Internet radio (III)

Intercollegiate Studies Institute Archive

This private American organization for the preservation of traditional academic values has a large (approaching 200 items) archive of lectures and debates, mostly recorded over the last several years, but also including some "historical lectures" dating back to the 1960s. The archive contains a mixture of audio and video recordings and transcripts, with a majority of the items being available as audio (streaming audio only in some cases). Some of these lectures are by among the world's best historical or political writers, and many seem to be of high quality—worth downloading to a CD or iPod and listening to several times. ISI is politically conservative in orientation but its political debates, for example, give equal time to representatives of the other side of the American political spectrum, and some of the lectures are on non-political subjects. Using this archive is a little like having free access to the lectures of a great university, although the subjects discussed are of general rather than specialized scholarly interest.

See also Internet radio (II).

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