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Rachel Botsman discussed the impact technology has had on trust.

Tommie Shelby, author of Dark Ghettos, Elizabeth Hinton, author of The War on Poverty, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness, participated in a discussion on is…

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Joseph Nye talks about the foreign policies of 20th century American presidents and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices. Professor Nye ide…

Ezra Vogel talked about his biography of transformational Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping. He responded to questions from members of the audience at the Cambridge Forum held at the First Parish…

Kathrine Newman and Victor Chen talked about their co-authored book, The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America, published by Beacon Press. In their book Katherine Newman and V…

Walter Benn Michaels talked about his book, The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality, published by Metropolitan Books. He said that America’s love of…

Professor Jacobs talked about his biography The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis, published by HarperSanFrancisco. He outlined Oxford scholar and religious writer Lewis’s lif…

Ms. Polsgrove discussed her book Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement, published by W.W. Norton & Company. Ms. Polsgrove examines some of the writings of intellectuals …

Author Wendy Kaminer talked about her book Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and the Perils of Piety. She spoke about faith-based belief in alien encounters and exp…

Author Simpson Garfinkel talked about his book Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century, published by O’Reilly and Associates. The book marks the advances in technology that…

Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, who retired last year after representing Wyoming for 18 years, talked about his career in politics with many humorous turns of phrase. He also talked abo…

Mr. Kuttner, the co-founder of The American Prospect, talked about his new book, Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets. He analyzed the three separate notions that market ca…

Author Wendy Kaminer spoke on the topic, “Will Class Trump Gender,” the subject of her article in the November-December issue of The American Prospect. The article focuses on how conservativ…

Mr. Michael Sandel talked about his book, Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy in which he says that community is the starting point for revitalizing democracy. H…

Cornell West talked about their perspectives on the notion of “beloved community,” which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used to describe a world free of racism. They focused on their definition…

Author Tom Hayden spoke about his new book, The Lost Gospel of the Earth: A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit, and Politics. It focuses on the relationship between religion, the environment a…

John Kenneth Galbraith talked about his recent book, “The Good Society: The Humane Agenda", published by Houghton Mifflin. He discussed the standards for judging a "good” society, especially…

Author/Professor Mary Lefkowitz spoke about multiculturalism in the ancient world. Her recent book, “Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History,” deals wit…

Sherry Turkle, Author of "Life on the Screen", talked about the identities people create for themselves on the Internet and its impact on our culture. She is the author of Life on the Scree…

Harvard University Professor Bryan Hehir spoke about morality and war, including issues such as the justifiability of the use of force at the Cambridge Forum. He emphasized the moral questio…