Our Current Moment View All
LTC (Ret.) Alexander Vindman
Five Things I've Learned About
Responding to Russian Aggression and the War in Ukraine
View the archive of this 90-minute class from retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Alexander Vindman and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about this critical time in history from his years engaging with...
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...
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.
Rick Wilson
Five Things I've Learned About
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...
Stuart Stevens
Five Things I've Learned About
America – and the Forces Driving Democracy to Autocracy
Get your free ticket now and join best-selling author and former Republican strategist Stuart Stevens and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about his old party and its role in the coordinated forces working to...
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...
Aaron Dworkin
Five Things I've Learned About
How Social Change Really Happens
View the archive of this 90-minute class from entrepreneur, professor, MacArthur Fellow, and President Obama’s first appointment to the National Council on the Arts, Aaron Dworkin, and discover the Five Things...
Matt Strain
Five Things I've Learned About
The Ways A.I. is Revolutionizing the Writing Process
View the archive of this two-hour class from Adobe Research Lab veteran Matt Strain, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways artificial intelligence is helping writers find new ways to develop...
Other Lives View All
Alissa Wilkinson
Five Things I've Learned About
The Power and Peril of Mythmaking, from Joan Didion
Join film critic, author, and teacher Alissa Wilkinson in this live 90-minute class and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how we develop our personal mythologies by studying and writing about Joan...
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...
Timothy Hampton
Five Things I've Learned About
Listening to Bob Dylan
View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, scholar, and teacher Timothy Hampton, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned from a lifetime of listening to the greatest songwriter of our time: How some of...
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...
Nicole Tung
Five Things I've Learned About
Documenting Stories of Conflict
View the archive of this 90-minute class from multi-award-winning photojournalist Nicole Tung, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about photos’ unique power to inform, to connect, and to document...
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...
David W. Blight
Five Things I've Learned About
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...
Sylvie Simmons
Five Things I've Learned About
The Life of Leonard Cohen
View the archive of this 90-minute class from author, journalist, biographer, and singer-songwriter Sylvie Simmons, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – and all she still learns from...
Writing and Reading View All
Andre Dubus III
Five Things I've Learned About
The Nature of Memory and Memoir
View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning writer and teacher Andre Dubus III, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the fluid, subjective nature of memory – and about the ways writers...
Rebecca Makkai
Five Things I've Learned About
Grasping Point of View – on the Page and in the World
View the archive of this two-hour class from celebrated writer and teacher Rebecca Makkai, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the issue she’s found most connected to almost early every problem on the...
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...
Susan Orlean
Five Things I've Learned About
Finding the Perfect Story
View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning author Susan Orlean, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that writers and readers can look at the world – and at stories – in new...
Isabel Allende
Five Things I've Learned About
Writing Fiction
View the archive of this 90-minute class from Isabel Allende, one of the most widely read and acclaimed authors in the world, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about writing fiction, discovering your...
Steven Johnson
Five Things I've Learned About
Where Creativity Comes From
View the archive of this two-hour class from best-selling author Steven Johnson, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the critical tools innovative thinkers use to nurture their creative practice – and...
Brooke Warner
Five Things I've Learned About
How Creative Women Thrive
View the archive of this two-hour class from editor and publisher Brooke Warner, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that women can move past the self-limiting assumptions, conditioning, and...
Ann Hood
Five Things I've Learned About
Finding the Story Growing in Your Heart
View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning author and teacher Ann Hood, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to bring the characters, conflicts, and plot points that keep you up at...
Danté Stewart
Five Things I've Learned About
The Power of Narrative
View the archive of this two-hour class from writer, poet, and minister Danté Stewart, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about storytelling’s power and magic, and all that happens when readers encounter...
Matthew Specktor
Five Things I've Learned About
Writing the Self in Memoir and Fiction
View the archive of this two-hour class from novelist, memoirist, cultural critic, and screenwriter Matthew Specktor, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the powerful ways that the imagination can operate...
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 –...
Michael Ruhlman
Five Things I've Learned About
Writing, By Writing about Food
View the archive of this two-hour class from Michael Ruhlman – best-selling writer of more than 30 books of non-fiction, fiction, memoir and cookbooks – and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about writing and...
Steve Almond
Five Things I've Learned About
Writing, Failing, and Trying Again
View the archive of this two-hour class from bestselling writer and teacher Steve Almond, and discover Five Things He’s Learned about failure’s essential role in success – and about the necessity of reframing our...
Stephanie Land
Five Things I've Learned About
Writing, From the Margins of America
View the archive of this two-hour class from writer and speaker Stephanie Land, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about writing that breaks down walls and encourages empathy toward others – and about how...
Russell Shorto
Five Things I've Learned About
Writing Family History
View the archive of this two-hour class from New York Times bestselling writer Russell Shorto, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about diving into your past and bringing the story you find there to life.
Ann Hood
Five Things I've Learned About
Writing Memoir
View the archive of this two-hour class from award-winning author and teacher Ann Hood, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to bring focus to a singular slice of your life in ways that produce 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
Five Things I've Learned About
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.
Sari Botton
Five Things I've Learned About
What Aging Means to Oldsters
View the archive of this two-hour class from bestselling author, editor, and teacher Sari Botton, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about getting older by inviting people to share their own personal...
