Yale Law School’s Akhil Reed Amar returns to the Salisbury Forum to discuss the origins of America’s Constitution in the late eighteenth century, and the link between this document and the jurisprudential earthquake that occurred at the end of the 2021 Supreme Court term in landmark cases involving abortion, guns, and religion.

Straight from the stage of NPR’s wonderfully funny weekly quiz show “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me,” Roy Blount, Jr. will entertain and regale the Salisbury Forum audience with his unique style of American storytelling.

This year The Lakeville Journal is marking its 125th anniversary of continuous publication as a weekly newspaper serving northwest Connecticut, the southern Berkshires, and eastern New York. To help celebrate this extraordinary achievement, the Salisbury Forum has organized a panel of media giants to discuss “The Future of American Journalism,” including Brian Ross, Marty Baron, Subrata De, and John Coston.

Marie Yovanovitch is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University. Previously, she served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019), the Republic of Armenia (2008-2011) and the Kyrgyz Republic (2005-2008).

Thomas Shapiro is the David R. Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Professor Shapiro's primary interest is in racial inequality and public policy.

Jeff Jarvis is Director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. Jarvis is a national leader in the development of online news, blogging, the investigation of new business models for news, and the teaching of entrepreneurial journalism. He writes an influential media blog, Buzzmachine.com.

Jonathan Safran Foer is a novelist known for Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.