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The People vs. Democracy
Yascha Mounk
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Mounk outlines a worrying trend in this talk, one which has seen populations in many countries losing their investment in democracy. I think there is much to the idea that...
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Orwell Rolls in His Grave
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This is an older documentary that is now an incredible historical document of the changes that brought our present into being. From media ownership centralisation, billionaire funded right wing think...
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Everything You're Told About Iran Is Wrong
Vali Nasr
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Iran is one of the main political players globally because of its influence in the Middle East. It therefore weilds tremendous power for good or bad, and unfortunately, in recent...
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Class War: The Attack on Working People
Noam Chomsky
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Multiple people told me I should listen to Chomsky, yet it took me years to finally stumble across this CD in a record store in 1998. The time I wasted...
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Propaganda
The Art of Selling Lies
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A fast-paced, fairly light PBS documentary looking at the history of propaganda. Propaganda was once a word that was used by people to happily refer to themselves. Edward Bernays, who...
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Moral Revolution
Rutger Bregman
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The Reith Lectures are a yearly lecture series in Britain by important public intellectuals. The first recommendation would be to go back and check out many of the past series...
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What is Neoliberalism?
Quinn Slobodian
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Neoliberalism has been the guiding force of economics since at least the mid 1970s. If you seek to understand the economic ideas behind many of the changes in politics over...
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The Great Leveler: violence and the history of inequality
Walter Scheidel
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There are theoretical and practical arguments for inequality. The theoretical arguments often go something like this: Does it matter if some people have mansions, if everyone else has decent houses...
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Strongman: Mussolini to the Present
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Ben-Ghiat's work has given me a deeper way to see our current political times. The cast of deplorables that have been voted in as part of the wave of demagoguery...
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The Ensh*ttification of Everything
Cory Doctorow
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I was an adult when the Internet started happening. I first used it in 1996. I was amazed by it, and I thought here was the next step in human...
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