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The History of our Future: A Conversation with Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler
Episode 310
We’ve talked before about those frightening four words heard all too often. “This time it’s different.” Perhaps, besides Wall Street, nowhere else is…
7 years, 2 months ago
The Future is Asian
Episode 309
The 19th century has often been referred to as the imperial or British century. The period, after WWII was, in words coined by Henry Luce, the Americ…
7 years, 2 months ago
Patriarchy in the Me Too Era: A conversation with Carol Gilligan
Episode 308
We live in an age of extremes. We talk about it every day with respect to the economic divide, the political divide, the racial divide, and the gende…
7 years, 2 months ago
When Did We Start This "Division Thing?"
Episode 307
We wonder why millennials are different. Imagine growing up in our current highly partisan, polarized political environment, and not knowing anything…
7 years, 2 months ago
What If The Solution to Fix Democracy is Actually Less Democracy
Episode 306
According to a report just released by Freedom House, a watchdog group that advocates for democracy, political rights, and civil liberties became wea…
7 years, 2 months ago
Why We Need Special Prosecutors....It's Not For Harassment
Episode 305
Ken Starr, Archibald Cox, Leon Jaworski, Lawrence Walsh, and Robert Mueller. These names are almost as familiar as the Presidents they investigated. …
7 years, 2 months ago
Philip Johnson and the Politics of Architecture, the Architecture of Politics
Episode 304
In an era in which everything it politicized, from the TV shows and the movies we watch to the places we shop, it’s not surprising that architecture …
7 years, 3 months ago
Is This The End of Shopping?
Episode 303
All over the world, as populism surges, as creative destruction makes economic change inevitable, the focus on manufacturing and manufacturing jobs i…
7 years, 3 months ago
Black Feminist Politics
Episode 296
The Blue Wave of the recent election would not have been possible without black women voters. The election of Doug Jones in Alabama would not have be…
7 years, 3 months ago
The Wives of the Vietnam Era: What We Learned and What's Different Today
Episode 302
The poet John Milton writing in the 17th century got it right when he said that “They also serve who only stand and wait.” No better description coul…
7 years, 3 months ago