The Cult of We
Wall Street Journal reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell gave an in-depth look at the rise and fall of shared workspace company WeWork and profiled its founder Adam Neumann. This virtua…
286 viewsWall Street Journal reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell gave an in-depth look at the rise and fall of shared workspace company WeWork and profiled its founder Adam Neumann. This virtua…
286 viewsFormer Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano moderated a panel discussion with election officials from key battleground states in the 2020 election, looking at how to better prepare f…
106 viewsUC Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies Chair Lawrence Rosenthal chronicled the history of the Alt Right and its role in politics today. This virtual event was sponsored by Osher Lifelong …
1,166 viewsUniversity of California, Berkeley Professor Stuart Russell talked about his book, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, in which he opined about the potentia…
971 viewsCurrent and former federal and state judges including Charles Breyer, the brother of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, discussed the human side of judging. Other participants included Te…
597 viewsUniversity of California, Berkeley Professor Rucker Johnson talked about his book, Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works, in which he argued that integrated, well-funded school…
654 viewsQuartz’s Founding Editor Kevin Delaney discussed the future of digital journalism, including the decline of Facebook’s and Google’s dominance, with students at the University of California i…
196 viewsPeter Strohschneider reexamined Vannevar Bush’s ideas on the relationship between government and science. The talk was followed by a panel discussion. In 1945, American engineer, inventor, a…
970 viewsKaren Paget talked about her book Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism, in which she recounts the Ce…
2,243 viewsThe head of Facebook’s News Feed, the founder of CraigsList, journalists, and academics talked about the effects of “fake” news on consumers and the media. Topics included identifying and fi…
1,158 viewsPanelists discussed the election of Donald Trump and what it meant for the future of the Republican Party. Panelists include authors and academics from California universities. Professor Ros…
889 viewsSenator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) addressed the 2016 graduates of the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Political Science in the Greek Theatre. She urged them to be tough and res…
200 viewsStanley Druckenmiller argued that the U.S. was giving more and more of the economic pie to seniors at the expense of America’s youth. He spoke with with Geoffrey Canada.
391 viewsGabriel Stricker talked about Twitter’s culture, policies, and effect on free speech around the world. This event of the Dean’s Speaker Series at the Haas School of Business at the Unive…
349 viewsFormer Texas State Senator Wendy Davis (D) spoke to students at the University of California in Berkeley. She talked about women and politics, gender issues, and the difficulties she and oth…
432 viewsPreet Bharara gave the commencement address to the 2015 graduating class of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He is known for his prosecution of white-collar crime on Wa…
482 viewsNation of Islam leader Malcolm X was interviewed by sociology graduate student Herman Blake and professor John Leggett. Malcolm X argued against racial integration and discussed the right fo…
30,478 viewsTom Shroder talked about his book, Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal, in which he recounts the creation of psychedelic drugs, specifically LSD and Ecstasy (MDMA), and their use …
713 viewsAuthor Seth Rosenfeld, former investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner, talked about his book, Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Re…
1,155 viewsNick Bostrom talked about his book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, in which he posits a future in which machines are more intelligent than humans and questions whether intell…
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