Upcoming events.
The Examiner Club is meeting, for the 2025-2026 season, on the third Wednesday of each month.
Members convene at the Union Club in Boston, with special meetings and “field trips” at the Arnold Arboretum and other locations. This page will list the presentations for the current and upcoming year, as dates and speakers are settled. Check in regularly for details.
Winter-Spring 2026
January 21 Renée Loth. "Can gentrification be stopped? And do we even want to stop it?” The pros and cons of gentrification, considering the Greater Boston and national environments, with solutions that might work… or not.
February 18 Ray Madoff. "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy.” Ray’s recent book, recommended in the New Yorker Best Books of 2025, asks, “Why don’t the rich pay taxes and what can be done about it?”
March 18 Bob Kuttner. “Notes For Next Time: Surviving Trump and Reviving America.” Drawing on his memoir, to be published in March, Bob will talk about a period when America began great progress towards social and economic justice, and then, as he says, “it got away from us.”
April 15 TBA
May 20 TBA. At the Arnold Arboretum
Past Presentations
Fall 2025
September 17 Nancy Gertner. “Threats to Our Democracy: Can the Courts Meet the Moment?”
October 15 Judith Vecchione. “Storytelling and Democracy.” On the making of the landmark series Eyes on the Prize, and what the destruction of federal funding for journalism and the arts means for us all.
November 19 Juan Mandelbaum. “Paquito D’Rivera: From Carne y Frijol to Carnegie Hall.” Film screening, with comments on the creative process, of his latest production: a profile of Latin jazz legend Paquito D’Rivera.
December 17 Donald Shambroom. “Mirror Image: Marcel Duchamp and Leonardo da Vinci.” Shambroom, a visual artist himself, reflects on two brilliant and generous minds.