36 videos found for “Fundamentalism”
Great Issues Forum: What Is Religion?
The Forum's year-long exploration of religion launches with a program featuring distinguished philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett and noted evolutionary biologist David S...
11.17.2009
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01:15:52 min
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36,445 Views
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Wes Jackson: The Next 50 Years on the American Land
At the Chautauqua Institution's 2008 program, Wes Jackson gave a talk entitled The Next Fifty Years on the American Land: Agriculture, Forestry and Ranching. In it, Jackson addresses t...
08.15.2008
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01:10:42 min
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2,630 Views
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The Image of Faith in America with Chris Hedges
Author of the bestselling book War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges joins the Council to discuss his new book I Don't Believe in Atheists and offers his views of the extre...
04.03.2008
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01:05:01 min
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3,620 Views
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Karen Armstrong: Charter for Compassion
Ms. Armstrong describes how Islam, Judaism and Christianity have been diverted from a shared moral purpose. She now is working with the TED community to build a Charter for Compassion.
08.14.2009
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01:14:32 min
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24,791 Views
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6 Comments 
The Rise of al-Qaeda and The Long Road to 9-11
The Rise of al-Qaeda and The Long Road to 9/11 with Lawrence Wright In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright explains the growth of Islamic fundamentalis...
09.14.2007
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01:06:13 min
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6,458 Views
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1 Comment 
Europe, America, and the Continental Drift
Senator Marcello Pera examines remedies for addressing the cultural challenges confronting Europe. Why does Europe appear to be in a sort of a political continental drift with respect ...
10.25.2006
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01:03:32 min
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1,034 Views
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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
Former President Jimmy Carter talks about his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Immediately following the event and former President Carter's departure, Alan Dershowitz responds to p...
01.23.2007
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02:26:19 min
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2,795 Views
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Is There a Clash of Civilizations?
Muslims in the West with Olivier Roy Olivier Roy is one of Europe's most noted experts on Islam, with particular expertise on the globalization of Islam and its expression in the West....
01.24.2007
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00:59:52 min
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14,138 Views
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Peter Beinart and Jonah Goldberg in Political Debate
Jonah Goldberg of the National Review debates journalist and editor-at-large for The New Republic Peter Beinart in a clash of leading political experts. The debate format frames the tw...
10.02.2008
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01:12:13 min
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3,451 Views
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3 Comments 
Naomi Klein and Joseph Stiglitz on Economic Power
What is the role of the U.S. in the disposition of the world's economic and environmental resources? How are financial markets best defended from economic shock? Does liberalization ens...
10.20.2008
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01:02:18 min
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64,892 Views
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27 Comments 
Julia Child: Culinary Revolutionary
Julia Child didn't start cooking until she was 39, but no other chef influenced late-20th-century American cooking more than she did. 45 years after the debut of her groundbreaking PBS...
06.12.2008
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01:24:24 min
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9,115 Views
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1 Comment 
International Security and the Next President of the U.S.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Dependence on expensive foreign oil. Challenging diplomacy with nuclear-armed countries. America's next president needs a strong vision and stronger w...
10.14.2008
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01:12:15 min
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2,562 Views
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2 Comments 
Fundamental Facts of Islam, Terrorism, and Democracy
An expert on the financing of terrorism, Loretta Napoleoni is the bestselling author of Terror Incorporated, Modern Jihad and Insurgent Iraq. Sadanand Dhume is a journalist and writer ...
05.23.2008
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00:53:54 min
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2,338 Views
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US Alliance: Special Relationships to Anti-Americanism
What exactly is anti-Americanism? How can so many nations claim to have a "special relationship" with the United States? How can elites insist that their nations have special...
12.17.2008
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01:33:24 min
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1,013 Views
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2 Comments 
Lila Azam Zanganeh: Uncensored Iranian Voices
My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices featuring Lila Azam Zanganeh From the New York Public Library, a conversation about Iranian politics ...
04.19.2006
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01:42:54 min
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2,700 Views
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