location/hostavailable lectures (total: 207)| Title | Speaker(s) | Date | Duration | Media Links | Visual Space/Ritual Space and the Agency of the Greek Priestess | Joan Breton Connelly | 01:09:08 | On Constitutional Statesmanship | Jeffrey K. Tulis | 01:29:30 | Assessing Presidential Legacies | Alvin Felzenberg | 01:17:38 | Escher and the Droste Effect | Hendrik Lenstra | 01:08:38 | Is there a Democratic Deficit in World Politics? | Andrew Moravcsik | 01:20:00 | Stem Cell Challenges in Biology and Public Policy | Douglas Melton | 01:17:53 | The Exploration of the Great Rivers of Africa | Pasquale Scaturro | 01:41:05 | A Life of Significance: The Integration of Faith and Character into the World of Work | Peter M. Ochs | 01:18:42 | Baptized in Blood: Moral Reflections on the American Civil War | Harry S. Stout | 01:15:47 | Structural Plasticity in the Adult Brain | Elizabeth Gould | 01:16:04 | Work in Progress #131 | Thom Mayne | 01:47:46 | The American Founding and the Culture Wars (In Celebration of Constitution Day) | Alan R. Gibson | 01:27:33 | Tradition and Modernity: The Making of Whitman College | Demitri Porphyrios | 01:09:09 | Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Our Human Planet | Cristian Samper | 01:00:57 | Ian McEwan: Talking and Reading from his work | Ian McEwan | 01:09:54 | The Great Debate: The Federalist Response to the Anti-Federalist Challenge | Thomas L. Pangle | 01:35:43 | The Rise and Fall of Italian Jewry From 1839-1939 and the Revival of Italian Judaism in Italy and Israel | Dan Vittorio Segre | 01:16:41 | Dante and Freedom: The Autonomy of Hell and The Liberty of Paradise | Anthony M. Esolen | 01:28:56 | Revisiting President John F. Kennedy and the 1960s | James Piereson | 01:47:25 | Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founding Fathers Different | Gordon S. Wood | 01:26:22 | A Conversation with David Remnick, hosted by Professor Michael Wood | David Remnick | 01:11:42 | Observing the Birth of the Universe | Lyman Page | 01:15:10 | The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy | John Mearsheimer | 01:56:26 | Lives for our Times: Biography and Global History | Linda Colley | 01:27:48 | The Economics of Climate Change: Risk, Ethics, and a Global Deal | Nicholas Stern | 01:24:46 | Reading from 'Speaking of Faith' Followed by Panel Discussion | Krista Tippett | 01:34:57 | Poetry Reading | Robert Hass | 00:59:39 | Watch What You Eat | Ruth Reichl | 01:22:47 | Things That Keep Me Up at Night | Elizabeth Diller | 01:21:12 | God, Nature, or Man: Whose Law for a Free People? The Experience of Islam | David Forte | 01:30:01 | Spooky Actions at a Distance? | N. David Mermin | 01:22:47 | Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism -- Panel Discussion on a New Book by Paul Starr | Paul Starr | 01:41:10 | Slow Food Nation | Carlo Petrini | 01:15:34 | Mediocrity and Its Causes: A Surgeon's Notes on Medical Performance | Atul Gawande | 01:21:06 | Importing Legal Ideas | Mary Ann Glendon | 01:27:59 | 'Because It Was He, Because It Was I' The Good of Friendship | Alexander Nehamas | 01:26:15 | Why Be Human? | Charles T. Rubin | 01:33:57 | Philanthropy...It's Definitely Not for Wimps: Reflections on Faith and Finance | Dick DeVos | 01:02:00 | Parting Policy Address | Kofi Annan | 00:58:19 | Light at the End of the Tunnel? Costs and Benefits of Mideast Peace for the International Community | Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Yehuda Lancry | Strange Biogeochemistry of Permanently Ice-Covered Lakes in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica | Bess Ward | 01:06:16 | The Floor of the US Senate as the Operating Theatre: Is Transplanting Ideas Any Different From Transplanting Hearts? | William H. Frist | 00:59:48 | The Creative Commons | Lawrence Lessig | 01:13:53 | A Career in Public Service | Peter D. Bell | 01:18:21 | Manet and Cézanne: The 'Heroics' of Modernism | Carol Armstrong | 01:12:24 | Mass extinctions in the Phanerozoic: a single cause and if yes which? | Vincent Courtillot | 01:28:36 | What Happens After Iraq? | Steve Forbes | 01:07:43 | The Constitution: Past, Present and Future | Robert H. Bork | 01:26:56 | The Human Prejudice | Bernard Williams | 01:23:35 | Collapses of Ancient Societies and their Lessons for Today | Jared Diamond | 01:18:45 | Who Are the Real Barbarians? A Latin-American Perspective | Ariel Dorfman | 01:14:07 | The Art and Science of the Motorcycle | Charles M. Falco | 01:31:08 | Through a Looking Glass: The Art of the Science of Renaissance Painting | Charles M. Falco | 01:24:02 | Ottoman Thought and Practice Concerning War | Bernard Lewis | 01:09:50 | Where the End of Poverty Begins | Peter D. Bell | 01:00:11 | Anytime, Anywhere: The Recent Revolution in Wireless Communications | Vincent Poor | 01:33:52 | Islamic Law and Feminism: Opening a Dialogue | Ziba Mir Hosseini | 01:13:18 | The 2003-2004 Belknap Visitor in the Humanities | Chuck Close | 01:31:52 | Place, Art, and Self | Yi Fu Tuan | 01:10:59 | Freedom and the Superpower | J. Rufus Fears | 01:25:15 | Natural Law and American Political Thought | Harry Jaffa | 01:16:40 | The Roots and Causes of Terrorism in Afghanistan and the Region | Hamid Karzai | 00:52:38 | Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values | William G. Bowen | 01:07:32 | Governance without Governments: The Legitimacy Crisis of International Law | Joseph H.H. Weiler | 01:23:17 | Lincoln's God | Mark Noll | 01:22:57 | Einstein's Biggest Blunder: A Cosmic Mystery Story | Lawrence M. Krauss | 01:24:49 | Perspectives on High Performance Computer Architecture: History and Challenges | John Hennessy | 01:13:18 | Dinosaur Research in the 21st Century | John Horner | 01:14:58 | Do Movies have a Future? | David Denby | 01:21:21 | Under God? Is Religion at the Heart of America's Culture War? | William Kristol | 01:37:38 | Telling Stories | Michael Graves | 01:52:40 | Orthodoxy and Western Christianity in the 21st Century | Bishop Kallistos | 00:57:42 | An Evening with Tony Kushner | Tony Kushner | 01:17:38 | The Body: A Gateway and Two Doors | Bill T. Jones | 01:21:32 | A Regulatory Framework for the 21st Century | Elizabeth E. Bailey | 01:12:40 | How Stereotypes Can Shape Intellectual Performance and Identity | Claude Steele | 01:50:33 | Bipedal bugs, galloping ghosts and gripping geckos: BioInspiration for Rapid Running Robots | Robert Full | 01:12:41 | Affirming Dignity and Ending Poverty: The Search for a Better World | Peter D. Bell | 01:16:01 | Amazon.com: Customer Experience Matters | Jeffrey Bezos | 01:02:31 | Maurice Sendak discusses his work | Maurice Sendak | 01:10:28 | The Age of the Superstory | Russell Baker | 01:17:03 | Campaign Speech | Ralph Nader | 01:57:26 | Gravity, Black Holes, and Strings | Juan M. Maldacena | 01:21:41 | Jesus, Paul, and the Origins of Christianity | Paula Fredriksen | Climax and Retreat: Racism in the Twentieth Century | George Fredrickson | The Rise of Modern Racism(s): White Supremacy and Antisemitism | George Fredrickson | Sequencing the Human Genome | Craig Venter | 01:27:30 | Monasticism in Western Society: From Marginality to the Establishment and Back | Lester K. Little | 01:14:36 | Quest For Unification | Edward Witten | 01:15:11 | The Disappearance of Anti-matter Following the Big Bang | Stewart Smith | 01:11:46 | Current and Recent Work | Frank O. Gehry | 01:35:19 | Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language | Steven Pinker | 01:25:26 | Inequality, Health and Wealth | Angus Deaton | 01:33:17 | Teaching for Freedom | Lynne Cheney | 00:51:22 | Terrorism, Nonviolence, and Justice | Arun Gandhi | 01:09:01 | Bioethics and Euthanasia | Wesley J. Smith | 01:39:27 | The Political Leadership of George W. Bush: What a Difference September 11th Made | Fred I. Greenstein | 01:23:28 | The Presumption of Innocence, Sharecropper Education and America's Ideals | Robert Moses | 01:20:12 | Just War and Military Intervention | Jean Bethke Elshtain | 01:20:46 | The Search for the Chimera | James Randi | 02:10:46 | Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect | Paul Ehrlich | 01:15:42 | Compassionate Conservatism | John DiIulio Jr. | 01:44:05 | Religion and the Invention of Racism | George Fredrickson | Genomic Approaches to Human Origins | Svante Pääbo | 01:00:29 | The Constitution Outside the Court | Michael J. Gerhardt | 01:24:20 | Ethics of Identity | K. Anthony Appiah | 01:22:06 | Real Federalism | Michael Greve | 01:24:07 | The Legacy of John Adams | John P. Diggins | 01:33:26 | Building Places from Memories | Daniel Libeskind | 01:02:04 | God and the Inner City [documentary screening] | Michael Pack | 00:44:29 | America's Founding and Future | Eric Cohen | 01:36:13 | The Public in Architecture | Cesar Pelli | 01:21:26 | Technica Curiosa: Technology and Magic in Early Modern Europe | Anthony Grafton | 01:22:13 | Marriage on Trial | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese | 01:23:09 | Telling Stories about the Universe | Vera Rubin | 01:14:58 | Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe, Lecture 1: FASHION | Roger Penrose | 01:26:27 | Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe, Lecture 2: FAITH | Roger Penrose | 01:18:30 | Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe, Lecture 3: FANTASY | Roger Penrose | 01:37:15 | Israel: Peace and War | Amos Oz | 01:18:10 | Implications of Under-Population in Europe and America | Nicholas Eberstadt | 01:32:54 | Who are the Leaders of the Iraqi Shi'ites? | Roy Mottahedeh | 01:05:52 | Marriage 101: Male and Female, Created He Them | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese | 01:21:53 | Marriage 102: Different or Equal? The Compromise of Separate Spheres | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese | 01:26:43 | The Consequences of Incompetence: The All-Too-Human Costs of Bad Thinking and Poor Decision-making by People in High Places | Bob Herbert | 01:20:05 | Death and Politics | Joseph Bottum | 00:44:59 | Is Democracy a Universal Value? | Ian Buruma | 01:19:41 | The War in Iraq: Bush's Democracy and the Real Thing | Seymour Hersh | 01:35:36 | In the Horse Latitudes, A Reading of New Poems | Paul Muldoon | 00:52:39 | Challenges for U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East | Hillary Rodham Clinton | 00:49:26 | The Underground Railroad of Self-Determination: Beyond Victimization | Robert Woodson Sr. | 01:18:45 | The Doha Declaration: The World Affirms the Natural Family and Marriage | William Saunders Jr. | 01:23:22 | The Playworld and the Empire: The Twenty-first Century and the American Playwright | Paula Vogel | 01:22:04 | Rehabilitating Eugenics | Christine Rosen | 01:04:21 | A Conversation with Paul Taylor, with Maura Keefe, dance historian | Paul Taylor | 00:59:26 | Hard Questions About Tomorrow's World | Lord Robert May | 01:22:24 | Nature and Nurture | Matt Ridley | 01:01:55 | After Iraq: What's Ahead for America | James Fallows | 01:28:16 | Nature and History in the Thought of the American Founders | James Ceaser | 01:32:34 | American Ideals and National Memory | Bruce Cole | 01:01:05 | How Bacteria TALK to Each Other | Bonnie Bassler | 01:04:10 | The Outlook for the Global Economy and the Challenges That Must Be Met | Robert Rubin | 01:00:22 | The Emancipation Proclamation and the Commander-in-Chief Power: Lessons from the Lincoln Administration for the War on Terror | Michael Stokes Paulsen | 01:20:46 | John Marshall and the Myth of Marbury | Robert Lowry Clinton | 01:29:21 | Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development in Africa: The Rwandan Experience | Paul Kagame | 01:16:43 | The Constitution, Dead or Alive? | Walter Murphy | 01:19:11 | Imminent Endangerment: 'Lead' Astray by the EPA | Marc Edwards | 01:20:18 | Active Liberty: A Conversation with United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Professor Robert P. George | Stephen Breyer | 01:56:44 | Promoting Democracy: Fourteen Points for the 21st Century | Madeleine Albright | 01:02:47 | James Madison and the Spirit of Republicanism | Colleen Sheehan | 01:22:17 | Constitutional Virtues | H. Jefferson Powell | 01:31:34 | A Conversation with James Baker | James A. Baker III | 01:07:10 | School Shootings: Why Terrible Things Happen in 'Perfect' Places | Katherine Newman | 01:13:42 | The Future of the Web | Tim Berners-Lee | 01:20:26 | The energy problem: our current choices and future hopes | Steven Chu | 01:30:09 | Abortion and Infanticide: A Critique of Peter Singer's Views | Don Marquis | 01:37:27 | Fatal Confluences: Islam, Gender, and HIV/AIDS in Malaysia | Marina Mahathir | 00:58:45 | The Human Body as an Evolutionary Patchwork | Alan Walker | 01:30:05 | Schiavo and the Shibboleth of Privacy | Daniel N. Robinson | 01:16:35 | In Search of a National Water Policy: Learning from Katrina, Dry Canals, and Pallid Sturgeon | Gerald Galloway | 01:16:17 | Social Science and Public Policy | Ben