Ranked #1
Christopher Hitchens on Freedom of Speech
Christopher Hitchens on Freedom of Speech
Christopher Hitchens voices his opinion on the subject of the Hart House Debating Club debate: Be it resolved: Freedom o... Read more
15 Jun 2013
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21mins
Ranked #2
Susan Sontag on modern literacy - 2002
Susan Sontag on modern literacy - 2002
Author Susan Sontag, speaking at the Living Literacies Conference (November 2002) at York University in Toronto, deliver... Read more
25 Jun 2010
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1hr 5mins
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Alain de Botton on Status Anxiety
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Alain de Botton discusses his book Status Anxiety which examines our fears over what others think about us and about how... Read more
7 Jul 2012
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39mins
Ranked #4
Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot
Nick Mount on Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot
University of Toronto English professor Nick Mount discusses Samuel Beckett?s controversial play Waiting For Godot.
19 Dec 2009
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48mins
Ranked #5
Camille Paglia on religion
Camille Paglia on religion
Describing herself as an atheist who defends religion, academic and author, Camille Paglia, argues that an understanding... Read more
7 Nov 2009
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51mins
Ranked #6
Daniel Kahneman on The Machinery of the Mind
Daniel Kahneman on The Machinery of the Mind
Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, on The Machinery of the Mind. Kahneman is Emeritus Professor of Psyc... Read more
31 Mar 2012
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47mins
Ranked #7
Noam Chomsky on the State-Corporate Complex
Noam Chomsky on the State-Corporate Complex
Academic, author and political activist, Noam Chomsky, on the State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival.... Read more
29 Oct 2011
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55mins
Ranked #8
Camille Paglia on The Future of Education
Camille Paglia on The Future of Education
Educator and author, Camille Paglia, discusses The Future of Education at the 2010 Globe and Mail Open House Festival in... Read more
5 Jan 2011
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33mins
Ranked #9
Jordan Peterson on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity
Jordan Peterson on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity
University of Toronto Psychology Professor, Jordan Peterson, on Redemption and Psychology in Christianity. Dr. Peterson... Read more
15 Dec 2012
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46mins
Ranked #10
Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram
Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram
Leonard Susskind of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics discusses the indestructability of information and th... Read more
5 Nov 2011
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55mins
Ranked #11
Steven Pinker on Thinking About Our Society
Steven Pinker on Thinking About Our Society
Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature, delivers a lecture entitled Thinking About Our Society: Why Vi... Read more
18 Feb 2012
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40mins
Ranked #12
Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come
Hod Lipson on Programmable Matter: Shape of Things to Come
Hod Lipson of Cornell University discusses the future of 3-D printing in his lecture entitled, Programmable Matter: The ... Read more
19 Nov 2011
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53mins
Ranked #13
James Allard - Best Lecturer Finalist - on Frankenstein: Five Ways
James Allard - Best Lecturer Finalist - on Frankenstein: Five Ways
James Allard from the English Language and Literature department at Brock University in St. Catharines delivers his comp... Read more
7 Mar 2009
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46mins
Ranked #14
Keith Devlin on Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple
Keith Devlin on Leonardo and Steve: How Fibonacci Beat Apple
Keith Devlin, Executive Director of the H-STAR Institute at Stanford University, discusses Leonardo and Steve: How Fibon... Read more
17 Dec 2011
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55mins
Ranked #15
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam
Somali-born author Ayaan Hirsi Ali delivers the 2010 Donner Canadian Foundation Lecture. Her lecture is based on her bo... Read more
25 Sep 2010
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28mins
Ranked #16
Robert K. Logan on The Origin and Evolution of Language
Robert K. Logan on The Origin and Evolution of Language
University of Toronto Physics professor Robert K. Logan on The Origin and Evolution of Language and the Emergence of Con... Read more
16 Jul 2011
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24mins
Ranked #17
Dr. Norman Doidge on neuroplasticity
Dr. Norman Doidge on neuroplasticity
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and best-selling author, Dr. Norman Doidge, on his book, The Brain that Changes Itself, an ... Read more
30 Apr 2012
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55mins
Ranked #18
Paul Stevens - Best Lecturer Finalist - on Milton's Satan
Paul Stevens - Best Lecturer Finalist - on Milton's Satan
Paul Stevens from the English department at the University of Toronto St. George delivers his competition lecture entitl... Read more
14 Mar 2009
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44mins
Ranked #19
Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom
Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom
Noam Chomsky is one of America's leading scholars and intellectuals. He is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the M... Read more
21 May 2011
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55mins
Ranked #20
Nick Mount on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
Nick Mount on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
University of Toronto English professor, Nick Mount, explores T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land.
16 Feb 2013
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48mins