# The Institute of Art and Ideas: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-29, The Institute of Art and Ideas has 799,000 subscribers, 153,588,021 total views, and 1,577 videos. It ranks #94,010 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [The Institute of Art and Ideas](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for The Institute of Art and Ideas is “Has reason become the enemy of progress? \| Cornel West, Susan Neiman, Rowan Williams”, a long-form video published Oct 27, 2026.
- These are The Institute of Art and Ideas’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Aug 29, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026 (26 long-form videos and 22 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 14,170. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “History shows that human progress is a myth \| John Gray, Jonny Thomson” (645,102 views, Aug 29, 2026). Least viewed: “How do we use democracy \| Curtis Yarvin” (1,185 views, Oct 23, 2026).
- Median length: 19:44 for 26 long-form videos; 1:48 for 22 Shorts.
- In this sample, The Institute of Art and Ideas’s consecutive uploads were a median of 1 day apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 3 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Has reason become the enemy of progress? \| Cornel West, Susan Neiman, Rowan Williams](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/zGjubBkN2sQ/) | 2026-10-27 | Long-form | 8,744 | 18:08 | 1.07x |
| [A Lettuce is not Happy \| Eva Jablonka](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/CuygR8MLbyg/) | 2026-10-25 | Short | 2,214 | 1:21 | - |
| [Consciousness is biology's biggest blunder \| Denis Noble](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/V9BARG_8H38/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 13,931 | 16:06 | - |
| [How do we use democracy \| Curtis Yarvin](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/h5VbTzIebYA/) | 2026-10-23 | Short | 1,185 | 1:52 | - |
| [Curtis Yarvin challenged on his views on benevolent monarchy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/ddIZAoGQRBY/) | 2026-10-22 | Long-form | 19,054 | 31:38 | 1.24x |
| [Plato Matters More Than Ever \| Angie Hobbs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/VTR6YOVuRrA/) | 2026-10-20 | Long-form | 10,111 | 14:43 | - |
| [Monkeys can't type 'bananas' \| Denis Noble](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/M-R_hjHFN0M/) | 2026-10-18 | Short | 7,119 | 1:26 | 2.38x |
| [Reconceptualising Causality \| Avshalom Elitzur](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/l8oJ878kJ64/) | 2026-10-17 | Long-form | 34,519 | 22:05 | 2.08x |
| [The Hippocampal Mystery \| Victoria Trumbull](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/UoeiiqT2mnI/) | 2026-10-16 | Short | 27,346 | 2:13 | 9.59x |
| [Genetics and the Infinite Monkey Theorem \| Jablonka, Noble, Okasha](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/5tMZwQOaZNI/) | 2026-10-15 | Long-form | 9,341 | 14:47 | - |
| [What does it mean for a being to be conscious? \| Martine Nida-Rümelin](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/Yvnl7Iw1IYQ/) | 2026-10-14 | Long-form | 17,106 | 16:11 | - |
| [The Manosphere is Boring \| Erling Kagge](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/yiddOIREV2Y/) | 2026-10-13 | Short | 3,589 | 1:43 | 1.36x |
| [Be Silent \| Erling Kagge](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/02luaTMFVu4/) | 2026-10-11 | Short | 2,476 | 1:07 | - |
| [Has the internet actually shortened our attention spans? \| Doctorow, Wales, Harrington](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/x-R0Gngda2Q/) | 2026-10-10 | Long-form | 17,213 | 22:44 | - |
| [What neurophysiology gets wrong \| Victoria Trumbull](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/jXUdYk9Smko/) | 2026-10-09 | Short | 12,437 | 1:22 | 3.85x |
| [How the Left can defeat the Far Right \| Jeremy Corbyn, Faiza Shaheen](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/-4UHzX8T47E/) | 2026-10-08 | Long-form | 8,596 | 16:08 | - |
| [Is the self just an illusion? \| Julian Baggini](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/fjuPhucj8q8/) | 2026-10-06 | Long-form | 12,423 | 14:15 | - |
| [What actually are memories? \| Victoria Trumbull](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/zdGbV88_718/) | 2026-10-04 | Short | 333,869 | 2:13 | >100x |
| [Memories are not stored in the brain \| Victoria Trumbull](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/3dryKlK8p38/) | 2026-10-04 | Long-form | 284,764 | 17:53 | 7.29x |
| [Has Europe become merely a museum of fallen empires? \| Tett, Corbyn, Ignatieff](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/P-aDGdjhOxw/) | 2026-10-01 | Long-form | 16,800 | 18:11 | - |
| [Financial Subordination \| Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/Tp3hjs8wzZ8/) | 2026-09-30 | Short | 1,586 | 1:44 | - |
