John Adams Institute Audio & Video

On September 23, 2008, The John Adams Institute hosted an evening with David Sedaris. The humorist and author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim brought his entourage to Amsterdam for the Dutch publication of his latest collection of wisdom, When You Are Engulfed in Flames.

On April 28, 2010, The John Adams Institute hosted an evening with Jon Krakauer. He has written some of the most popular outdoor adventure books of our time.

In this talk from 2005, Barbara Ehrenreich describes some of her experiences writing Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. For the book she went undercover as one of the many working poor in America, taking up minimum wage jobs as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk.

On 26 May, 1998, Thriller writer James Ellroy came to the John Adams Institute to speak about L.A. Confidential. Theo D. Haen moderated the evening.

On March 22, 2005, Martha Nussbaum visited the John Adams Institute to talk about Upheavals of Thought - The Intelligence of Emotions.

On September 26, 2001, David Sedaris came to the John Adams Institute to discuss his work Naked and Me Talk Pretty One Day. In America, Sedaris is seen as the modern master of the short story.

On, November 11, 1995, T. Coraghessen Boyle visited the John Adams Institute to speak about his novel The Tortilla Curtain, a controversial tale about political correctness, hypocrisy and American attitudes.

On February 16, 1996, The John Adams Institute hosted an evening with legendary American political economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who has become one of the most influential scholars in American politics, not only as professor of economics at Harvard but also as a presidential advisor and political leader.

On December 1, 1999, The John Adams Institute welcomed the Irish-American author and Pulitzer Prize winner, Frank McCourt, for the second time to speak about his novel 'Tis.

On 27 October, 2000, The John Adams Institute presented a lecture by psychologist and author John Gray, who spoke about his life's work and his latest book, Practical Miracles for Mars and Venus (Praktische levenslessen). Yvonne Kroonenberg moderated the evening.