News and Updates

On Sunday, March 2 at 3 pm Eastern Time, Thomas H. Cox and Gregory R.

Professor Mary Fulbrook will be joining us from the UK this Sunday, February 16 at 1 pm Eastern for a Casual Conversation about her extraordinary book Reckonings: Legaci

This Sunday, February 2 at 1 pm Eastern Time, prolific author Harry Freedman will join us from his native UK (the reason for the early time for us) in a Casual Conversation about his newest

On Sunday, January 12, 2025, at 3 pm Eastern Time, Ehud Eilam, Ph.D., will be our guest for a Casual Conversation, sponsored by the Jewish Culture Group, which classmate Bruce Alpert chairs.

A Casual Conversation on estate planning and administration will be held at 3 pm Eastern on Sunday, December 22.  Our conversants will be classmate and attorney Doug Reynolds as well as Kevin Cox, a law firm colleague of classmate Bruce Alpert’s son Jeremy.  Doug was recruited by classmate Clint Harris.  This session was suggested

On Sunday, December 15 at 3 pm Eastern, Paula Kurman, widow of major league baseball pitcher and author Jim Bouton, will join us for a Casual Conversation.  She comes to us courtesy of classmate Chip Elitzer, who writes:  “Paula’s book about their [hers and Jim Bouton’s] life together, ‘The Cool of the Evening,’ has just been published.  In a way, it’s the completion of a trilogy, following Jim’s classic, ‘Ball Four,’ and his recounting of our adventure together in Pittsfield [MA], ‘Foul Ball Part II.’”

On Sunday, November 17 at 3 pm Eastern Time, classmate Paul Pillar will be returning for a Casual Conversation on Zoom to discuss with us the thesis he elaborates in his most recent book, Beyond the Water’s Edge: How Partisanship Corrupts U.S. Foreign Policy (Columbia University Press 2023).