Videos and links used in class to date

• Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs41JrnGaxc&feature=related
• Devdutt Pattaniak: East vs West - The Myths that Mystify: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7QwxbImhZI
• Robert Wright: Non-Zero Sumness, Empathy and Morality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ruBkDVOMM
• Monty Python on the source of political authority: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvKIWjnEPNY
• Plato's Allegory of the Cave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTWwY8Ok5I0
• Pop philosophy:  the Matrix and the Cave:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRNMZEDOBrM&feature=related
• Socrates on Self-Confidence (a good 3-part documentary): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2rsiER-OnU
• Documentary on Plato's Republic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0qZfsFo2RI
• An interesting and unconventional piece on Aristotle by British socialist Mark Steel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slMpJvt6b0I (and section 3, on politics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcqbXWTzIc0&feature=related)
• Lecture on the historical importance of Thucydides: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7VCHfbAc80
• A good article on 'using' Thucydides in modern politics: http://www.hri.org/por/thucydides.html
• Map of the Peloponnesian War: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Peloponnesian_War_431_BC-fr.svg
• Wikipedia page on Thucydides ('critical interpretation' passage is handy): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides
• Exhaustive Wikipedia page on syllogisms (re. Aristotelean logic): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism
• The Macedonian Phalanx: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kQwMbJpBTs&feature=related
• Raj Patel, "Value of Nothing": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYCA49dy4N0
• In memorial to Howard Zinn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arn3lF5XSUg&feature=player_embedded

On Machiavelli

• Salman Rushdie 'saving' Machiavelli from Machiavellianism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_7jRYLTzcE
• Discovery channel documentary on Machiavelli (5 mins): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s25kX24j250
• Longer documentary on Machiavelli: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IGBKu6qM7Y&feature=related
• Image of Italy during the "Italian Wars" of the chaotic 15th-16th centuries: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Italy_1494_v2.png
• Optional reading for Thursday: Isaiah Berlin on Machiavelli in the New York Review of Books: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10391

On Hobbes and Related Topics

• An Anarchist perspective - "The social contract:  defined and destroyed in under 5 minutes":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNj0VhK19QU 
• Original cover of Hobbes' Leviathan
• Re. chapter XXVI on the law - a debate between Steven Breyer v. Antonin Scalia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXeUfVhDVUM
• A tongue-in-cheek 'three minute Locke': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-buzVjYQvY
• Idea framing, metaphors, and your brain: George Lakoff:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_CWBjyIERY
• A video compilation on framing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Ipq8EYljk
• More on framing (and the West's discourse on Islam and religion): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P1ytzKlCxE

On Locke and property rights

• The historical context: Wikipedia page on the Glorious Revolution of 1688 (see especially the "legacy" section at the bottom): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution
• In defense of property: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87-W7NO5E3E
• Or, to use Proudhon's famous phrase, "property is theft": http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/proudhon/property/ch01.htm
• a case of property rights in 21st century context: Hernando de Soto
• "The Power of the Poor": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxERamRMt
• "Capitalism at the Crossroads": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW5FKNpgg6I

On Kant and the Enlightenment

• [A modern take on the importance of Kant's] Perpetual Peace: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcNNGmPtPwg
• On the importance of Kant in current theory: an interview with Jurgen Habermas (he has a cleft palate, so is somewhat difficult to understand): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTCuRlz22g4&feature=related 
• On the Enlightenment: the role of the philosophes and the Encyclopedie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcotFYwPTmk
• On the Enlightenment: (highly opinionated and possibly offensive to religious sensibilities) view of enlightenment thinking in the modern world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjF4w_E86gw

On Edmund Burke and Conservatism

• The "southern avenger" - "why I am a conservative": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1posVP4NjA
• Lecture on a recent book, "The Death of Conservatism" (arguing that modern conservatism is a far cry from what Burke espoused): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCWO-LSszZI
• Is this conservatism (Michael Savage)? I'll let you decide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAvCg-XDuPw&feature=related

On Utilitarianism

• Handy (but also cheesy) ppt on utilitarianism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMzODqNEfLI
• Excellent three-part interview with Peter Singer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bi81JcddWc
• Segment from Peter Singer interview in Examined Life (the film we watched parts of last week): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ3LS_qEkNg
• Good BBC audio clip (interview with A.C. Grayling and others on the legacy of J.S. Mill): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN3oa7Ay9DM
• "What is the Value of a Human Life" (re. differential payouts for 9/11 victims): http://thisibelieve.org/essay/45426/

