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April 2026 • Culture
WHAT IS COLLEGE FOR TODAY?
College once offered a clear path to opportunity and civic life. Today, that path is shifting fast — squeezed by rising costs, AI’s impact on work, and political battles over the mission of higher education. Nicole Lynn Lewis and Susan Blum join moderator Anya Kamenetz to ask: What is college for now, and who is being left behind?
November 2025 • Culture
BUILDING HOPE IN CYNICAL TIMES
Cambridge Forum speaks with three individuals – a pastor, an author and a professor of mass-media, who have all forged strategies to navigate the stresses of everyday existence. Their experiences offer pragmatic suggestions, and optimistic ideas about how meaning can be reclaimed in a cynical age.
September 2023 • Work
Reclaiming Life From Work
Simone Stolzoff, journalist and author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work, considers the changing nature of work.
November 2022 • Work
Retire or Resist: The Pros and Cons of Working Longer
Many policymakers think it is logical—almost inevitable—that Americans will delay retirement and spend more years in the paid labor force.
May 2021 • Work
The End Of The Office?
How will the pandemic affect your work, life, and home? Some people can’t wait to get back to the office but 80% don’t want to or would prefer a hybrid schedule. All of us must consider the future of our workplaces going forward.
March 2021 • Work
Green Growth: A Guide to Post-Pandemic Economic Sustainability
Can we achieve healthy growth that is more regenerative than wasteful, more equitable than unjust? Per Espen Stoknes and L. Hunter Lovins offer blueprints for an inspiring regenerative economy.
May 2020 • Work
Living Without Working
Daniel Susskind, author and economist, teaches at Balliol College, Oxford, and his new book is A Work Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond.
March 2015 • Culture
The Health of Democracy: Privatizing Education
How do contemporary efforts to privatize public education square with the civic role that education has played in American democracy?
February 2015 • Work
The Health of Democracy: Social Immobility and Civic Participation
Economist Randy Albelda examines the rise in U.S. social immobility and the role that contemporary labor conditions have played in limiting Americans’ expectations to do better than their parents’ generation.
March 2014 • Work
Why Doctors Write
Beacon Press director Helene Atwan explores the relationship between editor and author with Danielle Ofri, a practicing physician and the editor of the Bellevue Literary Review, a literary journal focused on illness, health, and healing.
April 2013 • Work
The Richer Sex
Journalist and author Liza Mundy predicts that in the coming decades, women will overtake men as primary breadwinners and become the most financially powerful generation of women in history.
October 2012 • Culture
What’s the Economy For Anyway?
Activist, author, and film-maker John de Graaf looks beyond the current downturn to explore the assumptions underlying our economy.
April 2012 • Work
Challenges of Globalization: Economic Globalization
A mini-conference on economic globalization explores the impact of globalization of labor, capital, and markets on American workers, investors, and consumers. Robert Kuttner of Demos moderates.
April 2012 • Work
Wealth Inequality: The Gilded Road to Ruin?
Chuck Collins, director of the Institute for Policy Studies Program on inequality and the Common Good, and journalist Linda McQuaig explore the impact of the growing wealth gap and suggest ways to reverse the increase in economic inequality.
September 2011 • Work
One Great Crisis
James K. Galbraith examines current economic debates about austerity, government spending, tax policy, and job creation.
February 2005 • Work
Bait and Switch: End of the White Collar American Dream?
Social critic and author Barbara Ehrenreich exposes the economic cruelty of today’s globalized, just-in-time, lean, and mean world of work.
August 2002 • History
The Life and Times of Madame C.J. Walker
A’Lelia Bundles, Emmy-winning producer and journalist shares stories from her best-selling book about her great-great-grandmother, Madame C.J. Walker, one of the first black women entrepreneurs of the 20th century.