May 22, 2008
FORA.tv offers over 2000 free videos from over 115 different partners covering the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues. Their partners include bookstores, think tanks, colleges, institutes, and many other public forums (the word fora is simply the plural of "forum"). At LearnOutLoud we combed through these free resources and picked out 500 of the top titles that FORA.tv offers.
We've added these 500 free titles to our site and have embedded the videos onto our pages so you can watch them directly on LearnOutLoud.com. FORA.tv has also provided the ability to download the audio of their videos on MP3 for almost all of their titles, making it easy to take FORA.tv programs with you. On our product pages we've provided links to the FORA.tv pages where you can download the MP3 files.
We've divided the FORA.tv titles up according to their providers. Here are the top providers you can browse with some highlights of the titles they offer:
Asia Society:
Henry Kissinger
Joseph Stiglitz: The Economics of Information
President's Forum with Thich Nhat Hanh
Aspen Institute:
The Clash Between Faith and Reason by Sam Harris
A Conversation with Lance Armstrong
A Conversation with Richard Branson
Karl Rove in Conversation with Walter Isaacson
Book Passage:
Death Experiences: Stan Grof and Scott Eberle
John Gray: Why Mars and Venus Collide
Joyce Carol Oates: The Gravedigger's Daughter
Madeleine Albright: The Mighty and The Almighty
Books Inc.:
The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong
Calvin Trillin
Made to Stick by Chip Heath
A Portrait of Harper Lee
Brookings Institution:
Immigration Reform: Prospects and Possibilities
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons?
Cato Institute:
Andrew Sullivan: The Conservative Soul
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End
John McCain: The Myth of a Maverick
Chatham House:
Ban Ki-moon: Why the UN Matters Today
Chautauqua Institution:
Boosting the Brain's Power Into Old Age by Dharma Singh Khalsa
Music: Heart, Soul and Dollar - Robert Greenberg
Nutrition and Physical Activity for a Lifetime by Christina Economos
City Arts & Lectures:
Chris Elliott in Conversation with Dave Eggers
Eric Schlosser, Author of Fast Food Nation
Jared and Susan Diamond in Conversation
Cody's Books:
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood
Ralph Nader: The Good Fight
Shelby Steele on Why Barack Obama Cannot Win
Council on Foreign Relations:
A Conversation with Benazir Bhutto
Hillary Rodham Clinton at Council on Foreign Relations
C-SPAN:
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Gay Marriage Debate with David Blankenhorn & Evan Wolfson
The Joke's Over: Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson
Noam Chomsky: Hegemony or Survival
President George W. Bush at the NAACP
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
Tom Wolfe: What's Southern Today?
Heritage Foundation:
The President, The Pope and The Prime Minister by John O'Sullivan
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Policy in Northeast Asia
Hoover Institution:
Harvey Mansfield: Anger and Self-Importance
Norman Podhoretz: World War IV
Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
Institute of Ideas:
Battle of Ideas: Debating Darwin
Debating Matters: Human Genetic Engineering
LinkTV:
$100 Laptop - NetSquared 2006
Sen. Barbara Boxer
Long Now Foundation:
Bruce Sterling on The Singularity
Francis Fukuyama: The End Of History Revisited
Will Wright and Brian Eno
New School:
An Evening with John Pilger and Amy Goodman
Film Historian David Thomson on Hollywood
Politics and Prose:
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
Tom Brokaw: Boom! Voices of the Sixties
Transatlantic Institute:
Hamas and the National Unity Government
World Affairs Council:
A Conversation with Ted Turner
George Lucas
Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U
Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem
Journeys of a Passionate Traveller by Frances Mayes
And about 120 titles from their other providers we've consolidated under the publisher FORA.tv:
FORA.tv:
The 20th Century on Trial: Norman Mailer
Al Gore: The Global Environmental Crisis
Al Sharpton and Christopher Hitchens Debate
Bill Clinton: A Call to Action
Dan Gediman: This I Believe
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
Fritjof Capra: The Science of Leonardo
Garrison Keillor on Life, Cheerfulness and Aging
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Malcolm X: Address to the Ford Hall Forum
Mind Set! Reset Your Thinking and See the Future by John Naisbitt
Oliver Sacks: Musicophilia
Salman Rushdie
Vietnam and the Rise of the New Left by Michael Medved
Enjoy the offerings from this brilliant ideas network for discourse and debate.
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