Evanston RoundTable, June 15, 2017 Modern science fools us into believing we can understand the world. Not so. Take mathematics, the supposed foundation of science — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, June 1, 2107 Albert Einstein advanced his two most famous theories, on special and general relativity, when he was a young man, and — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, May 18,2017 For Charles Johnson, Evanston was a great place to grow up. The multi-award-winning author and winner of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, May 4, 2017 Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Mahler all wrote great Fifth Symphonies. Shostakovich’s was something else: a plea for redemption and a window — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 5, 2015 After more than four decades working in the Evanston Post Office, Michael Gibson, the steady and beloved fixture behind the — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, April 20, 2017 April 22 is Clean Up, Evanston! Day. It’s a worthy and necessary admonition because litter is, unfortunately, everywhere: on the — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, April 6, 2017 We are all creatures of habit. Habits permeate our daily life, so much so that we don’t even realize the — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, March 9, 2017 Schools do a good job teaching the basics – history and civics and science and the famous Three R’s: reading, — Read More