Trump, Coronavirus and the Cost of Ineffective Government, With William Howell
The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the most profound challenges in our world. One of the most prominent has been governmental dysfunction. As director for the Center For Effective Government at th...
30 Apr 202027min
How Coronavirus Is Exposing Our Racial Disparities, with Monica Peek
One of the most tragic aspects of the coronavirus outbreak has been the disproportionate effect COVID-19 has had on communities of color in cities around the country. Assoc. Prof. Monica Peek of the U...
21 Apr 202017min
Coronavirus Shows Why We Need To Rethink Health Care, with Kate Baicker
The coronavirus outbreak has devastated many sectors of our society, and brought many of the issues we were facing before the pandemic to the forefront. This is especially true of health care. Prof. K...
3 Apr 202015min
What Rats Can Teach Us About Empathy and Racism, with Peggy Mason
Why do we feel empathy for some people, but not others? Where does this feeling of empathy come from? These questions have been the focus of one University of Chicago neurobiologist’s career. And to f...
10 Mar 202020min
Why the Coronavirus Could Send China’s Economy Back to the 1980s With Chang-Tai Hsieh
The outbreak of the coronavirus in China is a global tragedy. While much of the attention has been on the disease itself, many global experts have been focusing on the economic side-effects. Some econ...
25 Feb 202018min
Why The Doomsday Clock Is Closer To Apocalypse Than Ever With Rachel Bronson
Since its inception following World War II, the Doomsday Clock has measured our time until apocalypse in minutes. This year, for the first time, the clock set our time to midnight in just seconds. Rac...
12 Feb 202025min
Vladimir Putin’s Number One Enemy With Bill Browder
University of Chicago alumnus Bill Browder’s story sounds like the plot of a Hollywood thriller—except it’s all true. He just wanted to be a businessman, but his experience as a foreign investor in Ru...
27 Jan 202025min
How Google and Facebook Are Ruining Capitalism, with Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales often says that only an immigrant like himself can really appreciate American capitalism. In his native Italy, Zingales says what you know and what you d...
13 Jan 202026min
