Tag: Tanner Lectures on Human Values

  • Nation & World

    Fifty-seven stories

    Masha Gessen’s lecture “How We Think About Migration,” was delivered Wednesday at Paine Hall. It was the first of two lectures on “How Do We Talk About Migration” that Gessen delivered as part of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Taming nature, then man

    Humankind, after millennia of reluctance and ambivalence, surrendered finally to growing fixed crops — a precondition of modern states.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Irony and identity

    Philosopher and classicist Jonathan Lear, this year’s Tanner lecturer, begins his two-lecture look at irony and identity.

    6 minutes