Pinker: The Myth of Violence
Experimental psychologist and author Steven Pinker discusses how violence has diminished over time, contrary to the widespread inclination to believe that humanity’s brutality is on the increase. (Length ~19 minutes.)
Chomsky: Distorted Morality?
Noam Chomsky (emeritus Institute Professor at MIT), renowned linguist, cognitive scientist, philosopher, political commentator and activist offers a lecture about the hyporcisy inherent in the sense of morality driving the ‘war on terror’:
