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
Lectures
As Americans have turned away from Christianity in seeking meaning in their lives, people in the Middle East have continued to hold fast to Islam.
Shaun King fights every day. Using social media, his position as senior justice writer at New York Daily News, and his role as a political
The key to reducing anxiety is not less stress and more yoga, but rather liberating the human spirit. This liberation can be found, according to
Dan Ariely kept a straight face through his lecture, but he still got emotional onstage — figuratively, at least. “I want to talk today about
Perhaps no relationship in the United States has been as tense and divisive in the past few years as the relationship between communities of color
New York Times best-selling author Dan Ariely’s mission in life is to figure out when humans make decisions outside of their best interest, what causes
Jason Robert thinks fear can be a productive emotion. At least that’s what Robert, Lincoln Chair in Ethics and director of the Lincoln Center for
After sitting in the benches of the Hall of Philosophy “hundreds of times,” Robert H. Jackson Center co-founder Gregory L. Peterson wanted to start Friday’s
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
In the course of 40 minutes, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin sought to tell 50 jokes. Rightfully so, as he titled his lecture “The Fifty Best Jewish
“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
In Arabic, “Insh’Allah” means “if God wills.” When comedian Dean Obeidallah was in a Jordanian restaurant, he asked an employee where the bathroom was. After
The story of Chautauqua Lake is one of its relationship with people. The lake has attracted people from Native American mound builders to European settlers
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
Journey Gunderson, the executive director of the National Comedy Center, is part of a legacy of humor at Chautauqua Institution. Her grandmother, Winnie Lewellen, the