Ethics Matter Interview Series

Overview

This series featured speakers from very different backgrounds, countries, and professions. What they have in common are strongly held moral convictions and a passionate commitment to their work, which makes for memorable conversations.

Alexander Görlach. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni

FEB 14, 2017 Podcast

Alexander Görlach on Threats to Liberal Democracy

In this wide-ranging and lively discussion, Alexander Görlach, founder of the debate magazine "The European," tackles the rise of populism and the far right ...

Stephanie Sy and Robert Quinn. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni

FEB 13, 2017 Podcast

A Conversation with Robert Quinn on Scholars at Risk

Scholars at Risk provides temporary teaching positions and advisory services to hundreds of threatened scholars around the world. Quinn describes how its caseload has doubled ...

FEB 2, 2017 Podcast

Shalini Kantayya: The Intersection of Ethics, the Environment, & Economics

"I think we as a movement have not done a good job of making climate change a kitchen-table issue, of making this an economic issue ...

Ian Bremmer. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni

JAN 10, 2017 Podcast

Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2017

The world is entering a geopolitical recession, i.e. an unwinding of the old global order, says political scientist Ian Bremmer, in his grimmest forecast ...

L to R: María Antonieta Alcalde and Terry McGovern. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni

DEC 21, 2016 Podcast

Women's Rights are Human Rights: Global Challenges to Reproductive Health

How will the Trump presidency affect women's rights, not only in the U.S. but around the world? Will the Sustainable Development Goals really succeed ...

DEC 20, 2016 Podcast

GroundTruth's Charles Sennott on the Future of Journalism

Despite all the challenges, right now is one of the most exciting moments for a new generation to redefine journalism, says Charles Sennott. The core ...

Janos Pasztor and Stephanie Sy

DEC 12, 2016 Podcast

The Ethics and Governance of Geoengineering

The definition of geoengineering is "large-scale human intervention with the Earth in order to change the climate," says Janos Pasztor, and to manage the world's ...

OCT 18, 2016 Podcast

Peacemakers in Action: An In-depth Discussion of Religious Peacebuilding

Don't miss this remarkable conversation with Joyce Dubensky, CEO of Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, and one of Tanenbaum's peacemakers, Rev. Bill Lowrey, who spent ...

Detail from book cover, "Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State"

OCT 6, 2016 Podcast

Karen Greenberg on Terrorism and "Rogue Justice"

What attracts young people to terrorism? Targeted killings, indefinite detention, mass surveillance--have Americans allowed too much power to be vested in the presidency? How are ...

Kumi Naidoo

SEP 27, 2016 Podcast

Kumi Naidoo on Human Rights and the Impact of Climate Change

Kumi Naidoo's activism began at 15 years old, when he risked his life to protest against apartheid in his native South Africa. The former Greenpeace executive ...