Schedule:

5:30 p.m - 6:30 p.m: Ezra Klein Pre-Event Reception & Spring Festival Preview for Collaborators at UIC Dorin Forum
Kick off the Spring Festival with our first member reception of the year! Join us for a sneak peek of our upcoming Spring programs, preceding our highly anticipated program with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. Enjoy light bites and refreshments while you explore our book giveaway, featuring past seasons' selections, and hear from the Chicago Humanities team about highlights to come this season. This event is free to Collaborator members and above. However, tickets are required and do not include entry to the Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson program.

7:00 p.m - 8:15 p.m: Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on Abundance at UIC Dorin Forum
After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, the entire country has a national housing crisis. After years of slashing immigration, we don’t have enough workers. The list goes on. The twenty-first century so far has been full of growing unaffordability and shortage. And in the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished. Bestselling authors and popular podcasters Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson join Chicago Humanities to trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and how we can adopt a mindset directed toward abundance, and not scarcity, to overcome them. Drawing from their latest book, Abundance, they ask us to rethink big problems that seem mired in systemic scarcity: from climate change and housing to education and healthcare.