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Naomi Klein: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

Thu, Oct 10, 2019

Naomi Klein is an award-winning, internationally bestselling author and journalist. For two decades she has chronicled the economic war waged on people and the planet. Harvard Book Store describes Klein as, "an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public." Her latest book, _On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal_ gathers more than a decade of her writing and pairs it with new material on the high stakes of our immediate political and economic choices. Klein is joined by Juliet B. Schor, Boston College professor and former Guggenheim fellow. This event was co-sponsored by [350 Mass](https://350mass.betterfutureproject.org/), [Cambridge Forum](https://www.cambridgeforum.org/), [The Intercept](https://theintercept.com/), [The Leap](https://theleap.org/), and [Sunrise Movement](https://www.sunrisemovement.org/). Image: Book Cover

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Josh Campbell: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI

Wed, Sep 18, 2019

CNN law enforcement analyst Josh Campbell, former special assistant to FBI Director James Comey, discusses his new book "Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI". Campbell covers his experience beginning two weeks before Trump's inauguration when he joined the heads of the US Intelligence community on a briefing visit to Trump Tower in New York City. He is joined in conversation with homeland security expert and analyst Juliette Kayyem. Image: [Book Cover](http://www.harvard.com/event/josh_campbell/)

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The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have

Tue, Sep 10, 2019

As we become a more digital society, we imagine that using less paper or buying fewer DVDs is better for the environment. But many don't think about our internet connection's impact on the environment. Whether it's a microwave with WiFi, streaming a movie, or online shopping, these technological advances have created new impacts that even the people who are well-versed in these issues haven't considered. In _Inconspicuous Consumption_, Tatiana Schlossberg reveals the complicated, confounding and even infuriating ways that we all participate in a greenhouse gas-intensive economy and society, and how some of the biggest and most consequential areas of unintended emissions and environmental impacts are unknowingly part of our daily activities. By showing us how we're in this together and explaining a little more about how our everyday lives affect the environment, Schlossberg empowers people to make the best choices that they can for a changing planet. Image: Book Cover

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Rachel Louise Snyder: No Visible Bruises

Mon, May 13, 2019

In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder gives context for what we don't know we're seeing. She frames this urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence in our country around key stories that explode the common myths-that if things were bad enough, victims would just leave; that a violent person cannot become nonviolent; that shelter is an adequate response; and most insidiously that violence inside the home is a private matter, sealed from the public sphere and disconnected from other forms of violence. Through the stories of victims, perpetrators, law enforcement, and reform movements from across the country, Snyder explores the real roots of private violence, its far-reaching consequences for society, and what it will take to truly address it. Image: Book Cover

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The Feminism Movement for the Americas

Fri, Mar 29, 2019

UCLA Professor of History Katherine Marino chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable Latin American and Caribbean women whose deep friendships and intense rivalries forged global feminism out of an era of imperialism, racism, and fascism.

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John Waters: Mr. Know-It-All

Mon, May 20, 2019

John Waters, the man with the pencil-thin mustache, the auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray, Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame. He comes to Cambridge now as Mr. Know-It-All. In a friendly chat with local author Alysia Abbott ([Fairyland](http://www.alysiaabbott.com/fairyland) ) he shares his wisdom about the strange ways of Hollywood; how to dress "disaster at the drycleaners"; how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes, how to cheat death itself. Image: Book cover

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The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution

Tue, May 7, 2019

The history of the Arab Spring, told from the eyes of Peter Hessler, who lived in Egypt during the years following the initial uprising. In the midst of the revolution, Hessler often traveled to digs at Amarna and Abydos, where locals live beside the tombs of kings and courtiers, a landscape that they call simply al-Madfuna: "the Buried. Hessler recountsh is efforts to learn the Arabic language, relating it back to his work in learning Chinese. They also befriended Peter's translator, a gay man struggling to find happiness in Egypt's homophobic culture.

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Bill McKibben: Falter

Wed, Apr 17, 2019

Bill McKibben discusses his book _Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?_ Thirty years after McKibben released his groundbreaking book _The End of Nature,_ the first book to alert us to global warming, he returns to evaluate the danger today: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. _Falter_ tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on his experience in building [350.org](http://https://350.org/) , the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, McKibben offers ways out of the trap. He warns us we're at a bleak moment in human history—and we must confront that bleakness or watch civilization falter. Image: book cover

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Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics

Fri, Apr 26, 2019

There is no easy answer to the question of how to teach children about democracy. How can teachers remain nonpartisan as they explain how the system works? "Democratic Discord in Schools" features eight cases of complex dilemmas drawn from real events designed to help educators practice the type of collaborative problem solving and civil discourse needed to meet these challenges of democratic education. Meira Levinson and Jacob Fray draw upon research methods developed in the[ Justice in Schools project](https://www.justiceinschools.org/) (https://www.justiceinschools.org/) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) to provide the tools needed by educators to practice the deliberative skills they need in order to find reasonable solutions to common ethical dilemmas in politically fraught times. Image: Book Cover

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This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution

Wed, Mar 13, 2019

In _This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution_, David Sloan Wilson writes a series of engaging stories—from the breeding of hens, to the timing of cataract surgeries, to the organization of an automobile plant. Through these stories he shows how an evolutionary worldview provides a practical toolkit for understanding not only genetic evolution, but also the fast-paced changes impacting our world and ourselves. What emerges is an incredibly empowering argument: if we can become wise managers of evolutionary processes, we can solve the problems of our age at all scales—from the efficacy of our groups, to our wellbeing as individuals, to our stewardship of the planet earth. Image: book cover

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