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APR 5, 2017 Podcast

A Question of Order: India, Turkey, and the Return of Strongmen

Journalist Basharat Peer recounts the rise of two strongmen: Erdogan in Turkey and Modi in India. What they have in common "is a lack of ...

Pyongyang, North Korea. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/momocita/6822805138">Jen Morgan</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

APR 4, 2017 Podcast

Nuclear War with North Korea?

The North Koreans are not crazy, says Korea scholar Joel S. Wit. They have valid reasons for feeling threatened and their nuclear strategy has actually ...

APR 1, 2017 Journal

Spring 2017 (31.1)

The Spring 2017 issue includes essays by Michael Ignatieff on human rights and the ordinary virtues; Kristy A. Belton on the prospect of ending statelessness in ...

MAR 28, 2017 Podcast

Global Ethics Forum Preview: Europe's Last Chance with Guy Verhofstadt

Next time on Global Ethics Forum, former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt argues against populism and nationalism and for a stronger, more unified Europe. In ...

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 ...

Memorial for the victims of the 2002 Bali bombing in Kuta, Indonesia. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bali_memorial.jpg">Jonathan Liem/Public Domain</a>

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 ...

Orville Schell. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni.

MAR 21, 2017 Podcast

Orville Schell on China's Role in the World

Orville Schell has been reporting on China since 1970. In this wide-ranging and insightful conversation he looks at China and the U.S. exit from TPP; ...