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National Identity Is Made Up

Nationality feels powerful, especially today. But the idea of identifying with millions of strangers just based on borders is relatively new. The Interpreter explains why it was invented — and how it changed the world.

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Stupa: The Inside Story of Outsider Art (2025) ($5)
The Three Most Important Words We’re Taught Not to Say | Nate Hagens
Chris Hedges: Can Love Persevere?
Militarism Is a Cult of Divide & Conquer | Matthew Cooke
Radical Neighbouring | Adam Wilson
Chris Hedges Live Q&A: Where Is America Going and Should You Leave?
This Far Left Radical Manifesto Will Shock You | Thom Hartmann
Zohran Is the Real MAGA | Matthew Cooke
Velvet Prisons: Russell Jacoby On American Academia (2016)
Why Modern Democracy Is Just a Polite Dictatorship – Plato Knew This
5 Political Ideologies Explained Through Trash Removal
Colonialism, Explained
The Eternal Song (trailer)
Radical Love: The Life and Legacy of Satish Kumar (trailer)
A Radical Guide to Reality
Living With Dying (2022)
Scared Sacred (2004)
Murmurings of the Land | Stephen Jenkinson & Nathalie Roy of the Orphan Wisdom Farm (2025)
The Art of Justifying Evil
Our Coming Cyberpunk Dictatorship (Snow Crash)
Ben Shapiro and Personal Responsibility
The Fake Prophet Of The American Oligarchy
Why the Right is Obsessed with Daddy | George Lakoff
How MAGA Evangelicals Corrupted Christianity
From Awra Amba to Ethiopia and the World (2023)
Wisdom Weavers Of The World
ENOUGHNESS, The Prequel: Indigenous Economics with Tantoo Cardinal
A Forgotten '60s Radical Movement
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: a Zen Film (trailer)
How Jesus Turned Me Into A Marxist
Why I Left the Right, What Kind of Socialist Am I? What I Dislike About the Left (Q&A)
The Tragic Optimist's Guide to Surviving Capitalistic Nihilism
Why Every Communist Country is a One-Party Dictatorship
"Anti-Capitalism" is Capitalist
Living Without: How Much is Enough?
In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024) ($20)
Thich Nhat Hanh: One of Our Greatest Inspirations and Mentors
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GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
We Are Many (2020)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Blood and Oil (2008)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Affluenza (1997)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
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