Search
Latest Videos
A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
2mins
Every benign religion, every religion that’s actually helping somebody sometimes could be functioning like a placebo. It could be totally barren of content and still useful in certain circumstances.
4mins
We are misled by the very term “religion,” argues Sam Harris. Religion was simply the discourse humans used when all causes in the universe were opaque.
3mins
Converging on a common project in a non-divisive, something religion does infrequently.
4mins
9/11 sparked Harris’s interest in religion, and his journey to atheism.
1mins
“Are you happy?” is a good place to start, reflects Jason Kottke.
1mins
People are so much more connected than they used to be.
1mins
Kottke is a big Errol Morris fan.
1mins
Politics are still shut off from reality, Kottke says.
1mins
They will, Kottke says, but they’ll just be different.
1mins
Encouraging the dilettantes is one unfortunate side effect of the information age.
1mins
Internet advertising presents many opportunities for trial and error, Kottke says.
