You Are Evil and You Must Be Destroyed: Regaining our Humanity in an Inhumane World
Seth Andrews speaks candidly about his own struggles as a human and activist in this polarized and often outrageous world. Watch the video
Videos
Physicists are Wrong (Neil Turok)
Renowned physicist Neil Turok, Holder of the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, joins me to discuss the state of science and the universe. is Physics in trouble? What hope is there to return to more productive and Simple theories? What is Peter Higgs up to? Neil Turok has been director …
Democracy and the Relevance Realization of Distributed Cognition: Can Collective Intelligence Become Collective Wisdom?
John Vervaeke has been teaching at the University of Toronto since 1994 and became an Associate Professor in 2019. He currently teaches courses in the Psychology department on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on insight problem solving, cognitive development with an emphasis on the dynamical nature of development, and higher cognitive processes with an …
Trump is not Who He Says He Is (Bruce W. Nelson)
Most of the reasons Trumpers give for admiring Trump are not based in reality. Despite what they may WANT to believe about Trump, he is not courageous and brave, he doesn’t care about the average person, he isn’t knowledgeable about the world, he is more a failure in business than a success, he was not …
The Liberal International Order (John Mearsheimer )
The so-called rules-based international order is under serious threat. But it is a mistake to blame Donald Trump. In fact, that order was bound to fail, because the key policies on which it rested are deeply flawed. Watch the video
Do Free Societies Need Postmodernism? A Debate
Postmodernism is necessary for a politics of individual liberty. That was the topic of a public debate hosted by the Soho Forum in New York City on June 17, 2019. It featured Stephen Hicks, a professor of philosophy at Rockford University, and author Thaddeus Russell. Soho Forum director Gene Epstein moderated. Watch the Video
Is the question ‘Why is there something instead of nothing?’ even worth asking?
In this video from the interview series Closer to Truth, the US presenter Robert Lawrence Kuhn and the UK philosopher A C Grayling peel back the layers of a question that’s been bandied about in many a Philosophy 101 classroom – ‘Why is there something instead of nothing?’ With Kuhn defending the question as a legitimate line of enquiry, and …
The New Discovery in Egypt That Scares Scientists
Even if the really big finds of archaeology may already belong to the past, experts are all over the world looking for traces of former civilizations and their remains. In the process, small and large things are found every day that help to establish connections and better understand the origins of today’s civilization. Again and …
Why Political Freedom and Prosperity Go Hand in Hand
Why Political Freedom and Prosperity Go Hand in Hand Socialism’s disastrous history shows us that political and economic freedom is the foundation for enduringly successful nations. Note: This is Hoover Institution’s Human Prosperity Project. Watch the Video
How Spontaneous Orders Built Our World
To explain one of the core classical liberal concepts, IHS offers a video exploring the theme of spontaneous order. The video features Bruce Caldwell, professor of economics at Duke University, describing the role of spontaneous order in society. “Spontaneous orders are often contrasted with constructed orders,” Caldwell says. “The idea that you can have something that …