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Moderated by Jeffrey Brown, Senior Correspondent, PBS Newshour
Topics: Foreign Policy, War, Afghanistan 
Alma Powell examines the school’s place in society and the promises we should be making our children. “Schools are not just for education,” said Alma Powell, chair of America’s Promise Alliance, at...
Topics: Education, education reform 
James Shapiro discusses his new book, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? Helen Keller, Mark Twain, Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and John Paul Stevens, and Sigmund Freud all doubted the...
Topics: Arts 
"[Kids] get self-esteem from achievement; they don't get achievement from self-esteem. It's a one-way street," said Ashley Merryman, co-author of the best-selling NurtureShock: New Thinking About...
Topics: Education, Women in Leadership 
“For every problem out there, there’s a social innovator somewhere who knows how to fix it,” said Stephen Goldsmith, former mayor of Indianapolis and author of The Power of Social Innovation: How...
Topics: Leadership, Governance, innovation 
Kati Marton discusses her new book, Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America. When award-winning journalist and author Kati Marton went to Hungary to research her family’s life...
Topics: Women in Leadership 
David Walker discusses his new book, Comeback America. President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, David Walker is a leading thinker and advocate for federal financial responsibility. He...
Topics: Economics, Governance 
Michael Meyer, former Newsweek bureau chief for Germany, Central Europe and the Balkans and currently communications director for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, will join Romesh Ratnesar...
Topics: Foreign Policy, Governance 
Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, speaks at a Gildenhorn Book Series lunch program on her book, My Prison, My Home:...
Topics: Foreign Policy, Governance 
