Is Violence Ever Justified? – Full Debate: Steven Pinker, Tariq Ali, Elif Sarican
[42:25] From the French and Russian Revolutions to the Suffragettes, violent action has been instrumental to creatin…
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Stephen Fry & Steven Pinker on the Enlightenment Today
[1:18:48] The eminent Harvard Professor Steven Pinker joins Stephen Fry to discuss the challenges we face in the 21st c…
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Kurt Andersen: How religion turned American politics against science
[3:50] In the last 30 years, religion has radicalized American politics and seriously harmed the perception of scienc…
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Christian Welzel: Moral Progress – Expanding the Human Mind
[16:44] Counter-intuitive as it may seem in the face of rising populism, Dr. Christian Welzel will show fascinating da…
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Jonathan Haidt: What Capitalism Does to Us…And for Us
[1:40:37] Dr. Jonathan Haidt presentation for the John H. Schnatter Center for Free Enterprise at the University of Lo…
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Robert Sapolsky: Are Humans Hardwired to Be Cruel to Each Other?
[6:40] Robert Sapolsky has a bone to pick with oxytocin, or rather the public’s perception of oxytocin. It is the …
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Michael Botticelli: Addiction is a disease. We should treat it like one
[10:44] Only one in nine people in the United States gets the care and treatment they need for addiction and substance ab…
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Susan Jacoby: Secularism and Free Thinking
[35:28] Journalist and historian Susan Jacoby talks with Bill about the role secularism and intellectual curiosity h…
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Why Socrates Hated Democracy
[4:21] We’re used to thinking hugely well of democracy. But interestingly, one of the wisest people who ever lived, S…
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