Masha Gessen - Putin and the Political Uses of Homophobia
“Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers. [Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparent vodka paradox: for what it is worth, alcohol may h...
26 Touko 202438min
Richard Wolff - Marxism v. Capitalism: The Game Is Rigged
“The impoverished families of the long-term unemployed strained to the point of dysfunction, communities deprived of viable economies, interrupted educations, lost skills: these and many more results ...
26 Touko 20241h 21min
Roger Scruton - The Line Between "Left" and "Right"
“There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literatu...
25 Touko 202458min
Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings, racial epithets, and "whites only" signs. These images make it easy ...
25 Touko 20241h 9min
Naomi Klein - Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World
On May 4th, 2016 journalist and political activist Naomi Klein delivered the Edward Said Lecture at the London Review of Books. She addressed the hierarchies implicit in who survives and who dies in a...
25 Touko 20241h 26min
Robert Oppenheimer - Eulogy for Niels Bohr [Reupload]
"Bohr was the recipient of the Atoms for Peace Prize. None of us knew what the prize was for, but everyone knew that this was the right man to give it to." - J. Robert Oppenheimer, May 14th, 1964. In ...
24 Touko 20241h 12min
Cornel West - A Love Supreme (Part 6 of 6)
In his final Gifford Lecture, Professor Cornel R. West’s jazz-soaked philosophy looks unflinchingly at our own catastrophic times, and says that ‘perhaps’ we can find a way out. How do we go on loving...
24 Touko 20241h 25min
Cornel West - American Allegro Molto Vivace (Part 5 of 6)
In this lecture, Prof. West argues that the two great philosophically-inclined artists in early twentieth-century America were T.S. Eliot and Eugene O’Neill. Eugene O’Neill’s 49 plays constitute the g...
22 Touko 20241h 17min
