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Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech 

In 1991, with the fall of Soviet Communism and the apartheid regime in South Africa, it seemed that liberal democracy had triumphed almost everywhere; ...  View More

Location: Virtual - Any Location Location : 
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Start date: 01/21/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 9:30 AM - 11:45 AM (1/21/2026-2/11/2026)

Available 12/15/2025 9:00 AM
 
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Creative Writing Workshop 

This study group is for members who love words and who wish to improve and practice their creative writing skills across the various genres: poetry, c ...  View More

Location: Virtual - Any Location Location : 
  Virtual - Any Location.

Start date: 01/21/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 9:30 AM - 11:45 AM (1/21/2026-2/11/2026)

Available 12/15/2025 9:00 AM
 
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Foreign Affairs 

This study group is made up of fellow participants who love to read and desire to learn about the countries of the world through their interactions wi ...  View More

Location: Virtual - Any Location Location : 
  Virtual - Any Location.

Start date: 01/21/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (1/21/2026-2/11/2026)

Available 12/15/2025 9:00 AM
 
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Resistance: Germany 1933–1945 

With authoritarian regimes currently on the rise worldwide, this study group focuses on three examples of resistance to Nazi rule in Germany between 1 ...  View More

Start date: 01/21/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (1/21/2026-2/11/2026)

Available 12/15/2025 9:00 AM
 
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The Ghost Map 

In the nineteenth century, cholera was a terrifying disease. It killed quickly and horribly. Entire families were dead within days of showing symptoms ...  View More

Start date: 01/21/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (1/21/2026-2/11/2026)

Available 12/15/2025 9:00 AM
 
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What Were They Thinking? 

Why do smart people make catastrophic mistakes? How do well-designed systems fail spectacularly? Join us to explore these questions through Tim Harfor ...  View More

Start date: 01/21/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (1/21/2026-2/11/2026)

Available 12/15/2025 9:00 AM
 
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Articles from the Sunday New York Times 

For well over 100 years The New York Times has been the newspaper of record. With its 132 Pulitzer Prizes since 1918 (the most by any news organizatio ...  View More

Location: Virtual - Any Location Location : 
  Virtual - Any Location.

Start date: 01/21/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (1/21/2026-2/11/2026)

Available 12/15/2025 9:00 AM
 
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For the Love of Even More Art—Abstract Expressionism 

Do you enjoy art, but don’t understand why some people rave about abstract art? Do you look at abstract art and think “I could have done that,” or do ...  View More

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  Virtual - Any Location.

Start date: 01/21/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (1/21/2026-2/11/2026)

Available 12/15/2025 9:00 AM
 
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Future History: Asimov's Foundation 

What if the rise and fall of civilizations could be predicted—and shaped—by science? Isaac Asimov’s groundbreaking science fiction novel Foundation (S ...  View More

Location: Virtual - Any Location Location : 
  Virtual - Any Location.

Start date: 01/21/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (1/21/2026-2/11/2026)

Available 12/15/2025 9:00 AM
 
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Into the Woods: As You Like It 

The literary critic and Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom declares: “Of all Shakespeare's plays, the accurately titled As You Like It is as much set in ...  View More

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  Virtual - Any Location.

Start date: 01/21/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (1/21/2026-2/11/2026)

Available 12/15/2025 9:00 AM
 
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The Coen Brothers in the 21st Century: Fate, Failure, and Existential Angst 

Starting in 2001, filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen turned from screwball comedy to a darker, more philosophical cinema—one that wrestles with arbitrary ...  View More

Start date: 01/21/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (1/21/2026-2/11/2026)

Available 12/15/2025 9:00 AM
 
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The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson 

Many of us know Rachel Carson as the author of Silent Spring. Few know that she began her career as a marine biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries ...  View More

Start date: 01/21/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (1/21/2026-2/11/2026)

Available 12/15/2025 9:00 AM
 
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