Talks & Entertainment

Pepper Teigen

In Conversation with Priya Krishna

In her debut cookbook, The Pepper Thai Cookbook: Family Recipes From Everyone’s Favorite Thai Mom, Pepper offers 80 stir-fried, saucy, sweet and tangy Thai-style recipes including fried chicken larb, pad Thai brussels sprouts, lemongrass chicken, and the scalloped potatoes. She also shares stories from her life, from the early days of adjusting to living in the U.S. to what it’s like to live with America’s favorite food family.

Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein

In Conversation with Reena Ninan

In Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein explain how and why humans are so susceptible to noise in judgment and offer simple remedies for people to reduce both noise and bias, and ultimately make far better decisions.

What Matters to Millennial Jews

Unpacking the Pew Research Center’s 2020 Survey of Jewish Americans

Hear about the research findings on millennials from Pew Research Center’s 2020 survey of Jewish Americans and see the findings come to life in a candid conversation with Rabbi Aaron and fellow millennials about how they relate to the range of topics surveyed.

Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer

Experience the world premiere virtual screening of Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer. From award-winning journalist DeNeen Brown and acclaimed director Dawn Porter, the documentary film comes one hundred years after the two-day Tulsa Massacre in 1921 that led to the murder of hundreds of Black people and left thousands homeless and displaced.

Amanda Kloots

In Conversation with Zach Braff

In Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero, Kloots—a host for CBS’s “The Talk” and a celebrity fitness trainer—reflects on life with her husband, a Broadway star and Tony-nominee whose public battle with Covid-19 and tragic death made headlines around the world.

Black Life and National Memory with The Atlantic’s Inheritance Project

With Anna Deavere Smith, Clint Smith, Vann R. Newkirk II, and Gillian B. White

In a conversation for Juneteenth, contributors to The Atlantic’s “Inheritance” project about American history, Black life, and the resilience of memory share reflections on their writing to surface Black history that has been intentionally obscured, and shake our national memory.

But You’re Still So Young: How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood

Book Club with Kayleen Schaefer

In But You’re Still So Young, journalist Kayleen Schaefer employs data research and hundreds of interviews to reveal how today’s thirtysomethings are living their lives in ways that upend the traditional checklist of becoming an adult in American society. Hear from Schaefer, ask her questions, and spend time in breakout groups to reflect on how the book relates to your own experiences.

Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker

In Conversation with Nicolle Wallace

In I Alone Can Fix It, Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reveal the Trump presidency’s final year in unprecedented, stunning detail. Focused on Trump and the key players around him—the doctors, generals, senior advisers, and Trump family members— Rucker and Leonnig provide a forensic account of the most devastating year in a presidency like no other.

The Intimacy Experiment

Book Club with Rosie Danan

In The Intimacy Experiment, the rabbi of a failing synagogue joins forces with the founder of a sex-positive startup to host a buzzy seminar about modern intimacy to attract more millennials. It seems like the perfect solution—until they discover their growing attraction to each other and must put their syllabus to the test. Hear from author Rosie Danan, ask her questions, and spend time in breakout groups to reflect on the book’s themes.

9/11: One Day in America

Premiere Screening and Panel Discussion

In remembrance of the attacks on September 11 in New York City, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania 20 years ago this year, experience the virtual premiere of “9/11: One Day in America,” a six-part documentary series from National Geographic chronicling the events of that day through gripping first-person narratives of the first responders and survivors who were there.