Talks & Entertainment

The M Word: Muslim Americans on the State of News Media

Journalist Wajahat Ali moderates a conversation with fellow journalists about the role Muslim-American writers play in the news media, the extent of biased reporting about Muslims, and the rise of fake news and sensationalism.

Dave Eggers

From the best-selling author of What Is the What comes The Monk of Mokha, the true story of Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a young Yemeni-American man raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana’a by civil war.

Trey Anastasio

In his new solo album, Traveler, Trey Anastasio imagines a convergence of many roads the musician has taken in his remarkable career.

Robert Reich

With The Common Good, the economist, former Secretary of Labor, and public policy professor presents a clear-eyed manifesto on why we must restore the idea of the common good to the center of our economics and politics.

PUBLIQuartet: Freedom and Faith

Reigning Metropolitan Museum of Art Quartet-in-Residence PUBLIQuartet launched to national attention in 2016 with their acclaimed “Requiem for a Debate” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The ensemble presents a program of works by a diverse body of composers.

Amy Chua

In Conversation with J.D. Vance

In Political Tribes, Chua outlines how the U.S. has ignored the importance of tribal politics and argues that our country must rediscover a national identity that transcends group differences.

Zadie Smith

In Conversation with Michel Martin

From the award-winning author of White Teeth, On Beauty, and Swing Time, comes Feel Free, a collection of essays covering recent events in culture, politics, and the author’s own life.

Jorge Ramos

What does it mean to be an American? In Stranger, the Emmy-award winning journalist and Univision anchor explores his own biography as an immigrant from Mexico, with America’s long immigration history as a backdrop, to answer this question and more about our current political moment.

Rodriguez

with Victory Boyd

Rodriguez, the legendary singer-songwriter and self-taught guitarist, began performing in bars and clubs in Detroit in the 1960’s as the city suffered post-industrial urban decay.

Steven Pinker

In Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Pinker connects hard data with a keen understanding of the human mind to show that people are safer, freer, healthier, wealthier, and happier now than at any previous time in history.