Well, I kind of have ADD, so it's not super easy for me to read. In the past, I read a decent amount of history and philosophy, but not so much any more. These days, I tend to only read studies or articles that get brought up in debate or lectures that I am listening to. I don't really like to trust people in this politicized climate, so I will often skim through these studies to verify the information is true. Oftentimes, this will lead me down a rabbit trail as I compare new data to older studies to get a less slanted view. That kind of stuff is pretty boring, though, and I try to avoid it unless it seems necessary to challenge my world view.

I listen to a LOT of online lectures from various professors, and I try to stay balanced. If I listen to a conservative, I listen to a Marxist. I want both the critique and rationale for an idea. A lot of what I listen to is long form, though, so you have to be ready to settle in for a while. My favorite intellectual at the moment is James Lindsay. He's a mathematician that became interested in the social justice movement. He wrote a series of articles that won him awards in social justice circles, but he was just doing it as parody to expose the movement as a sham. As he learned more about it, he began sharing it with people online. He does a VERY good job of taking complicated principles and distilling them into digestible chunks. Like most people taking large works and condensing them, he won't be perfect, but he'll get you close enough. His worst critique is in the post modern movement (which is a problem for everyone), but he is getting better as he studies it more. I would really throw on his podcasts if you want to get the best bang for your buck.

One of my favorite Marxists to listen to is a Pakistani  professor named Taimur Rahman. He is really well learned and does a great job of passionately sharing philosophic principles from various authors. Some of his videos aren't in English, so if you end up on something speaking gibberish, try a different one. I'll post one of his lectures below.

I also listen to a lot of speeches given by influential figures to their base. As I am typing this, I am listening to Mark Bray, writer of the Anti-Fascist Handbook, give a speech to a bunch of students at Dartmouth. I feel like you can learn more about genuine motive when you get outside of what it produced for us to consume. The raw versions are always more revealing.

I probably watch between 5-10 lectures a week, and I will link a couple that I watched last week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf8YpfTCXLs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe9PUFW0Uk

Watched both 1 and 2 of that lecture. If that interests you, I will start sending you videos I watch.

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Word of caution, Taimur is a very persuasive and knowledgeable speaker. You might not want to watch his stuff on Marxism if you don't want to have your world views challenged.

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