Andrew's Lectures

Andrew is available to speak in-person or virtually at your conference, college, synagogue, or other event space on the following topics:

• “Radioactive”: Father Coughlin, American fascism and the media (most popular talk)
• Jews and Zionism: It's Complicated, breaking down how the American Jewish relationship to Israel and Zionism has changed since Oct. 7, and how Jewish leaders are responding to it. 
  
• How to be a freelance journalist, including how to pitch stories (second-most popular talk)
• The history of the Ambassador Bridge, based on my "99% Invisible" episode on the single-family monopoly ownership of a crucial international bridge.
• The art of film criticism, based on my decade-plus of film coverage in NPR, Vulture, Indiewire and other top cultural publications.
• Topics related to JTA coverage, including:
  • "The Day The Clown Cried": The worst Holocaust movie you'll never see
  • Book bans and the Jews
  • Antisemitism, college campuses, Title VI, and Israel
  • The collapse of Holocaust memory and its consequences