Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 6, 2019. Tracy K. Smith was appointed the 22nd United States poet laureate in 2017 and was reappointed for a second term in 2018. During her first term, Smith gave readings and led discussions as a part of a pilot project in rural […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 23, 2019. Ilan Pappé is an expatriate Israeli historian and socialist activist, educated at the University of Jerusalem and the University of Oxford. He founded the Academic Institute for Peace in Givat Haviva, Israel, and was its director from 1992 to 2000. He […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 24, 2018. David Harvey, a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has taught Karl Marx’s Capital and its contemporary application to students and members of the public for 40 years. “Once you […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 11, 2018. The Reverend William Barber, pastor at Greenleaf Christian Church and president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, led the Moral Mondays movement of weekly protests and civil disobedience against the discriminatory and conservative policies of North Carolina governor Pat […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 26, 2018. Nikhil Pal Singh is an associate professor of social and cultural analysis and history at New York University and the founding faculty director of the NYU Prison Education Program. He is the author of Race and America’s Long War (2017), in […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 9, 2018. Colson Whitehead is the author of The Underground Railroad, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal for Fiction. The book chronicles the life of Cora, a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia, and […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 2, 2018. Clive Hamilton is an Australian author, public intellectual, and professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He received his PhD from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. He is the […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 18, 2018. Rachel Kushner’s first novel, Telex from Cuba, is set in Oriente, Cuba, in an expat community funded by the United Fruit Company and a nickel mine, during the years leading up to Castro’s revolution. Of the book, the New York Times […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 11, 2018. Diane Ravitch is the nation’s leading advocate for public education. She is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She is the author of numerous […]

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 7, 2018. Nancy MacLean is an award-winning scholar of twentieth-century US history. She is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for […]