Philosopher Bertrand Russell was a supporter of Israel but took an interest in Palestinian issues and worked with Israeli leftists, leading to his final statement of February 1970. This Zoom … Continue reading Bertrand Russell on Israel and Palestine (1917-1970)
Agatha Christie is one of the best-selling authors of all time. Her And Then There Were None is the seventh best-selling book (100 million copies) of all time. Christie is … Continue reading Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None
Please arrive 10 minutes early to allow for registration. Please bring a printed copy of your voucher and your picture ID to the session. If you are under the age … Continue reading Admissions Testing
Back in Elizabethan times, it was considered funny to tell stories about how badly a man beat his disagreeable wife. However, Shakespeare turned this trope on its head. For years, … Continue reading Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew
Can one man change the course of a world war? From 1941, working from rooms over a Cairo brothel, British officer Dudley Clarke conceived a new way of fighting the … Continue reading Theodore Talk: Dudley Clark, the Genius of Deception (the Illusionist Who Fooled Hitler)
Middlemarch is a novel that is set in a provincial town in England in the years leading up to the Reform Act of 1832, which broadly increased voting rights in … Continue reading George Eliot: Middlemarch
Want to play a game? How about a bunch of games? American Mensa’s Mind Games is a four-day board-game-judging marathon, during which the year’s seven best new-to-market games are chosen … Continue reading Mensa Mind Games
George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair. He was a novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic. His memoir Homage to Catalonia recounts his participation in the forces of … Continue reading George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Let's take a nice walk through the grounds of the Frelinghuysen Arboretum. An arboretum is literally a tree museum, but there are also plenty of flowers. This is a lovely … Continue reading Frelinghuysen Arboretum
Geoffrey Chaucer was the author of the Canterbury Tales, which is an anthology of 24 short stories that are supposedly being told by people who are traveling from London to … Continue reading Geoffrey Chaucer: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (April Showers)
