Videos

Robert Topel, professor of economics from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, assesses the benefits of medical research from an economic perspective. Topel calculates the social value of increased longevity, observing that even mode...

Peter Manson (born 1969) is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include For the Good of Liars (Barque Press 2006), Adjunct: an Undigest (Edinburgh Review 2005), Before and After Mallarmé (Survivors' Press 2005), Two renga (collaborations with...

A lecture by Maria Amparo Casar, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, A.C.

Generations of scholars have explored the writing of the Declaration of Independence--the philosophy informing Jefferson and his co-authors, the political circumstances behind its drafting, even the literary qualities of the document. We know far less...

A lecture by Francois Prud'homme of El Colegio de Mexico.

A lecture by Lorenzo Meyer, El Colegio de Mexico.

A native of Philadelphia who was trained as a classical pianist, Caine developed a passion for jazz as a youth. He studied with Bernard Peiffer, a French jazz pianist. During his early years, Caine played professionally as a sideman with such jazz grea...

This quarters Presidential Fellow in the Arts is famous for playing Bach, Beethoven and Wagner like a jazz standard. He brings klezmer, bassa nova, tango, Dixieland, street sounds, DJs, even drinking songs into the likes of Mahler and Mozart.In this le...

A performance by the University of Wisconsin Russian Folk Orchestra. The Orchestra is comprised of Russian domras and balalaikas, accordions, bayans, woodwinds, and percussion. This program ranges from traditional folk songs and dances to well-known wo...

Samantha Power's book, A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. She was the founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and covered the wars in the fo...