Bibliographies

A conference featuring 50+ presentations on how life can be enhanced. The 36 scholars presenting at the conference are experts in humanities, social sciences, and religious studies from around the world. They will be presenting research that they have been working on over the last two years as part of the Enhancing Life Project. This event is open to the public. See here for tickets, more information, and a detailed schedule. The Politics and Enhancing Life lab will take place during Session J, Saturday, August 5, 9:30-10:40 am.

Politics and Enhancing Life - Disruption, Dialogue, and Democracy: The premise of our laboratory is that in order to engage fully the questions of enhancing life, one must explore it in relation to...

Reginald Gibbons is the author most recently of How Poems Think (criticism; Chicago), Last Lake (poems; Chicago), and An Orchard in the Street (fiction; BOA Editions). His Creatures of a Day was a Finalist for the National Book...

America is becoming a class-based society. It’s now conventional wisdom to focus on the excesses of the top 1% — especially the top 0.01% — and how the ultra-rich are hoarding income and wealth while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the more important, and widening, gap in American society is between the upper middle class and everyone else.

Reeves defines the upper middle class as those whose incomes are in the top 20 percent of American society. Income isn’t the only way to measure a society, but in a market economy it is crucial because access to money generally determines who gets the best quality education, housing, health care, and other necessary goods and services.

As Reeves shows, the growing separation...

David Daley is the author of Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count (Norton). He is a senior fellow at FairVote and the former editor in chief of Salon.com. His work has also appeared in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, New York magazine and many other publications. Daley joins us Thursday, July 20, 6pm at the Co-op for a discussion of Ratf**cked with Rick Perlstein.

Dark Money by Jane...