Commonwealth Club of California
The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum 📣, bringing together its 20,000 members for more than 500 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy.
Founded in 1903 in San Francisco California 🌉, The Commonwealth Club has played host to a diverse and distinctive array of speakers, from Teddy Roosevelt in 1911 to Anthony Fauci in 2020.
In addition to the videos🎥 shared here, the Club reaches millions of listeners through its podcast🎙 and weekly national radio program📻.
For more information or to become a member🎉, visit https://www.commonwealthclub.org/membership
TAAF AAPI Youth Mental Health Summit
The Status Kuo, with Jay Kuo
The Case that Haunted California: DA Thien Ho on the Golden State Killer, with Dion Lim
Michael McFaul: Autocrats vs Democrats and the New Global Order
Week to Week Politics Roundtable: November 17, 2025
Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department
Tim Wu: The Age of Extraction
Julia Ioffe: A Feminist History of Modern Russia
Edward Frenkel—Back to the Roots: How Do We Revive Pythagorean Tradition in the Age of AI?
Jimmy Wales: The Seven Rules of Trust
Justice Anthony Kennedy: Life, Law, and Liberty
Jonathan Karl: Donald Trump and His Campaign of Retribution
Innovative Financing for Innovative Impact
NYT’s Kenneth Vogel Exposes the Shadowy World of Foreign Lobbying in D.C.
Joyce Vance: Giving Up is Unforgivable
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: Lessons for Those Who Want to Make a Difference
ACLU’s Cecillia Wang: Defending Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Hostile Times
The Superpower Struggle to Control TikTok, with Emily Baker-White and Mike Isaac
Wesleyan President Michael Roth: Why Higher Ed Should Stand up to Trump
Prop. 50 Explained: What’s at Stake for California…and Congress
San Francisco Opera: The Monkey King
October Reprise: Week to Week Political Roundtable
Steven Pinker: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…
Mary Roach with Cynthia Gorney | Replaceable you: Adventures in Human Anatomy
Shaka Senghor: How to Be Free
An Empire of Ideas: How Ancient India Transformed the World, with William Dalrymple
The Pediatric Moonshot: Reducing Health Inequity, Lowering Cost and Improving Outcomes for Children
Former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano on Trump’s “Misuse of Presidential Power”
Dan Wang | Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future