PickVidsBest Social issues & culture Videos
The 168 Social issues & culture videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 3 intermediate, 164 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a commentary. What they share is that something that already happened gets one reading. Channels you will keep seeing include TED, Innuendo Studios, TEDx Talks.
DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population
Hans Rosling uses data and animated statistics to show how world population is changing, why birth rates fall as child survival and wealth rise, and why population is expected to peak around 11 billion.
Music Theory and White Supremacy
Adam Neely examines Phil Ewell's paper arguing Western music theory is framed by a white racial perspective.
Alain de Botton: Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton's 2004 documentary based on his book Status Anxiety, running over two hours.
America Keeps Rejecting an ID Card It Already Has
CGP Grey explains the history of the US Social Security card and number, and why they became a de facto national ID despite never being meant for it.
Seattle is Dying | A KOMO News Documentary
A one-hour 2019 KOMO News documentary hosted by Eric Johnson on Seattle's homelessness and drug crisis, with interviews and looks at proposed solutions including a drug court program in Rhode Island.
Why Are You So Angry? Part 1: A Short History of Anita Sarkeesian
The first part of Innuendo Studios' six-part video essay series on the online hostility around Anita Sarkeesian and GamerGate.
Incels | ContraPoints
ContraPoints' 35-minute video essay on incels, examining the community, its worldview and how people get radicalized.
NVC Marshall Rosenberg - San Francisco Workshop - FULL ENGLISH SUBTITLES TRANSCRIPTION
A roughly three-hour San Francisco workshop by Marshall Rosenberg on Nonviolent Communication, with full English subtitles added by a fan.
Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox
An episode of the Norwegian documentary series Brainwash, in which a comedian interviews academics from different sides about gender differences and gender equality.
Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs
Roy Beck's short gumball presentation using World Bank and Census data to argue that letting people immigrate to the US cannot solve world poverty because the numbers are so large.
How not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling
Hans Rosling and his son Ola run an audience quiz with global population, health and income data to show how wrong most people are about the world.
Millennials Don't Exist! Adam Conover at Deep Shift
Adam Conover's talk at a millennial marketing conference argues that generations are an unscientific, condescending idea and that millennials do not exist as a real category.
Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia
Not Just Bikes argues that car-dependent suburbs rob children of independence, contrasting North American suburbia with Dutch cities where kids walk and bike on their own.
"Two incompatible sacred values in American universities" Jon Haidt, Hayek Lecture Series
Jonathan Haidt's Hayek Lecture at Duke argues American universities pursue two potentially incompatible sacred values, truth and social justice.
Canceling | ContraPoints
A long video essay by Natalie Wynn of ContraPoints on cancel culture, drawing on her own experience of being pile-on targeted by other leftists.
James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)
The 1965 Cambridge Union debate between James Baldwin and William F.
Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter
Joseph Tainter lectures at a 2010 sustainability conference on why complex societies such as Rome collapse.
Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies. | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville
Black musician Daryl Davis tells how a chance encounter led him to befriend Ku Klux Klan members and seek the source of racial hate.
Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism
Channel 4 News's full interview with Jordan Peterson, in which Cathy Newman presses him on the gender pay gap, patriarchy, campus protests and postmodernism.
John Cleese vs Extremism
A two-minute John Cleese monologue showing the pathology of extremism, explaining why it feels good and how it drives out moderates.
The Bell Curve
Shaun's roughly 2.7-hour video essay on The Bell Curve.
The Lively & Liveable Neighbourhoods that are Illegal in Most of North America
Not Just Bikes explains how small pockets of shops and restaurants inside residential Dutch neighbourhoods create liveliness and help reduce traffic.
13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix
Ava DuVernay's Oscar-nominated documentary on how the history of racial inequality in the US, from slavery through the 13th Amendment's exception clause, drives mass incarceration.
[AUDIO FIXED] The Truth Cannot be Sexist - Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences
An excerpt of the 2005 Harvard debate in which Steven Pinker gives his prepared case on biological sex differences and the under-representation of women in science.