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OCT 29, 2010 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Neo-liberalism and Welfare

Do markets promote the greatest good for the greatest number? What do you think? Should long-term economic growth, promised by a free market, be prioritized ...

OCT 27, 2010 Podcast

The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953

In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove leaders around the globe—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman—...

What Technology Wants

OCT 26, 2010 Podcast

What Technology Wants

In a brand-new view of technology, co-founder of "Wired" magazine Kevin Kelly suggests that it is not just a jumble of wires and metal. He ...

OCT 25, 2010 Podcast

Interview with William Powers, Living Off the Grid

William Powers discusses his life's journey, including time in Liberia and Bolivia, and a stay in a 12 x 12-foot cabin with no electricity or running ...

One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy

OCT 25, 2010 Podcast

One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy

Allison Stanger shows how contractors became an integral part of U.S. foreign policy, often in scandalous ways, but maintains that the problem is not ...

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OCT 22, 2010 Podcast

Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name

Looking back over the last decade, Timothy Garton Ash catalogues the challenges facing the EU--the economy, a united foreign policy, the integration of Muslims--and concludes ...

OCT 22, 2010 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Can Moral Injury Be a Wound of War?

Moral injury is a new concept to describe the harm done to combatants traumatized by war. Is this concept confined to combatants alone, or is ...

OCT 18, 2010 Podcast

Sustainable Societies

What will it take to build sustainable societies? The panel includes Sartaz Ahmed of Booz and Company on building sustainable cities; Larry Burns (formerly of ...

OCT 15, 2010 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Politics and Civility

Civility has fled the 24/7 news cycle. Public life need not be this way. Why do we tolerate, even gorge, on this lack of civility? How ...

Shibley Telhami

OCT 15, 2010 Podcast

Can Obama Please Both Arabs and Israelis? What the Polls and History Tell Us

Despite Obama's rhetoric, most Arabs still see America through the prism of pain of the Arab-Israeli conflict, says Telhami, and a majority of Arabs and ...