Video & Audio

Media theorist Alexander Galloway widens the prehistory of computation to include nineteenth-century media.

Writer and dramaturg P. Carl is at the American Academy in Berlin working on a memoir of gender transition. 

Presenting the fellows of fall 2018, welcomed by Gereon Sievernich, curator of the Haupstadtkulturfonds.

Veteran new York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse discusses the state of the Court and the journalist–justice rapport.

Tricia Rose, director the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, on the resurgence of white supremacy in the Trump era, and the hidden perils of liberal "colorblindness." 

Economic historian Adam Tooze discusses the 2008 global financial crisis—the subject of his forthcoming book, Crashed—and about German investment, US tariffs, and the fate of global trade. 

The director of Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Tricia Rose, discusses the resurgence of white supremacist trends in the Trump era and what they mean for American society and political life in the near future.

Political scientist Kristen Renwick Monroe examines two central topics of her ongoing research into international politics and moral choice during wars and genocide: first, the psychology of recognizing genocide, and second, the psychological process by which human lives are sewn back together after extreme political trauma.

With a hint of nostalgia, Princeton literary scholar Barbara Nagel looks back to early theories of flirtation in Critical Theory and German realism to trace the literary–historical emergence of what she terms a “terror of flirtation.”

Philosopher Michael Sandel argues that before mainstream parties can hope to win back public support, they should learn from the populist protest that has displaced them.