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Plutarch
How to Be a Leader
3.9
13 min
Ian Shaw
Ancient Egypt
3.5
26 min
Leon Hesser
The Man Who Fed the World
3.8
15 min
James Burnham
The Managerial Revolution
3.8
8 min
Jacob Mchangama
Free Speech
4.2
31 min
Joshua Wolf Shenk
Powers of Two
3.7
16 min
Ian Goldin
Age of Discovery
4
11 min
Catherine Wilson
How to Be an Epicurean
3.4
17 min
John Robb
Brave New War
3.9
10 min
Kevin Carey
The End of College
3.8
11 min
Sonia Faruqi
Project Animal Farm
4.2
18 min
Musonius Rufus
That One Should Disdain Hardships
4
19 min
Janet Gleeson
Millionaire
3.8
17 min
Johan Norberg
Open
4.1
18 min
Mark W. Moffett
The Human Swarm
3.7
18 min
Julian Assange (introduction)
The WikiLeaks Files
3.8
10 min
Pagan Kennedy
Inventology
3.9
12 min
Laura Tunbridge
Beethoven
3.9
12 min
Joseph J Romm
Language Intelligence
3.9
15 min
Kate Darling
The New Breed
4
13 min
Richard Wiseman
Shoot for the Moon
3.9
26 min
Kevin O’Rourke
A Short History of Brexit
4.1
23 min
Nicholas A. Basbanes
On Paper
3.9
11 min
Anne Curzan
Says Who?
4.1
16 min
Morton A. Meyers
Happy Accidents
3.9
20 min
Waqas Ahmed
The Polymath
3.9
12 min
John Hands
Cosmosapiens
3.7
13 min
Lisa Margonelli
Underbug
3.7
20 min
Dee Hock
One from Many
4.1
10 min
Anjan Chatterjee
The Aesthetic Brain
3.7
15 min