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Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?
by Immanuel Kant
Available on: Digital Download
Written in 1784, "Anwering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" is one of philosopher Immanuel Kant's most influential and famous essays. Here Kant addresses the causes for a lack of Enlightenment in society, and the preconditions a person must meet in order to gain it.
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James Randi Multimedia
by James Randi
Available on: Digital Download
James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, August 7, 1928 in Toronto, Canada), more often known as The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician, a skeptic, best known as a debunker of pseudoscience.
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Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity
by John Stossel
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Featuring John Stossel, Co-Anchor of ABC's 20/20, Author of Myths, Lies, And Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know Is Wrong (Hyperion, May 2006).
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Ideas Lecture: Jared Diamond
by Dr. Jared Diamond
Available on: Online Audio
An audience of 850 attended the Ideas Lecture on 2 June 2005 to listen to the remarkable scientist, thinker and historian Jared Diamond present the Ideas Lecture.
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Blood and Oil
by Michael T. Klare
Available on: Digital Download
Nationally renowned expert on U.S. petroleum policy, Michael T. Klare discusses his latest book Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum.
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Authors@Google: Elizabeth Gilbert
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Available on: Online Video
The Authors@Google program presents Elizabeth Gilbert author of "Eat, Pray Love": A New York Times bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love is the story of the author, in her early 30s, dividing a year equally among three dissimilar countries - Italy, India, and Bali, exploring her competing urges for earthly delights and divine transcendence.
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Jared Diamond - Collapse
by Dr. Jared Diamond
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
Jared Diamond is the author of "Guns, Germs and Steel" and the current New York Times' best selling "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed."
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Big Science
by Wikipedia
Available on: Digital Download
Big Science is a term used by scientists and historians of science to describe a series of changes in science which occurred in industrial nations during and after World War II.
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Moynihan Report Revisited
Available on: Digital Download
The Moynihan Report Revisited: A conference co-sponsored by The American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Harvard University Sociology Department and W.E. B. Du Bois Institute on African and African American Research.
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EKBTV Live Chemtrails Show
Available on: Digital Download
Dr. Bernard Alvarez of the Global Illumination Council and EKBTV fame, discusses the Chemtrail phenomenon, The New World Order and Family of Light, with Cheyanne Spirit Woman, Dr. Raina Redhawk.
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Fast Food World
by Michael Pollan
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
Journalists Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser and Vandava Shiva join Slow Food International's founder Carlo Petrini for an assessment of the impact of globalization on food production and consumption in this special event...
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Are We All Libertarians Now?
by Peter Augustine Lawler
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio
Dr. Lawler is Professor of Government at Berry College in Georgia.
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Gay Marriage
by William N. Eskridge Jr.
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
As the Senate prepares to debate the Federal Marriage Amendment many scholars are looking at evidence from Scandinavia, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
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Emma Goldman Essays
by Emma Goldman
Available on: Digital Download
"In the eighteen-nineties and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the 'notorious Anarchist,' feminist, revolutionist and agitator, Emma Goldman."
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Anti-Semitism
by Elie Wiesel
Available on: Online Audio
On this week's show, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel talked on "Anti-Semitism: Old and New," as part of his third lecture in last year's annual lecture series "The Fascination with Jewish Tales."
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The Emerging Mediascape
by Mark Jurkowitz
Available on: Online Video
‘500 channels and still nothing on’ is the gloomy assessment of these two media experts. In fact, what the public receives via TV and internet these days is often worse than nothing, at least where news and information are concerned.
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Factory Farming and You
by Bruce Friedrich
Available on: Digital Download
Bruce Friedrich of PeTA discusses factory farming and how it is harming the environment, health, and animals. He suggests that the best solution is to adopt a plant-based diet.
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Rhetoric or Reality: Civil Rights Under Siege
by Julianne Malveaux
Available on: Online Video
In this keynote address, Julianne Malveaux takes deadly aim at the hypocrisy she finds in many sectors of American society including exploitation of low wage workers and legacy admissions policies.
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Against The Logic Of Submission
Available on: Digital Download
"Submission to domination is enforced not solely, nor even most significantly, through blatant repression, but rather through subtle manipulations worked into the fabric of everyday social relationships."
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In Depth: Shelby Steele
by Shelby Steele
Available on: Online Video
Author Shelby Steele, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, will be our guest on In Depth on Sunday, April 2nd, beginning at Noon ET.
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Anti-Work Essays
Available on: Digital Download
"Why do we work? From necessity or love? If the former, then our world is failing us, we are being exploited, being made slaves for the benefit of others."
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well
by Julian Bond
Available on: Online Video
In this stirring speech, Julian Bond takes on issues of poverty and economic equality and argues that the same forces that tried to derail the civil rights movement in the 1960's are still in place today.
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Umberto Eco: Live From B&N
by Umberto Eco
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
Watch as author and scholar Umberto Eco joins fans at our Union Square store in New York to discuss Turning Back the Clock, his brilliant collection of reflective essays.
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Culture or Multiculturalism
by Roger Kimball
Available on: Digital Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Roger Kimball is Managing Editor of The New Criterion.
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Susan Sontag: Lannan Readings & Conversations
by Susan Sontag
Available on: Online Audio
Susan Sontag spent her formative years in New York City, Tucson and Los Angeles and attended the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and Saint Anne's College at Oxford.
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