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Bloggingheads posts hour-long video conversations between two people and have been doing it for a few years now. I know they're now trying to use Skype when possible, but that requires high-speed on both ends, so they still use the old system a good portion of the time. My understanding is that there's some sort of hardware setup that gets shipped by post to the interviewee, and each side talks over the phone and looks at a camera. The people talking can't actually see each other, which is one downside, but the quality is generally good. http://bloggingheads.tv/

An old Blogging Heads segment mentioned a science curriculum developed by the NSF [National Science Foundation]. I vaguely remember looking into this at the time, and it being a downloadable, grade/age ordered sequence of projects/activities, but I can't seem to track it down now.

I'll assume that you're a bright person who was fooled by the sort of BS tactics that extremists on both sides use to "prove" their points. That interview on Breitbart's site (which he leaves undated, purposely) is from 2001 not from a couple of weeks ago.

If you'd like to hear something more recent, try this 2008 interview with Sunstein and Eugene Volokh

Less crime and less punishment by Mark Kleiman is of interest here.

There is an April 19 dialogue between Will Wilkinson and Clay Shirky on: http://bloggingheads.tv/ specifically http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/10353 that turned me on to Clay Shirky, I haven't ordered his book yet, but it is on my Amazon wish list ;->

There is an April 19 dialogue between Will Wilkinson and Clay Shirky on: http://bloggingheads.tv/ specifically http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/10353 that turned me on to Clay Shirky, I haven't ordered his book yet, but it is on my Amazon wish list ;->

Another example of brainier-than-usual video that isn't mentioned in TFA is bloggingheads.tv, which hosts hour-long dialogues between two experts on various issues of the day (mostly political, but sometimes they have science, religion & culture too).

Of course, since "experts on various issues of the day" tend not to be among the most attractive people in the world, and the video is just of them talking, I have no idea why they don't just do audio-only and save bandwidth. But if you've got a Mickey Kaus pin-up on you're wall, consider your day made!