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Who Are We?

George Hammond

More Confidence than You Can Imagine

George Hammond

Mimimizing Fear

George Hammond

Intelligent Desiring

George Hammond

The Revitalization of Ancient Greek Philosophy

George Hammond

George’s 70th Birthday Party Lecture in NYC

George Hammond

Becoming Rational About Reincarnation: The Upanishads, the Pythagoreans & the Gita

George Hammond

The 30th November Talk: The Creators of Four Religions Explain Why

George Hammond

Question & Answer Session: 30th November 2014

Kitty Ferguson, Edward Frenkel & Joshua Landy

Humanities West Presents Pythagoras to Plato: The Ancient Greek Revolution in Human Thought

Edward Frenkel

What’s Math Got To Do With It?

Kitty Ferguson

Stephen Hawking’s Biographer Hears the Music of the Spheres

Sabine Hossenfelder

Lost in Math

Joe Weisberg

Do We Have Russia Upside Down?

Sophy Roberts

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

Robert Hirst

Editing Mark Twain’s Papers

Sadhguru

Mark Twain and Vedanta

Catherine and Tobias Wolff

Imagination, Creativity & Beyond

Sebastian Junger

Freedom

Ian Morris

Geography is Destiny

Amartya Sen

Home in the World

Alex Filippenko

Astronomer to the Stars

George Musser

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe Through Human Consciousness and AI

Sean Carroll

Exploring Quanta and Fields

Avi Loeb

Avi Loeb’s Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Heino Falcke

Black Holes, The Universe, and Us

Stephon Alexander

Fear of a Black Universe

Ashley Jean Yeager

Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond

Adam Gopnik, Joshua Landy, Dora Zhang

Humanities West Presents: In Search of Marcel Proust

Martin Kemp and Deborah Loft

Humanities West Presents Leonardo the Scientist–Artist

Catherine Asher and George Hammond

Humanities West Presents Shah Jahan’s Taj Mahal

Cranna, Galvez & Hampton

Humanities West Presents Dante’s Divine and Comic 700th Anniversary

Renée Dreyfus and Rita Lucarelli

Humanities West Presents Ramses the Great

Amy Branam Armiento & Mark Dawidziak

Humanities West Presents Edgar Allan Poe: Myths, Mysteries and Misconceptions

Steve Machtinger and The Hatzfeld Quintet

Humanities West Presents Mozart’s Music

Clifford (Kip) Cranna, Roland Greene

Humanities West Presents Shakespeare’s First Folio’s 400th Anniversary

Adam Hochschild

American Midnight

Adam Hochschild

A Humane Life’s Work

Adam Hochschild

Rebel Cinderella

Arlie and Adam Hochschild

Arlie and Adam Hochschild: Reflections on Activism, Ideals and Writing

David Bodanis

The Power of Decency in a World Gone Mean

David Bodanis

Einstein’s Big Mistake & Voltaire’s Brilliant Mistress

Paul Belonick

Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic

Thomas Ricks

The Founders’ First Principles: Learning from the Greeks and Romans

Edward Larson

Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of Our Nation

Sarah Chayes

On Corruption in America

Mettler and Lieberman

Four Threats to our Democracy

Caroline Winterer

Historian of America’s Ideas

Michael Meyer

Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet

Dennis Rasmussen

Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders

Joel Richard Paul

Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism

David S. Reynolds

Abe

Fergus Bordewich

Congress at War

Fergus Bordewich

President Grant’s War against the Ku Klux Klan

Fatima Shaik

19th Century New Orleans’ Free Black Brotherhood

Margaret Jacobs

After One Hundred Winters: America’s Stolen Lands

Edward Larson

Summer for the Gods

Kenneth Walsh

Presidential Leadership In Crisis: Franklin Roosevelt To Donald Trump

Kenneth Walsh

The Architects of Toxic Politics in America

Rebecca Donner

Mildred Harnack: American Grad Student/Berlin Resistance Leader

Sam Lebovic

The Espionage Act and the Rise of America’s Secrecy Regime

Matthew Connelly

American Spying Trends After WWII: Transparency to Opacity to Total Secrecy

Brian Hochman

A History of Wiretapping in the US

A.J. Baime

Dewey Defeats Truman

Samuel Freedman

The Young Hubert Humphrey: Fighter for Civil Rights

Jennifer Burns

Milton Friedman’s Life and Legacy

Susan Eisenhower

How Ike Led

Fredrik Logevall

JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century

Theodore Voorhees

Kennedy and Khrushchev Play the Double Game over Berlin and Cuba

Mark Shaw

The 60th Anniversary of JFK’s Assassination: A Retrospective

Mark Shaw

Fighting for Justice for Marilyn, JFK and Dorothy

Mark Shaw

Collateral Damage: Connecting the Deaths of Marilyn Monroe, JFK and Dorothy Kilgallen

