“Won’t be long ‘til summertime is through (Summertime is through — not for us now) Every now and then we hear our song (Every now and then we hear our song) We’ve been having fun
This has been an emotional few days for Bryant Terry. “The brilliant comedian, civil rights activist and social critic Dick Gregory passed away about a week ago,” Terry explained. Called the “Jackie Robinson of comedy”
“Voting with your fork” — that’s what Marion Nestle calls it when people leverage food for political change. After all, food is more than just a source of energy; it’s fundamentally intertwined with culture and
For an advocate of food as a tool for justice, it seems appropriate that Anna Blythe Lappé first heard about the murder of Heather Heyer while standing in the kitchen. “Less than two weeks ago
When Michael Ruhlman and Ann Patchett sat down to talk about food, they had a lot of ground to cover. “I feel like we could talk for eight hours without stopping because food is just
A couple weeks before he came to Chautauqua, someone introduced master chef Jacques Pépin by noting that he’s cooked for three French presidents. “And the three of them are dead,” Pépin joked. Opening Week Nine,
Fake news. Technological disruption. Censorship. Authoritarianism. Declining credibility. Low readership. Throughout Week Eight, “Media and the News: Ethics in the Digital News,” a number of journalists and journalism scholars have discussed the many terrors the
Nancy Gibbs and David Von Drehle have been talking with one another for 30-some years. Their joint presence on the Amphitheater stage Thursday morning, therefore, was more a continuation of a decades-long conversation than anything
Henry Luce, co-founder of Time magazine, once said he “became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.” Arzu Geybulla, a journalist and columnist who focuses on the human
Iraqi soldiers stole incubators from Kuwait hospitals and left the babies to die. Hillary Clinton ran a child prostitution ring out of a D.C. pizzeria. Tilapia is worse for you than bacon. These are all
When someone visits the doctor these days, they don’t just take the diagnosis at face value — they go online and get a second opinion. The doctor has not lost authority, but the terms of
“We don’t submit to terror,” President Frank Underwood intones, directly addressing the viewer as he breaks the fourth wall. “We make the terror.” It is the final line of season four of “House of Cards,”
In following a former MI5 director general’s stark warnings of impending geopolitical catastrophe, horror movie buff Adam Lowenstein had his work cut out for him during his Thursday morning lecture. “I feel like (Wednesday’s lecturer,
“The land of the stiff upper lip.” “Keep calm and carry on.” “They always grumble, but they never worry.” Dame Stella Rimington had a lot of different ways of saying the same thing: The English
Standing before the image of an old, white, bearded man, Shaun King began his lecture. The portrait’s significance, though not immediately discernable, would quickly be made clear. “This is a German historian, Leopold von Ranke,
For someone speaking about fear, Dame Stella Rimington actually hasn’t had a lot of firsthand exposure to the topic. “I feel quite uncomfortable about this theme of fear in many ways because … it’s not