Garry Kasparov: Dictators and Democracies
In this Conversation, released originally in 2018, former world chess champion and human rights activist Garry Kasparov shares his perspective on threats to Western democracies from dictators abroad a...
6 Mar 202258min
Eric Edelman: How the West Should Respond to Putin’s War in Ukraine
How should the U.S. and others in the West respond to Putin’s war on Ukraine? What dangers and opportunities might we face in the days and weeks ahead? How might the war reshape geopolitics? Less than...
1 Mar 20221h 2min
Anne Applebaum: Putin’s War on Ukraine and its Consequences
What is driving Vladimir Putin? What wider ramifications might follow from the war? Why should the fate of Ukraine concern us all? To discuss these questions, we are joined by Anne Applebaum, a leadin...
25 Feb 202243min
Diana Schaub: Interpreting Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address is considered one of history's most compelling examples of political rhetoric. In this Conversation, Diana Schaub, a preeminent scholar of American political thought...
2 Feb 20221h 31min
Jonathan Karl: Why Donald Trump’s Election Lies Matter
In his recent book Betrayal, ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl writes: We now live in a nation where a large part of the population does not trust our elections. There are many rea...
20 Jan 20221h 10min
John McWhorter on Woke Politics, Race, and Education
A professor of linguistics at Columbia University and author of the recent book Woke Racism, John McWhorter has been an outspoken critic of woke politics. The appeal to wokeness, he argues, presents a...
6 Jan 20221h 11min
Ashish Jha on Covid-19: On the Omicron Variant and the Outlook for 2022
Where do things stand with Covid-19? How has the emergence of the Omicron variant changed the situation? What can we expect in the short term and throughout 2022? To discuss these questions, we are jo...
14 Des 20211h 7min
Shep Melnick on Title IX: Equity, Due Process, and Free Speech on Campus
In a recent essay, Shep Melnick, a distinguished scholar of American politics at Boston College, writes: Few federal laws have achieved their initial objective more completely than Title IX of the Edu...
2 Des 20211h 27min
