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Three-time NBA champion and two-time MVP Stephen Curry and entrepreneur, host and best-selling author Ayesha Curry want to make sure that everyone has a chance to succeed. That's the mission of their new Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, which focuses on ...

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01.18.2020 Ayesha and Stephen Curry: The Commonwealth Club Equality Series Three-time NBA champion and two-time MVP Stephen Curry and entrepreneur, host and best-selling author Ayesha Curry want to make sure that everyone has a chance to succeed. That's the mission of their new Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, which focuses on ...
01.17.2020 Journalist David Talbot: A Life-Changing Year This program is part of our Good Lit series, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation. Acclaimed writer, best-selling author and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over 25 years with books ...
01.17.2020 Patrick Kennedy and an Expert Panel: Mental Health, Youth and the Justice System Part of The Commonwealth Club’s series on mental health, dedicated in memory of Nancy Friend Pritzker, with support from the John Pritzker Family Fund Critics argue that jails and prisons are the most visible evidence of the failing of America’s ...
01.17.2020 Exclusion as the American Experience: The Chinese Exclusion Act Watch the video referenced in the first half of this podcast at: https://vimeo.com/263167752/c555110813 For the 60 years, from 1882–1943, long before Muslim travel bans and family separations at the U.S.–Mexico border, the Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited Chinese laborers from entering ...
01.17.2020 Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children Since the first test-tube baby was born over 40 years ago, in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies have advanced in extraordinary ways, producing millions of babies. An estimated 20 percent of American couples use infertility services to help ...
01.16.2020 Former VA Secretary David Shulkin: It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Serve Your Country The Veterans Health Administration is the nation’s largest integrated health care system, yet almost 2 million veterans and 3.8 million of their family members are without health insurance today. David Shulkin was brought in by President Obama to clean up ...
01.15.2020 The Power of Critical Thinking Monday Night Philosophy initiates the new decade by analyzing the worlds of Wall Street and investing, international relations, sports, and chess, and focuses on the power and the necessity of critical thinking skills in those worlds. Leland Faust and Richard ...
01.15.2020 Smart Cities, Smart Cars, Smart People: Hope or Hype? Foresee the near future with panelists Shekar Ayyar, Joxel García, Paul Gupta and Mike Weber. The number of Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices is expected to increase from 20 billion to 55 billion over the next five years. What ...
01.15.2020 Imperfect Union: Jessie and John Frémont John Frémont was born out of wedlock in 1813 in Charleston, South Carolina and went to work at 13 to help support his family. But, by the time he was 30, he had become a famous wilderness explorer, best-selling writer, ...
01.15.2020 Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State Secretary Mike Pompeo was sworn in on April 26, 2018. He previously served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from January 2017 to April 2018. Mr. Pompeo graduated first in his class at the United States Military Academy at ...
01.10.2020 Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have Everyday choices – like deciding which shirt to buy or on which platform to binge-watch shows on – may impact the planet more than you think. Tatiana's Schlossberg's new book Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have, ...
01.10.2020 Today’s Great Need: Radical Politics, Conservative Culture How does one react, watching our current political crisis form fissures in our underlying culture, which, according to poet Peter Dale Scott, is undermining even our most valuable cultural strengths? These strengths include living with diversity, tolerating and listening to ...
01.10.2020 Henry Puna, Prime Minister, The Cook Islands The Cook Islands is a 15-island nation in the South Pacific, with political links to New Zealand. The islands were first settled around A.D. 1000 by Polynesian people who are thought to have migrated from Tahiti. Prime Minister Henry Puna ...
01.09.2020 The Power of Parlay, with Anne Devereux-Mills Do you ever sense that authentic connections have gone missing in your life? Do you feel sometimes as though your unique identity has been swept away by the tides of work and family? Do you hear the call to effect ...
01.08.2020 How to Be a Calm, Effective Changemaker During Troubled Times Whether we are actively working toward change or we just want to chat with our family and friends, we all need tools to stay centered and calm during these stressful times. How can we be effective, compassionate changemakers—and even find ...
01.07.2020 Dr. Robert Bullard: The Father of Environmental Justice Often described as the father of environmental justice, Dr. Robert Bullard has written several seminal books on the subject and is known for his work highlighting pollution on minority communities and speaking up against environmental racism in the 1970-1980s. Climate ...
