Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, August 21, 2020.
Prominent public historian Jon Meacham shares his reflections on our founding document’s lasting power.
Meacham is a presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. A contributing editor at Time, Meacham is the author of numerous books, a former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, and served as Newsweek’s managing editor from 1998 to 2006 and editor from 2006 to 2010.
This program is made possible by The Susan Hirt Hagen Lectures Fund.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Monday, August 24, 2020.
Elizabeth Cousens on the 75 years of highs and lows of international cooperation.
Cousens is the UN Foundation’s third president and chief executive officer, who is leading the Foundation’s next generation of work to support the...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Tuesday, August 25, 2020.
Fabrizio Hochschild on global inequalities, pandemic, mental health, polarization and 75 years of the United Nations.
"I think empathy will be a key skill and a growing skill in a world of greater polarization.”
The Under-Secr...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, August 26, 2020.
Rachel Bowen Pittman on bringing people together around a common vision to improve the future.
"We need to add more pressure to the officials, those who we elected, to make these changes."
Pittman is Executive Director of t...