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Steven Pinker: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
What’s common about common knowledge, and how does it become common? Common knowledge—the awareness of how others think and even how others think oth…
9 months ago
Edward Frenkel—Back to the Roots: How Do We Revive Pythagorean Tradition in the Age of AI?
Historian Charles H. Kahn wrote that Pythagorean contributions to Western thought were "on the one hand, a mathematical understanding of the world of…
9 months, 1 week ago
Film Screening: On Healing Land, Birds Perch (EXPLICIT)
Film screening and Q&A with director Naja Pham Lockwood and panelists; building community and healing through food with Bay Area Vietnamese chefs and…
9 months, 1 week ago
Prop. 50 Explained: What’s at Stake for California . . . and Congress
In August, after Texas acceded to President Donald Trump’s demand that it adopt a redistricting plan favoring Republicans, California Governor Gavin …
9 months, 1 week ago
October Week to Week Political Roundtable and Social Hour
After nearly 14 years, the Club’s Week to Week Political Roundtable and Social Hour is drawing to a close. The next two Week to Week programs—on Wedn…
9 months, 1 week ago
Building and Preserving the Web: A Conversation with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle
Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle will be in conversation about the rise of the internet, its continuing and explosive impact on society, the im…
9 months, 1 week ago
San Francisco Opera: The Monkey King
This program features a unique public affairs arts conversation between Chinese-born composer Huang Ruo and Matthew Shilvock, who is in his tenth sea…
9 months, 1 week ago
Ani Dasgupta on Moving From Promises to Progress
We know what needs to be done to ward off the worst impacts of global climate disruption: rein in heat-trapping pollution, reverse deforestation, bui…
9 months, 1 week ago
Joe Manchin: Dead Center
oin former U.S. Senator Joe Manchin for a timely and candid online-only conversation about his maverick career in government, crossing party lines, a…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano on Trump's "Misuse of Presidential Power"
When President Trump deployed the military to Los Angeles in June, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called it an “ab…
9 months, 2 weeks ago