On Utilitarianism, Free Speech, and Global Poverty Relief

• Interviews with Jeffrey Sachs
• with GOOD magazine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlqryI7SH8s
• with Al-Jazeera's Riz Khan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZA2lWM0_q8
• And a counter-perspective: criticizing the aid paradigm with William Easterly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoV-wtxyQKY&feature=channel

• The effects of famine (Warning -- graphic images!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBfLDXOXpME

• On freedom of expression and religion (feat. Christopher Hitchens): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7aS7m3odqI

• See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBlg2e5EAZk

• CATO's take on the Citizen's United ruling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeGlzEavpTM
• A legal perspective on free speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHrtlO5Hg88
• "America versus free speech" on Riz Khan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh3N4amIXvw&feature=channel
• On free speech and hate speech (can be offensive, but hey, we're talking about free speech): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aFEBWjJYs0

Introducing Marx and Socialism

• Chomsky on Socialism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Tq4VE8eHQ
• Mark Steel's irreverant take on Karl marx: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByOKZmQ72m4
• Interesting clip on the American roots of Canadian socialism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VbHAUf6Lgw
• "Heaven on Earth: the Rise and Fall of Socialism": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LJEI1egwkw&feature=related
• This is a youtube link for the first part of a 3-hour PBS documentary (2005): we will watch some of it in class, but I highly recommend that you peruse as much of it as you can on your own -- it's quite good (although clearly biased...). Here is the PBS website: http://www.pbs.org/heavenonearth/
• Key socialist thinkers:  http://www.pbs.org/heavenonearth/leaders_thinkers.html
• Timeline of socialism:  http://www.pbs.org/heavenonearth/timeline.html
• One (of many) portrayal of 'communists' in the current health care debate: http://rawstory.com/2010/03/protesters-mock-parkinsons-man/

Distributive Justice: Rawls v Nozick

• [Some Youtube guy] introducing Rawls' justice as fairness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EUcJPwAm30
• Nozick's 'tale of the slave', from Anarchy, State, and Utopia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMST58Ww_ro
• Is this a challenge to the minimalist state?: http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20100325/NEWS02/3250321/Dog-burned-in-landmark-cruelty-case-dies
• Michael Walzer on the free market and morality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN_a2u6aItU
• Handy bare-bones outline of Rawls' Theory of Justice: http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/entropy/rawls.html

   

On Liberalism and Multiculturalism

• Critic of multiculturalism (and 'Eurabia'-scaremonger) Mark Steyn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdEGJb5W5ks
• An article by Steyn for the National Review: http://article.nationalreview.com/430228/parochially-post-american/mark-steyn
• Sarkozy: 'the burqa is not welcome in France': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=briS1bI7yeY
• Is this a valid criticism, or a smokescreen for crude racism?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrHgI6mUtcE
• Salman Rushdie on multiculturalism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn831hlh2L4
• FRONTLINE piece on Brazilian mining and indigenous rights: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/brazil501/
• A different response to multiculturalism: Al Jazeera on the Chinese Uigher issue in 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqT8yOt0hBE&feature=related
• How similar issues (cosmopolitanism, in this case) affect cultural relations between nations: "Whose art is it?": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rLMnu93iZk
• A (rather complex) talk with prof. Seyla Benhabib on the internationalization of cosmopolitan norms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmu-e6jHYDs
• A lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah on 'Ethics in a World of Strangers': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esZQ2cf2Gkw
• Seth Godin at TED, on 'the tribes we lead': http://www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead.html
• Does this 'count'?: http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/09/19/lol-tesco-supermarket-accused-of-discriminating-against-jedis/

Links on Feminism

• The Wikipedia page is handy for seeing how hugely diverse feminism is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism
• Some (pretty offensive) 'man on the street' views on feminism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pdbnzFUsXI
• Debating feminism on an old 'Politically Incorrect' (Bill Maher) episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw9Q6GTEPYw
• One of the more reasonable anti-feminist arguments I could find (being the internet, there's a lot of offensive and poorly backed-up machismo out there...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1uTUO1nKTw
• Naomi Wolf on 'third wave feminism': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCQI-ougLsg
• Helen Thomas on feminism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezoGCFqlS5I
• Tronto article: 'the value of care': http://www.bostonreview.net/BR27.1/tronto.html

Links on Richard Rorty and Antifoundationalism

• Rorty on the value of uncertainty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyx0rNyxFrk
• Rorty on pragmatism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBcOGa671QA
• Defining foundationalism (to understand its opposite...): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundationalism

Links on Vandana Shiva, Environmentalism, and the Anti-Globalization Movement (and, by extension, globalization...)  

