Jack Devine On The Inner Workings Of The CIA
Taped by WGBH Forum Network, CIA veteran Jack Devine visited Harvard Book Store to discuss his book, Good Hunting: An American Spymaster's Story, in conversation with novelist Joseph Finder.
View ArticleWhy Do We Need Investigative Journalism?
Taped by WGBH Forum Network, a panel of investigative journalists gathered at WGBH to discuss how they make and break stories.
View ArticleYuly Fuentes-Medel On Enabling Scientific Discovery In Latin America
Taped by WGBH Forum Network, researcher YulyFuentes-Medel visited Science in the News to discuss her work with model organisms in science (i.e. mice and worms).
View ArticleSuzanna Danuta Walters On Why We're Not A Post-Gay Society
Taped by WGBH Forum Network, SuzannaDanuta Walters visited Harvard Book Store to talk about her book, The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality.
View ArticleMichael Waldman On the Many Faces of the Second Amendment
Taped by WGBH Forum Network, Michael Waldman visited Harvard Book Store to discuss his book, The Second Amendment: A Biography.
View ArticleBox Brown On One Man's Wrestling Downfall
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, comics artist Box Brown visited Brookline Booksmith to discuss his book, Andre the Giant: Life and Legend.
View ArticleCivil Rights Panel Stands Its Ground 50 Years After the Civil Rights Act
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, a panel of civil rights and law experts gathered at the Museum of African American History to discuss the changes, or lack thereof, in society since the Civil Rights...
View ArticleLarry Finison On Boston's Bicycling History
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, Larry Finison visited the Museum of African American History to discuss the early history of cycling in Boston.
View ArticleDavid Rose On The Whimsy and Wonder of Smart Objects
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, MIT Media Lab researcher David Rose visited the Harvard Book Store to discuss his book, Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things.
View ArticleHow Do Cells Become Cancerous?
Collected by the WGBH Forum Network, Dr. Ana Soto and Dr. Carlos Sonnenschein visited Science for the Public to discuss how cells become cancerous.
View ArticleMark Epstein On Buddhism In Everyday Life
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, Mark Epstein visited the Harvard Book Store to discuss his book, The Trauma of Everyday Life.
View ArticleWhy Do People Deny Climate Change?
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, George Marshall visited the Harvard Book Store to discuss his book, Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change.
View ArticleReimagining Libraries For The 21st Century
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Battles came by the Harvard Book Store to discuss their book The Library Beyond the Book.
View ArticleSalt Pork vs. Nasal Hemorrhaging
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, author Marc Abrahams visited the Harvard Book Store to talk about his newest book This Is Improbable Too: Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research.
View ArticleDr. Nathaniel Sheidley on Refurnishing Boston's Historic Council Chamber
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, Dr. Nathaniel Sheidley visited the Old South Meeting House to describe how Boston’s historic council chamber was refurnished to its 1760s appearance.
View ArticleGeorge Daughan Sheds Light on the Navy's Role in the War of 1812
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, historian George Daughan visited the U.S.S. Constitution Museum to discuss his book 1812: The Navy’s War.
View ArticleColonial Concord's Finest Craftsman
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, historian David F. Wood visited the Old South Meeting House to detail the life and work of 19th-century cabinetmaker William Monroe.
View ArticleNaomi Klein: This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs. The Climate
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, best-selling author Naomi Klein visited the Cambridge Forum to discuss her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate.
View ArticleCarbon Tax to Combat Climate Change
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, Massachusetts Senator Mike Barrett, Gary Rucinski, and Anne Kelly visited the Cambridge Forum to hold a panel discussion on the idea of a carbon tax and its potential...
View ArticleRead Us Some More Seferi
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, Suffolk University professor and translator George Kalogeris visited the Greek Institute to discuss the poetry of Nobel laureate George Seferis.
View ArticleLobster in the Rough
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, food historian Sandy Oliver visited the Old South Meeting House to discuss one of New England’s most popular dishes.
View ArticleA Conversation with Henry David Thoreau
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, historian Richard Smith (or rather, naturalist author Henry David Thoreau) visited the Old South Meeting House to discuss the life, work, and philosophy of the Concord,...
View ArticleCornell William Brooks on Transformational Leadership
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, Reverend Cornell William Brooks visited the Marsh Chapel at the Boston University School of Theology to discuss transformational leadership.
View ArticleAn Afternoon with Nathaniel Hawthorne
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, historian Rob Velella (or rather, author Nathaniel Hawthorne) visited the Old South Meeting House to read a selection of the Salem-born writer’s short stories.
View ArticleMasha Gessen on Putin's War Against the West
Taped by the WGBH Forum Network, Russian-American journalist and LGBT activist MashaGessen visited First Parish in Cambridge to discuss Vladimir Putin’s rise to power and its worldwide effects.
View ArticleNoam Chomsky: 'Obama's Global Assassinations' Akin To Film 'American Sniper'
Meet Noam Chomsky, film critic.Chomsky – also a MIT linguistics scholar, public intellectual, and professional controversialist -- sees a direct causal link between the events which inspired the film...
View ArticleVIDEO: Barney Frank: Why Tweet When You Can Wink?
When Barney Frank retired from Congress after spending 32 years in what may be the world's largest hot air chamber, he enjoyed a reputation as perhaps the nation's rudest and most articulate...
View ArticlePeace Between Israel And Palestine: Is It A Delusion? Padraig O'Malley Explores
If you are looking for a glimmer of hope about the chances of achieving “a lasting peace” between Palestine and Israel anytime in the foreseeable future, you won’t find it in Padraig O’Malley’s newest...
View ArticlePissed Off By Climate Change, Wen Stephenson Is Passionate About Fixing It
Author and activist Wen Stephenson speaks with the burning intensity of a 19th century abolitionist.“At this late hour," Stephenson said recently in Cambridge, "to be serious about our climate reality...
View ArticleWith DOMA Gone, Challenges to Gay Marriage Easy to Dismiss
It was the case of an older woman denied an estate tax exemption that finally brought down the Defense of Marriage Act.
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