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Politics, History & Society

Social issues & culture

Social issues & culture sits within Politics, History & Society. Pay attention to historical context, institutional power, and the perspective from which an argument is presented. This selection contains 168 catalog videos from 129 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include video essay, satire, politics, homelessness, demographics and free speech. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, lecture, music, news, other, podcast and talk. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“MEETING THE ENEMY A feminist comes to terms with the Men's Rights movement | Cassie Jaye…”, listed under TEDx Talks, is cataloged as talk. Documentary filmmaker Cassie Jaye explains how making The Red Pill led her, a feminist, to reevaluate her assumptions about the Men's Rights movement. She argues for listening to people you think of…

168 videos