Various recordings of Michael Parenti’s talks have been made publicly available on YouTube for educational purposes at:

Michael Parenti’s public talks have covered a wide range of subjects, including:

• U.S. politics, globalism, and imperialism,

• culture and human rights,

• ideology, political economy and class power,

• democracy past and present,

• fascism, communism, and democratic socialism,

• free-market crises and capitalism's orthodoxies,

• human nature and politics,

• religion and theocracy,

• conservative judicial activism,

• ancient history, modern history, and historiography,

• repression in academia,

• news and entertainment media manipulation, 

• environmentalism  and eco-apocalypse,

• sexism, racism, and homophobia,

• Venezuela and social revolution,

• the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia,

• ethnicity, acculturation, and his own early life - to give an incomplete listing.