In this Cambridge Forum Classic, best-selling writer David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous, tells a story that reveals the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment.What lessons can we learn from our relationship with the natural world?
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Reimagining Equality
Anita Hill reflects on her own experience as an African American woman in the late 20th century. How successful have the movements for racial and gender equality been in eliminating barriers to opportunity? Have the victories been robust or fragile? What challenges lie ahead?
Bullies and Cyberbullies
Psychologist Elizabeth Englander, neuroscientist Tracy Vaillancourt, and storyteller Odds Bodkin look at bullying from the perspectives of victims, victimizers and communities. Bullies have been around since Hercules; how are they different today? What can we learn from the accumulated wisdom of our culture and from the modern science about the impact of bullying on both victims and victimizers? How can we change this destructive behavior?
Recorded September 2011
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol discusses the Tea Party. What are the sources of this group’s influence? How is it like other recent attempts to create a third party in our de facto bipartisan system? What impact is it having on current policy debates? On the 2012 election cycle?
Wednesday, September 14 @ 7 pm
One Great Crisis
or How the World Economy Fell Apart and Why the Economists Didn’t Have A Clue
James K. Galbraith examines current economic debates about austerity, government spending, tax policy, and job creation. How much is our understanding – on Main Street and on Wall Street, in Washington and at America’s kitchen tables – about the economy driven by economic theory? By politics? What impact do these abstract ideas have on our well-being?
Recorded September 8
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