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Afro-American scholar and philosopher K. Anthony Appiah considers the idea of a community founded on the principles of inclusion, hope, and mutual respect, a community that transcends the polarizing rhetoric of racism.

The pandemic was a lethal litmus test for relationships of all kinds. A motley assortment of people found themselves locked down together. Some saw the deaths of family or friends. Others were deprived of seeing neighbors, co-workers, school friends or they lost the support of community groups like choirs. As we emerge from the Covid … Continue reading Relationship Rollercoaster →

Many of the problems we face in the world today – the global pandemic, the economic crisis, political violence of the kind that rocked the US Capitol in January – are the result of our severe information disorder. How do we create a universe of truthful and verifiable information, available to everyone? We are swimming … Continue reading Severe Information Disorder: Can we restore a healthier information economy? →

The Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdown created a slew of emotional challenges for everyone, from toddlers to seniors. Now that our social skills have atrophied, how will be retrain ourselves to interact with each other again?   MIT Professor Sherry Turkle helps us understand how we might rejuvenate our senses and flex our empathy muscles … Continue reading Coming to Our Senses – Empathy →

Hear a powerful call to action for achieving equality in leadership from Julie Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia (2010 – 2013) as she reflects on her new book Women and Leadership. GBH Forum Network Video: Women and Leadership  Recorded February 3, 2021 Using current research as a starting point, authors Julia Gillard  and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (The World … Continue reading Women And Leadership →

It’s time to trade in shortsightedness for long-term thinking. That’s according to author and philosopher Roman Krznaric, who writes about the power of ideas to change society in his new book The Good Ancestor. Recorded January 6, 2021 Krznaric outlines practical ways we can retrain our brains to think of the long view, including what … Continue reading How To Think Long-Term In A Short-Term World →

Professor Daniel Lieberman, Human Evolutionary Biologist at Harvard University discusses his new book, EXERCISED: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding. Were we really born to run? Are we meant to exercise from an evolutionary standpoint?

WADE DAVIS recently attracted global attention with his opinion piece in Rolling Stone magazine raising this question: Does Covid-19 signal the end of the American era? Why did he ask this disturbingly profound question and why has it struck a chord around the world? GBH Forum Network: End of the American Era? Recorded 9/25/2020 Wade Davis … Continue reading Does Covid-19 Signal the End of the American Era? →

Anthropologist Wade Davis latest book, MAGDALENA: River of Dreams brings to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia’s complex past, present, and future.  Wade Davis is an internationally acclaimed anthropologist, who currently holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk, at the University of British Columbia. He holds degrees in anthropology and biology … Continue reading Magdalena: River of Dreams →

In honor of the late US Congressman from Georgia John Lewis, here’s a special Cambridge Forum we recorded in 2001 at the national history museum in Lexington, Massachusetts. Lewis reflects on his lifetime of working for civil rights, first as a young lieutenant of Dr. Martin Luther King and later as a U.S. Congressman. Has … Continue reading Civil Rights: Yesterday and today →

Writer, poet and teacher CLINT SMITH in conversation with Jude Nixon, Professor of English at Salem State University.  Both men are educators and fathers, and their discussion explores what it means to raise children during this challenging period of Black Lives Matter.  Recorded July 24, 2020. Clint Smith is a writer, teacher, and Emerson Fellow at New … Continue reading Parenting While Black →

This forum features three uniquely different farmers who are all equally passionate about smart and sustainable ways of growing our food. Recorded June 26, 2020 Addy Shreffler is a young but savvy farmer, who was an executive chef for several years before migrating into farming.  She is committed to spreading her farming knowledge so that … Continue reading Farming for the Future →

AINISSA RAMIREZ is a material scientist who is passionate about getting everyone excited about science, so much so that she calls herself a "science evangelist". In her latest book, she looks at eight world-changing technologies and examines how we shape inventions out of matter, and then how those inventions, in turn, shape us - from clocks to silicon chips!

John Marzluff outlines a personal approach to sustainable agriculture. Through an ornithologist's lens, he observes current farming practices to see if we can broker a more harmonious relationship between our birds, farms, food and land.

Joseph Nye, leading scholar of international relations considers presidents and their foreign policy from FDR to Trump who come up short in the morality polls.