The main thing Jon Alterman wanted to talk about was the “ferocity of the Middle East.” And from civil wars in Syria, Yemen and Libya, to insurgencies in Iraq and Egypt, to “rising tensions” just
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Scott Kennedy has been going to China for almost 30 years, and lived there off and on for six or seven of them; when he tells people about his travels, he says he spent 75
As the senior vice president, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Kathleen Hicks has made a career of helping policymakers “make informed
Eboo Patel started his Friday morning lecture with a parable. “It is a story of a village that has come upon hard times,” said Patel, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core. “A village that
Each of the three quotes Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks opened his Thursday morning lecture with came from a decidedly different historical context; yet all shared a sense of impending doom. The first was an old
Dahlia Lithwick is wondering why she’s at Chautauqua right now. Don’t get her wrong; she’s happy to be returning to the Institution. But why now? After all, this is Week Three: “A Crisis of Faith?”
Katelyn Beaty is standing on a stage; before her sits a sea of Christian leaders, an auditorium full. “(Your) support for Trump ... will prove to be a mistake,” she urges them. But they do
Andrew Sullivan asks your forgiveness if he comes off as pious. Faith is, after all, extremely difficult to talk about. And Sullivan is “the last person on earth who could be understood to be pious.”
“In October of last year … I found myself in what is traditionally considered to be the tomb of Jesus Christ.” So began the first of several stories that Kristin Romey would tell during her
When people imagine an engineer, they probably have a certain picture in their heads: Safe. Predictable. Stuck in a cubicle all day. What they are probably not imagining is a young, bearded guy pulling a
The National Geographic Emerging Explorer Program recognizes trailblazers from every walk of life: “scientists, conservationists, storytellers and innovators” are all eligible for the acknowledgement, not to mention research funding, that acceptance confers. But though Explorers
Brian Skerry started diving before he started taking photos, but only barely. Compelled to share his experiences below the ocean’s surface with others, it was only a matter of time before underwater photography became as
“I’m going to take you on a journey today,” Lee R. Berger told the audience at the start of his Monday morning lecture. As a paleoanthropologist whose discoveries have radically changed humanity’s understanding of its
“How are new ideas born?” It’s a question that many of Week One’s speakers have hinted at, but none so explicitly as Pagan Kennedy. Kennedy, author of Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change
George Kembel started coming to Chautauqua eight years ago, but it was another two years before his kids came along, too. And despite co-founding Stanford’s design-centered d.school, parenting has in some ways been “the hardest
Growing up in Montana, Lisa DeLuca spent her days playing in the backyard with her siblings, where they “had to use (their) own imaginations to bring (their) toys to life.” Now, years later, DeLuca is