Ergebnis für "Book of Night" in Politik & Regierungen

In April 1962, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy hosted 49 Nobel Prize winners - along with many other prominent scientists, artists, and writers - at a famed White House dinner. Held at the height of the Cold War, the dinner symbolizes a time when intellectuals were esteemed, divergent viewpoints could be respectfully discussed at the highest level, and the great minds of an age might all dine together in the rarefied glamour of "the people's house."

Although he is guided and inspired by the people he respects, and despite the insufficiency of his knowledge and experience - an insufficiency shared by most (or all) other humans, Wallace Shawn can’t see any real alternative to trying to figure out his own answers to the most essential questions about the world he lives in.

Harriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero. You could almost say she’s America’s Robin Hood, a miraculous vision, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. Tiya Miles’s extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that.

In A Watchman in the Night, Cal Thomas takes the listener on a “road trip” through over 50 years of journalism and American life, serving as a “watchman” on culture and politics and seeking to conform it to a standard that never changes.

Nate Night Talks (NNT) is a community and research database dedicated to (re)exploring the fundamental questions that have captivated and vexed humanity throughout the ages. Together we will examine these crucial questions through a more enlightened and modern lens. It is time we fearlessly scrutinize the old narratives about life, the planet, and our place in the universe. If we don’t understand our own consciousness or the nature of the universe we will never understand our place within it.MISSION:The mission of the NNT community is to expand consciousness and encourage critical thinking ...