Andrew Penn
Five Things I've Learned About
Psychedelic Science and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
View the archive of this 90-minute class from speaker, researcher, and UCSF Clinical Professor Andrew Penn, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that psychedelic-assisted therapy is...
Julie Lythcott-Haims
Five Things I've Learned About
Making Love Work
View the archive of this two-hour class from bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about deepening her ability to love others, and the practical steps that help her...
Thomas Dyja
Five Things I've Learned About
How to Live in a City
View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed writer and historian Thomas Dyja and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how we can use our city’s structures and energies to improve our well-being...
Pauline Frommer
Five Things I've Learned About
The Power of a Life-Changing Vacation
View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, editor, speaker, and broadcaster Pauline Frommer, and discover Five Things She’s Learned about the ways in which new places and experiences teach us that the...
Music and Song View All
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...
Robbie Fulks
Five Things I've Learned About
The Nature of Songs
View the archive of this two-hour class from singer, recording artist, instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter Robbie Fulks and discover Five Things He’s Learned about some of the essential elements that enable...
Mary Gauthier
Five Things I've Learned About
The Healing Power of Songwriting – in Five Songs
View the archive of this two-hour class from singer-songwriter, troubadour, and author Mary Gauthier, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about song’s unique power to bring hope in the face of deep trauma...
Timothy Hampton
Five Things I've Learned About
Listening to Bob Dylan
View the archive of this 90-minute class from writer, scholar, and teacher Timothy Hampton, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned from a lifetime of listening to the greatest songwriter of our time: How some of...
Hayes Carll
Five Things I've Learned About
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...
Sylvie Simmons
Five Things I've Learned About
The Life of Leonard Cohen
View the archive of this 90-minute class from author, journalist, biographer, and singer-songwriter Sylvie Simmons, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about Leonard Cohen – and all she still learns from...
The Power of the Word View All
Roosevelt Montás
Five Things I've Learned About
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...
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...
David W. Blight
Five Things I've Learned About
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
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.
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
Five Things I've Learned About
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...
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...
Elizabeth Lesser
Five Things I've Learned About
How the Hero’s Journey Changes When Women are the Storytellers
View the archive of this two-hour class from New York Times bestselling author and Omega Institute co-founder Elizabeth Lesser, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about what happens when women trust their...
Brooke Warner
Five Things I've Learned About
How Women Writers Thrive
View the archive of this two-hour class from editor and publisher Brooke Warner, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned during her nearly two decades of leading and championing women-only publishing about the...
Julie Lythcott-Haims
Five Things I've Learned About
Making Love Work
View the archive of this two-hour class from bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about deepening her ability to love others, and the practical steps that help her...
Carol Kino
Five Things I've Learned About
The Forgotten Heroines of American Feminism
View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed journalist and historian Carol Kino, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about the rewards and challenges that shaped life for American women after World...
Living Better Longer View All
Dr. Eric Verdin
Five Things I've Learned About
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 –...
Ashton Applewhite
Five Things I've Learned About
Ageism
View the archive of this 90-minute class from author and activist Ashton Applewhite and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about ageism – and about cheering up, pushing back, and living the life you want to...
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...
Steven Austad
Five Things I've Learned About
What Nature Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Healthier Lives
View the archive of this 90-minute class from distinguished biologist, professor, and author, Steven Austad, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned from researching the lives of animals in the wild about human...
Nir Barzilai
Five Things I've Learned About
The New Science of Longevity
View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed scientist, professor, and author Dr. Nir Barzilai and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the scientific hacks that can improve your health, increase...
Louise Aronson
Five Things I've Learned About
Elderhood
View the archive of this 90-minute class from doctor, educator, professor of medicine, and Pulitzer Prize Award finalist Louise Aronson and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about improving our shared...
Gordon Lithgow
Five Things I've Learned About
How to Live Better Longer
View the archive of this 90-minute class from distinguished scientist, researcher, and professor Gordon Lithgow and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about scientists’ remarkable recent efforts to slow aging...
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.
James Gray
Five Things I've Learned About
Craft, and the Movies
View the archive of this 90-minute class from award-winning writer and director James Gray, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the personal and professional craft of moviemaking.
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...
Catherine Grace Katz
Five Things I've Learned About
Writing the History We Think We Know
View the archive of this 90-minute class from acclaimed historian and writer Catherine Grace Katz, and discover the Five Things She’s Learned about how to uncover and share the stories that challenge our ideas of...
Kaveh Akbar
Five Things I've Learned About
Sacred Poetics
View the archive of this 90-minute class from award-winning poet, novelist, teacher, and scholar Kaveh Akbar and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways antiquity’s spiritual verse can help us to better...
David W. Blight
Five Things I've Learned About
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...
Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson
Five Things I've Learned About
The Two Hollywoods
View the archive of this 90-minute class from celebrated film historians and writers Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about the people and values that shaped the movie...
Russell Shorto
Five Things I've Learned About
How Manhattan Became “The Island at the Center of the World”
View the archive of this 90-minute class from New York Times bestselling writer Russell Shorto, and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about how the Dutch founding of New York City shaped the world’s most...
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...