Deborah Trefts

The art and sport of juggling have been featured in Chautauqua Institution’s recent youth programming — in the Amphitheater by the comedic trio Playing by Air, and at the Boys’ and Girls’ Club by Don

Just as the neutral term “politics” — the art or science of government or governing — has become a pejorative over time, so too has “rhetoric” — the art or science of using language effectively

It has long been the practice of The Economist, one of the most respected English-language publications covering public affairs, to be less than forthcoming about the identity of its individual editors and journalists, especially in

The words “ethical” and “moral” are often used interchangeably. Those who distinguish between them, however, generally equate “ethics” with how one treats people one doesn’t know, and thus with society or workplace-specific principles and rules

At the turn of the 21st century, a prediction that clean energy would soon become mainstream in many areas of the United States would have been regarded with skepticism, if not scoffed at. According to

Take the 2011 book Written Out of History: Memoirs of Ordinary Activists. Substitute “biographies” for memoirs, and “extraordinary artists” for ordinary activists. The result, “Written Out of History: Biographies of Extraordinary Artists,” could be the

“The secret of a great fortune made without apparent cause is soon forgotten, if the crime is committed in a respectable way.” - —La Comédie humaine by Honoré de Balzac, 1900 translation Internationally recognized trial

When The Beatles tribute band Yesterday performed at Chautauqua Institution in August 2014, the old Amp was justifiably filled to capacity. Thanks to the generosity of Herb Keyser, music, videos and stories of The Beatles

The fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, was a monumental international event that transformed countless lives. In Bulgaria, it coincided with Rossen Milanov’s completion of his master’s degree at the National Academy

According to Richard O’Brien, “the first deadly chemical was testosterone.” The author of Women Presidents and Prime Ministers, O’Brien is the Week Six speaker for the Chautauqua Professional Women’s Network program. At 9:15 a.m. Tuesday

The transportation sector may be on the verge of leading a transformation as significant as that propelled by the switch up from the flip phone to the iPhone. At 3 p.m. Saturday in the Hall

What happens in family court matters — not only to your community as a whole, but also to your personal health and safety, and that of your family, friends and acquaintances. As New York Sen.

Last season, Sheila Schroeder spoke about why people — women especially — need to talk about money, and how to get started doing so. “People really went crazy. I feel I popped the top off

Are capitalism and democracy compatible? This is the question that Philip Kotler will address during his Contemporary Issues Forum talk at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Hall of Philosophy. Widely recognized as the father of

As filled as Chautauqua Theater Company’s summer program is, Artistic Director Andrew Borba’s full year has been akin to a CTC season on steroids — even for a person who said he often won the

The assumption that we are now in a “post-gender” cohort — that gender itself is irrelevant and that the gender battle is over — is misinformed. So said 20-first CEO Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, a gender bilingualism