Which public intellectuals do you like to listen to?

[noname223]

My favorite is a German called Albrecht von Lucke. He has good takes on German and US politics. I like listening to Slavoj Zizek.

There are some other Germans: Herfried Münkler, Jürgen Habermaß.

 

[Yonlux]

Nobody, in my country doesn't exist intellectuals lmao
Speaking seriously, sometimes I watch some videos of the federal deputy (brazillian member of minor parliament) called Kim Kataguiri, he is much smart and founds the "Movimento Brasil Livre" (Freedom Brazil Moviment), the only much liberal moviment in Brazil that is growning.

 

[SVEN]

You lost me at "intellectual".

 

[Halfhourdays]

I'm in the US, where all anyone does anymore is complain about Trump. I can't take it anymore.

 

[avoid]

Stephen Fry. He can voice his thoughts so elegantly and sometimes poetically and comically.



Or his thoughts on God: link

 

[footballseason]

Robert Sapolsky (YouTube link)

In my efforts to educate myself on why my brain is the way that it is, I've found many professionals whose explanations of the brain and it's disorders made so many things "click" for me. I had so many moments where I said "holy shit, this person is describing exactly what I've been experiencing. I always thought it was just me". Many individual science communicators have made individual contributions to my education in that way, but Sapolsky has contributed countless moments like those. I really can't recommend his books and lectures enough.

 

[Alexei_Kirillov]

Vlad Vexler on politics

Robert Sapolsky (YouTube link)

In my efforts to educate myself on why my brain is the way that it is, I've found many professionals whose explanations of the brain and it's disorders made so many things "click" for me. I had so many moments where I said "holy shit, this person is describing exactly what I've been experiencing. I always thought it was just me". Many individual science communicators have made individual contributions to my education in that way, but Sapolsky has contributed countless moments like those. I really can't recommend his books and lectures enough.

Love his contributions on the free will discussion

 

[broken_stoic]

I'd list them, but none of the would want to be associated with this site.

 

[tss fss]

Old lectures of Jordan Peterson are really good , but his new talks are absolute trash , once he became a political commentator instead of a clinical psychologist he lost all credibility.

 

[Existential_Dread]

Robert Sapolsky (YouTube link)

In my efforts to educate myself on why my brain is the way that it is, I've found many professionals whose explanations of the brain and it's disorders made so many things "click" for me. I had so many moments where I said "holy shit, this person is describing exactly what I've been experiencing. I always thought it was just me". Many individual science communicators have made individual contributions to my education in that way, but Sapolsky has contributed countless moments like those. I really can't recommend his books and lectures enough.

I love that Stanford shared him (and that playlist) with those unable to take his courses. He's genuinely a good human too!

 

[SVEN]

I'm starting to lean towards Eric Cartman these days.

 

[Average Joe]

Old lectures of Jordan Peterson are really good , but his new talks are absolute trash , once he became a political commentator instead of a clinical psychologist he lost all credibility.

Completely agree, I really enjoyed his lectures on youtube, he used to be a voice for young males but now as you've mentioned, once he became a political commentator I distanced myself from his content.