Videos

In this talk, recorded at BESI on September 30, 2025, Cambridge researcher Luke Kemp explores the ways explore the ways growth-obsessed, extractive institutions like the fossil fuel industry, Big Tech, and military-industrial complexes rule our world and produce new ways of annihilating our species

In this second event in our series on democratic backsliding in the U.S., panelists from across the UC Berkeley campus touched on the weakening of Congress, Trump and the courts, the pressures on civic institutions, and the possible dynamics and implications of popular protest, among other urgent topics.

In May, BESI convened a panel of housing researchers and policy makers to discuss the obstacles to effective housing production in blue trifectas.

37% of Americans live in states governed by blue trifectas. What opportunities and challenges does this present for Democratic Party officials?

On May 20, BESI invited expert climate policymakers and researchers to weigh in on decarbonization challenges and opportunities in blue trifectas.

Disinformation and far-right digital media expert Becca Lewis recounts how right-wing politics came to Silicon Valley decades before DOGE.

Political scientist Michael Shepherd shows how partisan politics at elite and mass levels explain the growing rural-urban health divide in the US.

Social scientist Jathan Sadowski demystifies how the two systems of technology and capitalism work together.

On March 11, BESI welcomed Yoni Appelbaum and Jerusalem Demsas for a highly anticipated conversation on America’s housing crisis and the decline of mobility in this country.

Technologies of information management transform how we relate to ourselves and to each other.

Chandler's take makes the case for a progressive agenda that would reshape society for the better.

Analysts and speculators don't have any special cognitive access to the future. But that doesn't stop them from trying their hand at divination, says Rachel Weber. The consequence is our dysfunctional real estate market.