12 Angry Geopoliticians

Some free talks and lectures on geopolitics, history, sociology, financial mathematics, and the Sidney Lumet film adaptation of the Reginald Rose play 12 Angry Men (1957).

A. Klauss Dodds gives a Google Talks presentation on what geopolitics is.

B. An explanation of the major geopolitics theories from the Geopolitical Futures podcast.

C. Citadel’s Ken Griffin on AI and geopolitics.

D. The think tank CSIS on the future of AI-driven cyberdefence.

E. The Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy has launched a Timothy Snyder lecture series on Hitler and Stalin Today. The individual lectures are on Munk’s YouTube channel. Here is the first on What is History?

F. A monetary economics seminar at the NBER Institute.

G. A 27 lecture series by Ann Swidler (then at Oxford University) on sociology. The first lecture below is on the sociologist Emile Durkheim and suicide.

H. Math with Ming offers four hours on introducing Mathematical Finance.

I. You can view the Reginald Rose play 12 Angry Men filmed in 1957 by Sidney Lumet (and in 1997 by William Friedkin) for free. This is an important film on race, stereotypes, social judgment, group conflict dynamics, and truth processes. I played the Foreman in a high school production.