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Aquinas College professor John Pinheiro taught a class about the Mexican-American War during the late 1840s. Professor Pinheiro is the author of Manifest Ambition: James K. Polk and Civil-Military Relations During the Mexican War. Aquinas College is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Columbia University linguistics professor John McWhorter weighed in on race and “wokeness” in America. The Commonwealth Club of California hosted this virtual event.

Former New York Times Baghdad bureau chief Margaret Coker spoke about a covert Iraqi intelligence unit that targeted ISIS. The Savannah Book Festival in Georgia hosted this program.

Emory University professor Mark Bauerlein argued that the lack of general civics knowledge by millennials poses a threat to America’s political and social institutions. He was interviewed by the Federalist’s culture editor Emily Jashinsky.

New York University Latin American and Caribbean Studies professor Ada Ferrer explored the history of Cuba and its relationship with the United States. She spoke at the Miami Book Fair.

Alec Ross offered his thoughts on how to create a more equitable balance of power between business, government and citizens. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC, hosted this virtual event.

“Does power corrupt or are corrupt people drawn to power?” Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas explored the question in his book, Corruptible. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., hosted this virtual event.

Theoretical physicist Leonard Mlodinow explored advances in the study of emotion in psychology and neuroscience, which suggest that the power of feelings are equally as important to our success as thinking. He was interviewed by Northeastern University professor of psychology and author Lisa Feldman Barrett.

Geoff Shepard was the youngest lawyer on President Nixon’s White House staff and is the author of The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President. He gave his account of the scandal that led to the 37th president’s 1974 resignation. This event was held at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California.

In his new book, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer cautioned against attempts to reform the high court. He was in conversation with CNN legal analyst Joan Biskupic. Smithsonian Associates hosted this virtual event at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.