Videos

Christopher Ryan looked at progress and civilization throughout history.

Rebecca Solnit talked about her book The Mother of All Questions: Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions, in which she examines how women have been silenced and the changes occurring …

Kristina Rizga talked about her book Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph, in which she examines alternative approa…

David Talbot presents a history of San Francisco from 1967 to 1982. The city, connected to the counter culture movement of the 1960s, witnessed a series of transformative events in the succe…

Ruben Martinez talked about his book Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West. In the book he described his travels throughout the American West and presents his thoughts on the cha…

Jeremy Rifkin argues that Internet technology and renewable energy could lead the way for a new industrial revolution in the United States and help the country regain its economic foothold i…

Ethan Watters looks at the impact of our mental health system on the rest of the world. He argues that what works in the United States does not necessarily translate to other societies and …

Amy Bach discusses what she calls the clubby legal culture of compromise. This includes public defenders who plead their clients guilty without delving into the facts and prosecutors who are…

Allison Bartlett talked about her book The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (Riverhead Hardcover; September 17, 2009). …

Dan Kurzman talked about the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. The San Francisco earthquake occurred on April 18, 1906, which destroyed three-quarters of the city and left 300…

Mr. D’Este discussed his biography Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life, published by Henry Holt and Company. The book tells the story of the former U.S. President’s childhood in rural Kansas, his e…

Author John Knaus talked about his book Orphans of the Cold War: American and the Tibetan Struggle to Survive, published by Public Affairs. The book examines American aid to Tibet to resist …