Acclaimed religious historian Karen Armstrong is returning to The Progressive Forum for the American launch event of her upcoming book, Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World, on Monday, September 12, at 7:30 p.m. CT.
Paid ticket holders at the event will receive a free copy of her book, a retail value of $28. The book partner is Blue Willow Bookshop.
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Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones will discuss her book, New York Times number one bestseller The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, at The Progressive Forum Wednesday, August 24, at 7:30 p.m. CT.
by Randall Morton, Founder, The Progressive Forum
The following op-ed orignally appeared in the Houston Chronicle.
When Mayor Turner spoke at the Climate Conference in Glasgow last November, he peddled Houston as a leader of the world’s energy transition, saying our city government uses 100 percent renewable energy and that Exxon plans to invest $100 billion in a tax-subsidized carbon-capture scheme in the ship channel complex. But a closer look shows a lack of real action to move the needle on Houston’s massive emissions, which, at 34 million metric tons a year, rival that of many individual nations at the Glasgow Conference.
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One of the world’s leading science communicators, Stanford University neuroscientist and best-selling author David Eagleman, will discuss his latest book about brain plasticity, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, at The Progressive Forum on Thursday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. CT.
by Randall Morton, Founder, The Progressive Forum
The following op-ed originally appeared in the Houston Chronicle.
The science journal Nature reports that civilization faces the daunting challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 7.6 percent a year this decade to preserve life as we know it, starting now. This is equivalent to the rate of greenhouse-gas reduction during the pandemic when the world nearly came to a standstill.
by Randall Morton, Founder, The Progressive Forum
“Oh, what a wonderful idea!”
Dr. Edward O. Wilson appeared at The Progressive Forum in September 2006 at the Wortham, the first year of an unlikely lecture series I started. I had created a motto that rang true for me, but the manager of another Houston series called me “wayward.” My motto focused on the series theme: “Great Minds, Great Answers” which I defined as the people who created new fields of understanding, advancing the success of the individual, our species, and life on the planet – the Charles Darwins, the Sigmund Freuds, and … the Edward O. Wilsons of the world.
World-renowned theoretical physicist Brian Greene will discuss his latest book, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe, in a free 30-minute livestream on Thursday, April 29, at 7:00 pm CT, with Progressive Forum president Randall Morton. Below is a preview into the book via a Q&A with Greene's publisher, Penguin Random House:
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World-renowned theoretical physicist Brian Greene will discuss his latest book, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe, in a free 30-minute livestream on Thursday, April 29, at 7 pm CT, with Progressive Forum president Randall Morton.
by Randall Morton, Founder, The Progressive Forum
I feel violated. When I was a college student in Washington, D.C., I brought friends to the gallery of the House of Representatives, where I revered the ceremonies of power and debates on the noblest of matters. Yesterday, Trump-incited terrorists desecrated this space.
by Randall Morton, Founder, The Progressive Forum
How did we get to a place where 47% of the electorate voted to re-elect a president after four years of official cruelty, separating children from parents, ignoring a deadly pandemic, and nearly destroying American democracy?
That 73 million people voted for Trump is irrational by any measure. How do we understand this?
As President-elect Biden says, stopping the vitriol is essential. But there are more fundamental answers in the fields of economics, therapeutic psychology, and even genetics.