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Power and Politics
Yale University
2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2021–2026 · score 1.8
A Yale University course taught by political scientist Ian Shapiro that surveys global politics and how the modern world came to be shaped by power structures. Lectures are available free online.
Commenters call it an excellent zoom-out into global politics and an amazing lecture series that teaches a lot.
Humanities & Social Sciencebeginnerfreevideo lectures#global politics#political science#power#history#shapiro
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There’s no conspiracy theory. Jimmy Carter spent the last decade of his life talking about this. Bernie Sanders talks about this all the time. Noam Chomsky talks about this. Ralph Nader was talking about this forever.
Go listen to Ian Shapiro’s Yale lectures called Power and Politics in Today’s World. It’s an amazing lecture series and you’ll learn a lot.
Though I’m surprised you think it’s surprising left leaning people would criticize the role of capital in politics, since that’s kind of the whole thing with true leftists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjqgP9dpD1k
Harvard's CS50 is best of class. Created by David J. Malan. I've never seen an online course that has production quality or clarity of concepts as good as this. Even if you know how to code you may find a few useful bits in there and if nothing else you're learn excellent ways to explain programming concepts to people. They also make a new one every year, so maybe the 2020 or 2021 version is better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDqvzFY72mg
Yale's Power and Politcs was created by Ian Shapiro is an excellent zoom out into global politics and how how the modern world was made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cAzgUIKI68
Poker at Hopkins was an intersession course created by Avi Rubin, a poker enthusiast professor who collected resources over many years with the thought in the back of his mind "maybe one day I'll teach a course on poker somehow". It's very much an introduction but a good one.