The University of Chicago Chronicle

James A. Robinson to present 2025 Ryerson Lecture on April 23

Prof. James A. Robinson, the renowned economist and political scientist who recently became the University of Chicago’s latest Nobel Prize winner, will deliver the 2025 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture ...
Austin American-Statesman

Clarence Thomas speaks at UT Austin: See the photos

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas visited the University of Texas at Austin on Wednesday, for a special lecture marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Hosted at ...
The Guardian

From Peepo! to Middlemarch: 25 books to read before you turn 25

An unmissable book for every year of your early life – with recommendations from Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen, Katherine Rundell and more The news about reading in general, and childhood reading ...
Scroll

George Eliot is best known for ‘Middlemarch’, but she also wrote an early work of science fiction

George Eliot – the pen name of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans – is celebrated today as a writer of realist novels: Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871) and Daniel ...
The Globe and Mail

It took me six months to read the 800-page Middlemarch. Here’s why I think you should, too

When my very good friend of 30 years, Luke Coles, told me he was going to read George Eliot’s Middlemarch, I was immediately intrigued. I had, of course, long heard of the novel. It was a favourite of ...
Indiatimes

Meet Patrick Winston: MIT professor whose one-hour lecture stayed packed for 40 years and it wasn’t about STEM

For decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one lecture stood out not for equations or algorithms, but for a skill that quietly shapes success across every field. Delivered by Patrick ...
The Atlantic

The Lecture I Couldn’t Give

Last May, I gave a lecture at the Air War College, the Air Force’s senior service school for officers. I have taught at West Point and spoken at several other senior service schools. At the Air War ...
CNN

Peter Thiel’s secret lectures on Antichrist in Rome spark debate

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with ...
PBS

Peter Thiel brings his lectures on the Antichrist to the Vatican's doorstep

ROME (AP) — One of the hottest tickets in the Vatican's backyard these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The ...
The Independent

A tech billionaire’s lecture on the Antichrist has become one of the hottest tickets in Rome

A series of lectures on the Antichrist, delivered by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel, has become one of the most sought-after and controversial events in Rome. The invitation-only ...
The Punch Newspapers

Anyaoku chairs Awolowo memorial lecture

Former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, will chair the 2026 edition of the Obafemi Awolowo Memorial Lecture, scheduled for Friday, March 6, 2026. A statement by the ...