01.07.2020 Artistic Creativity and Consciousness: Art as Positive Energy in These Turbulent Times The renewing energy of art helps to manage the stress of negative events. There is overwhelming research that contemplation, observing and taking in beauty stimulate the brain and create a sense of well-being. In these turbulent times, art can be ...
12.29.2019 The Big Climate Stories of 2019 From the Trump Administration’s rollback of the country’s strongest environmental regulations, California’s frenzied response to wildfires and subsequent blackouts, and the emergence of climate as a top-tier presidential campaign issue, climate broke headlines in new ways in 2019. Vox energy ...
12.24.2019 Blackout The 2018 Camp Fire was one of the most destructive in California’s history, resulting in over eighty deaths and destroying the town of Paradise. Dry weather and hot winds fanned the flames - but the spark that started it came ...
12.18.2019 Robyn Crawford: Year-end Michelle Meow Holiday Special It's our second annual year-end program and party, celebrating the completion of another year of Michelle Meow and LGBTQ programming at the Club. We'll have food and drink, a short program, and lots of good cheer. Joining us as our ...
12.17.2019 Lawrence Lessig: The Supreme Court and the Constitution Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig is a celebrated academic and activist for constitutional theory and reform. A longtime advocate for campaign finance reform, Lessig founded political funding tracker MapLight, Creative Commons and the anti-corruption nonprofit Rootstrikers. With partisan gridlock in ...
12.17.2019 How to Ensure Successful Reentry After Prison It is often said that "reentry begins on the first day of incarceration," but how can we ensure that people leave prison prepared to succeed in the free world? This conversation between Marc Morjé Howard and Stephanie McGencey will highlight ...
12.16.2019 Afghanistan After 18 Years of War Our distinguished panelists will discuss Afghanistan and the longest war in U.S. history. They will present their personal views about prewar Afghanistan, the present tragedy and what policies and reforms might be pursued to find peace and prevent further tragedy. ...
12.16.2019 Dr. Arye Carmon: Israel’s Democracy and Its Struggles More than seven decades after the founding of Israel, the momentum to establish a Jewish state has led to remarkable achievements: stable structures in government, the military and the economy. At the same time, as the country faces a range ...
12.16.2019 An Evening with Michael Eric Dyson Michael Eric Dyson is known for his many talents. He is an outspoken academic and sociologist, social critic, best-selling author, a popular figure in political news media, an ordained Baptist minister and, in his own words, one of the country’s ...
12.13.2019 Ben Horowitz: Creating Culture According to leading venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, the crucial question for every organization is: How do you create and sustain the culture you want? To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions. It’s not the values listed on the ...
12.13.2019 Addressing Trauma in the Asian-American Community Join us for an important community program as we bring together thought leaders for an open conversation on violence impacting the Asian-American community. We'll also explore ideas of how to create safety in our neighborhoods by bringing together all of ...
12.12.2019 Week to Week Political Roundtable and Holiday Party 12/11/19 It's our annual year-end Week to Week, keeping you up to date with the most recent political events and news. And from 5:30-6:30, we'll have our annual members holiday party (open to all attendees). Come join us for lively conversation ...
12.11.2019 Star Wars: The Skywalker Journey Returns Home With the coming release (December 20) of the ninth installment of the Star Wars movie franchise, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, perhaps the most significant element of the series, the lives and legacy of the Skywalker family come to ...
12.11.2019 Judicial Independence and the Public Good Americans are generally familiar with the role courts play in protecting the public’s rights and resolving disputes with integrity. In recent years, state judges have been confronted by recalls and other challenges at the ballot box as well as political ...
12.11.2019 Microsoft President Brad Smith: The Promise and Peril of the Digital Age As Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith leads a team of more than 1,400 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals working in 56 countries. He plays a key role in spearheading the company’s work on critical issues involving the intersection of technology ...
12.10.2019 Montaigne on Friendship Monday Night Philosophy warms you up for the holidays with Michel de Montaigne's essay "On Friendship," one of the most influential and insightful meditations on the topic ever written. Montaigne shows us how our attitudes toward friendship are deeply constitutive ...
12.09.2019 High Risk, High Hopes: A Year of Climate Conversations 2019 has been a year of climate rising. Youth activists skipped school and took to the streets, the Green New Deal thrust climate equity into the spotlight, and Democratic presidential candidates were forced to respond. Even a few Republicans dared ...