| [Understanding the development of consciousness \| Eva Jablonka](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/UXxHg7JWRcs/) | 2026-09-29 | Long-form | 49,778 | 22:06 | 1.48x |
| [The Fundamental Being \| Jessica Frazier](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/wJsR5OnjobA/) | 2026-09-27 | Short | 3,169 | 2:13 | 1.05x |
| [Has feminism limited women's freedom? \| Kathleen Stock, Minna Salami, Lucy Jones, Mary Harrington](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/QGoM02b71v8/) | 2026-09-26 | Long-form | 36,726 | 21:28 | 1.08x |
| [The World is all One \| Jessica Frazier](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/miXOv-0-awI/) | 2026-09-25 | Short | 2,772 | 1:53 | - |
| [What economists do not understand \| Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/khRj9CUKevA/) | 2026-09-24 | Long-form | 64,737 | 28:01 | 1.74x |
| [Killing time \| Avshalom Elitzur](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/dns7lv-uKMA/) | 2026-09-22 | Long-form | 18,265 | 19:05 | - |
| [Continuity after death \| Àlex Gómez-Marín](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/LAIPI9bi7F4/) | 2026-09-20 | Short | 2,560 | 1:15 | - |
| [Free will is real, and science proves it \| George Ellis](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/oRKaSp5UmO8/) | 2026-09-19 | Long-form | 19,028 | 17:54 | - |
| [Disability or difference? \| Simon Baron-Cohen](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/EXKsTmNTIec/) | 2026-09-19 | Short | 4,227 | 1:50 | - |
| [The Nazi Ratline \| Philippe Sands](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/1LGVaHU1uRk/) | 2026-09-18 | Short | 2,008 | 2:36 | - |
| [Why Buddhists think you (and the world) don't really exist \| Jess Frazier](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/JUcUn0c4Wog/) | 2026-09-17 | Long-form | 61,940 | 15:29 | 1.41x |
| [Thatcher's curse on education \| Guy Standing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/nrfegDKq8e0/) | 2026-09-16 | Short | 4,435 | 3:00 | - |
| [Will open borders lead us to utopia or social ruin? \| James Orr, Michael Ignatieff, Gillian Tett](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/HlpsVgqipKk/) | 2026-09-15 | Long-form | 14,409 | 20:46 | - |
| [The West's addiction to violence \| Kishore Mahbubani](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/CukOUFtDSE0/) | 2026-09-13 | Short | 34,034 | 2:39 | 5.26x |
| [How to stand up to Big Tech \| Cory Doctorow](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/eVRy7I2Zb9Y/) | 2026-09-12 | Short | 3,000 | 1:41 | - |
| [Why A.I. isn't as intelligent as it appears \| Simon Baron-Cohen](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/vPXCm74-nNY/) | 2026-09-12 | Long-form | 43,125 | 23:56 | 2.02x |
| [Should we re-industrialise America? \| Catherine Liu, Yaron Brook](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/6dO_9mVljB0/) | 2026-09-11 | Short | 23,866 | 2:28 | 2.92x |
| [How education was sold off to the private sector \| Guy Standing](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/GE8TfN6YF9o/) | 2026-09-10 | Long-form | 27,467 | 16:50 | - |
| [How Donald Trump weaponised Big Tech \| Cory Doctorow](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/xk0j1IW0FdQ/) | 2026-09-09 | Short | 1,990 | 1:46 | - |
| [The internet needs to be rebuilt \| Cory Doctorow on Big Tech and Trump's tariffs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/azJia30ulng/) | 2026-09-08 | Long-form | 31,413 | 20:23 | - |
| [The difference between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. is misunderstood \| Kehinde Andrews](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/_nxovo63zk8/) | 2026-09-05 | Short | 4,465 | 2:14 | - |
| [Why the rest of the world is suspicious of Western democracy \| Mahbubani, Ignatieff, Laruelle](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/PLs1IBKjayc/) | 2026-09-05 | Long-form | 572,787 | 25:14 | 4.32x |
| [Is time real? \| Ivette Fuentes, Tim Maudlin, Wahida Khandker, Hilary Lawson](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/m5pNpAGbPJY/) | 2026-09-03 | Long-form | 45,643 | 20:50 | 2.01x |
| [Do animals know what death is? \| John Gray](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/52AY2NC1M7Y/) | 2026-09-02 | Short | 9,745 | 1:29 | 1.01x |
| [Why gravity is changing our understanding of fundamental physics \| Claudia de Rham](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/1cFeen3qmQo/) | 2026-09-01 | Long-form | 63,059 | 25:26 | - |
| [History shows that human progress is a myth \| John Gray, Jonny Thomson](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/murPOSalbfQ/) | 2026-08-29 | Long-form | 645,102 | 32:30 | 5.94x |
| [Autistic people are more empathetic than others assume \| Simon Baron-Cohen](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@theinstituteofartandideas/videos/y6idxiG9rfg/) | 2026-08-29 | Short | 6,292 | 1:32 | - |

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