Spring 2025 Full Lectures

This page will have links to each full lecture video during the Fall 2025 semester.
If you’re a student, use this page for your Class Reflection Video Assignments (CRVAs).

Class 1: Sam's 43rd Year of Teaching | First Case Study: "Find Someone Who..."

Class 2: MAGA | Asking College Students about MAGA and Donald Trump

Class 3: Fahrenheit 119 | What Can We NOT Talk About? | American University Class Culture

Class 4: Death of DEI? | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in Trump's America

Class 5: A Welfare State | Who Deserves Assistance? | Socialism for the Rich?

Class 6: What Happens Next? | Discussion on Political Violence & Terrorism

Class 7: 750,0000 | Misconceptions on Crimes | A Global Discussion

Class 8: My Choice? My Life? | Free Will vs. Determinism | Guest: Will Smart

Class 9: Checking In | Q&A with Dr. Sam Richards | Professor AMA

Class 10: We're All Snowflakes Now | Free Speech Discussion

Class 11: Only Two Percent! | How Do People Become Extremists? | Political Violence

Class 12: Discrimination 2025 | Discrimination in America | Narrative and Reality

Class 13: Campus Conservatives | College Student Perspective

Class 14: The Migrants | Illegal Immigration | Assimilation to a New Culture

Class 15: The Problem with Bad Bunny | Latin Influence in America | Super Bowl Halftime Show

Class 16: We Need More Kids | Global Crisis | Lowering Birth Rate Issue

Class 17: Only Way to Learn | Growing from Mistakes | Former Lifer | Guest: Irvin Moore

Class 18: A Turkish Experience & Mental Health | Previous Highlight Clips

Class 19: A Live Experiment in Empathy with Basim Razzo | The Uncounted | Iraqi Citizen

Class 20: One Policeman's Story | Mental Health in Policing | An Open Discussion

Class 21: Checking (Out) Your Privilege | White Privilege Conversation

Class 22: Native Ways of Knowledge | Native American Thought Experiments

Class 23: What Are We Doing? | Conversation w/ Warren Smith & Laurie Mulvey

Class 24: Can People of Color Be Racist? | Shifting Our Attention | Racism Test

Class 25: Professor Argues That Empathy Is "Cool" | Empathy & Sympathy

Class 26: When Questions Become Stories | How to Effectively Facilitate

Class 27: We're All Characters | Conversation with Santa & a Princess

Class 28: Students Discuss Israel & Palestine | Finding Empathy

Class 29: What's Left To Discuss?: Fears, Scapegoating, Socialism

Class 30: Message to Gen Z: Stop the Division, Come Together