Season 2011
43 episodes · 2011
1Simon Winchester on The Man Who Loved China
Journalist, broadcaster and bestselling author Simon Winchester tells the remarkable story of Joseph Needham, an eccentric English chemist who wrote a vast book on Chinese science which remains the longest book about China ever written in the English language
2Jordan Peterson on The Necessity of Virtue
Author, professor and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson delivers the 2010 Hancock Lecture. He discusses virtue from a contemporary perspective that both encompasses and extends beyond moral and religious contexts.
3Chris Hedges on The Death of the Liberal Class
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Chris Hedges delivers a lecture on his latest book The Death of the Liberal Class. He argues that American liberalism, a once proud political tradition, is dead, having sold out to corporate interests and abandoned its original principles. The result is a breakdown of the very fabric of democracy.
4Daniel Dennett: What Should Replace Religions?
Noted atheist and secularist Daniel Dennett delivers his lecture "What Should Replace Religions?" Dennett is co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University.
5PZ Myers: Science and Atheism: Natural Allies
Biology professor and well-known blogger PZ Myers on Science and Atheism: Natural Allies.
6Derek Walcott
University of Toronto professor Christian Campbell talks to Nobel laureate poet Derek Walcott about his remarkable life and work.