Introducing Our New Mini-Series 'Out of Many, One?' (Trailer)
The John Adams Institute is Amsterdam's home for independent American thought. John Adams himself said, "Let us tenderly and kindly cherish... the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak...
6 Jul 1min
Alice Walker: Marked by Tradition
Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated author, poet and activist whose books included novels, collections of short stories, children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her best known no...
15 Okt 202547min
Kim Stanley Robinson: The Fight for Planet Earth
Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of 22 novels of speculative and science fiction. The Ministry for the Future is set in the near future in which the world is suffering the disastrous consequences of...
17 Sep 20251h 3min
Tiya Miles: The remarkable history of Ashley’s Sack
In South Carolina in the 1850s, an enslaved woman named Rose gives a simple cotton bag to her daughter Ashley. Ashley is about to be separated from her mother, sold as chattel to the highest bidder. T...
11 Jun 202552min
Yaël Eisenstat: Democracy’s Cyber Defendant
In 2018, the tech and democracy activist Yaël Eisenstat joined Facebook as the head of Global Elections Integrity for political ads. Six months later, she left. She was disappointed and disillusioned ...
14 Mai 202543min
Toni Morrison: A Mercy (re-release)
A gem rescued from the archives! We are re-releasing the Toni Morrison episode after cleaning up the audio. Toni Morrison writes about history, slavery, racism, resilience and survival with an unflin...
16 Apr 20251h 1min
Ivo Daalder: The Future of NATO
Ivo Daalder is a Dutch born American citizen, who became the U.S. representative to NATO from 2009 to 2013 under President Barack Obama and was a foreign policy advisor for his 2008 presidential camp...
12 Mar 20251h 2min
Kim Wehle: What to Make of the U.S. Constitution?
Super Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020. Professor of law, a constitutional scholar, commentator and author Kim Wehle joined the John Adams to lay out exactly what was at stake in the election between Donald T...
12 Feb 20251h 2min
