These remind me of “The Great Courses” that they used to release as videos/audiobooks back in the 00s and 10s. Maybe they still do. The Great Courses, some of which I pirated out of curiosity, were often slower-paced and worse than your average Khan Academy video or random powerpoint presentation uploaded to youtube, but they were always taught by “critically acclaimed” professors (bourgeois best selling authors with good connections who happen to be tenured professors). The economics courses were of course just dismal and regurgitated nonsense about how “wall street and main street share common interests and shouldn’t fight each other” in the middle of the 2008 crash.
i have access to a bunch of those on audiobook, via my public library and I’ve found some really good ones. But for every genuinely good lecture series on a topic like Ancient North America, there’s like, 5 with titles like “wisdom of Europe’s greatest generals” that’s just utter slop for pseudo-intellectual chuds.
These remind me of “The Great Courses” that they used to release as videos/audiobooks back in the 00s and 10s. Maybe they still do. The Great Courses, some of which I pirated out of curiosity, were often slower-paced and worse than your average Khan Academy video or random powerpoint presentation uploaded to youtube, but they were always taught by “critically acclaimed” professors (bourgeois best selling authors with good connections who happen to be tenured professors). The economics courses were of course just dismal and regurgitated nonsense about how “wall street and main street share common interests and shouldn’t fight each other” in the middle of the 2008 crash.
i have access to a bunch of those on audiobook, via my public library and I’ve found some really good ones. But for every genuinely good lecture series on a topic like Ancient North America, there’s like, 5 with titles like “wisdom of Europe’s greatest generals” that’s just utter slop for pseudo-intellectual chuds.
exactly