Dan Ariely kept a straight face through his lecture, but he still got emotional onstage — figuratively, at least. “I want to talk today about emotions, and about positive emotions, and negative emotions, and how
A priest, a rabbi and an imam walk into a bar. A blonde, a brunette and a redhead board a plane. Kelly Carlin, Kliph Nesteroff and Stephen J. Morrison take the Amphitheater stage. The rule
“I’m a little exhausted,” warned Kelly Carlin, prefacing the conversation she was about to moderate. “It’s day five for me at Chautauqua.” “I’m a little exhausted,” responded W. Kamau Bell, her guest. “It’s year 44
DEMETRIUS: Villain, what hast thou done? AARON: That which thou canst not undo. CHIRON: Thou hast undone our mother. AARON: Villain, I have done thy mother. —Titus Andronicus, Act 4, Scene 2 So wrote the
Many Chautauqua speakers use video clips to help convey their points. But all Sophie Scott needed was some audio. Introducing her Wednesday morning lecture with a recording of two BBC cricket commentators devolving on-air into
Before a joke can get to the good part — the punchline — it needs a setup. Interestingly, the same is true of joke-tellers. “I always love to start at the beginning … that’s my
From disgusting comedy clubs to the prestigious White House Correspondents’ dinner, Lewis Black has stood on a lot of stages over the course of his career. The Amphitheater podium from which he spoke Monday morning
Politics are no laughing matter. Well, not usually, that is. But when the Capitol Steps take to the Amphitheater stage at 8:15 p.m. Monday for a live performance of their most recent political parody songs,
Lewis Black has been angry about politics for a long time. And he’s been letting that anger out through comedy for nearly as long. Keeping up the act isn’t always easy, though. “The hard thing
Ted Olson is happy he’s talking about the judiciary. “I could’ve drawn one of the other branches of government and had to talk about the presidency or Congress, but I … lucked out and I
Week Five: “The Supreme Court: At a Tipping Point?” asks whether the highest court in the land found itself, on Nov. 9, 2016, operating under radically different circumstances than it had been on Nov. 7.
The year is 1763, and John Wilkes is a dissident against the state. In secret, Wilkes has been printing pamphlets railing against King George III. The monarch issues a general warrant to uncover the anonymous
The Supreme Court seems to constantly be in the news cycle these days, but according to Annette Gordon-Reed, the law has always held a special place in the American collective imagination. “(The) colonists being from
Linda Greenhouse might say some controversial things, but the title of her Monday morning Amphitheater lecture — “The Supreme Court In Troubled Times” — is not one of them. “We are indeed in troubled times,”
Iran, 2012: Hackers overload the websites of several major American banks in a large-scale denial-of-service attack, temporarily shutting down online access to users’ bank accounts. North Korea, 2014: The emails of top Sony executives are
For Sarah Ladislaw, it’s all about power. But as the director and senior fellow of the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and, as per her bio, an