Neuroscientist Martin Monti (UCLA) discusses what one can learn about the brain by explicitly comparing basic algebra and language.

Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) highlights the core difference between the social sciences and natural sciences, involving intentionality.

David Goldberg, Former Senior Rabbi Emeritus of London’s Liberal Jewish Synagogue, discusses criticisms of the political use of the Holocaust in Israel and beyond.

Primatologist Frans de Waal (Emory) argues that our essential moral tendencies are already within us as a product of evolution.

Sign language linguist Carol Padden describes how smaller languages are often much more impenetrable to outsiders than larger languages, due to a combination of grammatical structure and common sense of reference.

Rabbi Emeritus David J. Goldberg describes two core values that he believes to have been associated with the Jewish people over the past three and a half thousand years: freedom and justice.

Philosopher Scott Soames (USC), gives a brief description of contemporary attitudes towards metaphysics.

Political theorist John Dunn (Cambridge) voices his concerns on the detachment of many political scientists from the real world of actual human societies.

Author and independent scholar Matthew Stewart describes how the success of the American Revolution broadcasts a universal message.

Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) discusses how the research surrounding his book The Virtues of Mendacity led him to refine his understanding of what the political is.

Author and independent scholar Matthew Stewart gives his perspective of what Thomas Jefferson really meant by the “Pursuit of Happiness.”

Historian Martin Jay (UC Berkeley) outlines his convictions that there is no single normative notion of politics.

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Historian David Hollinger (UC Berkeley) describes the Ecumenical Protestant movement and how it can be distinguished from its Evangelical counterpart.

Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes how different cultural reference points sometimes make it particularly difficult for us to learn foreign languages.

Drafting explores the important elements of the drafting step of the writing process.

University of Michigan business school professor Andrew Hoffman describes the approaches we need to take - and not take - in order to generally increase awareness of the environment throughout society.

Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) describes how, in politics, the explanation of a crisis often points to a solution.

Intellectual historian Stefan Collini, University of Cambridge, describes how, to a certain extent, one can say that the famous literary critic F.R. Leavis wrote in a deliberately difficult way, in an effort to make his readers think and...

Historian David Hollinger (UC Berkeley) describes the Ecumenical Protestant movement and its huge impact on American cultural and political life.

Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra describes how his outlook to life has been irrevocably affected by a deep sense of crisis that is common to many people who grow up in Asia.

Primatologist Frans de Waal (Emory) discusses how a wealth of primate studies suggest that our sense of fairness does not derive from logical reflection or reason, but is a product of evolution.

Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra explores how finding ourselves in a prolonged societal crisis can force us to grapple with vital political, economic and environmental issues.

Classicist and political theorist Josiah Ober (Stanford) describes two concerns that were as important in ancient Athens are they are today: elite capture and political inequality.