Authors & Insights
Authors & Insights is a series of in-depth conversations with some of today’s most compelling authors and thinkers exploring the issues that matter most in our world. Conversations take place at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center.
Upcoming event
A Conversation with Hahrie Han
Tuesday, Sept. 24 | 6:15 p.m. EDT
How can racial healing be achieved at a time when political and social divisions across the country run deep? Hahrie Han takes up this question in conversation with Robert P. Jones and special guests Chuck Mingo and Jess Knight.
Please join the next Authors & Insights event, as Hahrie Han, political scientist and inaugural director of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins, discusses her new book, Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church, with Robert P. Jones, president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute and author of the New York Times bestseller The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future.
Hear the inspiring story of special guests Pastor Chuck Mingo and Jess Knight as they and other evangelicals in a Cincinnati congregation struggle to bridge racial divides in their own church, their community, and across the nation.
Past events
Carlos Lozada on how he approaches his role as a book critic
New York Times opinion columnist Carlos Lozada discussed his new book, The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians, with Ashley Parker, senior national political correspondent for The Washington Post / June 3, 2024
Katie Rogers and Anita McBride on the evolution of the role of the first lady
New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers discussed her new book, American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden, with Anita McBride, author of Remember the First Ladies, chief of staff to former First Lady Laura Bush, and director of the First Ladies Initiative at American University / April 16, 2024
David Leonhardt on the decline of the American dream
In conversation with JHU President Ron Daniels, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author David Leonhardt spoke about his new book, Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream, and explored how a sharp drop in economic mobility and other factors are preventing many Americans from prospering / Nov. 8, 2023