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MAY 3, 2019 Podcast

The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best—and Worst—Chief Executives, with Brian Lamb

What lessons can we learn from America's past presidents? Can these lessons help us choose the next one wisely? In this timely talk, C-Span founder ...

MAY 2, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Back to Spheres of Influence?

National Security Advisor John Bolton's recent comments on Venezuela hearken back to an earlier tradition in international affairs: the concept of spheres of influence.

MAY 1, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: Citizenship, Social Media, & the Indian Election, with Kavitha Rajagopalan

Senior Fellow Kavitha Rajagopalan discusses the ongoing Indian election through the complicated lens of citizenship and explains the vast power of political organizing and social ...

APR 29, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Upcoming Conferences of Interest 2019-2020

A list of upcoming conferences related to the fields of ethics and international affairs through spring of 2020, arranged in chronological order. We hope you find ...

APR 23, 2019 Podcast

How Change Happens, with Cass Sunstein

From the French Revolution to the Arab Spring to #MeToo, how does social change happen? In a book that was 25 years in the making, Cass ...

APR 23, 2019 Journal Online Exclusive

Can Religion Teach Us to Protect Our Environment? Analyzing the Case of Hinduism

Can religion serve as a complementary normative framework to environmentalism? And what are the challenges of moving from religious theory to practice?

APR 22, 2019 Podcast

Human Rights, Liberalism, & Ordinary Virtues, with Michael Ignatieff

Central European University's President Michael Ignatieff is a human rights scholar, an educator, a former politician, and, as he tells us, the son of a ...

APR 17, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: A Firsthand Account of the Khmer Rouge Trials, with Andrew Boyle

On the 44th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge entering Phnom Penh, the Brennan Center's Andrew Boyle discusses his work helping to prosecute the perpetrators the ...

APR 11, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: Finance for Social Change & #MeToo, with Criterion Institute's Christina Madden

Criterion Institute's Christina Madden discusses her think tank's strategy of demystifying finance for non-profit and grassroots organizations and using these global systems to create transformative ...

APR 8, 2019 Podcast

The Crack-Up: Winston Churchill & the Geopolitics of 1919, with Andrew Roberts

In this episode of the Crack-Up series on 1919, Andrew Roberts, author of "Churchill: Walking with Destiny," examines how Churchill dealt with the complicated problems facing ...