MAR 28, 2017 • Article
President Trump's Dangerous Foreign Policy Know-Nothingism and the Lessons of Nixon and Kennedy
Kennedy kept his cool. Nixon fell to pieces. How will Trump behave under stress--a president who not only lacks a coherent theory of statecraft or ...
MAR 27, 2017 • Podcast
Duterte's Drug War and Human Rights in the Philippines and Southeast Asia
President Duterte has created a human rights calamity, says Phelim Kine of Human Rights Watch. In just over over eight months, 7,000 of the poorest, most ...
MAR 24, 2017 • Podcast
The Lockerbie Bombing: The Search for Justice
In 1988, a bomb detonated on Pan Am 103, killing all on board and devastating the Scottish town of Lockerbie. A Libyan was convicted of the crime. ...
MAR 23, 2017 • Podcast
Teaching Ethics at the Coast Guard Academy with Lt. Tony Gregg
Lt. Tony Gregg is an active-duty officer and instructor of moral and ethical philosophy for the Coast Guard Academy. In this talk, he discusses his ...
MAR 23, 2017 • Podcast
The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies are Changing the Way We Have Kids—and the Kids We Have
Scientists already have the ability to edit genes to treat hereditary diseases, and to screen in vitro embyros for such diseases. Where will these evolving ...
MAR 23, 2017 • News
Former UN climate advisor leads initiative to regulate geo-engineering
From this CICERO article: Geo-engineering can be a cheap way of instantly lowering the Earth's temperature--with potentially devastating side effects. The technology is here but ...
MAR 22, 2017 • Podcast
Indonesia's Jihadists, and the Rise of Female Terrorists
Indonesia is sometimes described as "the smiling face of Islam," but the reality is much more complex. Naraniyah explains the shifting landscape of Indonesian Islamic ...
MAR 22, 2017 • Article
No Place for Eritreans
Eritreans are fleeing their repressive homeland at the rate of 5,000 a month. Yet once they manage to leave, new dangers await these hapless refugees, from ...