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NOV 1, 2010 • Podcast
A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy
Amar Bhidé takes apart the so-called advances in modern finance, showing how backward-looking, top-down models were used to mass-produce toxic products. He offers tough, simple ...
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—...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...