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Bright Minds: from the John Adams Institute

Language: en-us

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Episode publication activity over the past year

Last Checked: 2025-10-21 00:19:11

Tiya Miles: The remarkable history of Ashley’s Sack

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In South Carolina in the 1850s, an enslaved woman named Rose gives a simple cotton bag to her daught...

Yaël Eisenstat: Democracy’s Cyber Defendant

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2018, the tech and democracy activist Yaël Eisenstat joined Facebook as the head of Global Elect...

Toni Morrison: A Mercy (re-release)

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A gem rescued from the archives! We are re-releasing the Toni Morrison episode after cleaning up the...

Ivo Daalder: The Future of NATO

12 Mar 2025

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Ivo Daalder is a Dutch born American citizen, who became  the U.S. representative to NATO from 2009...

Kim Wehle: What to Make of the U.S. Constitution?

12 Feb 2025

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Super Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020. Professor of law, a constitutional scholar, commentator and author K...

Karen Joy Fowler: The Family Saga of John Wilkes Booth

15 Jan 2025

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It’s April 14th, 1865. The actor John Wilkes Booth pulls a gun and assassinates President Lincoln ...

Francis Fukuyama: The Future of Liberalism

11 Dec 2024

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History is entering a new phase, where old forms and ideas clash with present realities. The John Ad...

Bret Easton Ellis: At the Edge of Fact and Fiction - The Shards

13 Nov 2024

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Bret Easton Ellis took 13 years to write The Shards. It’s a horror novel. Or maybe it’s an autob...

2024 U.S. Election Special (part 3) with Kim Wehle

16 Oct 2024

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In the third and final episode of the election specials of our podcast Bright Minds, America expert ...

2024 U.S. Election Special (part 2) with Mark Leibovich

02 Oct 2024

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The current episodes of our podcast Bright Minds are all about the U.S. presidential elections. Amer...

2024 U.S. Election Special (part 1) with Carol Anderson

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The next three episodes of Bright Minds are all about the U.S. presidential elections. America journ...

FUTURE 400: Wolves and Kings

03 Jul 2024

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This fourth episode of the Future 400 podcast is all about theater and dance. Battery Dance, New Yor...

FUTURE 400: Finding Family in Fashion

19 Jun 2024

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Design your look, design your life. Rambler Studios is a creative platform for raw talent. It offers...

FUTURE 400: From the Streets to the Heart

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This second episode of the Future 400 podcast looks at work by Dutch and American photographers who ...

FUTURE 400: New York Before New York

22 May 2024

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Future 400 is a bi-weekly four-part podcast series from the Dutch Consulate in New York. It is part ...

Andrea Elliott: Family Homelessness in the US

10 Apr 2024

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Andrea Elliot’s 2022 Pulitzer winning book, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an Am...

George Packer: America in Crisis and Renewal

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

2024 is an election year. And in his book Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal', Geor...

Nikole Hannah-Jones: A New American Origin Story

14 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 1619 project has inspired both throngs of ...

Mark Leibovich: Thank You for Your Servitude

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

2024 is an election year and Donald Trump is running again. This makes journalist and political comm...

Jane Fonda: Living the Life

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From Hollywood to Hanoi, Jane Fonda has endeared and enraged Americans for decades with her sparklin...

Paul Theroux: On Missionaries, China and Dickens

08 Nov 2023

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From Hemingway to Dickens, from Nabokov to Twain, from Isak Dinesen to Graham Greene, many of the wo...

Robert Reich: The Flipside of Capitalism

11 Oct 2023

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President Bill Clinton’s former Secretary of Labor argues in his important book that in the last t...

Teju Cole: NYC, Open City

13 Sep 2023

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Teju Cole is rapidly becoming a new literary sensation in America. His novel Open City – which won...

Mark Godsey and Rickey Jackson: Surviving Injustice

05 Jul 2023

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Rickey Jackson was sentenced to 39 years in prison for crimes he didn’t commit. Innocent, and unju...

Jill Lepore: New York Burning

07 Jun 2023

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Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore came to the John Adams in April of 2023 to...

