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SEP 29, 2017 Podcast

The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World

To mark Carnegie Council's Centennial, Michael Ignatieff and team set out to discover what moral values people hold in common across nations. What he found ...

Vladimir Putin visits the new Russia Today (RT) broadcasting center, 2012. CREDIT: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#/media/File:Vladimir_Putin_-_Visit_to_Russia_Today_television_channel_2.jpg">Kremlin.ru</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC</a>)

SEP 22, 2017 Podcast

Russian Media and Politics from Soviet Times to Putin, with Jonathan Sanders

Jonathan Sanders lived in Russia for a total of roughly 20 years, both as an academic researcher and as a journalist for CBS News, and has ...

SEP 21, 2017 Podcast

The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics with Mark Lilla

"Democrats/liberals need to understand how we lost our grip on the American imagination. Why is it that we are unable to project an image ...

SEP 20, 2017 Podcast

An Uncertain Ally: Turkey Under Erdoğan's Dictatorship with David L. Phillips

"We need to face the fact that Turkey under Erdoğan has become a rogue regime," declares David L. Phillips. It's a corrupt, repressive, Islamist ...

SEP 14, 2017 Podcast

From the White House to the World: Food, Health, and Climate Change, with Chef Sam Kass

Entrepreneur Sam Kass talks about his experiences as chef and senior policy nutrition advisor in the White House, including titbits about the Obamas, initiatives to ...

SEP 12, 2017 Podcast

The Risks and Rewards of Big Data, Algorithms, and Machine Learning, with danah boyd

How do we analyze vast swaths of data and who decides what to collect? For example, big data may help us cure cancer, but the ...

Ryugyong Hotel and Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, Pyongyang, North Korea. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victorious_Fatherland_Liberation_War_Museum_and_Ryugyong_Hotel_(11342673725).jpg">Clay Gilliland (CC)</a>

SEP 8, 2017 Podcast

North Korea: A Conversation between Joel Rosenthal and Devin Stewart

Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal and Senior Fellow Devin Stewart discuss the tense North Korea situation. What does Kim Jong-un want? How should the United ...

SEP 6, 2017 Podcast

Islam in Indonesia's Political Economy with Wayne Forrest

Indonesia is enjoying economic growth and the reemergence of democracy, yet it is troubling that the influence of Islam in politics is also growing. "I'm ...

SEP 6, 2017 Podcast

The Driver in the Driverless Car with Vivek Wadhwa

What are the social and ethical implications of new technologies such as widespread automation and gene editing? These innovations are no longer in the realm ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thejointstaff/36478259912">Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">(CC)</a>

SEP 5, 2017 Podcast

The Trump Effect in Japan with Robert Dujarric

"When you have a president like Trump, you do have to ask yourself: 'What will the United States look like in five years or in ...