Category: Video+discussion

Canada’s PM “The old order is not coming back.”

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney 

11 a.m., January 25, 2026

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we watch and discuss Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He discussed the collapse of the old world order and how Canada and our other former allies should react.

Immediately after his talk, he participated in further discussion on the topic with Gideon Rachman, associate editor and chief foreign affairs commentator at The Financial Times.

You can preview this 31-minute address and interview at: https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/world-economic-forum-special-address-by-pm-mark-carney?id=a5157ccf-d1f1-457a-89fd-46a6bd651479.

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Secularization of Society

Prof. Phil Zuckerman

11 a.m., January 11, 2026

Join us this Sunday, either in-person or online, as we watch and discuss an interview by Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker, co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, with Professor Phil Zuckerman about the growing secularization of the United States and of the world. The interview is from an August 2023 airing of Freethought Matters.

Phil Zuckerman is Professor of Secular Studies and Sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Thanks to his pioneering work, Pitzer College was the first college in the United States to offer a secular studies program, created in 2011. Prof. Zuckerman is the author of many groundbreaking books, including Living the Secular Life, Faith No More, Society Without God, and What It Means to Be Moral.

You can preview this 28-minute video at https://youtu.be/x19e47DOo6g

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The Nones

Ryan Burge by Portland Seminary – https://www.flickr.com/photos/35459775@N04/54578902215/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

11 a.m., December 14, 2025

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, for a fascinating discussion of the data surrounding religion and nonbelief in the United States, and how these trends intersect with politics. It also offers an intriguing look at the growing polarization in both religious and political spheres.

We will watch and discuss an April 2022 talk from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, in which Ryan P. Burge discusses the “Nones”, those who don’t identify with any religion.

Prof. Burge teaches political science, especially religious demography, at Eastern Illinois University. He wrote the 2021 book, The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going. His newest book is 20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America, in which he postulates that the way most people think about religion and politics is only loosely connected to the actual empirical data.

You can preview this video at https://youtu.be/cTlDGddklw8

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Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism

Kurt Vonnegut by Bernard Gotfryd / Adam Cuerden

11 a.m., December 7, 2025

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we watch and discuss a talk about Kurt Vonnegut by Wayne Laufert, given on June 2022 for World Humanist Day..

Why did iconic author Kurt Vonnegut describe himself as a “Christ-worshiping agnostic”? Find out in this presentation about the new Humanist Press book “Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism”. Author Wayne Laufert will explore the values that the freethinking Vonnegut expressed in his fiction and nonfiction.

Kurt Vonnegut was the American Humanist Association’s Humanist of the Year in 1992 and honorary president until his death in 2007.

Wayne Laufert is a former newspaper reporter and editor who runs the Vonnegut Baltimore book club. Behaving Decently: Kurt Vonnegut’s Humanism is his first book. He has been a member of the humanist Baltimore Ethical Society since 2013 and a fan of Kurt Vonnegut since long before that. Wayne joined the Vonnegut Baltimore book club in 2011, as it began its second season. These days he runs the club with lots of help.

We’ll watch the first 26 minutes. The remainder of the hour-long video was Q&A, which is well worth listening to but made the video too long for our Forum.

You can pre-watch this video and listen to the Q&A at:
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Will Democrats learn from the MAGA podcast manosphere?

Scott Galloway — “Prof G”

11 a.m., November 23, 2025

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we watch and discuss a video from last Monday.

Scott Galloway — affectionately known as “Prof G” to his legion of podcast followers — is deeply concerned about young men in America. He joins Nicolle Wallace on “The Best People” (on MS NOW, formerly MSNBC), reflecting on how a lack of economic viability and social connection have created powerful headwinds that make the experience of young men today far different from his own.

Scott joins Nicolle on solutions to this problem and how it impacts politics today. He gets into Trump’s use of the MAGA podcast manosphere and what Democrats can learn. Galloway also has some tough love for Democrats on “purity tests” but says Republicans are just “cruel” in the Trump Era.

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