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NOV 1, 2017 Podcast

Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities, with Kate Brown

Chernobyl is considered the greatest nuclear disaster of all time. But over decades America's Hanford plant and Russia's Mayak plant each issued almost four times ...

OCT 31, 2017 Podcast

Democracy and Its Crisis, with A. C. Grayling

Representative democracy in the UK has been corrupted by the three B's, says Grayling: blackmail, bullying, and bribery. There are similar problems in the United ...

OCT 30, 2017 Podcast

False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, with Steven A. Cook

Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of ...

OCT 23, 2017 Podcast

Miranda Massie on the Impacts of Climate Change and New York's Climate Museum

Hurricane Sandy was the catalyst that impelled Miranda Massie to quit her job as a civil rights lawyer and found the Climate Museum. "I think ...

OCT 18, 2017 Podcast

The Future of War: A History, with Lawrence Freedman

"Though most of the literature you will read on the future of war certainly talks about war as between regular armies, as proper fights, now ...

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OCT 13, 2017 Podcast

Liberals' Lament? A Conversation between Joel Rosenthal and Devin Stewart

Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal and Senior Fellow Devin Stewart discuss the challenges to liberalism, in the United States and on the international stage, and ...

OCT 6, 2017 Podcast

What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters with Garry Wills

How can we engage with Muslims around the world without really understanding what they believe? On studying the Qur'an, religious scholar Garry Wills found that ...

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OCT 5, 2017 Podcast

Free-Enterprise Solutions to Climate Change, with Bob Inglis

Republican politician Bob Inglis used to think that climate change was nonsense; but his son--and science--changed his mind. Today he advocates letting market forces do ...

OCT 3, 2017 Podcast

Fake News and Google with Daniel Sieberg

How much of a threat is fake news to the average citizen? What is Google doing to counteract its spread? Learn more with this conversation ...

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OCT 2, 2017 Podcast

After Liberal Hegemony: The Advent of a Multiplex World Order with Amitav Acharya

The liberal order was never truly a global order, and we're not entering a multipolar era either, says Amitav Acharya. It's more accurate to call ...