Commonwealth Club WBEZ Program Schedule
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** Commonwealth Club airs Tuesday nights at 10pm on WBEZ **
Tuesday April 17 at 10pm:
Jonah Lehrer: How Creativity Works
Contributing Editor, Wired; Author, How We Decide and Imagine: How Creativity Works
Tim Ritchie - President, The Tech Museum- Moderator
Acclaimed science writer and popular blogger Jonah Lehrer helped us learn about our decision making process in his best-selling book How We Decide. Now he delves into the human mind to decipher the anatomy of imagination and explore the new science of creativity with Imagine. Lehrer introduces us to musicians like Bob Dylan and Yo Yo Ma, artists working at Pixar, engineers at Procter and Gamble, and even a bartender who thinks more like chemist, to demonstrate our most important mental talent: the ability to imagine what has never existed. Find out what cities and companies are doing to double our creative output and make our culture more creative. (Recorded April 5, 2012)
Tuesday April 24 at 10pm:
Rachel Maddow
Host, The Rachel Maddow Show; Author, Drift
In Conversation with Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, Author; Screenwriter; Accordionist
Rhodes Scholar, AIDS activist, civics geek, "blindly partisan" and even the “grand doyenne of liberal demagoguery” according to Gawker – Rachel Maddow has been called many things over the years, but until now, "author" has not been one of them. This year the sassy and smart-as-a-whip host of MSNBC’s politico program, The Rachel Maddow Show, joins the literary fold and takes on what she believes to be the debate between civilian life and the war machine in her new book,Drift. Join us for an organ intro, popcorn munchies, and an exclusive interview with Rachel Maddow. (Recorded April 12, 2012)
Tuesday May 1 at 10pm:
Vaughn Walker: The Private Law Office
Retired Chief U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California, 1989-2011
Peter Keane, Professor of Law UC Hastings; Dean Emeritus Golden Gate Law School - Moderator
Having delivered rulings on such controversial cases as the NSA warrantless wiretapping, the Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation copyright infringement case, and most recently the constitutional challenge of California’s Proposition 8, Judge Vaughn R. Walker is one of the most influential judges of our time. As the debates around the government's terrorist surveillance programs and Prop 8 continue after recent rulings of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding Judge Walker’s rulings, the former judge will discuss issues and challenges facing the legal profession and courts. (Recorded April 19, 2012)
Tuesday May 8 at 10pm
Timothy Geithner, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Remarks on the U.S. and Global Economies Ahead of the 2012 U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue
Adam Lashinsky, Senior Editor at Large, Fortune; Author, Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired and Secretive Company Really Works - Moderator
In his visit to San Francisco, Secretary Geithner will address the condition of the U.S. economy as he argues that we have made significant progress toward economic recovery over the last three years, despite a series of external shocks to the economy. Secretary Geithner will also address the state of the global economy ahead of the Administration's 2012 U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED). (Recorded April 26, 2012)
Tuesday May 15 at 10pm:
John Stossel: Fighting Government
Fox News/Business Correspondent; Author, No They Can’t: Why Government Fails…but Individuals Succeed
Fox News and Business Correspondent John Stossel has criticized government programs as inefficient, wasteful, and harmful, and he says he’s prepared to lay out the facts about why government can’t solve our problems. Come hear his thought provoking arguments about job creation, healthcare, education, and product regulation ... and his further thoughts on how Americans can achieve success.
Stossel hosts his own one-hour weekly Fox Business Network show, Stossel, and a series of one-hour specials on Fox News. He also appears regularly on The O’Reilly Factor and other Fox News shows. He is a 19-time Emmy Award-winner, and a five-time honoree for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. His two previous books spent more than twenty weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. (Recorded April 20, 2012)