Select lectures and conversations from the New York Institute for the Humanities' forty-year archive.
The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Aug. 25, 2023
54:56
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Aug. 21, 2023
40:11
Nicholas Lemann, "Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream" (FSG, 2019)
Aug. 2, 2023
50:09
The Happiness Myth: A Talk by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Aug. 1, 2023
49:26
Ian Buruma on "Year Zero: A History of 1945"
July 29, 2023
31:56
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke
July 28, 2023
52:02
Deirdre Bair on Artist Saul Steinberg
July 1, 2023
46:18
The End of Books: A Lecture by Robert Coover
June 18, 2023
48:45
Sennett and Foucault on Sexuality and Solitude (1979)
Feb. 2, 2023
1:08:21
Rousseau's Ideas About Censorship in the Arts
Jan. 9, 2023
1:40:37
On W. H. Auden
Jan. 5, 2023
25:17
Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.
Jan. 3, 2023
42:47
Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas
Jan. 1, 2023
28:05
Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics
Dec. 30, 2022
59:59
"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
Dec. 28, 2022
34:39
Historian Laurence Stone on the Role and Revival of Narrative in History
Dec. 27, 2022
49:46
Second Thoughts on Consistency: A Lecture by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Dec. 6, 2022
45:46
Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"
Oct. 25, 2022
1:03:56
Eric Hobsbawm on "Literacy and the Tower of Babel"
Oct. 10, 2022
23:18
Clothes in Literature: A Talk by Anne Hollander
Oct. 3, 2022
25:53
Tod Gitlin on the Recovery of American Ideals
Sept. 19, 2022
41:05
Greil Marcus on the Death of His Father
Aug. 23, 2022
43:58
His Sister, Her Monologue: A Discussion with Hilton Als
Aug. 17, 2022
41:06
Samantha Power on Hannah Arendt and Human Rights
July 27, 2022
48:58
Learning to Drive: A Talk by Katha Pollitt
July 25, 2022
39:37
On Hannah Arendt and Humanitarianism
July 13, 2022
47:52
On Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem"
July 8, 2022
32:14
Azar Nafisi and Ladan Boroumand on Arendt and Iran
June 20, 2022
51:34
Kanan Makiya and Jonathan Schell on Hannah Arendt, Iraq, Vietnam, and Totalitarianism
June 13, 2022
46:31
Jonathan Schell and Elisabeth Young-Bruehl on Arendt and the Nuclear Question
June 6, 2022
41:09
Timothy Snyder on Tony Judt
May 25, 2022
34:08
Fair Use and Documentary Film
May 2, 2022
46:13
Masha Gessen and David Remnick on Putin
March 24, 2022
34:27
Lawrence Lessig on Fair Use
March 20, 2022
41:42
Jonathan Lethem on Fair Use
March 10, 2022
52:20
Should You Ever Happen to Find Yourself in Solitary (11): Scarlet Kim
Jan. 15, 2021
29:57
Should You Ever Happen to Find Yourself in Solitary (12): Discussion
Jan. 14, 2021
21:25
Should You Ever Happen to Find Yourself in Solitary (10): Juan Mendez
Jan. 13, 2021
20:01
Should You Ever Happen to Find Yourself in Solitary (9): Lisa Guenther.
26:54
Should You Ever Happen to Find Yourself in Solitary (7): Shane Bauer and Robert King
35:52
Should You Ever Happen to Find Yourself in Solitary (6): Breyten Breytenbach
33:52
Should You Ever Happen to Find Yourself in Solitary (5): Mike Daisy
Jan. 11, 2021
17:40
Should You Ever Happen to Find Yourself in Solitary (4): The Yes Men and Samantha Holmes
21:44
Should You Ever Happen to Find Yourself in Solitary (2): Joshua Foer and Stuart Firestein
33:45
Should You Ever Happen to Find Yourself in Solitary (3): Catherine Chalmers, Carl Skelton, Walter Murch
Jan. 8, 2021
34:35
Should You Ever Happen to Find Yourself in Solitary (1): Lawrence Weschler, Tony Kushner, and Alastair Reid
32:00
Distracted: Attention in the Digital Age
Dec. 14, 2020
46:40
Legal Scholar Derrick Bell on Racial Libel as American Ritual
Dec. 7, 2020
35:10
Steve Wasserman Remembers Christopher Hitchens
Nov. 14, 2020
40:43
William Finnegan on "Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country"
May 27, 2020
37:37
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