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Benjamin Franklin's Journey: From Printer to Influential Statesman
Tracing Benjamin Franklin's life from a young age, this video delves into his move to Philadelphia and the significant strides he made in his career. It highlights his ventures into printing, the creation of the daily planner, and the...
Financial Times
Facebook whistleblower on 'harmful but legal' content
FT interview - Frances Haugen talks to the FT's European tech correspondent Madhumita Murgia about the 'huge opportunity' to introduce strong new digital laws, and why she chose to speak out against the social media giant.
Financial Times
Al Gore on Big Oil, COP28, and the fight for climate action
The former US vice-president tells Simon Mundy, at the start of the FT's Moral Money Summit Americas, why he thinks this year's COP28 climate change talks in the United Arab Emirates look likely to fail, and what it will take for the...
Curated Video
The Untold Know Nothings
In the mid 19th century a new political party, the Know Nothings, set the stage for xenophobia and nationalism to take root in American politics.
Curated Video
Propaganda
Propaganda is information designed to influence people’s opinions and actions, but how do governments use it as a covert action to elicit a response?
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Pandemic Perspectives: Global Implications
MANUFACTURED TENSIONS: Professor Berry talks about how the pandemic has been intertwined with trade and international competition, which partly goes back to 2016 during the Trump administration's trade war with China which continued to...
All Ears English
1941 - What Is Critical Race Theory?
Have you heard the term critical race theory? Today Lindsay and Aubrey give you a high-level overview of the debate going on today in American culture and you'll get the vocabulary you need to start conversations about this crucial topic.
The Guardian
Artist Doris Salcedo on Bogotá: 'The forces at work here are brutal'
‘Art cannot explain things but it can expose them – that’s why art here is so important and necessary,’ says Doris Salcedo as she takes us on a tour of Bogotá and her studio. The Colombian sculptor’s works are poetic memorials to the...
Curated Video
The Message and the Messenger
University of Michigan business professor Andrew Hoffman describes how his research investigates the cultural aspects of climate change, focusing on the question, What comes to people’s minds when they hear the words “climate change”?
Curated Video
Israel and the Holocaust
David Goldberg, Former Senior Rabbi Emeritus of London’s Liberal Jewish Synagogue, discusses criticisms of the political use of the Holocaust in Israel and beyond.
Curated Video
Punishment
Duke University legal scholar Nita Farahany describes the varying and evolving societal rationales for punishment in our legal systems.
Curated Video
Researching the Political
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how the research surrounding his book The Virtues of Mendacity led him to refine his understanding of what the political is.
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Necessarily Nebulous
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) outlines his convictions that there is no single normative notion of politics.
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Truth and Totalitarianism
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how it is dangerous in politics to believe that we should be heading towards some version of absolute truth.
Curated Video
Chinese Cultural Diversity
Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) describes how historical circumstances have affected different Chinese-speaking regions.
Curated Video
Asian Values?
Author and independent scholar author Pankaj Mishra gives his views on whether the East and the West have a fundamentally different set of values.
Curated Video
Appreciating Historical Variability
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) relates how a core value of intellectual history is that it naturally forces us to relativize contemporary positions that we might naively conclude are absolute.
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Machiavelli and Morality
Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) describes Machiavelli's historical role as one of the first thinkers who formally recognizes the autonomy of the political.
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History in Its Own Terms
Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL), describes his approach to historical scholarship.
Curated Video
Deconstructing Machiavelli
UC Berkeley historian Martin Jay relates the rich web of ironies and subtleties surrounding the influence, past and present, that the renowned Renaissance political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli has had on our views on the truth in politics.
Curated Video
Beyond the City-state?
Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) muses on how we might best apply ancient Athenian insights on governance to our modern world.
Curated Video
A Historian's Toolbox
UC Berkeley historian Martin Jay describes how he is constantly looking to demonstrate how our contemporary views are far less black and white than many suppose, and how focusing on the evolution of language helps puts things into their...
Curated Video
Sidetracked by Aristotle
Intellectual historian Quentin Skinner (QMUL) describes his initial confusion when trying to understand Machiavelli and other Renaissance philosophers when they spoke of what it means to be a free citizen.
One Minute History
169 - Did Rye Bread Start the Crusades - One Minute History
The Crusades were a series of religious and political wars fought between Christians and Muslims in the medieval period, beginning in 1096 and lasting for several centuries. The causes of the Crusades were complex; including religious...