Craig McNamara

Because Our Fathers Lied

Roger Rapoport

Searching for Patty Hearst

Emily Quint Freeman

Failure to Appear: Resistance, Loss and Identity

Teasel Muir-Harmony

Operation Moonglow

Neal Gabler

Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour

Jonathan Alter

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life

Jim Newton

Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown

Russell Jeung, Peter Richardson, Jason Sexton, Julia Flynn Siler

Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr’s California Past, Present, and Future

Bruce Cain

Under Fire & Under Water in the American West

John Judis

The Politics of Our Time

John Judis

Is There a Socialist Awakening?

John Judis

Where Have All the Democrats Gone?

Fritjof Capra

Patterns of Connection

Jeremy Lent

The Web of Meaning

Paul Ehrlich

Paul R. Ehrlich’s Life: A Journey Through Science and Politics

Matthew Continetti

The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

Edmund Fawcett

Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition

Jacob Mchangama

The History of Free Speech from Socrates to Social Media

Roosevelt Montás

Rescuing Socrates

Andrew Nagorski

Saving Freud

James Porter

Homer: The Very Idea

Oded Galor

The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

Michael Heller & James Salzman

Mine!—How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control our Lives

Steven Nadler & Lawrence Shapiro

When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People

Mustafa Akyol

Islam’s Diverse History of Ideas

Tamim Ansary

Separate Histories with a Common Future

Tamim Ansary

The Invention Of Yesterday

Nancy Foner

Immigrants: One Quarter of the Nation

George Makari

Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia

Joe Keohane

The Power of Strangers

Ann Burgess & Steven Constantine

My Quest to Decipher Criminal Minds

Paul Holes

My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases

Frank Falzon and Duffy Jennings

SFPD Homicide Inspector Frank Falzon: 5-HENRY-7

Mike Lynch, Ken Widner

Alcatraz: The Last Escape

Richard White

Who Killed Jane Stanford?

Greg Melville

Over My Dead Body: A Lively Tour of Famous American Cemeteries

Sam Wasson

The Path to Paradise: The Francis Ford Coppola Story

Victoria Kastner

Julia Morgan

Kenny Werner

Becoming the Instrument

Lisa Feldman Barrett

7½ Lessons about the Brain

Nina Kraus

Of Sound Mind: How our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World

Katie Hafner & Robert Wachter

Creating the Science, Covering the Science

Kamran Abbasi, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, George Lundberg

How to Decide which Medical and Health Information You Should Trust

Lundberg, Levenstein & Wen

The COVID Labyrinth: Where Are We In It and How Do We Escape?

Dr. George Lundberg

American Health Care: What’s Left After COVID-19?

Monica Gandhi

Navigating a Post Pandemic World

Sara Mednick

Recent Brain Research on the Rejuvenating Power of Sleep

Cukier, Mayer-Schönberger, de Véricourt

Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

Daniel Kohanski

How Religion Shaped the Western World

Edwin Bernbaum

Sacred Mountains of the World

Chemerinsky and Gillman

The Religion Clauses

Swami Beyondananda

Swami Beyondananda Unmasked

Shin Ushijima

The Virtual View from Tokyo

Ira Rosen

Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at ‘60 Minutes’

Tyler Stovall

White Freedom

Eddie R. Cole

The Campus Color Line

Ron Blatman

Saving the City: Remaking the American Metropolis

Alexandra Hudson

The Soul of Civility

Jeffrey Rosen

The Pursuit of Happiness: Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center

Joel Simon and Robert Mahoney

The Infodemic

Lia Halloran & Kip Thorne

Exploring The Warped Side of our Universe

Ava Roy

We Players: Adventures With Alice

Phillis Levin & Paul Gupta

National Poetry Month

Fred Dust

Making Conversation

Jeff Jarvis

The Age of Print and the Internet

David Damrosch

Around the World in 80 Books

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