Bill Browder: Freezing Order

10 May 2023

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The latest massacres in Bucha and Mariupol have shown that Vladimir Putin has no regard for human li...

Cecilia Kang: The Dark Side of Facebook

12 Apr 2023

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For years, fringe ideologues were able to use Facebook undisturbed to promote their extreme ideologi...

Carol Anderson: A Fatally Unequal America

15 Mar 2023

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On paper, every American has the right to vote and – thanks to the Second Amendment – to bear ar...

Spike Lee: Doing the Right Thing

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In December of 2010, The John Adams Institute hosted an evening with the great film director, Spike ...

David Sedaris: On Fire

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On September 23, 2008, The John Adams Institute hosted an evening with David Sedaris. The humorist a...

The Quincy Club: California Dreamin'

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For 20 years, the John Adams Institute has organized a lecture program called The Quincy Club at sch...

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Notorious

14 Dec 2022

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On February 04, 1999, in celebration of 150 years of Dutch constitutional law, the John Adams Instit...

Ruby Wax: Call Me Crazy

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you don’t know Ruby Wax’s name, that’s because, even though she’s American, her career ha...

Anthony Doerr: Tinkering with Writing

16 Nov 2022

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People are passionate about Anthony Doerr. And why not, he’s one of America’s great novelists an...

David Frum: National Fragmentation

02 Nov 2022

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David Frum is a Canadian-American political commentator who is currently a senior editor at The Atla...

Elizabeth Kolbert: Engineering the Anthropocene

19 Oct 2022

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If we can just get through the 21st century, humanity might have a chance, says Elizabeth Kolbert. W...

Gore Vidal: The Correctionist

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gore Vidal was an American writer known for his essays, novels, screenplays, and Broadway plays. A l...

Hanya Yanagihara: Creating Paradise

21 Sep 2022

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On March 11, 2022, Hanya Yanagihara returned to the John Adams for a conversation about 'To Par...

Christopher Hitchens: God is Not Great

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The late, great Christopher Hitchens came to Amsterdam in 2008 touring his book: God is Not Great. ...

Donna Tartt: A Secret History

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A gem from our archive! Way back on March 14, 1993, the then fresh new Southern author, Donna Tartt,...

Daniel Ziblatt: How Democracies Die

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do democracies die? Not at the hands of generals, but of elected leaders – presidents or prime...

Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The John Adams Institute, in co-operation with Prometheus Publishing House, proudly presented an eve...

Patrick Radden Keefe: Drugs, Death and Money

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The great American author and investigative journalist, Patrick Radden Keefe, knows irony when he he...

Christiane Amanpour: Reporting while Female

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Forbes magazine called Christiane Amanpour of the “100 Most Powerful Women.” On January 25th 201...

Francis Fukuyama: Demand for Dignity

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From Amsterdam...this is the John Adams Podcast, a treasure trove of the best and the brightest of A...

Megan Twohey: The #MeToo Story

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s guest is Megan Twohey, whose book about Harvey Weinstein’s  sexual abuse of women i...

Garry Kasparov: Winter is Coming

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Seven years ago, Garry Kasparov came to Amsterdam and predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He ...

Joseph Stiglitz: A New Social Contract

23 Feb 2022

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Every week we point out that we get the likes of Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz to grace an Amst...

Russell Shorto: From New Amsterdam to New York

09 Feb 2022

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Russell Shorto is an American historian, journalist and author. In 2004, he published The Island at ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci: Challenging Corona

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As John Adams was one of the great men of his era, we thought our next episode should be with one of...

Timothy Snyder: The Politics of Eternity

12 Jan 2022

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Democracy and the rule of law in Western societies are under threat, according to Timothy Snyder, pr...

Michael Pollan: The Trip Sitter

12 Jan 2022

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Michael Pollan’s book, How To Change Your Mind, has moved on from his research on food to delve in...

Madeleine Albright: Respect for Truth

12 Jan 2022

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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks with former Dutch foreign minister and Vice Presi...

Trailer: Bright Minds

22 Nov 2021

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