This week’s show featured the first of three installments from the 2005 lecture series “The Fascination with Jewish Tales” by teacher, author, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel.
In this lecture entitled “Why Pray,” Wiesel argued that “people must bring to prayer the fullness of their experience — including doubt, disappointment, or even anger — [...]

This week’s show featured a discussion titled “Democracy: Ancient and Modern” with Loren J. Samons II, Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University.
Dean Samons spoke about the history of democracy, particularly in Ancient Greece, and how the democracies of the current day can learn [...]

This show featured a conversation with comic actor Gene Wilder. Recently, he sat down with Robin Young, host of the WBUR program Here & Now, at Boston University’s Barnes and Noble bookstore.
Wilder talks about his career on stage and in film as well as about his years with actress and comedienne Gilda Radner.
Wilder has starred [...]

This show featured a panel discussion on developments in democracy in Ukraine and Russia, the relationship between the two countries, their history, and their future.
The panelists were Lilia Shevtsova, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Roman Szporluk, Mykhailo Hrushevs’ky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University.
This discussion was sponsored by the [...]