If you're a pseudo-intellectual such as myself who gets tired of reading all the time but still wants to be able to pretend to be familiar with the great thinkers and major political figures of our time, you may be interested to find that many episodes of
Charlie Rose are available for free on Google Video right now.
I have thus far been entertained and educated watching
Milton Friedman,
Bashar Al-Assad (President of Syria),
Salman Rushdie and Deepa Mehta, and
Shirin Neshat.