Chicago Humanities Festival | Adam Jentleson on the US Senate & the Crippling of Democracy @ChicagoHumanitiesFestival | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Senate insider Adam Jentleson takes us into Capitol Hill backrooms for a behind-closed-doors look at how the Senate, once known as “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” has become one of the greatest threats to American democracy. In Kill Switch, Jentleson uncovers the means by which a minority of senators maintain their power, citing the filibuster (historically used to block civil rights legislation) as their principal weapon. At CHF, Jentleson explains how the Senate became so gridlocked and why so many of our current political challenges converge within this body. He is joined in conversation by Russ Feingold, President of the American Constitution Society and former Senator from Wisconsin.
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Senate insider Adam Jentleson takes us into Capitol Hill backrooms for a behind-closed-doors look at how the Senate, once known as “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” has become one of the greatest threats to American democracy. In Kill Switch, Jentleson uncovers the means by which a minority of senators maintain their power, citing the filibuster (historically used to block civil rights legislation) as their principal weapon. At CHF, Jentleson explains how the Senate became so gridlocked and why so many of our current political challenges converge within this body. He is joined in conversation by Russ Feingold, President of the American Constitution Society and former Senator from Wisconsin.
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The composer Richard Wagner is both revered for his visionary operas and reviled for his anti-semitic writings. In Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, Alex Ross details the composers wide-ranging influence across 150 years of art and culture. The New Yorker music critic and author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise traces the impact that art can have in the world, and explores the thorny question: How do we grapple today with an artist with such a many-sided and problematic legacy? Ross is joined by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor for London’s Philharmonia Orchestra.
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This program is generously underwritten by the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation and is presented in partnership with the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
This weeks programs presented with the support of Grace K. Stanek.
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