Our Podcasts
Listen to the latest insights from Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Tune in to hear from leading experts and thinkers, identifying and addressing the most critical ethical issues of today and tomorrow.
MAY 12, 2010 • Podcast
Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East
Bernard Lewis is one of the world's foremost Western scholars on Islam. In this eloquent talk he shares some of his knowledge, and explains how ...
MAY 11, 2010 • Podcast
Devin Stewart Interviews Unmesh Brahme, Cofounder of the Climate Civics Institute
Unmesh Brahme of HSBC India discusses his newly-launched Climate Civics Institute, which grew out of a Yale World Fellowship. The Institute's mission is to create ...
MAY 11, 2010 • Podcast
The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World
Ben Wildavsky shows how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education, and why this revolution should be welcomed, not ...
MAY 10, 2010 • Podcast
Open Primaries: William Vocke Interviews Abel Maldonado, Lieutenant Governor of California
Under the current system, California has a deadlocked, polarized legislature that can't get anything done, says Lt. Gov. Maldonado. The solution is to create an ...
MAY 7, 2010 • Podcast
The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--and How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
What, asks Oxford economist Paul Collier, are realistic and sustainable solutions to correcting the mismanagement of the natural world? Can an international standard be established ...
MAY 7, 2010 • Podcast
Sebastian Junger and David Speedie on Afghanistan (NEWSWEEK On Air Interview)
Sebastian Junger recounts some of his experiences while embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Referring to a recent Carnegie Council panel, David Speedie discusses ...
MAY 7, 2010 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: The U.S.: Shedding Hegemony with Grace
Should the U.S. shed some global ambitions and responsibilities? Or, is America's global role simply too important, both to the U.S. and the ...
MAY 7, 2010 • Podcast
China in the 21st Century: Devin Stewart Interviews Jeffrey Wasserstrom
In this lively discussion, topics include China's diversity, its "net nanny" approach to the internet, and why China and the U.S. are more alike ...
APR 30, 2010 • Podcast
How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes, and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
We need to synthesize the idea that a free-market economy is a self-correcting mechanism and the Keynesian principle that capitalism needs some guidance, says UCLA ...
APR 30, 2010 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: British Elections: To Represent or to Govern?
Should election results accurately reflect public opinion or should elections promote effective governance?