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Political Theory
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| 1 | Crash Course Political Theory Preview | 2:38 | 2024-10-31 | |
| 2 | Where Did Democracy Come From, and Does It Still Work? | 12:05 | 2024-11-07 | |
| 3 | What Does Liberalism Mean? | 12:24 | 2024-11-14 | |
| 4 | Identity politics: the good, the bad, and the… hotly contested | 11:40 | 2024-11-21 | |
| 5 | What Are the Rules of War? Just War Theory | 12:06 | 2024-12-05 | |
| 6 | What does Machiavellian mean? | 13:01 | 2024-12-12 | |
| 7 | Who Was Karl Marx? And Why Is Everyone Still Talking About Him? | 13:18 | 2024-12-19 | |
| 8 | A World Without Governments? Anarchism Explained | 11:42 | 2025-01-02 | |
| 9 | What is Feminism, and Where Does it Go From Here? | 12:01 | 2025-01-09 | |
| 10 | Political Cosmopolitanism | 13:03 | 2025-01-16 | |
| 11 | Philosophies of Punishment & The Prison Abolition Movement | 11:03 | 2025-01-23 | |
| 12 | Is Utopia Actually Possible? | 11:05 | 2025-01-30 | |
| 13 | Should Art Be Political? | 12:45 | 2025-02-06 | |
| 14 | The Power of Political Recognition | 14:09 | 2025-02-13 |
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