Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life

A conversation and book signing with NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and columnist for the New York Times. He is co-author of the recent bestseller Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (2009), copies of which will be on sale.

Co-sponsored with Columbia Journalism School and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR).

A conversation with DAVID SHIPLEY, op-ed editor at The New York Times. He also served in the Clinton Administration as Senior Presidential Speechwriter and was the executive editor of The New Republic Magazine. Moderated by Mark C. Taylor, Chair of the Department of Religion.

Co-sponsored with Columbia Journalism School and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.

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A conversation with JON MEACHAM, the editor of Newsweek magazine and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House as well as American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation. Moderated by Randall Balmer, Professor of Religion.

Co-sponsored with Columbia Journalism School and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.
 

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A conversation with JAMES TRAUB, who writes on politics and international affairs for The New York Times Magazine and has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and National Review. Moderated by Jack Snyder, The Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations.

Read a review of the event at the Columbia Journalism School’s website.

Co-sponsored with Columbia Journalism School and the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion.

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