• Shiva talking about the relationship between the peace and anti-globalization movements: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3cHwqIeQ0c&playnext_from=TL&videos=ikm9OYau9rs&feature=grec 
• 'Seeding deep democracy' (another interview): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsK3V04LAvw
• Shiva discussing the global food crisis (and the IMF, etc.) on Al Jazeera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KfvYjZ5fyw
• Shiva on 'The Future of Food': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1FTCzDSck
• On environmentalism in the 'global south' - outsourcing pollution to India: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjbVlZUsm34
• Shiva on globalization and the WTO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByQRHTd3CFk
• Globalization's most prominent apologist: Tom Friedman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXI0VsX4NKI
• A striking example of globalization (world air traffic over a 24 hour period): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1US_4uf4YE&feature=player_embedded
• One of many examples of globalizations: the popular 'shift happens' video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljbI-363A2Q
• A similar video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhuV_rmf5Mg&feature=related
• Greg Palast (author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy) 'versus' Pascal Lamy (WTO director general): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXI0VsX4NKI
• Another prominent example of anti-globalization activism: the "Yes Men"
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlUQ2sUti8o
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQX09DZLYE
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ3WOtHS-D8

Links on Deliberative Democracy and the Public Sphere

• National Issues Forum: "Democracy: Reclaiming the Public's Role": http://www.nifi.org/discussion_guides/nif_demchallenge_7.html
• Example of deliberative polling in London: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VSfwBFnnsk
• Power 2010 website: http://www.power2010.org.uk/
• James Fishkin on deliberative polling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GlU-tnVXNo
• British Columbia's citizen's commission on electoral reform: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoPgLsSvV8g
• Documentary on participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil: "Beyond Elections": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJkajOPgkhw&feature=related
• Another (more traditional) model of accountability: Tony Blair fielding citizens' questions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOKXI12VXI4
• Archon Fung (and others) on deliberative democracy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fyNGfPgZ9M
• Fung's democracy cube
• On Habermas and the public sphere (Wikipedia) 
•   The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structural_Transformation_of_the_Public_Sphere
• The Public Sphere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sphere

Links on Fukuyama and Huntington

• Useful (but long and complex) video of Fukuyama speaking about "the end of history revisited": http://fora.tv/2007/06/28/Francis_Fukuyama_End_Of_History_Revisited
• Edward Said criticizing "The Clash of Civilizations": http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6705627964658699201&ei=VSmsSqTPFMTylQeJ37CaAw&q=the+clash+of+civilizations&client=firefox-a#
• Another critique of the 'clash of civilizations' (definitely helps if you speak French, but the images are pretty self-explanatory): http://espace.canoe.ca/mourad83/video/view/46695
• Excellent series of videos by Said on Orientalism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH2T6a_2gBo&feature=related
• Christopher Hitchens on Fukuyama's "End of History": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Jt-JU1azU
• Questioning the West-Islam divide - on framing, the 'other', and the clash of civilizations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWyJJQbFago
• Alaa al Aswany on the Clash of Civilizations (from the 'Big Think' project): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTQBgvuSwig
• Huntington on Charlie Rose (in 1997): http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2337511273984747591&hl=en&emb=1#
• Is this a fair lambasting of Huntington's view as a self-fulfilling prophecy?: http://www.theonion.com/articles/relations-break-down-between-us-and-them,715/

