Oxford Comma
The Basics of Prescriptive vs Descriptive Linguistics
A short overview of a hotly debated topic. Should language function through a set of official guidelines and rules or does language belong to its speakers? Prescriptive = language should follow a set structure of rules. Descriptive =...
Curated Video
Is Now The Time to Talk About Guns?
Gun control in the United States has been a loaded term for decades. So who is favour of the Second Amendment – and who is fighting back against it?
The Wall Street Journal
The Imperial Presidency?
Has the office of the president, over the years, become too powerful for American democracy? And is this what the founding fathers had in mind?
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is a thinking machine even possible?
Evil artificial intelligences are luckily confined to fiction. Yet leading scientists claim that intelligent machines are 'the most serious threat facing mankind'. Are they right or could a mind free from human prejudices create a better...
Intelligence Squared
Terry Gilliam on collaboration in writing
Terry Gilliam: "I'm not an auteur, I'm a filteur"
TLDR News
Why is America's Minimum Wage So Low - TLDR News
Recently the debate about minimum wage has emerged in the US once again, with Biden wanting to see the wage rise to $15 an hour (more than doubling the current rate). So in this video, we discuss this debate as well as why America's...
Intelligence Squared
Are independent schools a societal problem?
Francine Stock introduces this debate Public Schools are a blight on British society Francis Wheen looks back unhappily at the philistinism, racism, anti-sem...IQ2 Debate: Public schools are a blight on British society (1 of 12)
Encyclopaedia Britannica
EB Insights: The New Deal
Learn more about the program, known as the New Deal, launched by U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt to address the effects of the Great Depression.
TLDR News
The Democratic Candidates Policy Positions Explained - TLDR News
In this video we discuss the front runners in the Democratic leadership race and discuss what they stand for from a policy perspective. We also dive into how the process is whittled down and whose likely to make it to the next stage.
All Ears English
Group Conversation: How Does a Debate Work?
Group Conversation: How Does a Debate Work?
Intelligence Squared
Deirdre McCloskey on the Economic, Cultural Explosion of the Next 50 Years
Deirdre McCloskey on the Economic, Cultural Explosion of the Next 50 Years.
Intelligence Squared
Mary Beard: The problem with Cicero
Mary Beard: How I'll combat Boris Johnson's Ciceronian rhetoric - Greece vs Rome, 19th Nov 2015.
Institute of Art and Ideas
Do we need borders and nations?
The nation, the tribe, the union, are all sources of strength. But they are also a means to entrench advantage and exclude others. Are borders and boundaries really about privilege? Should we strengthen them so we have greater power and...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Does society need centralised government?
Few take anarchism and the abandonment of organised government as a viable political goal.æYet in economics, capitalism is just such a leaderless anarchic system. Might a radically decentralised political system be more credible than we...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Is democracy incoherent?
We believe democracy leads to a fairer world. Yet almost all governments claim to be democratic including China, Russia and Syria. And 50 years after the abolition of hanging, UK polls still show a majority in favour. Is democracy...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Indigenous Australian Suffrage
Ms Represented is a series that charts the rise of Australian female politicians over the last one hundred years and the unbelievable things they got up to along the way. Eight years after Australian women gained the right to vote and to...
Bedtime History
The Checks and Balances of Government
The American Revolution has ended and America is a free country. As a young country, America has many decisions to make about how it will be run, such as who will have power and lead the country. The Founding Fathers wanted to be careful...
ShortCutsTv
Unmasking: The End of Debate?
Unmasking is extreme form of criticism that is becoming increasingly prevalent in social science and everyday discourse where individuals are accused of being fraudulent and ideas are exposed as illusions, making debate and argument...
Mazz Media
Understanding the Constitution: Legislative Branch
Created by the founding fathers after much debate, our bicameral Congress, the legislative branch of our government, was a real compromise. In this program students will out why two houses were created in order to ensure equal...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Are our diagnosis or mental illness real?
From schizophrenia to depression we assume our psychiatric diagnoses are real. But as the mental health epidemic turns global, the categories now seem like the cause. Is it time to abandon our biological account of mental illness? Or is...
Advocate of Wordz
The Ode - Poetry Defined
Part of the lure of being a writer, is becoming immortal through our words. But authors aren't the only individuals who live on through the words, so do and maybe more so are their subjects. There may be no better way than that of the...
Healthcare Triage
GMOs
Since our first episode, you've begged us to cover Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs. Honestly, I often can't tell if those of you who are asking us to do this expect us to tell you're they're awesome of the worst thing to happen...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Radical decentralised politics or centralised government?
Few take anarchism and the abandonment of organised government as a viable political goal.æYet in economics, capitalism is just such a leaderless anarchic system. Might a radically decentralised political system be more credible than we...