December 2008 Picks
Lap up your Think Drink events early this month as they dry up mid-December, presumably to make way for egg-nog and mistletoe. Our top five picks are below.
Top Picks
Kinsley and Easterly on "Creative Capitalism"
December 2 @ Carnege Council
Editor and pundit Michael Kinsley talks about "Creative Capitalism," Bill Gates' notion that capitalism can work better to help world poverty, with Bill Easterly, a skeptic of attempts to help world poverty.
Should We Eat Locally?
December 3 @ Lolita Bar
The lively and informal monthly Lolita series drafts two Columbia PhD students to debate whether we should be getting our strawberries from Morris County or Mexico.
E.O. Wilson & Bert Hoelldoebler Talk Ants
December 4 @ 92Y
Two giants of animal behavior talk about some of our tiniest cousins - and what their "super-organism" colonies tell us about evolution.
Niall Ferguson and James Hoge on the Story of Money
December 9 @ NYU
Just in time for the world financial system to collapse, Niall Ferguson explains how money made its climb. In discussion with James Hoge, Foreign Affairs editor and a ThinkDrink fave.
Taking America in - State by State
December 12 @ The New School
We're not sure what's going on here, but we thing a bunch of cool famous people - including Jonathan Franzen, Sarah Vowell and Parker Posey - will be reading writers impressions from the fifty states.
