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In the first installment of the Fall 2026 Yale Conversations series, Presidential Senior Fellow David Brooks traces a history of human exploration, from Homo erectus to philosopher John Stuart Mill and Hawaiian navigator Nainoa Thompson.

This year's cohort of World Fellows includes a Ukrainian journalist, a Chinese environmentalist, and a Kenyan orchestral conductor.

What does it take to rebuild a society fractured by distrust, populism, and eroding civic bonds? In his third Yale Conversations lecture, author and columnist David Brooks traces the shifting cultural paradigms of the past 70 years to diagnose how America arrived at its current crisis.

A new public forum aiming to foster respectful debate and intellectual exchange across differences, Yale Conversations are presented by the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs in collaboration with the office of the university president and led by Presidential Senior Fellow David Brooks.

Brooks joins Yale as part of an initiative to foster respectful debate and bridge the academy and society at large.

Elhanan Miller on the power of religious and cultural dialogue in building bridges between Jewish and Muslim communities, and how Elhanan’s Arabic-language media project aims to foster empathy across deep political divides.