The Race to Be Myself
Two-time Olympic gold medal-winning runner Caster Semenya talked about her career and her lawsuit against the world track and field governing body for discrimination. This event was held at …
138 viewsTwo-time Olympic gold medal-winning runner Caster Semenya talked about her career and her lawsuit against the world track and field governing body for discrimination. This event was held at …
138 viewsWheaton College professor Gail Sahar offered her approach on how to change attitudes or influence the viewpoints of others amidst today’s culture wars. The Harvard Coop in Cambridge, Massach…
384 viewsMalcolm Gladwell talked about his book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, published by Little, Brown, and Company. He used lessons learned from contemporary soci…
912 viewsMo Moulton talked about The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women, which chronicles author Dorothy Sayers work for women’s rights …
622 viewsJulie Albright talked about Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream. In her book she explored the intersection of social behavior and technology and a…
1,349 viewsUniversity of San Diego law professor Orly Lobel examined the arguments over creativity and intellectual property.
1,052 viewsJoan Johnson-Freese argued that the U.S. War College system was broken and no longer properly educated senior military officers. Professor Johnson-Freese spoke at the Harvard Coop in Cambrid…
659 viewsEdward Jay Epstein, author of The Annals of Unsolved Crime, and Errol Morris, author of A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald, talked about notorious crimes that were never …
1,070 viewsDaniel Drezner looks at the way different theories of international relations hold up when the enemy are zombies. He spoke at the Harvard Coop in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2,186 viewsJoe Flood recounts the RAND corporation’s partnership with the New York City Fire Department during the 1970s and the company’s computer model that assured efficient use of public money and …
718 viewsThe Harvard Law professor attempts to put the arrest of his colleague last year into the historical context of race relations and criminal justice in the U.S. The event is at the Harvard Co-…
840 viewsKevin Mattson talked about about his book Rebels All!: A Short History of the Conservative Mind in Postwar America (Rutgers University Press; July 30, 2008). He contends that the political r…
313 viewsKath Weston talked about her book Traveling Light: On the Road with America’s Poor (Beacon Press; September 1, 20080. She spent five years traveling the United States by bus for the book. Th…
489 viewsTimothy Colton talked about his book Yeltsin: A Life, published by Basic Books, about the life of the first publicly elected president in Russia, President Boris Yeltsin. Topics included the…
272 viewsMaryanne Wolf talked about her book Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, published by Harper. In her book neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf describes how the human br…
3,138 viewsMr. Ferguson discussed his book The Pity of War: Explaining World War I and his efforts to re-imagine and analyze the problems of the war. Other authors commented on how his book challenged …
2,863 viewsMelissa Muller discussed Anne Frank’s famous diary within a larger historical and biographical context. During her research for this book, Ms. Muller discovered five pages that Otto Frank ha…
1,101 viewsSaul Bellow read from his new novel Ravelstein, published by Viking Press. Narrated by an elderly writer named Chick, the book tells the story of his friendship with the title character, a …
1,023 viewsAlan Dershowitz talked about his book Rights From Wrongs: The Origin of Human Rights in the Experience of Injustice, published by Basic Books. The author, a professor at Harvard Law School,…
520 viewsMr. France talked about his book, Our Fathers: The Secret Life of the Catholic Church in an Age of Scandal, published by Broadway Books. Mr. France covered the crisis in the Catholic Church …
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