"Ivan Illich alights on such topics as education, history, language, politics, and the church. The conversations range over the whole of Illich's published work and public career as a priest, vice-rector of a university, founder of the Centre for Intercultural Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and author of such classics as <I>Tools for Conviviality</I>, <I>Medical Nemesis</I>, and <I>Deschooling Society</I>."