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    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…

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    Battleground States and Presidential Elections

    Former 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…

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    Empire of Resentment

    UC 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 …

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    Human Compatible

    University 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…

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    Human Side of Judging

    Current 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…

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    Children of the Dream

    University 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…

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    Journalism in the Digital Age

    Quartz’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…

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    Vannevar Bush's 1945 Report on Government and Science

    Peter 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…

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    Patriotic Betrayal

    Karen 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…

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    Fake News

    The 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…

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    Donald Trump and the Republican Party

    Panelists 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…

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    University of California, Berkeley Commencement Address

    Senator 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…

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    Economic Future of American Youth

    Stanley 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.

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    Twitter and Free Speech

    Gabriel 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…

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    Women in Politics and Leadership

    Former 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…

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    University of California Berkeley Law School Commencement Address

    Preet 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…

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    1963 Interview with Malcolm X

    Nation 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…

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    Acid Test

    Tom 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 …

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    Subversives

    Author 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…

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    Superintelligence

    Nick 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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