This April marks 55 years since the Ohio National Guard murdered four Kent State students during a campus protest of the US bombing in Cambodia. Mike Alewitz was a student anti-war organizer at Kent State and witnessed the shootings. This experience forever shaped Alewitz, who has dedicated his life to people’s movements and organizations as […]

Acclaimed author and NY Times columnist David Brooks will speak in Hartford on Tueday, April 29, as part of the Robertson Spirituality Series, which seeks to provide provocative and nourishing presentations to seekers from all backgrounds in partnership with HIU and the Spiritual Life Center. The event will take place at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Watch this newsletter for information […]

Our speaker, David Brooks, is a bestselling author, a recurring commentator on PBS NewsHour, and an op-ed columnist at the New York Times whose columns are among the most read in the nation. He is the author of six books including the bestsellers The Second Mountain, The Road to Character, The Social Animal, and Bobos in Paradise. His newest […]

For weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, John J. Sullivan, the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, was warning that it would happen. When troops finally crossed the border, he was woken in the middle of the night with a prearranged code. Sullivan needed to collect his bodyguards and get to the embassy immediately. The war had […]