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MAY 9, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: Ethics, Politics, & the Veteran Community, with Reed Bonadonna

Senior Fellow Reed Bonadonna, a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel, discusses the role of ethics in the transition to civilian life. With presidents Eisenhower ...

MAY 3, 2019 Podcast

The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best—and Worst—Chief Executives, with Brian Lamb

What lessons can we learn from America's past presidents? Can these lessons help us choose the next one wisely? In this timely talk, C-Span founder ...

MAY 1, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: Citizenship, Social Media, & the Indian Election, with Kavitha Rajagopalan

Senior Fellow Kavitha Rajagopalan discusses the ongoing Indian election through the complicated lens of citizenship and explains the vast power of political organizing and social ...

APR 23, 2019 Podcast

How Change Happens, with Cass Sunstein

From the French Revolution to the Arab Spring to #MeToo, how does social change happen? In a book that was 25 years in the making, Cass ...

APR 22, 2019 Podcast

Human Rights, Liberalism, & Ordinary Virtues, with Michael Ignatieff

Central European University's President Michael Ignatieff is a human rights scholar, an educator, a former politician, and, as he tells us, the son of a ...

APR 17, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: A Firsthand Account of the Khmer Rouge Trials, with Andrew Boyle

On the 44th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge entering Phnom Penh, the Brennan Center's Andrew Boyle discusses his work helping to prosecute the perpetrators the ...

APR 11, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: Finance for Social Change & #MeToo, with Criterion Institute's Christina Madden

Criterion Institute's Christina Madden discusses her think tank's strategy of demystifying finance for non-profit and grassroots organizations and using these global systems to create transformative ...

APR 8, 2019 Podcast

The Crack-Up: Winston Churchill & the Geopolitics of 1919, with Andrew Roberts

In this episode of the Crack-Up series on 1919, Andrew Roberts, author of "Churchill: Walking with Destiny," examines how Churchill dealt with the complicated problems facing ...

APR 5, 2019 Podcast

From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future, with Tom Wheeler

We've been through information and technology revolutions before, going back to Gutenberg, says former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler. Now it's our turn to be at ...

China's President Xi Jinping and Taiwan's then-President Ma Ying-jeou in Singapore, 2015. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/presidentialoffice/22843285625">Taiwan Presidential Office</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">(CC)</a>

APR 4, 2019 Podcast

China's Influence on Democracies in Asia, with Joshua Kurlantzick

As part of Carnegie Council's Information Warfare podcast series, Devin Stewart interviews Joshua Kurlantzick about his recent project on Chinese media and influence campaigns and ...