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Professor John McWhorter talked about his book Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America’s Lingua Franca, in which he examines the controversies around and perceptions of “sounding b…

Professor John Pfaff talked about his book Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform, in which he examines the impact of criminal justice reforms on pri…

Professor John McWhorter talked about his book Words on the Move: Why English Won’t - and Can’t - Sit Still (Like, Literally), in which he examines how language and word meanings change over…

Marc Kaufman talked about what he learned in two years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory getting an in-depth look at the challenges and triumphs of the Curiosity mission to Mars. During th…

Merle Hoffman recounts her life and career as a women’s health care activist . She recalls her founding in 1971, two years prior to the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, of Choices, an abo…

Kevin Gutzman recounted the legislative career of James Madison, which he called the most under-emphasized aspect of his career. Professor Gutzman contends that Madison’s political life was …

Marsha Coleman-Adebayo talked about her book, which recounts her case against the Environmental Protection Agency, her former employer, which attempted to quell her claims that a corporation…

Thanassis Cambanis talked about the rise, power, and popularity of Hezbollah in Lebanon. Mr. Cambanis spoke at the New York Public Library in Manhattan on Wednesday, February 2, 2011. He res…

Richard Goldstein recounts the role that New York City played in the American war effort during World War II. From shipbuilding in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the departure of soldiers for w…

David Rubinger and Ruth Corman talked about their book Israel Through My Lens: Sixty Years As a Photojournalist. They related stories from David’s life growing up in Austria and then moving …

Mr. Kurzman talked about his book, A Special Mission: Hitler’s Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII, published by Perseus Books. The . Mr. Kurzman said he interviewed S…

Moderated by the editor, Jill Nelson, some of the contributors to Police Brutality: An Anthology, published by W.W. Norton & Company, read from their chapters and answered questions from the…

Author Michael Skakun talked about his book, On Burning Ground, and responded to audience telephone calls. Author Gwenda Blair was interviewed about her book, The Trumps: Three Generations t…

Author Michael Skakun talked about his book, The Burning Ground: A Son’s Memoir, published by St. Martin’s Press. This biography of Joseph Skakun, a Polish rabbinical student, details his es…