Events

Wallis, author of The Great Awakening and God’s Politics, views the current economic downturn not as an ordeal to be endured, but as an opportunity for change. He argues that rather than restoring normality—the very circumstances that brought about the crisis—we should reassess our values and goals to create a new, more sustainable and satisfying normality, one based on community instead of competitiveness.

The award-winning translator of Grossman’s masterpiece, Life and Fate and, with his wife, Elizabeth, of works by Pushkin and Platonov, Chandler finds the Russian writer’s last, unfinished novel nearly overwhelmed by “the burden of history it carries.” Yet Grossman crafted the painful reality of the Soviet era into art that, by its truth-telling, shows that “histories can cease to be burdens.”

Kornblut, a veteran of three presidential campaigns who currently covers the White House for The Washington Post, analyses why women still have not been elected to the highest public offices. Drawing on extensive interviews with women of both major parties, Kornblut examines the strategies and assumptions that need to change to make politics truly gender-equal. Anne will be in conversation with CNN’s Candy Crowley.