Understanding and challenging the political forces that shape our lives
Video by Barry’s Economics The video challenges the widely held belief that people only work under the threat of poverty, arguing instead that financial pressure erodes the mental capacity needed to act. It draws on Bruce Alexander’s rat experiments, which…
Video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel Ralph Nader argues that the collapse of American democracy is rooted in a deliberate shift by the mass media, especially the New York Times, away from covering grassroots civic movements. He traces this…
Video by Owen Jones Ha-Joon Chang argues that the four-decade neoliberal experiment has failed on its own terms. Growth has actually fallen compared with the more regulated capitalism of the mid-twentieth century, inequality has ballooned without the promised trickling down,…