Overview
Public Affairs hosted speakers who are prominent people in the world of international affairs, from acclaimed authors, to Nobel laureates, to high-ranking UN officials.
SEP 23, 2013 • Podcast
Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God
Created and armed by Iran, Hezbollah's reach stretches around the world, including inside the United States. Matthew Levitt traces its terrifying activities and discusses how ...
SEP 15, 2013 • Podcast
Ten Billion
Stephen Emmott's short, bold manifesto asks the world to wake up and recognize that not only are the problems we face increasingly interconnected--including energy, climate, ...
JUN 17, 2013 • Podcast
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
Since the late 1970s, says George Packer, we've been living in a new era. The structures that supported ordinary Americans' ambitions, from government to business ...
JUN 11, 2013 • Podcast
Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era
Joseph Nye asks: "If the United States starts out the 20th century as a second-tier power and it ends up the 20th century as the ...
JUN 6, 2013 • Podcast
Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order
We have been guilty of overreaching abroad and underachieving at home, says Richard Haass, and these sins are really two sides of the national security ...
MAY 31, 2013 • Podcast
Legal Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of National Security
"In the post-9/11 world, the job of being the senior legal authority for the Department of Defense is the perfect storm collision of law, national ...
MAY 20, 2013 • Podcast
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
What does it mean to have frequent conversations with God, as so many evangelicals say they do? Anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann spent over 10 years as an ...
MAY 16, 2013 • Podcast
Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight
Victims of trafficking are both young and old, male and female. They can be found working in factories, fields, brothels, private homes, and innumerable other ...
MAY 16, 2013 • Podcast
Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st Century
In this in-depth, erudite talk, George Weigel discusses the historic shift taking place in the Catholic church; the character of the new mode of Catholicism ...
MAY 1, 2013 • Podcast
The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences
"A divided past is only part of the human story. It may be the one that makes the headlines, but, arguably, it's not the only ...