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Navigating the Strait of Hormuz: Regional Peacemaking Amid the US-Iran Conflict
With one-fifth of global oil supplies and the movement of critical LNG stuck in the crosshairs of a military standoff, the need for diplomatic off-ra…
7 hours ago
DJ DiDonna: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals
The professional world usually prioritizes urgency, but the most important moments of our lives rarely happen at the desk. In his new book Big Time O…
12 hours ago
Humanities West presents the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
It has been 250 years since upstart young leaders of the American colonies declared independence from King George III and imagined founding a republi…
2 days, 12 hours ago
San Francisco Culture: Lost, Found or Reimagined?
San Francisco has long been a city of dreamers, artists, innovators and cultural pioneers—a global epicenter of creativity, innovation and social cha…
3 days, 18 hours ago
How Do I Say This…
It’s becoming increasingly clear that how we talk about climate change matters as much as the science or policy itself. The words we use carry weight…
3 days, 22 hours ago
Melissa Murray: Understanding the US Constitution
The U.S. Constitution is often at the center of debates about rights and wrongs and public policies in this country, but how many people have actuall…
4 days, 23 hours ago
Dusty Baker: A Memoir in Baseball and Life
Join us in-person or online as legendary baseball player and manager Dusty Baker explores his extraordinary career, one filled with invaluable lesson…
5 days, 5 hours ago
Joanna Stern: I Am Not a Robot
We keep being told that artificial intelligence is going to help us do just about everything. Make us healthy. Personally tutor each student. Run our…
5 days, 18 hours ago
Manoush Zomorodi and Melissa Painter: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age (EXPLICIT)
Screens—all the time, everywhere, it seems. We sit at our desks facing screens, hold meetings over screens, answer email after email on them. You’ve …
6 days, 18 hours ago
Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II
In her new book Safe Passage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Evelyn Iritani reveals one of World War II’s little-known diplomatic triumphs—the rescue …
1 week ago