Ford Hall Forum Lectures

Boston, MA

How to Make Money and Save the World
Gary Hinsberg
November 6, 2008
01:22:45
Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, President and CEO of Stonyfield Farm, joins Professor Nancy F.
Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
Douglas Feith
October 23, 2008
01:40:10
Douglas J. Feith discusses the dynamics of the first Bush term, and describes how we make foreign policy decisions. The following warnings appeared in a 2002 Bush administration memorandum:
Bluest State: Blueprint for American Political Disaster
Jon Keller
October 5, 2008
01:37:53
Jon Keller, WBZ-TV News' Political Analyst, and Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe columnist, review the ups and downs of Massachusetts' political culture and what can be done to carve out a new f
Laurence Tribe on the Invisible Constitution
Laurence Tribe
September 25, 2008
01:25:59
Laurence Tribe discusses the evolution of how we interpret our country's most important document.
Free Speech, Free Minds, Free Markets
Jimmy Wales
September 11, 2008
01:45:52
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales joins journalist Christopher Lydon to discuss where Web 2.0 will take us next, and how objectivist philosophy guides his vision. Across the globe we are building, editing, and contributing to a growing body of knowledge and tools at everyone's fingertips.
Audio-only
George Lakoff: The Political Mind
George Lakoff
June 5, 2008
01:33:29
George Lakoff discusses his new book, The Political Mind, and explores how the mind works, how society works, and how they work together.
Audio-only
Haitian Creation in Boston
Marie P. St. Fleur
June 24, 2004
01:18:38
Marie St. Fleur, Regine Jackson and Marc Prou discuss and celebrate the influence of Haitian immigrants in Boston.
Audio-only
Fact From Fiction: The Darwin Conspiracy
John Darnton
September 28, 2006
01:12:57
John Darnton draws on the research for his best selling novel, The Darwin Conspiracy, and examines what current theories of intelligent design share with the arguments of Darwin's creationist critics and how they differ.
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Color of Wealth: The US Racial Wealth Divide
Meizhu Lui
November 9, 2006
01:24:09
In the panel discussion, leading experts on the wealth divide explore the economic histories of Native Americans, Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, and European Americans, and tackle the relationship between race and finances in the United States.
Audio-only
Blogosphere: Who's Talking?
Dan Kennedy
September 21, 2005
00:51:21
Dan Kennedy, former media critic for the Boston Phoenix and visiting assistant professor at Northeastern University School of Journalism and Jay Rosen, founder/author of PressThink and professor of journalism at New York University, meet to talk about the blogosphere, its future, its i
Momsrising.org: The Motherhood Manifesto
Joan Blades
October 18, 2007
01:17:27
Joan Blades, well known for co-founding the e-advocacy group MoveOn.org, discusses her new organization, Momsrising.org, and internet advocacy in general.
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Charles Burnett
April 2, 2009
00:46:24
The creators of the 2003 documentary Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property discuss their film, which analyzes Nat Turner's slave rebellion of 1831 and its aftermath in American memory.

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