Masha Gessen: Democracy and Imagination
Masha Gessen on democracy, totalitarianism, and the force of political imagination.
Art, Migration, and Human Dignity
Artist Ai Weiwei speaks with Berlin curator Gereon Sievernich about his life and work.
Fellow Spotlight: Carina L. Johnson
Historian Carina L. Johnson is researching anti-Ottoman propaganda in sixteenth-century Germany.
Beyond the Lecture: Elizabeth Kolbert
New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert on the sixth extinction and state of the biosphere.
Fellow Spotlight: Haun Saussy
Literary historian Haun Saussy is working on reconstructing the overlapping cosmopolitan worlds of premodern East Asia.
American Lawyers: Defending Democracy and the Rule of Law
Roberta Cooper Ramo on the role and duties of American lawyers in times of crisis.
Beyond the Lecture: Frances FitzGerald
Journalist Frances FitzGerald discusses evangelical voters in the United States.
Beyond the Lecture: P. Carl
Writer P. Carl discusses his memoir about gender transition, Becoming a White Man.
Rosalind Morris: The Afterlives of Gold
Rosalind Morris discusses the social and material consequences following the boom of gold mining in Southern Africa.
Fellow Spotlight: Gyula Gazdag
Film director Gyula Gazdag is working on “Tourist Trip to Hell,” a screenplay wherein WWI German, French, and British soldiers arise from the dead.