Contributor(s): Professor James Ladyman, Professor Martha Nussbaum, Lord Rees of Ludlow, Richard Smith | James Ladyman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol and co-editor of the British Journal of the Philosophy of Science. Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Lord R ... Show More
Dec 2010
Conflicts, Civil Society, and Democratic Development in Burma
Contributor(s): Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Professor Mary Kaldor, Amartya Sen, Maung Zarni and others | Aung San Suu Kyi, the recently released Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate, speaks live via videolink and telephone from Burma to an au ... Show More
1h 43m
Nov 2020
Book at Lunchtime: Iconoclasm as Child's Play
Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play. Drawing on a range of sixteenth-century artifacts, artworks, and texts, as well as on ancient and modern theories of iconoclasm and of play, Ico ... Show More
1h 7m
May 2023
359. Separating Good from Evil in the British Empire | Dr. Nigel Biggar
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Dr. Nigel Biggar break down his new publication, “Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,” and parse out the truths and falsehoods from the modern day revisionist movement. They explore the ethics of imperialism, the motivations for the British colonies, their ... Show More
1h 57m
Jun 2023
367. You Might Already Be A Member | Dr. James Lindsay
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Dr. James Lindsay break down how Marxism evolved from a singular ideology into a genus, spawning many oppressor/oppressed dogmas across modern culture such as equity, critical race theory, and queer theory. They trace these sub-Marxist doctrines back pa ... Show More
1h 47m
Apr 2022
The Perennial Importance of Plato | Prof. John Rist
This lecture was given on March 3, 2022 at Trinity College Dublin.
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About the speaker:
John M. Rist was educated in classics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He taught Greek at Universit ... Show More
54m 11s
Jan 2023
325. The Downfall of the Ivy League | Victor Davis Hanson
Dr Jordan B Peterson and Victor Davis Hanson discuss the state of Ivy League universities, the rise of administrative exploitation, and the cost of our institutions losing credibility. Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, f ... Show More
1h 40m