12.09.2019 The Queenmakers: Women Power Brokers in San Francisco Much has been written about the groundbreaking number of women who were elected into Congress in the last election. What many people may not know, however, is that women in San Francisco and the Bay Area play a pivotal role ...
12.07.2019 Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment and Disability Pride “Such a pretty girl.” It was a refrain Nadina LaSpina heard frequently in her native Sicily. What was sometimes added, and what was always implied, was that it’s a shame she was disabled. Having contracted polio as a baby, LaSpina ...
12.06.2019 Index Funds: Launching the Revolution of Modern Investing Mac McQuown is known as one of the architects of the modern investing system. In the early 1970s, he departed from prevailing Wall Street practices by assembling a team of six future Nobel Laureates to create a new type of ...
12.06.2019 The Real Toni Morrison, With Filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Toni Morrison, who passed away in August, was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and more. Earlier ...
12.06.2019 Women In The Workplace 2019 Studies show that we are starting to see real results in the number of women represented in the c-suite, with nearly 45 percent of companies having three or more women in senior roles. While the bright spots are clear, women ...
12.05.2019 Humanity at a Crossroads: New Insights into Technology Risks for Humans and the Planet This program will present the biological and health effects of both natural electromagnetic waves innate to the body and man-made electromagnetic waves from wireless technologies, including discussion about 4G/5G antenna densification. It will also address the mental health and relational ...
12.05.2019 Joel Selvin: Altamont and the End of the 1960s? As 2019 draws to the close, the media tributes, commemorations, remembrances and explorations related to the 50th anniversary of the 1960s comes to an end. This special program will focus on the 50th anniversary of the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, ...
12.05.2019 Inside Stonewall: Outloud In their new documentary, Stonewall: Outloud, filmmakers Fenton Baily and Randy Barbato weave together personal accounts and archival material from the night of the Stonewall riots. Narrated by RuPaul and currently streaming on YouTube, the film is a powerful look ...
12.03.2019 Christine Pelosi: The Nancy Pelosi Way Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) is one of the most successful leaders to ever wield the gavel as speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Under her leadership, Democrats passed the Affordable Care Act and are now championing a for the ...
12.03.2019 California Wildfires: Community and Water Supply Protection Those of us in Northern California have inhaled a lot of wildfire smoke over the past few years. Fueled by a rapidly warming climate, these catastrophic wildfires are burning down our communities, are hard on our physical and mental health, ...
12.01.2019 Shadows to Spotlight: Climate in the Media Murder, love, and the human experience are the stuff of great stories, as podcasts like Serial and RadioLab have shown us. But climate change? Not so much. The story is overwhelming and the ending is predictable and depressing, say radio ...
11.26.2019 Scott Adams: Loserthink Scott Adams has drawn nearly 9,000 cartoons since starting "Dilbert" 30 years ago. His cynical take on white-collar office workspaces propelled him to widespread success and acclaim, while his ongoing commentary on politics and President Trump have kept him in ...
11.26.2019 Journalist Susannah Cahalan: Rethinking Our Understanding of Mental Illness NPR has called Susannah Cahalan “one of America’s most courageous young journalists.” Known for her memoir Brain on Fire, which details her experience with a rare autoimmune disease, Cahalan’s work has since been made into a feature film on Netflix. ...
11.25.2019 Malcolm Nance: The Plot to Betray America Malcolm Nance is one of the world’s renowned intelligence experts and a popular guest on NBC News and MSNBC. With over 33 years combating radical extremist terrorism, Nance is known for championing human rights, ethical responsibility and cultural awareness in ...
11.25.2019 Lindy West: The Witches Are Coming In the age of #MeToo, where women are empowered to tell their truth rather than worry about the consequences of speaking out, there is hardly a better role model than best-selling author Lindy West. West first came to prominence as ...
11.25.2019 C-Dubb Podcast Live: Facebook and Social Media Racial Bias Join us for a free live taping of a special edition of "The C-Dubb Show" podcast at The Commonwealth Club with "The Michelle Meow Show." In recent months, a big conversation in the tech community has been about claims that ...
11.23.2019 Alcatraz Occupation at 50: Richard Oakes and Red Power Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native Americans that came to be known as Indians of All Tribes began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island. The takeover and occupation attracted a groundswell of interest from across the United ...

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