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What's Character Got to Do with It?
Episode 29
David Brooks writes about character. Aaron Sorkin writes about characters. The opinionator and consummate storyteller join in a conversation about ho…
10 years, 11 months ago
'Unfinished Business' with Anne-Marie Slaughter
Episode 30
Anne-Marie Slaughter provides a sneak peek of her new book, 'Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family'. Inspired by her 2012 article "Why Women Sti…
10 years, 11 months ago
Facing Death with Dignity and a Plan
Episode 31
How can our medical and social systems support or hinder dying? Do we have the right to bend the arc of our own death, or that of a loved one? How ca…
11 years ago
The Church of Pope Francis
Episode 32
Nancy Gibbs, editor of TIME magazine, leads a conversation with: Michael Gerson, a nationally syndicated columnist whose writing appears twice weekly…
11 years ago
The New Golden Age of Television
Episode 33
Internet TV is growing globally in ways that traditional TV just isn’t. Netflix is a change-maker that is dramatically influencing our consumption of…
11 years ago
What is College For?
Episode 34
Featuring William Deresiewicz, author of 'Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life' and New York Time…
11 years ago
China: New Economic Superpower?
Episode 35
Former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has had unprecedented access to modern China’s political and business elite. As head of Goldman Sachs, he h…
11 years, 1 month ago
Long Life in the 21st Century (Aspen Lecture)
Episode 36
Aspen Lecture featuring Laura Carstensen, Fairleigh Dickinson Professor in Public Policy, Department of Psychology, Stanford University; Director, St…
11 years, 1 month ago
Is Violence a Function of our Culture?
Episode 37
Homicide remains an endemic, seemingly unsolvable problem in America. And violent crime afflicts African-American communities to a much greater degre…
11 years, 1 month ago
A View from the White House
Episode 38
The President’s Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor tells us what keeps her up at night and how she is working to make us all safe. Lisa M…
11 years, 1 month ago