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LIBERTY EQUALITY FASHION examines how politics, economics, and identity merged during the French Revolution and heralded a new feminism that is the antecedent to current, popular modes of self-expression and self-empowerment.

Fareed Zakaria, best-selling author & host of CNN’s flagship international affairs show Fareed Zakaria GPS, will discuss his latest book, AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present with Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology at Harvard and author of twelve books.

We know that food can be either medicine or toxin; so how do we recognize “junk” food and make better eating choices?

Consider the state of singlehood:  Lots of health research indicates that people who live alone, have higher health risks and are generally unhappier. Well, not so, according to Bella DePaulo, author of a new book, “Single At Heart”.

This forum accompanies two men, Mark Erelli, a musician and Andrew Leland, a writer, on their separate journeys from the world of sightedness to one of blindness.

In 1980, Biologist and physician, Dr.LewisThomas spoke at the Harvard College commencement in Cambridge, MA on The Uncertainty Of Science.

Simone Stolzoff, journalist and author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work considers the changing nature of work.

Jeff Goodell's latest book, The Heat will Kill You First looks at the impact that rising temperatures will have on our lives and on our planet. Flannigan has been studying fire and weather/climate interactions including the potential impact of climatic change and lightning-ignited forest fires for over 40 years.

Suicide rates are rising at an alarming rate in America and the populations most at risk are no longer white middle-aged men, they are increasingly young people and minorities.  What societal ills might be fueling this tragic trend?

What can be done to break our toxic addiction to plastic, and to terminate its lethal global legacy?