productivity”.And yet Illich was neither a reactionary nor a Luddite. I...
2024-09-242h 26
Quixotic MusingsWhat Just Happened? - A Chat with David Cayley
From the interrogation of the conceptual shifts which were crystallized by the events of recent years through the lens of Ivan Illich and beyond, this conversation with David Cayley turns over a bushel of stones, from the idolization of 'Life', to the unconsciously Christian character of secular society, to the problematics around the relationship between science and politics and more. May you find it illuminating!
David's website can be found here:
https://www.davidcayley.com/
And the specific article of his to which we allude at the conversation's outset can be found here:
https://www.davidcayley.com/blog/2020...
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2023-09-291h 41
Doomer OptimismDO 159 - Medical Nemesis and David Cayley with Donald David Caley and Medical Nemesis join Donald to talk about Ivan Illich.Medical
Nemesis wonders why Ivan Illich’s book Medical Nemesis has not taken
hold in any part of our culture and how to make practical use of this
knowledge. @Medical_Nemesis / https://medicalnemesis.substack.comDavid
Cayley is a Toronto-based Canadian writer and broadcaster, who is known
for documenting the philosophy of prominent thinkers of the 20th
century - Ivan Illich, Northrop Frye, George Grant, and Rene Girard. His
biography of Ivan Illich is available from Penn State University Press:
https://www.psupress.org/books/titl...
2023-08-011h 27
David GornoskiTHINGS HIDDEN 70: David Cayley on Illich and Girard At the End of Our WorldDavid Gornoski is joined by David Cayley, writer and host of the renowned CBC Radio One program Ideas. David Cayley talks about his new book Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, his introduction to Rene Girard, the church's development into a power structure, the current public health crisis, the new hidden religion, the new normalization of undifferentiated carnivals, and more. Visit David Cayley's website here. Visit A Neighbor's Choice website at aneighborshoice.com
2022-07-181h 14
Doomer OptimismEpisode 29 - David Cayley w/ Tara Theike and Donald AntenenOn this, the 29th episode of Doomer Optimism, first time hosts Tara Thieke (@TaraAnnThieke) and Donald Antenen (@riversofeurope) dive into the work and themes of Ivan Illich, the preeminent Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. They're joined for the discussion by writer and broadcaster, David Cayley.
About David Cayley
David Cayley is a Toronto-based Canadian writer and broadcaster, who is known for documenting philosophy of prominent thinkers of the 20th century - Ivan Illich, Northrop Frye, George Grant, and Rene Girard.
About Tara Thieke
Tara T...
2022-04-151h 23
Imperfect worldIn conversation with David CayleyThis conversation was already posted on the ‘Imperfect world’ podcast feed, I am cross-posting it here in case this platform is better suited for some audience. For future episodes, I will post them across both platforms simultaneously. To begin this series of ‘Imperfect World’ conversations, I spoke with David Cayley, who spent much of his career producing long-form radio programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, including a 24 part series on ‘how to think about science’.As part of his work, Cayley recorded a series of interviews with Ivan Illich, whose thinking on the way that technologies...
2022-03-081h 03
Imperfect worldIn Conversation with David CayleyIn this episode, Christopher Hobson speaks with David Cayley, who spent much of his career producing long-form radio programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
As part of this work, Cayley recorded a series of interviews with Ivan Illich, whose thinking on the way that technologies are reshaping people, as well as his acute critiques of major societal institutions, have been rediscovered in recent years. In 2021, Cayley published, Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, which explores the life and work of this powerful thinker.
This conversation with Cayley circles around some big issues present in his work...
2022-03-061h 03
Frontiers of Commoning, with David BollierDavid Cayley on Why Ivan Illich Still MattersDavid Cayley has written a magisterial synthesis and interpretation of his late friend and colleague, Ivan Illich (1926-2002), 'Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey', which reveals the ongoing relevance of Illich's searing social critiques. Illich was a radical Christian, cultural historian and itinerant scholar who soared to international fame in the 1970s with such books as 'Medical Nemesis,' 'Deschooling Society' and 'Tools for Conviviality,' which criticized professional institutions for diminishing our humanity. Illich helped lay the intellectual foundations for the world of commoning by validating the power of “vernacular domains” in which we self-organize ourselves – the informal spaces where we per...
