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Thomas Sowell
Social Justice Fallacies
4.4
13 min
Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness
3.6
9 min
Jim Holt
When Einstein Walked with Gödel
4
17 min
Shashi Tharoor
Why I Am a Hindu
3.7
12 min
Peter Frankopan
The New Silk Roads
3.6
13 min
Michael Scott Moore
The Desert and the Sea
4
16 min
Jaron Lanier
You Are Not a Gadget
3.6
14 min
Simon Reynolds
Retromania
3.8
12 min
Leonard Mlodinow
The Upright Thinkers
4.1
12 min
Mary Douglas
Purity and Danger
4
12 min
Srdja Popovic
Blueprint for Revolution
4.3
14 min
Lisa Randall
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
3.7
21 min
Julie K. Brown
Perversion of Justice
4.1
17 min
Judge Jeanine Pirro
Liars, Leakers, and Liberals
4.2
13 min
David I. Kertzer
The Pope at War
4.3
10 min
Alain de Botton (series editor)
Great Thinkers
4.4
32 min
Klaus Schwab
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
3.6
11 min
James Gleick
Time Travel
3.6
11 min
Michael Eric Dyson
What Truth Sounds Like
4.1
13 min
John Milton
Areopagitica
3.9
5 min
Evan Osnos
Wildland
4.2
19 min
Mihir A. Desai
The Wisdom of Finance
4
15 min
Michael Wolff
Siege
3.6
22 min
Bianca Bosker
Get the Picture
4.2
11 min
Brian Krebs
Spam Nation
3.8
15 min
William von Hippel
The Social Leap
4.3
19 min
Nicholas Shaxson
Treasure Islands
4.2
12 min
Kevin Ashton
How to Fly a Horse
4
10 min
Claire L. Evans
Broad Band
3.9
26 min
Elias Canetti
Crowds and Power
4.1
12 min