 Links on Sen, Development and Democracy

• Amartya Sen on Charlie Rose: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8477551862063702023&ei=v9evSrWYC87YlQfXutGtAw&q=amartya+sen&hl=en# 
• More recent lecture by Sen, "The Content of Democracy": http://fora.tv/2007/09/17/Amartya_Sen_Content_of_Democracy
• Another lecture clip by sen on his most recent book, The Idea of Justice, responding to relativism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdiHWBVwuOM
• "UNDP: Why Human Development Report?": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUYqliUMpnA&feature=related
• Human Development Report website: http://hdr.undp.org/en/
• Visualizations of the Human Development Index: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy82OaiALwI
• A youtube criticism of the HDI (judge for yourself...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT92t6M9i5I
• Charting HDI relative to ecological footprint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX89TlVyMh8
• On the UNDP's 2006 Human Development Report (on water, in this case): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYsZOI8gftU
• On the 2007 Report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLoprwEFero&feature=related
• On the limits of GDP as a performance indicator (in this case relative to the Cod fisheries collapse, among other issues): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep4DWx1--sY&feature=related
• A fascinating site for statistical comparisons of different human development trends: http://www.gapminder.org/
• A related video (from Hans Rosling) on Chile's 'level of development' relative to the US: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDK1OaFvtls&feature=related 

Links on Friedman and Rand

• Milton Friedman - Greed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
• On Friedman and the 'freedom to choose' - a documentary/advertisement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBB7l-SfoK4
• Longer interview with a younger Friedman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfdRpyfEmBE
• Milton Friedman on Charlie Rose: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2963837673813979186#
• One WSJ op-ed columnist's view on Freidman's effect on Chile: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703411304575093572032665414.html#articleTabs%3Darticle
• Ayn Rand Interview with Mike Wallace: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ukJiBZ8_4k
• Relevant excerpt on liberty and socialism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1RxKW-P5V8
• Ayn Rand interview with Phil Donahue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzGFytGBDN8
• Howard Roark speech from The Fountainhead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc7oZ9yWqO4&feature=related
• Does Greenspan's 'admission' present a problem for free marketeers?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM-1pwEwk5E
• Some current, and clearly biased, context (Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sachs and Ayn Rand in the Guardian): http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/24/will-goldman-prove-greed-is-god
• An objectivist take on earth day: don't celebrate earth day...celebrate exploit the earth day!: http://theobjectivestandard.com/blog/2010/04/n-april-22-celebrate-exploit-earth-day.asp
• An assortment of objectivist links from a Stumbleupon user: http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/AynRandfan/reviews/
• Scroll down for some interesting reviews of Rand's Introduction to Ojbectivist Epistemology: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0452010306 
• Homepage for the Ayn Rand Institute (there are many other similar institutions, but this is the 'official' one): http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=index
• On the relationship between objectivism, anarchism, and libertarianism: http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/critics/libertarianism.html
• Condensation of Rand's objectivism by Leonard Peikoff (Rand's 'official heir'): http://attitudeadjustment.tripod.com/Books/OPAR.htm 

Links on Anarchism

• A history of Spanish anarchism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naFl66sPbTk
• More on the Spanish Civil War and Anarchism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUig0lFHDDw
• Alan Moore on Anarchism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKfF-nxjDi0
• One of many 'youtube vids' on the diversity of 'political spectrum charts' out there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04leLtuOcbo&feature=related
• On Georgism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
• On Bakunin's Collectivist Anarchism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK3wi98rnCQ&feature=related
• Documentary on Emma Goldman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFoMfoQSCh8
• Goldman on Anarchism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTCMcO4WTjE
• Goldman timeline (from PBS documentary): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldman/timeline/index.html 
• Anarchist quotes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erxXxNiTmyQ&feature=related
• Chomsky on Anarchism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WEFBNrCUlo, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G6kf7XM9Nk
• 'Situationist' clip, 'consumerism and its discontents' (from a Godard film, I think...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FKsQUCZFUY&feature=related
• On situationism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International
• "Consumerism, the musical": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGaOQKJik-s
• Adbusters homepage: https://www.adbusters.org/
• On 'freeganism': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5q_FAxDuWs  
• Slick (and oversimplified) graphic on consumerism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-7s8HbHIew 
• "Big Ideas That Changed the World: Consumerism": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ29DQvopZo 
• An animation on Anarchism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KECcfKViog&feature=related
• One of many examples of anarchism in protest movements (in this case of the G20 in London): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODMw8yKtZPo&feature=related
• A neat video on mutualism and competition in nature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlzilMXWMcg&feature=watch_response
• Another video (seemingly from the same guy): 'radical decentralization': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d9ny39DBSA&NR=1  

