Our guest this week was born in 1943, in what was then British India - modern day Pakistan. Unlike most, who have learned history through books and second-hand sources, he has witnessed first-hand much of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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An inspirational and profound speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts.
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““For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.””
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A student reporter, Patrick Forrest, from Fresno City College asks a question that draws a rant from President Obama.
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Intelligence isn’t just about test scores.
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This video explores Friedrich Nietzsche’s provocative view on what happens when thought turns against life itself. Beginning with the problem of overthinking — when reflection becomes so sharp it cuts its own roots — we follow Nietzsche’s critique of morality, reason, and the modern mind’s obsession...
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Sam Harris speaks with David Edmonds about moral philosophy and effective altruism. They discuss Edmonds’s book Death in a Shallow Pond, Peter Singer’s famous drowning child thought experiment, arguments for and against thought experiments, “trolleyology,” consequentialism, the origins of the Effect...
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In this Tuesday, January 6, 2026 lecture to his Beijing high school students, Professor Jiang introduces the concept of game theory, and how it applies to the dating game.
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Yanis Varoufakis explains the evolution of capitalism, from its beginnings in feudal Europe to its imminent death in the era of Big Tech.
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A powerfully moving speech from actor and icon Sir Anthony Hopkins on the illusion of life.
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