Bright Minds: from the John Adams Institute Podcast
1) Alice Walker: Marked by Tradition
Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated author, poet and activist whose books included novels, collections of short stories, children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her best known no...Show More
2) Kim Stanley Robinson: The Fight for Planet Earth
Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of 22 novels of speculative and science fiction. The Ministry for the Future is set in the near future in which the world is suffering the disastrous consequences of...Show More
3) Tiya Miles: The remarkable history of Ashley’s Sack
In South Carolina in the 1850s, an enslaved woman named Rose gives a simple cotton bag to her daughter Ashley. Ashley is about to be separated from her mother, sold as chattel to the highest bidder. T...Show More
4) Yaël Eisenstat: Democracy’s Cyber Defendant
In 2018, the tech and democracy activist Yaël Eisenstat joined Facebook as the head of Global Elections Integrity for political ads. Six months later, she left. She was disappointed and disillusioned ...Show More
5) Toni Morrison: A Mercy (re-release)
A gem rescued from the archives! We are re-releasing the Toni Morrison episode after cleaning up the audio. Toni Morrison writes about history, slavery, racism, resilience and survival with an unflin...Show More
6) Ivo Daalder: The Future of NATO
Ivo Daalder is a Dutch born American citizen, who became the U.S. representative to NATO from 2009 to 2013 under President Barack Obama and was a foreign policy advisor for his 2008 presidential camp...Show More
7) Kim Wehle: What to Make of the U.S. Constitution?
Super Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020. Professor of law, a constitutional scholar, commentator and author Kim Wehle joined the John Adams to lay out exactly what was at stake in the election between Donald T...Show More
8) The Family Saga of John Wilkes Booth
It’s April 14th, 1865. The actor John Wilkes Booth pulls a gun and assassinates President Lincoln who is sitting in a balcony of the Ford Theatre in Washington DC. Booth becomes one of the most infamo...Show More
9) Francis Fukuyama: The Future of Liberalism
History is entering a new phase, where old forms and ideas clash with present realities. The John Adams Institute was excited to welcome Francis Fukuyama back to Amsterdam to discuss his findings in h...Show More
10) Bret Easton Ellis: At the Edge of Fact and Fiction - The Shards
Bret Easton Ellis took 13 years to write The Shards. It’s a horror novel. Or maybe it’s an autobiography. In fact, it’s both. The Shards is a fictionalized retelling of Mr. Ellis’s 18th year. It tell...Show More