Links on Walzer and Just War Theory

• One of my former profs. on "the vague new crime of aggression": http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/opinion/06iht-edglennon.html  
• Recapping 'Rawls v. Walzer': http://www.thinkingshop.com/AIP/ethics/rawls.htm
• Can modern war be just? (Howard Zinn says no): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFGCLu3YWwE
• Al-Jazeera clip on Obama's controversial Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3EQo0rw1lU
• Clip on Christianity, Augustine, and Just War: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9tu7xSQt_A
• Short overview of Aquinas' requirements for a war to be just: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6f9sO3EESI
• Short talk on the ethics of war and conflict: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-2Z0FsViJE  
• Powerpoint on International Humanitarian Law: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJxF8YRzWlc
• Wikileaks video of Apache gunmen that has been the subject of a lot of debate this month: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMlmSoNYBS8&feature=related
• One overview of International Humanitarian Law: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwqRo4Xkix8 
• Schoolgirls' class on International Humanitarian Law in Peru and the Palestinian territories: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxLypnElIns
• Another timely article on 'war porn' (and something I definitely noticed while researching this topic on Youtube...): http://www.newsweek.com/id/237182 
• On the ethics of unmanned warfare
• Predator drone piece on ABC news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhqIT9Kb1LM  
• On predator drones in Pakistan (from Al-Jazeera): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS2wgiCkufI
• A different view (and with many more views!) on predator drones...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMh8Cjnzen8
• And, in today's news...: http://www.newser.com/story/87850/nyc-bomb-was-payback-for-drone-strikes.html 

Links for the last day of class

• The Economist, "Redrawing the Map of Europe": http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=16003661
• Obama and Ipods, etc...what do you think?: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Tech-World-Explodes-Over-Obamas-Anti-iPad-Remarks-3547 
• Gail Collins (NYT op-ed columnist) on birth control and weasel testicles: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/opinion/08collins.html?th&emc=th 
• PBS statistical project, 'patchwork nation'...a handy tool: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/patchworknation/#/communities/?show=bt,cc,ee,en,im,in,mb,mc,mo,ms,sw,tc 
• Arizona immigration law (clip on Al-Jazeera): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ltqJ8-FG8
• GOOD video: immigration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3JToii4Aq4
• "Glenn Beck's history of illegal immigration": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAaBgMmSrJo&feature=related
• O'Reilly v. Geraldo on 'illegals': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Nt8MQaKko
• Cute cats take on the immigration 'debate'...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN1kp1ggWyM&feature=related 
• Across the pond...the BNP on immigration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1b9J8D3tOg 
• A report on immigration from the Onion News Network: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEedZJka1HQ 
• Also in the news: the British elections (note the vote/seat discrepancy for the Lib Dems...): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/default.stm 

Other links of interest

• Updating the 'wage slave' for the credit economy: http://www.dula.tv/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/begger.jpg
• An important idea Marx didn't forsee: advertising and branding: http://www.baekdal.com/design/movies/logorama-pulp-fiction-for-brands/
• Flash video on Alan Watts' idea of 'prickles and goo': http://www.neticons.net/prickles/
• An engaging talk, 'science can answer moral questions': http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right.html
• On wisdom: http://vimeo.com/2011211
• Koyaanisqatsi trailer (relevant to modern alienation):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirH8PADDgQ
• Another good film (Baraka, made a decade later in 1992) on a similar theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO1nSVy8q8I
• A longer section from Koyaanisqatsi [all of the music in this is by Philip Glass]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t29fgA5M7VA       
• On tautologies...: http://xkcd.com/703/
• Antonio Gramsci on cultural hegemony: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony
• "Squashed philosophers": http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/
• A good, and I think quite balanced, inside look at the Tea Party Movement (from the New York Review of Books): http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23723
• On confirmation bias (key to dissecting polling data...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u34BhEgO_es&feature=PlayList&p=8F099E88F37E74A7&index=34
• Is internet access a 'fundamental human right'??:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8548190.stm
• On argumentation:  http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/upload/2009/08/weekend_diversion_how_to_argue/disagreement-hierarchy.jpg