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Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds: A Clockwork Orange
02/01/2019
A Clockwork Orange is a futuristic warning against both mindless violence and the mechanical reconditioning that is often proposed as society’s solution to its ills. It offers a horrifying view of a future England in which gangs of hoodlums, or “droogs,” roam the streets freely, robbing, fighting, raping, and consuming illegal drugs and alcohol.
Richard Dawkins: The Enemies Of Reason (2007) – Full Transcript
16/12/2018
The Enemies of Reason is a two-part television documentary, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, in which he seeks to expose “those areas of belief that exist without scientific proof, yet manage to hold the nation under their spell”, including mediumship, acupuncture and psychokinesis.
The Root of All Evil? (2006) – Trascrizione italiana
02/12/2018
The Root of All Evil?, poi intitolato The God Delusion, è un documentario televisivo scritto e presentato da Richard Dawkins nel quale sostiene che l’umanità starebbe meglio senza religione o credo in Dio.
Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion: The case of Edgardo Mortara – by Richard Dawkins
16/11/2018
The nineteenth-century human tragedy of Edgardo Mortara sheds a pitiless light on present-day religious attitudes to children.
Root of All Evil? (2006) – Full Transcript
27/10/2018
In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as ‘a process of non-thinking called faith’. He describes his astonishment that, at the start of the 21st century, religious faith is gaining ground in the face of rational, scientific truth.
Against Political Correctness – by Stephen Fry
19/10/2018
Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and British actor and activist Stephen Fry take on American blogger Michelle Goldberg and American political commentator and academic Michael Eric Dyson in a fiery debate on political correctness in modern society. This is the transcript of Stephen Fry’s speech.
Seth Andrews: Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot – Full Transcript
15/10/2018
Seth Andrews gave this speech June 3, 2017 in Toronto at the Imagine 7 conference. It’s a humorous (and perhaps therapeutic) romp through Seth’s religious past…and the often bizarre words and attitudes that reflected his Christian faith.
ON THE STUPIDITY OF BEING OFFENDED
09/10/2018
A compilation for the rejection of the culture of offense. Featuring Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Fry, Penn Jillette, Louis C.K. and Jim Norton, Richard Dawkins, Peter Hitchens, Steve Hughes, Big Jay Oakerson, Ricky Gervais, Salman Rushdie
Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Crazy Slogan of Jesus Jeans (1973)
27/09/2018
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s article on the Church and the revolutionary value of advertising
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Gennariello, trattatello pedagogico
08/09/2018
Gennariello è un ipotetico ragazzo partenopeo a cui Pasolini si rivolge nella rubrica “La pedagogia” sul settimanale Il Mondo. In questi articoli Pasolini analizza i
Why Women Aren’t Funny
09/01/2018
What makes the female so much deadlier than the male? With assists from Fran Lebowitz, Nora Ephron, and a recent Stanford-medical-school study, Christopher Hitchens investigates the reasons for the humor gap
Debate: Freedom of Expression Must Include the License to Offend (2006) – Full Transcript
21/06/2017
Heralding the First Amendment, proponents of free speech champion the right to expression unencumbered by government intervention. But is freedom of expression absolute and limitless? Should we be free to use words with the intention to harm? Should some words remain unspoken, or does this mind-set lead us to the path of censorship?
Bertrand Russell: Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
06/03/2017
Bertrand Russell first delivered this lecture on March 6, 1927 to the National Secular Society, South London Branch, at Battersea Town Hall.
Simon Sinek on Millennials
09/01/2017
Simon Sinek speaks about Millennials in the workplace of today and social media addiction.
The Jungle (1906) – by Upton Sinclair
05/01/2017
As a young man of 26 years, Sinclair spent seven weeks observing the daily lives of individuals who worked in the meat packing industry in Chicago’s Packingtown. Being from the South, an area torn by the Civil War, he hated poverty and its effects on humans.
Protected: How To Win Friends And Influence People – by Dale Carnegie [Full Text]
23/12/2016
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ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AMERICAN, by Ralph Linton
05/09/2016
Diffusion of ideas, a pattern of behavior, or an exchange of material objects is always a two-way street between societies. Americans often think it is a oneway process…
A Tale of Two Cities—and the Difference Guns Make
04/08/2016
The American city of Seattle and the Canadian city of Vancouver have similar populations, economies, and crime rates, except for the rates of murder and assault by handguns.