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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.

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.

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

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

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

The subtitle of this course for the spring 2003 term is "American Television: A Cultural History."

Rebels: A Journey Underground is an excellent Canadian documentary history of "the counterculture" produced for television in the late 1990s and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland.

Technology commentator Nicholas Carr explores the psychological impact of the Internet and his new book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.

The Proposal is a one act comic farce by Anton Chekhov. In Chekhov's Russia, marriage was a means of economic stability for most people.