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Kim Jong Un: North Korea's savvy but brutal dictator.
Season 16 Episode 13
North Korea is a hereditary, dynastic dictatorship, under the control of the Kim family for 77 years. Kim Jong Un is the third member of the family t…
3 years, 6 months ago
China's push into the South Pacific: A New Zealand Perspective. Talking with Senior Lecturer at Victoria University, Iati Iati.
Season 16 Episode 12
China has been building its' diplomatic, economic and security ties with the island nations of the South Pacific: It recently signed a security pact …
3 years, 6 months ago
Imagining the next 9/11: Creating fictional narratives to visualize and prevent national security threats. Talking with Peter Singer.
Season 16 Episode 10
Peter Singer is a strategist and senior fellow with New America, a think tank in Washington. He is also the founder and managing partner of Useful Fi…
3 years, 6 months ago
Russian Speakers in NATO Countries : A Red Line for Putin ?
Season 16 Episode 9
Will Putin use the pretext of protecting the Russian speaking minorities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to attack them as he did in the Donbas Regi…
3 years, 6 months ago
Bullitt starring Steve McQueen. In conversation with Shaun Chang of The Hill Place Movie and TV Blog.
Season 16 Episode 8
The 1968 film Bullitt starred Steve McQueen at the peak of his acting career and features the iconic car chase up and down the hilly streets of San F…
3 years, 7 months ago
Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership. Talking with author Dr. Decoteau Irby
Season 16 Episode 7
School leadership is key to ensuring that black and brown students in particular get a good education. Decoteau Irby recounts a five year project whe…
3 years, 7 months ago
Merrick Garland, Mar A Lago and the FBI. Why did the FBI search former President Trump's home ? Talking with Larry Gerston, noted political analyst.
Season 16 Episode 6
The unsealed warrant which was used to search his residence and resulted in 10 boxes of documents being taken away by the FBI, indicates that the fo…
3 years, 7 months ago
Making sense of today's economy: Inflation, Rising Interest Rates, Unemployment and Recession. Talking with Alex Domash, Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Season 16 Episode 5
In today's episode Alex Domash gives us an overview of the Fed's fight against inflation and the prospects of a recession in the next 12 to 24 months…
3 years, 7 months ago
Think Big : Take small steps and build the future you want. In conversation with Dr. Grace Lordan, Associate Professor, The London School of Economics
Season 16 Episode 4
Think Big is essential to your career. Dr. Lordan, a noted Behavioral Scientist at the LSE gives us a toolkit based on data to set and achieve our ca…
3 years, 7 months ago
Speaker Pelosi's trip to Taiwan: the Aftermath. In conversation with Brian Klein, Chief Global Strategist of RidgePoint Global.
Season 16 Episode 3
Did Nancy Pelosi's trip to Taiwan change the status quo of the US China relationship ?
3 years, 7 months ago