2021-12-0147 min
Common Good PodcastDavid Cayley: Ivan Illich, Freedom & FriendshipThe Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. For this episode, we’ll hear the Abundant Community Conversation between David Cayley, Peter Block and John McKnight. Every couple of months the Common Good Collective helps to produce these interactive conversations on Zoom and they always contain music or poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme with a community practitioner. In this Abundant Community Conversation, John and Peter speak with David Cayley about Ivan Illich and his understanding of freedom and friendship.David Cayley is...
2021-11-0823 min
ParallaxThe Parallax Interview: David Cayley - On the radical ideas of Ivan IllichDavid Cayley is a broadcaster and author and perhaps the ‘godfather of podcasting’. He is best know known for documenting the philosophy of great thinkers of the 20th century, including Ivan Illich, Northrop Frye, George Grant, and Rene Girard. He has recently written a fantastic biography of Ivan Illich (Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey), which also documents his own adventure with ideas. We had a wonderful and deep conversation, about Ilich and his radical ideas. Will they become audible to us in the 21st Century?
David Cayley’s new book and all his works can be found on his bl...
2021-10-141h 33
Near and FarAward-Winning Journalist, David Cayley, on the Revolutionary Priest & Cultural Critic, Ivan IllichCWCIT’s Bill Cavanaugh talks to David Cayley about Ivan Illich, the brilliant, idiosyncratic, and revolutionary Catholic priest and cultural critic. Cayley is an award-winning journalist and author who became good friends with Illich and has written several important books with and about him. In this interview, David and Bill concentrate on Illich's critique of the Western medical establishment and the way we have been alienated from our own bodies. They also discuss what Illich would have thought about our reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021-09-1555 min
Radically HumanIn conversation with David Cayley on Ivan Illich and the pandemic responseI talk to David Cayley about Ivan Illich and where the response to the pandemic comes from.David Cayley is a Toronto-based Canadian writer and broadcaster, who is known for documenting the philosophies of prominent thinkers of the 20th century - among them, the work of Ivan Illich. Recently, Cayley has been written several powerful works on the Pandemic, including the Prognosis, which was published in Literary Review Canada. He joined me on my podcast to discuss the philosophy of Ivan Illich and how it might be understood in light of recent developments.Blog post...
2021-08-041h 17
The Brass SpittoonDavid Cayley on Illich and InstitutionsCanadian radio broadcaster David Cayley pulls up a chair to discuss Ivan Illich, a renegade priest and professor who argued against schools, missionaries, and modern medicine. Cayley, author of Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, walks listeners through Illich’s thought and its applications to current tests like the pandemic.
Guest Host: Michael Sauter
Highlights
0:30 Murdock asks, “Storied thinker or Tolstoy story?”
2:15 David Cayley, a man of Ideas
3:00 Sauter conversation with Cayley begins
4:00 Cayley on cassette
8:00 Corruption of the best is the worst, the West in a nuts...
2021-07-0537 min
The Convivial SocietyRemembering Illich: A Conversation with David CayleyIf you’ve joined the Convivial Society over the past two or three months, this installment requires a brief introduction. I’m always ready to acknowledge my extensive debts to an older generation of scholars and writers, who have shaped my thinking about technology. Among those scholars, Ivan Illich has played an especially important role. The newsletter’s title, for example, pays tribute to his Tools for Conviviality. So last summer, as we were growing accustomed to life in Zoom-world, I began a newsletter-based reading group around Illich’s work, and that group led to an ongoing series of conversa...
2021-02-081h 05
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The Ferment4 - David Cayley - Christian Thought and Public RadioOne of the strange wonders of Marcus’ life is that the core of his after-degree theological training came to him through the medium of publicly funded radio programming, almost all of it curated by David Cayley. For over 20 years, Cayley was a producer for a program entitled simply, “Ideas” at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Always clear, always careful, always genuinely seeking after the Good, David Cayley has deepened and enriched the public conversation in this country and well beyond it. “What is worth understanding is worth being understood well by everyone,” said Northrop Frye, one of Cayley’s many interviewees. C...
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