Bright Minds: from the John Adams Institute
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Bright Minds: from the John Adams Institute
John Adams, the first American ambassador to the Netherlands, once said “Let us tenderly and kindly cherish...the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.” The John Adams Institute has brought the best and the brightest of American thinking to Amsterdam for three decades. We...
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Alice Walker: Marked by Tradition
Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated author, poet and activist whose books included novels, collections of short stories, children’s books, a...
Kim Stanley Robinson: The Fight for Planet Earth
Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of 22 novels of speculative and science fiction. The Ministry for the Future is set in the near future in which the...
Tiya Miles: The remarkable history of Ashley’s Sack
In South Carolina in the 1850s, an enslaved woman named Rose gives a simple cotton bag to her daughter Ashley. Ashley is about to be separated from he...
Yaël Eisenstat: Democracy’s Cyber Defendant
In 2018, the tech and democracy activist Yaël Eisenstat joined Facebook as the head of Global Elections Integrity for political ads. Six months later,...
Toni Morrison: A Mercy (re-release)
A gem rescued from the archives! We are re-releasing the Toni Morrison episode after cleaning up the audio.
Toni Morrison writes about hi...
Ivo Daalder: The Future of NATO
Ivo Daalder is a Dutch born American citizen, who became the U.S. representative to NATO from 2009 to 2013 under President Barack Obama and was a for...
Kim Wehle: What to Make of the U.S. Constitution?
Super Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020. Professor of law, a constitutional scholar, commentator and author Kim Wehle joined the John Adams to lay out exactly...
Karen Joy Fowler: The Family Saga of John Wilkes Booth
It’s April 14th, 1865. The actor John Wilkes Booth pulls a gun and assassinates President Lincoln who is sitting in a balcony of the Ford Theatre in W...
Francis Fukuyama: The Future of Liberalism
History is entering a new phase, where old forms and ideas clash with present realities. The John Adams Institute was excited to welcome Francis Fukuy...
Bret Easton Ellis: At the Edge of Fact and Fiction - The Shards
Bret Easton Ellis took 13 years to write The Shards. It’s a horror novel. Or maybe it’s an autobiography. In fact, it’s both. The Shards is a fiction...
2024 U.S. Election Special (part 3) with Kim Wehle
In the third and final episode of the election specials of our podcast Bright Minds, America expert and podcaster Laila Frank talks to law professor,...
2024 U.S. Election Special (part 2) with Mark Leibovich
The current episodes of our podcast Bright Minds are all about the U.S. presidential elections. America journalist Laila Frank, specialized in politic...
2024 U.S. Election Special (part 1) with Carol Anderson
The next three episodes of Bright Minds are all about the U.S. presidential elections. America journalist Laila Frank, specialized in politics and cha...
FUTURE 400: Wolves and Kings
This fourth episode of the Future 400 podcast is all about theater and dance. Battery Dance, New York City's longest running public dance festival, is...
FUTURE 400: Finding Family in Fashion
Design your look, design your life. Rambler Studios is a creative platform for raw talent. It offers young people a safe space where they can discover...
FUTURE 400: From the Streets to the Heart
This second episode of the Future 400 podcast looks at work by Dutch and American photographers who are part of the annual international photo festiva...
FUTURE 400: New York Before New York
Future 400 is a bi-weekly four-part podcast series from the Dutch Consulate in New York. It is part of the two-year cultural program of the same name,...
Andrea Elliott: Family Homelessness in the US
Andrea Elliot’s 2022 Pulitzer winning book, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, follows eight dramatic years in the life of...
George Packer: America in Crisis and Renewal
2024 is an election year. And in his book Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal', George Packer makes the case for why this may be the most im...
Nikole Hannah-Jones: A New American Origin Story
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’s 1619 project has inspired both throngs of like-minded people as well as a severe backlash. Thi...
Mark Leibovich: Thank You for Your Servitude
2024 is an election year and Donald Trump is running again. This makes journalist and political commentator Mark Leibovich’s second nonfiction blockbu...
Jane Fonda: Living the Life
From Hollywood to Hanoi, Jane Fonda has endeared and enraged Americans for decades with her sparkling performances and outspoken views. Following an e...
Paul Theroux: On Missionaries, China and Dickens
From Hemingway to Dickens, from Nabokov to Twain, from Isak Dinesen to Graham Greene, many of the world’s great writers were also great travel writers...
Robert Reich: The Flipside of Capitalism
President Bill Clinton’s former Secretary of Labor argues in his important book that in the last thirty years capitalism has flourished at the expense...
Teju Cole: NYC, Open City
Teju Cole is rapidly becoming a new literary sensation in America. His novel Open City – which won the 2012 Pen/Hemingway Award and the New York City...
Mark Godsey and Rickey Jackson: Surviving Injustice
Rickey Jackson was sentenced to 39 years in prison for crimes he didn’t commit. Innocent, and unjustly convicted of murder and robbery, his is the lon...
Jill Lepore: New York Burning
Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore came to the John Adams in April of 2023 to talk about her keenly crafted and sourced histori...
Bill Browder: Freezing Order
The latest massacres in Bucha and Mariupol have shown that Vladimir Putin has no regard for human life – he only cares about power and money. In Putin...
Cecilia Kang: The Dark Side of Facebook
For years, fringe ideologues were able to use Facebook undisturbed to promote their extreme ideologies and conspiracies. In An Ugly Truth, New York Ti...
Carol Anderson: A Fatally Unequal America
On paper, every American has the right to vote and – thanks to the Second Amendment – to bear arms. But in reality, says Carol Anderson, both these ri...
Spike Lee: Doing the Right Thing
In December of 2010, The John Adams Institute hosted an evening with the great film director, Spike Lee. Among many things, Spike talked about how New...
David Sedaris: On Fire
On September 23, 2008, The John Adams Institute hosted an evening with David Sedaris. The humorist and author of 'Me Talk Pretty One Day' and 'Dress Y...
The Quincy Club: California Dreamin'
For 20 years, the John Adams Institute has organized a lecture program called The Quincy Club at schools all through the Netherlands to help young aud...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Notorious
On February 04, 1999, in celebration of 150 years of Dutch constitutional law, the John Adams Institute welcomed Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justic...
Ruby Wax: Call Me Crazy
If you don’t know Ruby Wax’s name, that’s because, even though she’s American, her career has been largely in the UK. But you may be aware of a little...
Anthony Doerr: Tinkering with Writing
People are passionate about Anthony Doerr. And why not, he’s one of America’s great novelists and storytellers.
He was in Amsterdam 2015 on th...
David Frum: National Fragmentation
David Frum is a Canadian-American political commentator who is currently a senior editor at The Atlantic as well as an MSNBC contributor' and author,...
Elizabeth Kolbert: Engineering the Anthropocene
If we can just get through the 21st century, humanity might have a chance, says Elizabeth Kolbert. We have already intervened in the earth’s system to...
Gore Vidal: The Correctionist
Gore Vidal was an American writer known for his essays, novels, screenplays, and Broadway plays. A lifelong Democrat, Gore ran for political office tw...
Hanya Yanagihara: Creating Paradise
On March 11, 2022, Hanya Yanagihara returned to the John Adams for a conversation about 'To Paradise', her three-part story across three centuries, ce...