Morning Lecture

When someone looks at Misty Copeland, they see the first Black female Principal Dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, a mentor to young dancers, and

Book bans in America are reaching new highs, according to an April PEN report that shows an increase of over 1,500 banned books between July

It takes ballet dancers, on average, a little less than 10 years to receive the training to become a professional dancer, but that was not

Abigail Marsh opened Week Eight’s theme, “New Profiles in Courage,” with the fundamentals of courage. Marsh’s lecture was the first after last Friday’s attack on

A note from the photo editor: Bearing witness to tragedy is hard, but it is also deeply important. As the horrible events of Aug. 12

Last Friday morning, Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie was flown to UPMC Hamot, in Erie, Pennsylvania, after being attacked on the Amphitheater stage, where he

While courageous heroes are often seen as fearless, Abigail Marsh argues these protagonists tend to feel fear more than the average person.  Marsh “One of

The world descended onto Chautauqua Institution Friday as an act of violence sent shockwaves through the community within the gates, and across the globe, as

Filmmaker Giorgio Angelini addressed three seemingly disparate phenomena in his documentary “Owned: A Tale of Two Americas.”  He broached the housing explosion in the desert

When Giorgio Angelini was working on a master’s in architecture in the midst of the 2008 housing market crash, he read an article about an

Buffalo was once one of America’s prized cities. It had the sixth-largest economy among U.S. cities and a world-leading port. Today, it’s behind only Cleveland

In seventh grade, Rahwa Ghirmatzion led her middle school in a lunch-hour hunger strike to protest the termination of the school dishwasher and the addition

The struggling single mother who committed armed robbery to make rent. The war veteran with amputated legs working laboriously to pay off his rent to

As a writer, Megan McArdle spends a lot of time thinking about words. She encouraged the audience at her 10:45 a.m. lecture Monday, Aug. 8

When it comes to the Chautauqua Lecture Series theme, “More than Shelter: Redefining the American Home,” and the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle’s vertical theme

Megan McArdle has written about a wide variety of topics — including the economy, finance and government policy — throughout her 20-year career, but she