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What Light Can Do: Writing as Attention

Robert Hass

Hass, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate, is also a luminous essayist. In this talk and…

The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption

Rick Hasen

During his long tenure on the Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia—engaging as well as caustic and openly ideological—moved the Court to…

Sentence After Sentence After Sentence: Three Writers on the Not-Exactly-Random Extraordinary Ordinary Key of Life

Anne Germanacos, Dinah Lenney, Matias Viegener

“Form is an Extension of Content,” wrote Charles Olson. What is a writer’s relationship to form? Three accomplished, innovative and…

Forgotten Histories: Two Novelists in Conversation

Lisa See, Nina Revoyr

Two Los Angeles-based novelists explore the rise and fall of human lives in their brilliant fictions.

Misfits Unite

Lidia Yuknavitch, Amber Tamblyn

“What if, for once in history, a woman’s story could be untethered from what we need it to be in…

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Gained Their Civil Rights

Adam Winkler

In his new book, UCLA law professor Adam Winkler offers a revelatory portrait of how U.S. corporations have seized political…

Physics on the Fringe:
Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything

Jim Carter and Margaret Wertheim

Challenging our concept of what science is; how it works; and who it is for, outsider physicist Jim Carter discusses…

The Dolphin in the Mirror:
Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives

Diana Reiss

Reiss, a leading expert on dolphins (adviser for the Oscar-winning film, The Cove), offers both a scientific revelation and an emotional…

The Bonobo and the Atheist

Frans de Waal

Esteemed primatologist de Waal discusses his pioneering research on primate behavior, the latest findings in evolutionary biology, and insights from…

The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen

Kwame Anthony Appiah

ppiah, a leading philosopher (“America’s Socrates”) and a professor at Princeton University, demonstrates that honor is the driving force in…