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For thirty-three years Ravi Zacharias has spoken all over the world and in numerous universities, notably Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford University.

Thanks to social media, teens are able to directly interact with their culture -- celebrities, movies, brands -- in ways never before possible.

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says technosociologist Zeynep Tufecki.

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

Osho’s is an elegant and quiet voice – spoken from his chair in the middle of this chaotic controversy in Rajneeshpuram, talking every day to an international audience in a way nobody had ever heard him speak.

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice.

Written in 1784, "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" is one of philosopher Immanuel Kant's most influential and famous essays.

In this lecture Professor William McKeen discusses the history of journalism in America and specifically journalism which took on a literary quality of storytelling.

When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else.

Shelby Steele was interviewed about his life, his career, and his writings. He described himself as a black conservative and talked about racism in the U.S. as paternalism.