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Politics, History & Society

827 videos Hacker News recommends in Politics, History & Society.

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In Search Of A Flat Earth

4.9M views · 17 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

Try to Rule Fairly and You'll Be Overthrown

26.1M views · 15 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

George Lakoff: Moral Politics

University of California Television (UCTV)

201K views · 3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024

The Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary)

3.9M views · 13 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers

484K views · 13 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population

Gapminder Foundation

3.3M views · 8 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

Music Theory and White Supremacy

3.2M views · 11 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea

5.1M views · 11 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

Don't Talk to the Police

Regent University School of Law

21.9M views · 13 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio

Principles by Ray Dalio

235.6M views · 10 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.

9M views · 13 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

Republic, Lost | Lawrence Lessig | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

96K views · 10 HN recommenders · 2011–2017

London Swallowed a City but Couldn't Digest It.

8.6M views · 12 HN recommenders · 2012–2024

Alain de Botton: Status Anxiety

Alain de Botton

951K views · 4 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

Christopher Hitchens - Free Speech

376K views · 9 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

Antonin Scalia - On American Exceptionalism

AmericanRhetoric.com

1M views · 12 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

The Cardboard Box Reform - Nixon's Ghost Bill & A Crucial Flaw in Democracy

109K views · 9 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

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225K views · 11 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

The Loving Trap

418K views · 15 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"

2.9M views · 13 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren

University of California Television (UCTV)

1.5M views · 10 HN recommenders · 2008–2022

We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim | Lawrence Lessig

314K views · 8 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

7.9M views · 10 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

The Secret War

553K views · 4 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

Why Some Diseases Only Traveled One Direction

13.9M views · 11 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

This Is What Winning Looks Like (Full Length)

10.4M views · 7 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities

Fall of Civilizations

41.1M views · 7 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance

Independent POV

7.9M views · 6 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

The UK Is a Country Made of Countries

25.1M views · 6 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

America Keeps Rejecting an ID Card It Already Has

13.6M views · 14 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins

4.2M views · 10 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

Road Less Marveled

7M views · 9 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

Tiedustelueverstin arvio Venäjästä | 3.12.2018

2M views · 14 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

Debt: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

889K views · 8 HN recommenders · 2013–2024

Seattle is Dying | A KOMO News Documentary

20.1M views · 10 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

Why Are You So Angry? Part 1: A Short History of Anita Sarkeesian

Innuendo Studios

1.1M views · 7 HN recommenders · 2015–2022