Curated Video
Elite Capture and Societal Inequality
Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) describes two concerns that were as important in ancient Athens are they are today: elite capture and political inequality.
Curated Video
Democracy and the Founding Fathers
Political theorist John Dunn (Cambridge) describes how most Americans have a false view of their own political history.
Curated Video
Inhibiting Idealizations
Classicist Richard Janko (Michigan) speculates that our love of Athenian democracy sometimes prevents us from taking a more objective view of their society.
Curated Video
Executive Order
What actual powers does the President have? Well, as it turns out – a lot. Including the power to make new orders at the stroke of a pen.
Curated Video
Who Founded the Democratic Party?
It’s the oldest political party in the United States, but how was the Democratic Party formed and what contributions has it made to U.S. society since?
Organizational Communication Channel
Leadership Styles
The research on classic Leadership Styles (full version) looks at the Autocratic (0:19), Democratic (8:37), and Laissez-Faire (16:05) leadership definitions, examples, and characteristics so you can compare and contrast them all.
Hip Hughes History
America's First Gangs; The First Political Parties
A one day project after some direct instruction, where students enacted Federalists and Democratic Republicans to get across key concepts for the 11th grade US History curriculum. This project is called a DV Quilt, the genre and...
Hip Hughes History
Why Did Trumpcare Fail? or Why They Killed the Bill
My own thoughts on why the American Health Care Act better known as Trumpcare or RyanCare. Why did it fail? How did trump error? TrumpCare Explained • The Bill That Was... ObamaCare Explained • ObamaCare: The Af... Learn about the...
Vlogbrothers
Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party
In which John seeks to understand the strange and labyrinthine process used by the Republican and Democratic parties to select a nominee for President, focusing on the great state of Missouri, where the races were close but the delegate...
Espresso Media
Garwin: The Importance of Science and Education in a Complex World
Garwin part 1/11: In this video, Richard Garwin reflects on the significant events and challenges of the atomic age, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the threat of nuclear proliferation. He emphasizes the importance of education...
Curated Video
Evaluating Management and Leadership Styles Using the Blake and Mouton Grid and Tannenbaum-Schmidt Continuum
In this video, the speaker discusses different management and leadership styles, such as autocratic, democratic, paternalistic, and charismatic. They explore two methods of evaluating leadership styles: Blake and Mouton grid and...
Mr. Beat
The American Presidential Election of 1800
The fourth episode in a very long series about the American presidential elections from 1788 to the present. I hope to have them done by Election Day 2016. This was one of the nastiest elections in American history, and so significant...
Curated Video
Types of Management and Leadership Styles
This video discusses the different types of management and leadership styles, with a focus on autocratic management, democratic leadership, paternalistic leadership, and charismatic leadership. The video explains the characteristics of...
Curated Video
America's Two-Party System
The United States is essentially a two-party system, unlike other democracies around the world where people can vote for political parties representing many different interests. Is that a good or a bad thing?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How Liberals Normalized Conservative Ideas
The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum explains the role Democratic presidents, from Kennedy to Obama, in moving economic policy to the right INET President Rob Johnson sits down with The New York Times’ Binyamin Appelbaum to discuss his...
Curated Video
Democratic Symbols
In ancient Athens, symbols were used to promote religious and democratic ideals and beliefs. Thousands of years later these symbols helped to define the United States.
Institute of Art and Ideas
Can the electorate be trusted?
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...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yaacov Hecht - Democratic Education
Yaacov Hecht is an internationally distinguished leader and visionary in democratic education, learning theory, and societal change. In 1987, Hecht founded the Democratic School in Hadera, Israel, the first school in the world to call...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Nikhil Goyal - Schools on Trial
Nikhil Goyal is the author of the new book Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice (Random House).
The Economist
Putin's Russia and the ghost of the Romanovs
One hundred years ago today Russia's royal family was murdered by the country's Marxist revolutionaries. Vladimir Putin has positioned himself a new kind of tsar, but what does this anniversary mean for the president?
The Wall Street Journal
Hamburg's Former Data Protection Commissioner on Data Privacy
Described as one of Europe's most powerful data privacy hawks, Johannes Caspar joins to discuss his influence on the global privacy debate and how policymakers should approach regulating big tech.
TLDR News
What Does the House of Lords Really Do? - TLDR Explains
The House of Lords has been discussed a lot in recent days with them annoying the Tories and Labour talking about scrapping the House. So in this video we explain what the House of Lords actually does and who the Lords are. In the coming...
The Wall Street Journal
View from the U.S. Part IV: Domestic Politics
The new political season has begun, and the 2020 presidential race is underway. What does the field look like and what might it portend for business, trade and security globally?
Ancient Lights Media
The Geography and Culture of Albania
This clip looks at the physical features, climate and culture of Albania.