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Discussion Group
The Wednesday Night Discussion Group has been meeting at Fireside Coffee since the 2003-2004 school year and features a unique discussion each week about politics, art, culture, science, and more. If you’re interested in a lively conversation in a great atmosphere, feel free to join us at 7:30 each Wednesday.
2011-12 School Year
- 01 February 2012: Erasing War from the Human Condition by David Green
- 08 February 2012: Get Dense by Robert Bryce
- 15 February 2012: Hollywood and Politics by Steven Lloyd Wilson
- 22 February 2012: The Case for Enhancing People by Ronald Bailey
- 29 February 2012: The Myth of the Middle by Mark Schmitt
- 07 March 2012: Why the Environmental Movement is Not Winning by Peter Montague
- 14 March 2012: The Collapsible Woman by Vanessa Veselka
- 21 March 2012: Casablanca!
- 04 April 2012: We’re Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction by Ross Andersen
- 11 April 2012: Enter Totalitarian Democracy by Andrew McCarthy
2010-11 School Year
To see an archive of the topics we have discussed, click here.
- 07 September 2011: The Revolution of Capitalism
- 24 August 2011: Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? by John Tierney
- 17 August 2011: Saints Go Marching In by David Rieff
- 10 August 2011: Why The Gender Gap Won’t Go Away. Ever by Kay Hymowitz
- 02 August 2011: Threat Position by Jeffrey Herf
- 27 July 2011: Why We Should Protect Those Accused of Rape by Roy Black
- 20 July 2011: Two Decades of the Web: A Utopia No Longer by Evgeny Morozov
- 13 July 2010: Drugs and the Meaning of Life by Sam Harris
- 29 June 2011: Salvaging the American Dream by Michael Auslin (Bring your own ideas! It’s going to be a night of optimism, damn it!)
- 22 June 2011: Beyond Obama’s Assault on Free Speech by Mark Cantora
- 15 June 2011: Darkness Too Visible by Meghan Cox Gurdon
- 08 June 2011: One Week Off for Finals and Graduation, But meeting next week
- 01 June 2011: Austerity America by Alexander Linklater
- 25 May 2011: A Quibble by Mark Slouka
- 18 May 2011: Your So-Called Education by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
- 11 May 2011:My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death by Noam Chomsky and Killing Evil Doesn’t Make Us Evil by Maureen Dowd
- 04 May 2011: NO MEETING (WEEK OF DOOM)
- 27 April 2011: NO MEETING (WEEK OF DOOM)
- 20 April 2011: NO MEETING (WEEK OF DOOM)
- 13 April 2011: The Human Brain: Turning Our Minds to the Law by David Eagleman
- 06 April 2011: Bloodlust by Russell Jacoby
- 30 March 2011: Spring Break
- 23 March 2011: Morality is a Culturally Conditioned Response By Jesse Prinz
- 16 March 2011: The Power of Lonely by Leon Neyfakh
- 09 March 2011: The Myth of Adolescence Part 1 and Part 2
- 02 March 2011: American History Lessons by Melissa Harris-Perry
- 23 February 2011: James Madison and the Dilemmas of Democracy by Myron Magnet
- 09/16 February 2011: Mind Vs. Machine by Brian Christian
- 02 February 2011: Everyone’s A Critic Now by Neal Gabler
- 26 January 2011: The Price of Power by Robert Kagan
- 19 January 2011: FINALS WEEK (NO DISCUSSION)
- 12 January 2011: Holocaust Hegemony by Sam Schulman
- 05 January 2011: Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka
- 22 December 2010: The Crisis of the American Intellectual by Walter Russell Mead
- 15 December 2010: How the Oligarchs Took America by Andy Kroll
- 08 December 2010: Americans Don’t Hate the Rich by William Voegelli
- 01 December 2010: and In Defence of Wikileaks by The Economist
- 17 November 2010: Truth Lies Here by Michael Hirschon
- 10 November 2010: Animal Research: Groupthink in Both Camps by Lawrence Hansen
- 03 November 2010: Are We Failing Our Geniuses? by John Cloud
- 27 October 2010: D.I.Y. Foreign Aid Revolution by Nicholas Kristof and Don’t Try This Abroad by Dave Algoso
- 13 October 2010: Political Columnists Think America is in Decline. Big Surprise by David Bell
- 06 October 2010: From Diversity to Sustainability: How Campus Ideology Is Born by Peter Wood
- 29 September 2010: How to Ask Awkward Questions and Annoy People by Angus Kennedy
- 22 September 2010: Fair Pay Isn’t Always Equal Pay by Christina Hoff Summers
- 15 September 2010: The Internet Will Set You Free by Peter Singer and Beware the Internet…by Trevor Butterworth
- 08 September 2010: Prison without Walls by Graeme Wood
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