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FEB 7, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: The Situation in Western Sahara, with Ambassador Sidi Omar

Ambassador Sidi Omar, UN representative for Frente POLISARIO, a liberation movement aiming to secure the independence of Western Sahara, discusses the decades-long dispute in Northwest ...

FEB 6, 2019 Podcast

The Free Speech Century, with Lee Bollinger & Geoffrey Stone

The Supreme Court's 1919 decision in "Schenck v. United States" is one of the most important free speech cases in American history. Because of it we ...

JAN 31, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: Violence & Nationalism in India & the U.S., with Suchitra Vijayan

As founder and executive director of the Polis Project, a research and journalism organization, Suchitra Vijayan is helping to document a concerning trend of identity-based ...

JAN 30, 2019 Podcast

The Crack-Up: Ireland's Quest for Self-Determination, with Christopher L. Pastore

In the third podcast in The Crack-Up series, which looks at how 1919 shaped the modern world, Ted Widmer discusses the story of the Irish Declaration ...

JAN 29, 2019 Podcast

Toward a Human-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity, with Ronald Deibert

Discussions around cybersecurity often focus on the security and sovereignty of states, not individuals, says Professor Ronald Deibert, founder and director of University of Toronto's ...

JAN 24, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: Ethics as a Campaign Platform, with Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox

Quinnipiac University's Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox speaks about her 2018 campaign for state representative in Connecticut, which she lost by a slim margin. After months of speaking to ...

JAN 23, 2019 Podcast

Red Flags: Why Xi's China is in Jeopardy, with George Magnus

China's economy has grown exponentially over the last four decades, but George Magnus, former chief economist at UBS, sees four traps that could derail its ...

Orange County Sheriff's deputies dumping illegal alcohol, Santa Ana, California, 1932. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orange_County_Sheriff%27s_deputies_dumping_illegal_booze,_Santa_Ana,_3-31-1932.jpg">Orange County Archives/(CC)</a>

JAN 18, 2019 Podcast

The Crack-Up: Prohibition, Immigration, & the Klan, with Lisa McGirr

In the second podcast in The Crack-Up series, which looks at how 1919 shaped the modern world, historian Ted Widmer talks to Harvard's Professor Lisa McGirr ...

JAN 17, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: 1919 & the Modern World, with Ted Widmer

Historian Ted Widmer discusses his new Carnegie Council podcast series "The Crack-Up" and how 1919 has shaped the modern world. He and host Alex Woodson speak ...

Devin Stewart and Ian Bremmer. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni.

JAN 16, 2019 Podcast

Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2019, with Ian Bremmer

The wide array of global issues--more than 90 percent of them--that Eurasia Group follows are now headed in the wrong direction in 2019. Eurasia Group president Ian ...