Video & Audio

Laura D’Andrea Tyson asks what the United States can learn from Germany in coping with the automation of work.

Steven Klein asks how contemporary democracy is being affected by both public and private debt.

Historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore offers a history of the United States through poignant images and entertaining anecdotes.

Daniel Ziblatt argues why having strong center-right parties is important to democracy.

What steps can we take to preserve economic dynamism in the face of numerous political, social, and monetary pressures? In this year’s Stephen M. Kellen Lecture, Deutsche Bank CFO James von Moltke examines contemporary economic headwinds and the levers that policymakers, business leaders, and the financial industry can use to counteract them.

Azade Seyhan examines the historical conditions that necessitate the preservation of intellectual heritages through transport and translation.

Roberto Suro discusses the social and political challenges recent immigration poses to polities in the United States and Germany.

Artist Renée Green discusses and shows images from her project "Pacing," at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.

Writer Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House, discusses her currently untitled second novel, which she’s working on as a fall 2019 fellow at the Academy.

Artist, writer, and filmmaker Renée Green discusses Pacing, her two-year project at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, which focuses on the building’s iconic design by Le Corbusier.