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Alan Light

Five Things I've Learned About

America – from Five American Musicians

Get your free ticket now and join writer, editor, and broadcaster Alan Light for this free, 90-minute class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about our country’s complexities, possibilities, and limitations...

Jennifer Mercieca

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America – from 30 Years Studying Communication and Democracy

Get your free ticket now and join award-winning professor Dr. Jennifer Mercieca for this free 90-minute class and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the increasing weaponization of our public discourse –...

Trygve Olson

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America – and the Enduring Example of Our Democracy

Get your free ticket now and join election expert, speaker, and Lincoln Project advisor Trygve Olson for this free, 90-minute class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about American democracy’s essential...

Writing and Reading View All

Camille Dungy

Five Things I've Learned About

Tending the Gardens of Creativity and Motherhood

View the archive of this 90-minute class from celebrated poet, writer, editor, and scholar Camille Dungy, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that creativity arises from the soil of our most...

Cheryl Strayed

Five Things I've Learned About

Nurturing Your Artistic Life (While Keeping the Almighty List)

View the archive of this two-hour class from New York Times best-selling author Cheryl Strayed, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to honor your desire to create and see your projects through –...

Peter Orner

Five Things I've Learned About

Prose Momentum – in Five Great Paragraphs

View the archive of this two-hour class from celebrated novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and professor Peter Orner, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how great writers create remarkable movement...

Our Current Moment View All

Rick Wilson

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How We Win the Messaging Wars and Save Democracy

View the archive of this 90-minute class from ex-Republican political strategist, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, and best-selling author Rick Wilson, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about what we can...

Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.

Five Things I've Learned About

America’s Past, and Its Urgent Lessons for Today

View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, author, and professor Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about keeping connected to the voices and visions of our country’s...

Jerry Saltz

Five Things I've Learned About

How Art Happens – In Six Great Works

View the archive of this two-hour class from Pulitzer Prize winning critic and author Jerry Saltz, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about all that happens each time we encounter a work of art – and why...

Other Lives View All

Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Five Things I've Learned About

Documenting the Lives I Admire Most

View the archive of this 90-minute class from award-winning documentary filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland — and her special guest Penelope Tree—, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about documenting and...

Judy Collins

Five Things I've Learned About

Leonard Cohen: The Man and His Music

View the archive of this 90-minute class from legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – from her unique position at start of his music career to...

Lewis Watts

Five Things I've Learned About

Documenting Migration and Culture

View the archive of this 90-minute class from photographer, archivist, curator, and teacher Lewis Watts, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about photography’s power to trace, preserve, and celebrate the...

Growth and Change View All

Rabih Alameddine

Five Things I've Learned About

Being Grumpy

View the archive of this 90-minute class from internationally-acclaimed writer Rabih Alameddine, and discover the few things he’s learned about the elasticity of identity and imagination.

Liza Donnelly

Five Things I've Learned About

Creativity

View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning cartoonist Liza Donnelly and discover the Five Things She’s Learned from a lifetime of drawing and writing, and from the fulfillment that comes with looking...

Pico Iyer

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The Art of Stillness

View the archive of this two-hour class from internationally-acclaimed writer Pico Iyer and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about opening up space in our heads, and in our days.

Music and Song View All

Hayes Carll

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Songwriting – in Five Songs

View the archive of this two-hour class and discover the Five Things singer-songwriter Hayes Carll has learned about songwriting – through five great songs that helped give voice to his heartaches, joys, and...

Judy Collins

Five Things I've Learned About

Leonard Cohen: The Man and His Music

View the archive of this 90-minute class from legendary singer-songwriter Judy Collins, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – from her unique position at start of his music career to...

Joe Henry

Five Things I've Learned About

by Song

View the archive of this 90-minute class from songwriter, singer, recording artist, and Grammy-winning record producer Joe Henry, and discover the ways he’s found that the process and progress of our lives – like...

The Power of the Word View All

Nicholas Buccola

Five Things I've Learned About

Love, from James Baldwin

View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning author and professor Nicholas Buccola, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the meaning of love from the life and thought of James Baldwin.

Roosevelt Montás

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Self-Transformation, by Reading Ancient Books

View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, author, and professor Roosevelt Montás and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the transforming power of the Great Books—and why the ideas and passions...

Myisha Cherry

Five Things I've Learned About

The Social Uses of Anger

View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, author, and professor Myisha Cherry and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the essential roles that rage and anger play in public life – and in our...

Women in Focus View All

Allison Moorer

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What Memoir Demands. And All it Makes Possible.

View the archive of this two-hour class from singer/songwriter, producer, and author Allison Moorer, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about sharing her family’s stories in prose and in song – and...

Nina Collins

Five Things I've Learned About

Women and Aging

View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, speaker, and founder Nina Collins, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the richness and promise that shape the second half of women’s lives.

Anne Midgette

Five Things I've Learned About

The Women Who Shaped Classical Music

View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed music critic Anne Midgette, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the women whose important work provides new ways to understand and enjoy the...

Living Better Longer View All

Dr. Eric Verdin

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Covid-19, Aging, and the Immune System

View the archive of this 90-minute class from President and Chief Executive Officer of the Buck Institute Dr. Eric Verdin, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about aging and immunity by studying Covid-19 –...

Paul Irving

Five Things I've Learned About

The Upside of Aging

View the archive of this 90-minute class from author and senior fellow at the Milken Institute Paul Irving and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how each of us can make the most of the unprecedented...

Elissa Epel

Five Things I've Learned About

Stress and Aging

View the archive of this 90-minute class from author, professor, and Director of the Aging Metabolism Emotions Center at UCSF, Elissa Epel, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that transforming...

Film and Film Making View All

Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate

Five Things I've Learned About

Cinema’s Past, Present, and Future

View the archive of this 90-minute class from global-film community tastemakers Richard Peña and Phillip Lopate, and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about cinema’s rich history — and about the many...

Alexander Payne

Five Things I've Learned About

Film Making and Film Watching

View the archive of this 90-minute class from Academy-Award-winning writer and director Alexander Payne in conversation with Richard Peña, and discover the Five Things He Thinks He’s Learned about writing,...

Molly Haskell

Five Things I've Learned About

Movie Love in the Sixties and Seventies

View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed author and film critic Molly Haskell, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about loving film and film criticism during the golden age of film appreciation.

Our Past View All

Lewis Watts

Five Things I've Learned About

Documenting Migration and Culture

View the archive of this 90-minute class from photographer, archivist, curator, and teacher Lewis Watts, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about photography’s power to trace, preserve, and celebrate the...

David W. Blight

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The Challenges and Triumphs of Writing Biography

View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed teacher, scholar and public historian David W. Blight and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that biography can help us better learn about...

Nicholas Buccola

Five Things I've Learned About

Freedom, from Frederick Douglass

View the archive of this 90-minute class from award-winning author and professor Nicholas Buccola and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the meaning and value of freedom by studying the life and writing...

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