Podcast Episodes

Adam Hochschild: American Midnight

Adam Hochschild returns to The Commonwealth Club with his revelatory new account of a pivotal but neglected period in American history: World War I and its stormy aftermath, when bloodshed and repres…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Fishbowls, Fentanyl Test Strips, Patient Navigators: One Hospital's Team-Based Response to the Overdose Epidemic

Last year, drug-related overdoses killed more people than COVID-19 in San Francisco, and Mayor London Breed declared a state of emergency in the Tenderloin. Fentanyl and COVID-19 have only fueled our…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Not too Old for That!

Women are breaking through the tired and hurtful stereotypes of aging to better reflect who they are, how they live, and what they want as they age.

Who hasn't heard the stereotypes about women of a "…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Jessi Hempel: The Family Outing

Join us for an online conversation with the author of a striking and remarkable literary memoir about one family’s transformation, with almost all of them embracing their queer identities. It might s…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

CLIMATE ONE: Two Hemispheres, One Story: Reporting on Rising Seas

Twenty of the world’s richest countries – mostly in the Global North – are responsible for 80 percent of the carbon pollution that’s driving extreme weather and supercharging natural disasters. Yet p…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Chris Miller: Chip War and the Battle Between the United States and China

From microwaves to missiles, smartphones to the stock market, our world is increasingly dependent on microchip technology. According to Chris Miller, microchips are the new oil, a critical resource t…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Brewster Kahle: Public Libraries and American Democracy

Since 18th century and pre-Constitution America, libraries have been a public space, a central repository where books could be borrowed, read and returned—a long defended democratic ideal of the publ…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Jeffrey Dahmer and the Deadly Legacy of Race and Homophobia

The new Netflix miniseries Dahmer—Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is one of the streaming service's most popular hits all around the world, telling the horrific story of the serial killer who preye…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Poland at the Border of Putin's War Against Ukraine and the West

Poland is rapidly becoming the linchpin of the Western effort to defend Ukraine and deter Russia. The Polish-Ukrainian border, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February, is a hub of act…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Humanities West Presents Mozart's Music

Humanities West presents a performance, and an elucidation, of Mozart’s String Quintet in G minor, K. 516, composed in Vienna in 1787. It is widely considered to be among Mozart's greatest and most t…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago