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Political Thought & Ideas

Political philosophy, logic, intellectual movements, and competing ideas about liberty and society.

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Political Thought & Ideas

30 lessons

19h 28m

The History of Conservatism and Libertarianism

Trace the intertwined histories of conservatism, classical liberalism, and libertarianism from their Anglo-American and European foundations through nineteenth-century transformations, postwar movements, and contemporary political and cultural disputes.

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Jason Jewell

Professor of Humanities · Faulkner University

Political Thought & Ideas

7 lessons

3h 33m

The Great Reset

A critical examination of the Great Reset’s historical development, stakeholder economics, sustainability agenda, climate politics, emerging digital technologies, governance implications, and proposed forms of economic, political, and personal resistance.

MR

Michael Rectenwald

Author and Former Professor · Independent Author

Political Thought & Ideas

20 lessons

5h 48m

Introduction to Logic

Build a practical foundation in formal and informal logic by translating propositions, testing categorical and hypothetical syllogisms, tracing immediate inferences, diagramming arguments, and diagnosing recurring fallacies.

GC

Gerard Casey

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy · University College Dublin

Political Thought & Ideas

59 lessons

24h 13m

Freedom’s Progress: The History of Political Thought, Part II

Trace modern political thought from Reformation resistance and sovereignty through liberalism, social contract, Marxism, anarchism, war, totalitarianism, and twentieth-century debates over liberty, coercion, property, state power, and social order.

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Gerard Casey

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy · University College Dublin

Political Thought & Ideas

42 lessons

14h 19m

Freedom's Progress: The History of Political Thought, Part I

Trace political thought from ancient societies through Greek, Roman, Christian, medieval, and Reformation debates about authority, law, liberty, property, slavery, resistance, and the foundations of political order.

GC

Gerard Casey

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy · University College Dublin

Political Thought & Ideas

12 lessons

6h 13m

Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Postmodern Theory

Examine how Frankfurt School critical theory, British cultural studies, and postmodern thought revise Marxism through competing accounts of culture, language, power, knowledge, subjectivity, and individual agency.

MR

Michael Rectenwald

Author and Former Professor · Independent Author

Political Thought & Ideas

18 lessons

6h 32m

A History of Free Thought

Trace three millennia of free thought as resistance to religious and political orthodoxy, from ancient rationalism and medieval dissent through Enlightenment criticism, nineteenth-century naturalism, and modern civil-liberties advocacy.

MR

Michael Rectenwald

Author and Former Professor · Independent Author