The links to recordings of earlier discussions are:

June 26, 2022 - “Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid ”, “Is Everything Falling Apart?”, and the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v Wade and of New York’s gun law
July 10, 2022 - Potential books for fall and the TED talk by Yuval Noah Harari called “Bananas in Heaven”
July 17, 2022 - Potential books for fall and the TED talk by Joan C. Williams “We won’t fix American politics until we talk about class”
July 24, 2022 - Potential books for fall, videos by William Lazonick, and the TED talk by Yasmin Abdel-Magied about “What Does My Headscarf Mean to You?” >
July 31, 2022 - The TED talk by Rev. Walter Mwambazi on “ 5 Major Reasons Religion Is the No. 1 Cause of Poverty in Africa” and our discussion of it

The following videos are all about Jonathan Sacks’ book “Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times.”.

Introduction: Cultural Climate Change - general discussion - Jan 6

  1. Loneliness - David - Jan 16
  2. The Limits of Self-Help - Al - Jan 23
  3. Unsocial Media - Jack - Jan 30
  4. The Fragile Family - Jean - Feb 6
  5. From “We” to “I” - Joel - Feb 13
  6. Markets Without Morals - Bill - Feb 20
  7. Consuming Happiness - Gail - Feb 27
  8. Democracy in Danger - Phyllis - Mar 6
  9. Identity Politics - David - Mar 13
  10. Time and Consequence - Joel - Mar 20
  11. Post-Truth - Al - Mar 27
  12. Safe Space - Mary Jane - Apr 3
  13. Two Ways of Arguing - Caroline - Apr 10
  14. Victimhood - Caroline - Apr 24
  15. The Return of Public Shaming - Caroline - May 1
  16. The Death of Civility - David - May 1
  17. Human Dignity - Mary Jane - May 8
  18. Meaning - Phyllis - May 15
  19. Why Morality? - Al - May 22
  20. Which Morality? - Al - May 29
  21. Religion - Jack - June 5
  22. Morality Matters - Gail - June 12
  23. From “I” to “We” - Joel - June 19

The next set of videos are from discussions of the book Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez.