Ghost Work
Mary Gray talked about her book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, in which she reported on the workforce that drives large technology companies l…
1,179 viewsMary Gray talked about her book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, in which she reported on the workforce that drives large technology companies l…
1,179 viewsNew America Foundation’s Yascha Mounk, MIT professor Daron Acemoglu and Politbot co-founder Mara Ramirez discuss the fate of democracy.
851 viewsNoam Cohen detailed the growth of Silicon Valley and the impact it had on politics and public policy.
1,225 viewsKentaro Toyama talked about his book Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology, in which he argues that while it is widely accepted that we can find technological solut…
703 viewsMegan Smith gave the commencement address to the 2015 graduating class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
346 viewsProfessor Merritt Roe Smith talked about the technological breakthroughs that influenced the Industrial Revolution in America. This was a class from his course titled, “Technology in America…
2,740 viewsNoam Chomsky, professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talked about his book, On Anarchism, in which he examines the political ideology of anarchism, from its history…
4,828 viewsMichael Barone, senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, talked about his book, Shaping Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics, in which he dis…
726 viewsSupporters of the “Occupy Movement” talked about the state and future of the movement. The Occupy Movement began in 2011 as a protest movement against social and economic inequality. Topics …
783 viewsJames Galbraith talked about his book, Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis. He used some graphs during his presentation, and then was joined…
640 viewsEliot Spitzer, former governor of New York and New York State attorney general, presents his thoughts on when the government should intervene in the financial market. Mr. Spitzer argues that…
853 viewsIn his book Immigrants and the Right to Stay Joseph Carens argues that unauthorized immigrants who have lived in the United States for a sustained period of time should be granted the right …
1,294 viewsGregory Zuckerman talked about John Paulson, whose hedge fund made $20 billion by betting against the housing market in 2007 and 2008. Mr. Zuckerman spoke at MIT’s Sloan School of Managemen…
1,237 viewsMr. Holdren spoke about greenhouse gas emissions, global climate change and future policy options. He focused on mitigating the impact of global warming and adapting current practices to wea…
273 viewsJohn Prados talked about his book, Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA, published by Ivan R. Dee. He talked about the CIA’s covert operations since WWII and assessed whether those…
333 viewsKevin McKiernan talked about his book The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland, published by St. Martin’s Press. Kevin McKiernan discussed the plight of the Kurds who live in Norther…
257 viewsFederal Reserve Chairman Bernanke delivered the commencement address to the graduating class of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He talked about the state of the economy and how gr…
272 viewsJohn Dower talked about his book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, published by W.W. Norton and Company. The book tells how U.S. armed forces transformed imperial Japan d…
1,952 viewsMr. Bennis talked about the book he co-authored, Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders, published by Harvard Business School Press. According to the authors,…
201 viewsMr. Laird delivered a lecture on his book, Into Tibet: The CIA’s First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition To Lhasa, published by Grove/Atlantic Inc. The book investigates the career of Dou…
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