Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021 Time: 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. ET
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How is it that corporations can spend unlimited sums in our elections, but a Black defendant has no right to a ruling free of racial bias? Why does a company have the right to sell private prescription data, but marginalized children don’t have the right to an adequate public education? In his new book, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart, constitutional scholar Jamal Greene argues that courts should reconcile competing rights, not discriminate between them. In this conversation, he’ll discuss how the United States became so “rightsist,” and how we can shift this paradigm to truly ensure justice, once and for all.

This event is produced in partnership with New York University’s John Brademas Center.

Speakers: Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia University Law School, Author, How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart; Moderator: Brennan Center Democracy Program Managing Director Alicia Bannon

Date: Thursday, April 1, 2021 Time: 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. ET
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After the election of Donald Trump, journalist Seyward Darby went looking for the women of the so-called “alt-right” — really just white nationalism with a new label. The mainstream media depicted the alt-right as a bastion of angry white men, but was it? As women headlined resistance to the Trump administration’s bigotry and sexism, most notably at the Women’s Marches, Darby wanted to know why others were joining a movement espousing racism and anti-feminism.

Who were these women, and what did their activism reveal about America’s past, present, and future? Join Darby and Brennan Center Liberty and National Security Program Codirector Faiza Patel for a conversation about Darby’s new book, Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism.

This event is produced in partnership with New York University’s John Brademas Center.

Speakers: Seyward Darby, Editor in Chief, The Atavist Magazine, Author, Sisters in Hate; Moderator: Brennan Center Liberty and National Security Program Codirector Faiza Patel

Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021 Time: 12:00 p.m.–12:45 p.m. ET
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From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, and from cryptocurrency advocates to the #MeToo movement, Americans and citizens of democracies worldwide are losing confidence in what we once called the system. How should we engage in public life when neither protests nor elections bring about lasting change? In Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them, author Ethan Zuckerman explores how Americans can use their skepticism to resurrect, reform, or outright replace the institutions that no longer serve them. In conversation with Princeton political scientist Omar Wasow, he will offer a guide for new ways to participate in civic life.

This event is produced in partnership with New York University's John Brademas Center.

Speakers: Ethan Zuckerman, Founder, Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure, Associate Professor, Public Policy, Information, and Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Author, Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them; Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University