The Students

The Students
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Weapons-grade political philosophy.

  1. 13h ago

    Christine Peterson — The Art of Mentorship

    Christine Peterson covers her experience mentoring — how to boost the people working towards your shared goals, how to learn from a mentor, how to show potential mentors you're worth their investment, and more.

  2. 5d ago

    AI Bureaucracy Will Enable Total Surveillance

    Samo Burja and Wolf Tivy cover the political economy of AI: How AIs will reshape bureaucracies, how some governments will rely on AI labs like petrostates rely on oil, and how AI apocalypticism will struggle against careerism.

  3. Oct 28

    The Students Showcase — Live From San Francisco

    One fine San Francisco evening, we got together as many of our channel's guests as we could, and invited them to give brief talks.

  4. Oct 23

    Jason Crawford — Where the Industrial Revolution Came From

    Jason Crawford and Ben Landau-Taylor cover the Industrial Revolution, the acceleration of technology, and how our increasing awareness of technological progress as a historical force has altered society.

  5. Oct 20

    Danielle Fong — Technology Doesn't Just Happen

    Danielle Fong and Ben Landau-Taylor talk about invention—how new technology depends on specific individuals, successfully not burning down the science shed while doing the early experiments, taking advantage of AI energy demand, and more.

  6. Oct 16

    Every Ideology Starts as a Book Club — Duncan Umphrey

    Duncan Umphrey and Ben Landau-Taylor cover the power of book clubs, how and why you should start your own, and how new ideologies develop from these seeds.

  7. Oct 13

    Forming Brazil’s New Elite — Guilherme Freire

    Guilherme Freire explains why his elite training program uses the classics to cultivate virtue and action in business, and how this can lead to social and political rejuvenation.

  8. Oct 9

    Samo Burja — What the Greeks Would Call Our Government

    Samo Burja and Ben Landau-Taylor explain how the Greeks understood the basic forms of government, what their ideas catch which today's idea of "democracy" vs "authoritarianism" misses, and how they would diagnose today's dysfunctions.

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Weapons-grade political philosophy.

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  • Creator
    The Students
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    46
  • Rating
    Explicit
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