The American College Crack-Up - with Niall Ferguson
In this decade we may finally experience a true crack-up in higher education. There have been comparable periods on American college campuses in the past (in the 1960s and 1980s, for example). But o...
4 Dec 202129min
Lessons for the 2020s - With Historian Niall Ferguson
The first of our two-part conversation with Naill Ferguson is on applied history’s lessons of the 1920s and the 1970s...for the 2020s. Niall is a historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institutio...
26 Nov 202141min
Dan Senor’s New Podcast - Call Me Back
Welcome to our new podcast, “Call Me Back”, where we try to zoom out from minute-to-minute news and look back to how we got here, what we can learn from earlier decades and where we might be going in ...
23 Nov 20211min
The Political Fallout from Covid19 - with Matthew Continetti
The recent electoral outcomes in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City, Buffalo, Minneapolis and other areas across the country were as much to do with the pandemic -- and the economic and cultural shoc...
6 Nov 202156min
Vaccines: A New American Success Story? — with The Wall Street Journal’s Gregory Zuckerman
Have we revolutionized vaccine development? What does this mean for our lives and our health well beyond the vaccine for Covid-19? Could this kind of life sciences revolution only happen in America? A...
30 Okt 20211h 4min
IS THIS THE END OF C-19’s BEGINNING? - with Yale University’s Nicholas Christakis
In the middle of the pandemic, Dr. Nicholas Christakis released a sweeping book, called “Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live”. In it, he drew on scientif...
22 Okt 20211h 8min
The Merits of Merit - with Adrian Wooldridge of The Economist
During the pandemic, standardized tests were suspended in an entire range of educational institutions. Will these changes be temporary or permanent? More than 600 of these institutions switched from ...
15 Okt 20211h
A New Crime Wave? - With Jason Riley
JASON RILEY’S BOOK: “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell”https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/maverick-jason-riley/1137602681?ean=9781541619685 THOMAS SOWELL’S BOOKS:https://m.barnesandnoble.com/s/Thomas...
2 Okt 20211h 20min