Bernanke | 00:41:45 | Beyond Freakonomics: New Musings on the Economics of Everyday Life | Steven Levitt | 00:58:38 | 30th Hamilton Lecture: The Future of Physics | David J. Gross | 01:50:16 | The Racial Gap in Academic Achievement | Abigail Thernstrom | 01:40:01 | Religious Liberty: The Political Claim | David Novak | 01:20:03 | Princetonians in the Nation's Service: Breaking up the Two-Party | Ralph Nader | 01:33:39 | Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue: Technology, Politics, and the Fight to Control Digital Media | Edward Felten | 01:16:58 | Virtue, Republicanism and Disestablishment of Religion at the Founding | Michael McConnell | 01:40:37 | Liberalism, Morals and the Supreme Law of the Land | Peter Berkowitz | 01:39:02 | Barricelli's Universe: Digital Computing in Princeton, 1945-1958 | George Dyson | 01:04:31 | Virginia Woolf's Nose | Hermione Lee | 01:09:41 | Jane Austen Faints | Hermione Lee | 01:05:12 | Shelley's Heart and Pepys's Lobsters | Hermione Lee | 01:08:12 | Engineering for a Better World: The Princeton Vision | Maria Klawe | 01:26:51 | The Ethics of Nation-Building: What We Owe Iraq | Noah Feldman | 01:16:14 | The Ethics of Nation-Building: What We Owe Iraq | Noah Feldman | 01:18:43 | The Ethics of Nation-Building: What We Owe Iraq | Noah Feldman | 01:33:03 | The Effect of War on the Supreme Court of the United States | Lee Epstein | 01:44:25 | Lyric Intimacy: Speaking to Invisible Listeners: III. John Ashbery and the Artist of the Past: Intimacy with a Vanished Twin | Helen Vendler | 00:53:41 | Lyric Intimacy: Speaking to Invisible Listeners: II. Walt Whitman and the Reader in Futurity: Intimacy with the Longed-for Camerado | Helen Vendler | 00:55:57 | Lyric Intimacy: Speaking to Invisible Listeners: I. George Herbert and God: Intimacy with the Better Self | Helen Vendler | 01:03:05 | Religious Liberty: The Philosophical Claim | David Novak | 01:25:41 | America's Two Visions: The Good and the Great | Alan Wolfe | 01:24:24 | Enigmatic Gamma-Ray Bursts: Birth Cries of Black Holes | Alex Filippenko | 01:24:29 | Einstein's Biggest Blunder? The Case for Cosmic 'Antigravity' | Alex Filippenko | 01:40:03 | Jane Austen and War | Claudia Johnson | 01:13:28 | Tocqueville, Compassionate Conservatism, and Biotechnology | Peter Augustine Lawler | 01:25:23 | Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty | Randy E. Barnett | 01:25:43 | By Way of Variation, Addition, or Repeal: Revisiting the Unconstitutional Amendment Puzzle | Gary J. Jacobsohn | 01:30:55 | On the Reading of Cases: The Reasoning We Have Forgotten, the Law We Have Lost | Hadley Arkes | 01:18:55 | Personal Identity, Neuroethics and the Human Brain | Michael S. Gazzaniga | 01:07:08 | Catastrophic Stellar Explosions: Celestial Fireworks | Alex Filippenko | 01:30:13 | Citizenship and Leadership | Daniel N. Robinson | 01:26:52 | How Conservatives Came to Think Small | Alan Wolfe | 01:31:41 | The Liberal Retreat from Ambition | Alan Wolfe | 01:23:17 | Broadbanding America: What, Why, and How | Robert W. Lucky | 01:07:43 | Religious Liberty: The Theological Claim | David Novak | 01:22:37 | Misunderestimating TERRORISM, Economics and the Roots of Terrorism | Alan Krueger | 01:41:25 | Lawrence v. Texas: The Worst Supreme Court Opinion in History? | Nelson Lund | 01:29:02 | The Constitution and EMERGENCY | Kathleen Sullivan | 01:25:09 | Speech Codes, Censorship, and Undue Process: Politics and the Restoration of Free Speech and Liberty on Campus | Donald A. Downs | 01:28:01 | The Supreme Court and the Inversion of the Due Process Clauses: From a Judicial Rule against Arbitrary Power to the Power of Arbitrary Judicial Rule | Matthew J. Franck | 01:37:20 | Matchsticks, Scramjets, and Black Holes: Numerical Simulation Faces Reality | Elaine Oran | 01:24:23 | Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron | Cass Sunstein | 01:23:16 | If All the World Were New Jersey: The Past and Future of the Garden State | Kenneth Jackson | 01:36:33 | Rewriting the Founding: Theodore Roosevelt as Historian | Jean M. Yarbrough | 01:34:33 | Advances on the Neurobiology of Emotion: Taking Stock | Antonio Damasio | 01:44:31 | Abraham Lincoln's Invention of Presidential War Powers | James McPherson | 01:34:07 |
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