cambridge forum
October 2026
The California Gold Rush
National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, discusses his new book, The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World.
September 2026
Above the Fray? Rethinking the Supreme Court Independence
What the Supreme Court ever what we thought it was?
July 2021
What Have We Learned From the First Covid Wave?
COVID-19 has proved to be the biggest global public health in history. Although it has posed the same threat across the globe, countries have responded very differently and some are faring better than others.
June 2021
Has the Pandemic Made the World Better?
Despite the damage and carnage, the pandemic accelerated our ingenuity and innovation and good things happened. What good things will you keep from 2020?
June 2021
Relationship Rollercoaster
What relationships did you acquire or lose in the past year? Has your emotional life shifted irrevocably? Join our discussion and tell us about your experiences over the past year—for better or worse.
May 2021
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.
June 2020
The Rise of Environmental Illness
Freelance journalist Oliver Broudy explores environmental toxicity and the community of “sensitives”—people with powerful, puzzling symptoms resulting from exposure to chemicals, fragrances, and cell phone signals.
May 2020
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.
May 2020
Locked-Down Americans: Isolation and Loneliness
J. W. Freiberg’s latest book Surrounded by Others and Yet So Alone looks at the problem of chronic loneliness. So how do we surmount this current crisis and help to create healthy connections going forward, in our own lives and in the lives of our children?
May 2020
The Alchemy of Us
Anissa Ramirez is a material scientist who is passionate about getting everyone excited about science, so much so that she calls herself a “science evangelist”. In her latest book, she looks at eight world-changing technologies.
April 2020
In Search of Meadowlarks
John Marzluff outlines a personal approach to sustainable agriculture. Through an ornithologist’s lens, he observes current farming practices to see if we can broker a more harmonious relationship between our birds, farms, food and land.
April 2020
Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy
Joseph Nye, leading scholar of international relations considers presidents and their foreign policy from FDR to Trump who come up short in the morality polls.
March 2020
Nature Underfoot: Learning to live with tiny life
John Hainze, an entomologist, ethicist, and former pesticide-developer calls for greater respect and moral consideration for humans and their natural world.
February 2020
Migrating to Prison
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández takes a hard look at the immigration prison system’s origins, how it currently operates, and why.
January 2020
The Age of Illusions
Andrew Bacevich, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University, discusses his new book, The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory.
December 2019
How to Start a Revolution
Writers Lauren Duca and Martin Lukacs, author of The Trudeau Formula, discuss collective action and non-violent protest with members of the climate action group, Extinction Rebellion.
October 2019
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
Naomi Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.
June 2019
Fake news vs facts: living in a post-truth world
Are we living in a post-truth world where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? Lee McIntrye discusses our modern dilemma.
March 2019
How to Be Happy
Happiness is a choice you make. So writes John Leland who reflects on the timeless subject in his new book Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons From a Year Among the Oldest Old.
January 2016
Infiltrating the Terrorist Network
After the Paris terrorist attacks, many feel that the world has entered a new and terrible “reign of terror”. We start our new Deep Globalization series by considering the challenge of balancing security concerns with protecting our privacy.