The Watergate Girl
Jill Wine-Banks reflected on her legal career that included her role in the Watergate case as one of the three assistant special prosecutors.
1,205 viewsJill Wine-Banks reflected on her legal career that included her role in the Watergate case as one of the three assistant special prosecutors.
1,205 viewsBookseller and publishing executive James Mustich offered his thoughts on the 1,000 books he says people should read in their lifetime.
1,978 viewsJournalist Bhaskar Sunkara talked about his book, The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality, in which he examined what a socialist system would l…
2,499 viewsRepublican strategist Rick Wilson offered his thoughts on how to prevent President Trump from being re-elected.
2,589 viewsColumbia University Psychiatry Professor Kelli Harding talked about her book, The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness, in which she…
2,632 viewsJournalist Caitlin Moscatello talked about her book, See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics, in which she examined the rise in women running and winning el…
281 viewsNew York University Professor Lisa Duggan talked about her book, Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed, on the life and political influence of the late author Ayn Rand.
1,334 viewsBoston University Professor Jay Wexler talked about his book, Our Non-Christian Nation: How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life, in whic…
416 viewsIsaac Shapiro read passages from his memoir, Edokko: Growing Up a Stateless Foreigner in Wartime Japan. Mr. Shapiro talked about his family’s flight from persecution against Jews in both com…
688 viewsUniversity of Chicago professor Eve Ewing reported on the Chicago public schools.
1,516 viewsScientist Jaron Lanier explored the connection between the brain and the world and argued that virtual reality enhances lives.
2,036 viewsBlack Youth Project 100 director Charlene Carruthers offered her thoughts on how to shift mainstream ideas on race, gender, and class.
491 viewsIbtihaj Muhammad detailed her journey to becoming the first female Muslim-American to medal at the Olympic Games.
477 viewsFormer Georgia House Democratic Leader and gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams, offered her thoughts on leadership.
728 viewsScientist Kelly Weinersmith and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith talked about their book Soonish, in which they detail several scientific advancements and studies being explored and the implicati…
1,087 viewsHarold Evans talked about his book Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters. He spoke with Mike Barnicle, a political commentator on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
1,017 viewsDr. Elizabeth Ford talked about her book Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward, in which she discusses her work in mental heal…
1,180 viewsNomi Prins talked about the current economic problems and her book, Black Tuesday, a historical novel about the 1929 economic crash. Now a journalist, she had experience working for Goldman …
1,990 viewsCalvin Trillin, staff writer for the New Yorker and the Nation’s “deadline poet,” presented a collection of his essays from the past forty years that range from the economy to politics and t…
1,187 viewsAndrew Keen talked about his book The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture (Crown Business, 2007). He debated with Lev Grossman of Time magazine the value of the …
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