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Archie Brown
The Myth of the Strong Leader
3.7
10 min
Guido Tonelli
Genesis
3.8
16 min
David Beerling
The Emerald Planet
4.1
20 min
Lisa Kaltenegger
Alien Earths
4.1
14 min
Jonathan Darman
Becoming FDR
4.4
12 min
Martin Ford
Architects of Intelligence
4.1
17 min
Michael D. Smith
Streaming, Sharing, Stealing
4
10 min
Richard Norton Smith
An Ordinary Man
4.5
14 min
Vaclav Smil
Energy Myths and Realities
3.9
11 min
Carl Benedikt Frey
The Technology Trap
4.1
10 min
Dakota Meyer
The Way Forward
4.2
13 min
Dan Hampton
The Flight
4.2
15 min
Scott Davis
Lessons from the Titans
4.3
13 min
David Lochbaum
Fukushima
3.6
11 min
Vaclav Smil
Making the Modern World
3.8
9 min
Carter Malkasian
The American War in Afghanistan
4.3
18 min
Timothy J. Jorgensen
Strange Glow
4.3
13 min
Dana Mattioli
The Everything War
4.1
14 min
Johan Norberg
The Capitalist Manifesto
4.3
11 min
Shannon Sedgwick Davis
To Stop a Warlord
4.4
12 min
Vaclav Smil
Grand Transitions
4.1
11 min
Mitchell Duneier
Ghetto
3.8
10 min
Vaclav Smil
Should We Eat Meat?
3.5
12 min
Robin Pogrebin
The Education of Brett Kavanaugh
3.7
18 min
Stephen Le
100 Million Years Of Food
3.6
12 min
Tom Standage
A Brief History of Motion
3.8
29 min
Alex Perry
The Rift
4.1
10 min
Ian Bremmer
Every Nation For Itself
3.6
10 min
Richard Norton Smith
On His Own Terms
4.1
17 min
Alec Ross
The Raging 2020s
4.1
15 min