Veteran New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik talks about liberal democracy, its strategy for survival, and its risks of extinction.

Casper ter Kuiie is a Harvard Divinity School Innovation Fellow and author of The Power of Ritual. He is also the co-founder of startup Sacred Design Lab, described as “a research and design consultancy working to create a culture of belonging and becoming.”

Kurt Andersen's new book is Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History, a companion volume to his prize-winning 2017 New York Times bestseller Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed bestselling novels True Believers, Heyday, Turn of the Century and (with Alec Baldwin), You Can't Spell America Without Me.

William C. Rhoden is an American sports journalist and author, who formerly worked as a columnist for the New York Times from 1983 until his retirement in 2016.

The Salisbury Forum is offering a special “webinar” with one of our most popular speakers, Douglas Tallamy. His topic is very timely with recent headlines about three billion fewer birds in North America, global insect declines, and the impending extinction of one million species world wide.

Wendy Schiller is Professor of Political Science, Professor of International and Public Affairs, and Chair of Political Science at Brown University.

Parkland Rising is a powerful documentary about the horrific 2018 school shooting in Parkland, FL, and the subsequent wave of student-led activism. The film follows student survivors as they transform themselves from victims to nationally-recognized leaders in a movement against gun violence.