The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitutio
Founding Father James Wilson’s bold vision for American democracy was lost to scandal. As a young lawyer, Wilson made the case for American...
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Former NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller on “Security Through Cooperation"
Russian officials and experts often voice the view that the United States was hell-bent on undermining, even destroying Russia during the tu...
Connected to Place: Regenerating Nature, Community, and Local Economies through Systems Change
Join Matt Biggar, Ph.D., for a lively discussion of his new book, Connected to Place: Regenerating Nature, Community, and Local Economies Th...
Ben Wikler with Bradley Whitford: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy
Wisconsin was written off by many Democrats after the GOP gained total control over the state’s executive, judicial, and legislative branche...
Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future
Fergus Bordewich returns to Commonwealth Club World Affairs with the spectacular story of the Great Centennial Exhibition of 1876 in Philade...
In Pursuit: How Presidents, First Ladies, and Historians Are Reflecting on the Country’s 250th
In a recent essay, President George W. Bush hails George Washington’s decision to leave the presidency after two terms, ensuring America wou...
CLIMATE ONE: A Cancer Diagnosis Reframed How Ben Santer Thinks About Climate Science
Atmospheric scientist Ben Santer pioneered the research that connects human activity to specific climate events. Now, pursuing treatment for...
Gad Saad: Suicidal Empathy - Dying to Be Kind
What happens when a society elevates victimhood to a virtue and decides that punishment is cruel? You get the disease Dr. Gad Saad calls sui...
Barbara McQuade: Saving American from a Mob-Style Government
Bestselling author and former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade returns to Commonwealth Club World Affairs to share her exposé on the escalating...
Fair Play: Welcoming the World, Protecting Our Communities
Celebrate Pride House SF’s launch with soccer, celebration, community, and a powerful conversation on human rights in sports. Pride House SF...
They Were Just Kids: A Forum for Amari, for Every Child We've Lost, and for Every Child We Refuse to Lose
The tragedy that unfolded on November 29, 2025, at a 2-year-old’s birthday party in Stockton, California—where four people, three of them ch...
Susan Page on the Queen and Her Presidents
No American or foreign leader has met with as many sitting U.S. presidents as Queen Elizabeth II. Her 70-year reign witnessed the highs and...
Pria Anand: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonders of Our Brain
Join us for a talk with a neurologist as she reckons with the stories we tell about our brains—and the stories our brains tell us. Such as:...
Rashad Robinson: From Presence to Power
Why do some struggles for justice succeed while others stall? What is needed to make effective social change, especially in today’s world? A...
CLIMATE ONE: Hollywood, Baseball, Cage Fights, and… Climate
When it comes to climate, we have the facts, but we aren’t moving fast enough. So we need to get climate education and solutions into the pl...
Navigating the Strait of Hormuz: Regional Peacemaking Amid the US-Iran Conflict
With one-fifth of global oil supplies and the movement of critical LNG stuck in the crosshairs of a military standoff, the need for diplomat...
DJ DiDonna: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals
The professional world usually prioritizes urgency, but the most important moments of our lives rarely happen at the desk. In his new book B...
Humanities West presents the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
It has been 250 years since upstart young leaders of the American colonies declared independence from King George III and imagined founding...
San Francisco Culture: Lost, Found or Reimagined?
San Francisco has long been a city of dreamers, artists, innovators and cultural pioneers—a global epicenter of creativity, innovation and s...
CLIMATE ONE: How Do I Say This…
It’s becoming increasingly clear that how we talk about climate change matters as much as the science or policy itself. The words we use car...