Literature & Philosophy
Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate is the author most recently of Two Marriages. He has written eleven books, including a trio of essay collections, Bachelorhood, ...
Posted: Jul 9th, 2010 | Comments: 1
Where Does Life Begin?

Where Does Life Begin?

Together artist and astrobiologist construct an organism and a conversation using ZOOB, a building toy designed by Michael Joaquin Grey and inspired by biological and social networks. For the ...
Posted: May 26th, 2010 | Comments: 0
What Makes the Mindset of a Radical?

What Makes the Mindset of a Radical?

Writer Stephen Batchelor + neurophilosopher Owen Flanagan The author of Confession of a Buddhist Atheist argues that the Buddha was a radical innovator. What is it in our brains ...
Posted: Apr 14th, 2010 | Comments: 1
Worse than War

Worse than War

THIRTEEN presents a lecture by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of "Worse than War" and writer of the upcoming PBS series of the same ...
Posted: Mar 30th, 2010 | Comments: 8
Red Book Dialogues: Matthew Weiner

Red Book Dialogues: Matthew Weiner

In the spirit of RMA's exhibition The Red Book of C.G. Jung, personalities from many different walks of life will be paired on stage with a ...
Posted: Feb 10th, 2010 | Comments: 0
Caroline Alexander – The War That Killed Achilles

Caroline Alexander – The War That Killed Achilles

The story of the Trojan War is immortalized in Homer’s epic of epic poems, The Iliad and brought to life in Caroline Alexander’s The War That Killed ...
Posted: Dec 2nd, 2009 | Comments: 1
Commentary: The Author Series / The War That Killed Achilles

Commentary: The Author Series / The War That Killed Achilles

Sara Elliott Holliday, The New York Society Library THIRTEEN and The New York Society Library have four to ...
Posted: Dec 2nd, 2009 | Comments: 0
Do Lawyers and Faith-Based Values Belong Together? A Guide to the Perplexing Issues of Legal Ethics and Professionalism

Do Lawyers and Faith-Based Values Belong Together? A Guide to the Perplexing Issues of Legal Ethics and Professionalism

Taped at The Jewish Theological Seminary, April 1, 2009 Speakers: Russell G. Pearce: Edward & Marilyn Bellet Professor of Legal Ethics, Morality, and Religion running time: 48 minutes 49 seconds Today, ...
Posted: Aug 7th, 2009 | Comments: 1
Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir

Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir

Taped at Temple Israel, May 13, 2009 Speakers: Lynne Sharon Schwartz: Author: Not Now, Voyager running time: 1 hour 4 minutes Lynne Sharon Schwartz in Not Now, Voyager presents ...
Posted: Jun 25th, 2009 | Comments: 0
Food Writing Forum: Edible Manhattan

Food Writing Forum: Edible Manhattan

From the Upper East Side to the East Village, Manhattan seems to have infinite choices of where to eat. Edible Manhattan is a new quarterly magazine that investigates ...
Posted: Oct 16th, 2008 | Comments: 0
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