Videos

Selections from works by Ogden Nash, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, Shel Silverstein, Mattie Stepanek, Joseph Bottum, and others were read in front of an invited audience.

Weekly Standard Books & Arts Editor J. Bottum talked about his favorite books being published this fall: Lou Cannon, Ronald Reagan: A Life in Politics; Irwin Stelzer (ed.), The Neocon Reader…

Participants talked about a report issued by the President’s Council on Bioethics. Among the topics they addressed were the ethics of human cloning, uses of cloning for biomedical research, …

Professor Lombardo and other panelists discussed his latest translation of Homer’s Odyssey and talked about the enduring importance of the work. During the course of the discussion Mr. Lomba…

Telephone lines were open for audience comments on the favorite non-fiction book or author. Mr. Bottum talked via telephone about headline news stories.

Panel members discussed author Saul Bellow’s novel Ravelstein, a fictionalized account of the author’s friendship with professor of political philosophy Allan Bloom, best-selling author of T…

In the newspaper roundtable, Mr. Rosen and Mr. Bottum talked about current news stories of interest to them and took audience calls, faxes and electronic mail.

Three book critics talked about books which they thought would be popular this Spring. Their selections primarily focused on public policy, politics and history. They also took audience call…