Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A Thousand Small Sanities: A One-Man Show
JCCSF welcomes Adam Gopnik – writer for the New Yorker and author of Paris to the Moon, At the Stranger’s Gate and more – for a very special one-man show based on his latest book, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventures of Liberalism.
About the Performance
On election night 2016, Adam Gopnik tried – and failed – to inspire his seventeen-year-old daughter Olivia to have faith in liberal humanism during a long neighborhood walk. In this one-hour performance, Adam tries to make up for his failure by taking her again, in imagination, on a tour highlighting the great and sometimes improbable people and places that brought the liberal vision to life.
"Adam Gopnik is one of the greatest thinkers and wordsmiths of our age, and this book may be his most masterful, meaningful, and enjoyable yet. He turns his sweeping intellectual imagination into a conversation with a cross-partisan American longing for a renewal of common life that scarcely knows how to name itself. In an age in which we've connected ourselves with scale but without quality, and fractured communal cohesion in part by forgetting our shared liberal inheritance, this book is essential redemptive reading."
– Krista Tippett, host, On Being
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A Thousand Small Sanities: A One-Man Show
JCCSF welcomes Adam Gopnik – writer for the New Yorker and author of Paris to the Moon, At the Stranger’s Gate and more – for a very special one-man show based on his latest book, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventures of Liberalism.
About the Performance
On election night 2016, Adam Gopnik tried – and failed – to inspire his seventeen-year-old daughter Olivia to have faith in liberal humanism during a long neighborhood walk. In this one-hour performance, Adam tries to make up for his failure by taking her again, in imagination, on a tour highlighting the great and sometimes improbable people and places that brought the liberal vision to life.
"Adam Gopnik is one of the greatest thinkers and wordsmiths of our age, and this book may be his most masterful, meaningful, and enjoyable yet. He turns his sweeping intellectual imagination into a conversation with a cross-partisan American longing for a renewal of common life that scarcely knows how to name itself. In an age in which we've connected ourselves with scale but without quality, and fractured communal cohesion in part by forgetting our shared liberal inheritance, this book is essential redemptive reading."
– Krista Tippett, host, On Being
To learn more about JCCSF, visit us at jccsf.org
Follow us on social media:
instagram.com/JCCSF
facebook.com/JCCSF
twitter.com/JCCSF
Subscribe to Our Channel: @Arts & Ideas at the JCCSF
