Videos

The panelists discussed various aspects of wiretapping and digital encryption and how to protect personal privacy. Diffie and Landau are the authors of Privacy on the Line: The Politics of W…

Los Angeles Times book critic Richard Eder talked about the art and mechanics of book criticism. He also talked about how his experiences as a foreign correspondent influenced his literary t…

Authors Janet Murray (Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace) and Sven Birkerts (The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age) discussed the prospec…

Steven Pinker talked about his new book How the Mind Works. He examined two different approaches to studying the mind and offered examples from everyday life to illustrate his ideas. Followi…

Mr. Zachary talked about his book, Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century. The book utilizes the writings of Vannevar Bush to construct a portrait of the scientist…