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Social issues & culture Videos Recommended on Hacker News (168)

Social issues & culture is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 168 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2011 and 2026 — 365 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Society and culture: race, gender, identity politics, homelessness, education policy, demographics, birth rates, immigration, dating and relationships, religion in society, class.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population: “I can highly recommend this lecture by the late Hans Rosling” — an HN commenter, 2017.

11 mo on HN

DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population

Gapminder Foundation
8 HN recommender · 2017–2021
11 mo on HN

Music Theory and White Supremacy

Adam Neely
11 HN recommender · 2020–2024
11 mo on HN

Alain de Botton: Status Anxiety

Alain de Botton
4 HN recommender · 2015–2026
9 mo on HN

America Keeps Rejecting an ID Card It Already Has

CGP Grey
14 HN recommender · 2017–2024
8 mo on HN

Seattle is Dying | A KOMO News Documentary

KOMO News
10 HN recommender · 2019–2024
7 mo on HN

Why Are You So Angry? Part 1: A Short History of Anita Sarkeesian

Innuendo Studios
7 HN recommender · 2015–2022
7 mo on HN

Incels | ContraPoints

ContraPoints
7 HN recommender · 2018–2024
7 mo on HN

NVC Marshall Rosenberg - San Francisco Workshop - FULL ENGLISH SUBTITLES TRANSCRIPTION

Centrum Nadania
6 HN recommender · 2019–2026
7 mo on HN

Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox

hgoetkehgoetke
6 HN recommender · 2014–2021
7 mo on HN

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs

NumbersUSA
7 HN recommender · 2013–2024
6 mo on HN

How not to be ignorant about the world | Hans and Ola Rosling

TED
5 HN recommender · 2015–2023
7 mo on HN

Millennials Don't Exist! Adam Conover at Deep Shift

Adam Conover
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023
7 mo on HN

Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia

Not Just Bikes
7 HN recommender · 2022–2026
5 mo on HN

"Two incompatible sacred values in American universities" Jon Haidt, Hayek Lecture Series

Duke University Department of Political Science
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
6 mo on HN

Canceling | ContraPoints

ContraPoints
7 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HN

James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)

The Riverbends Channel
5 HN recommender · 2016–2024
5 mo on HN

Collapse of Complex Societies by Dr. Joseph Tainter

vlada888
5 HN recommender · 2015–2023
4 mo on HN

Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies. | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville

TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2018–2022
5 mo on HN

Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism

Channel 4 News
5 HN recommender · 2018–2023
4 mo on HN

John Cleese vs Extremism

eroosters
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HN

The Bell Curve

Shaun
6 HN recommender · 2019–2025
5 mo on HN

The Lively & Liveable Neighbourhoods that are Illegal in Most of North America

Not Just Bikes
5 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HN

13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix

Netflix
6 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HN

[AUDIO FIXED] The Truth Cannot be Sexist - Steven Pinker on the biology of sex differences

Gravitahn
6 HN recommender · 2017–2018
5 mo on HN

How one tweet can ruin your life | Jon Ronson

TED
5 HN recommender · 2018–2025
4 mo on HN

The Houses that Can't be Built in America - The Missing Middle

Not Just Bikes
4 HN recommender · 2021–2023
4 mo on HN

The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie

Innuendo Studios
4 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HN

Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
4 mo on HN

Religions and babies | Hans Rosling

TED
4 HN recommender · 2013–2024
4 mo on HN

The US Has More Tribes Than the World Has Countries

CGP Grey
4 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HN

Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America | Jeff Rosen | TEDxMountainViewHighSchool

TEDx Talks
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
4 mo on HN

Why the world population won’t exceed 11 billion | Hans Rosling | TGS.ORG

THINK Global School
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HN

James Baldwin vs William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965

Aeon Video
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

Homeless man talks openly about being addicted to heroin. We have an opioid crisis in America.

Invisible People
3 HN recommender · 2021–2021
3 mo on HN

Andres Duany Lecture. Suburban Sprawl.

Andriy Kosetsky
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
4 mo on HN

The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery

Knowing Better
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026