Saudi Arabia's "Genius" Crown Prince
Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's Crown prince, seems to have charmed President Trump. But Bernard Haykel, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, says his "revolution" is mostl...
28 Sep 201942min
Live Episode: Noah Feldman and Malcolm Gladwell
Noah Feldman speaks to author and Pushkin co-founder Malcolm Gladwell about his new book "Talking to Strangers" in Boston, MA, at an event organized by the Harvard Bookstore. They discuss everything f...
21 Sep 20191h 7min
Trump's "Dangerous" Iran Policy
Is Donald Trump leading the US into war with Iran? Middle East scholar Vali Nasr says it definitely seems like it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystu...
14 Sep 201934min
A Solution for Algorithmic Bias
Algorithms can determine everything from what ads you see on the internet to the interest rates on your loan. And they aren't always exactly fair. Nicol Turner Lee, a fellow at Brookings, and Talia Gi...
7 Sep 201936min
Affirmative Action Isn't Enough
This year, only seven black students were accepted to Stuyvesant, one of New York's most prestigious public high schools. Harvard Law Professor Randy Kennedy says that to address the racial inequities...
30 Aug 201936min
The Party of Ideas
The Republican party used to tout itself as the party of ideas. Now it seems to be the party of Donald Trump. Conservative thinker Peter Wehner explains what he thinks happened. Peter Wehner's Suggest...
25 Aug 201934min
A Genetic Engineer's Perspective on "Designer Babies"
A Chinese scientist reportedly edited the genes of two baby twin girls last year to protect them from the AIDS virus. Harvard geneticist George Church believes we will be hearing many more stories lik...
18 Aug 201935min
Inside MS-13
Hannah Dreier won a Pulitzer for her ProPublica investigation “Trapped in Gangland” about the international criminal gang MS-13. She says we can’t beat the gang if we don’t understand it. Learn more...
11 Aug 201940min
