Welcome, Mother Jones DC Decoder readers, to the Chicago Humanities Festival!
Top 6 CHF Talks for DC Decoder Readers
- (Embedded Above) Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks about her personal and intellectual journey and its culmination in the building of an agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
- Democractic Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks about the importance of the humanities, quoting poet Percy Bysshe Shelly and the Book of Solomon. She concludes that both imagination and humility are important for the soul of the nation.
- Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, is one of the most-cited legal thinkers in the country. Here he discusses WikiLeaks and the First Amendment.
- Senator Claire McCaskill, the first woman elected to the Senate from Missouri, shares her perspective on public service, policies, and progress forward
- Author and doctor Sherwin Nuland discusses the pressures on today's doctors and what changes are necessary in our healthcare system to support better doctoring and better end-of-life care.
- President of Grinnell College and former deputy director of the National Institutes of Health, Raynard Kington discusses socioeconomic disparities and the struggle to address the changing health patterns of our society
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