NY Salon

They collaborate with foundations, universities, and notable individuals to host discussions of today's issues, design lectures and debates, and hold forums to review controversies.

[1] In September 2005, the Salon collaborated with WNYC, Brian Lehrer, and the CUNY Graduate Center to stage Reflections on the Future: Politics in the 21st Century featuring authors Russell Jacoby, Richard Sennett, and Frank Furedi.

[2] In September 2006 they began a series of four public forums with The New School and The Rose & Erwin Wolfson Center for National Affairs about the culture of fear in America.

"At a time when people are safer and live longer than ever before, every day new media driven fears fuel our sense that the sky is falling in.

Crossing the boundaries between literature, philosophy and sociology, this series of four international panel discussions promises to be relevant, stimulating and perhaps a little controversial.