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Radical: My Journey Out Of Islamist Extremism
Episode 41
Maajid Nawaz shares his remarkable journey from Islamist extremism to liberal democratic values. Nawaz is the co-founder of Quilliam, a counter-extre…
10 years, 10 months ago
The Obama Doctrine: America's Role in a Complicated World
Episode 42
Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security advisor to President Obama, was the chief US negotiator in the secret normalization talks with Cuba …
10 years, 11 months ago
The Supreme Court's Marriage Equality Ruling: The Most Consequential Ruling in Our Lifetimes?
Episode 43
Recorded just four days after the SCOTUS ruling, this episode features a wide-ranging discussion of the cases and history behind the Marriage Equalit…
10 years, 11 months ago
Undaunted: Stories from the Frontlines of Global Health
Episode 44
During the Ebola crisis, strong grassroots relationships and homegrown leadership made the difference between life and death. Drawing on that learnin…
10 years, 11 months ago
The Evolution of Thinking Machines
Episode 45
In many ways, artificial intelligence has become the norm. From autopilot on airplanes to language translation, we've come to accept once novel conce…
10 years, 11 months ago
Should We Design Our Babies?
Episode 46
The discussion of "designer babies" often revolves around gender or hair color, but as Nita Farahany and Marcy Darnovsky explore, the medical debate …
11 years ago
Acting Out
Episode 47
From co-founding Artists for a Free South Africa, to working in failing schools to turn them around, actor and 2014 Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence…
11 years ago
Will Violence Be Our Legacy?
Episode 48
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says that nowhere is America's crisis of violence more evident than in the African-American community. In this talk…
11 years ago
Kids These Days: Technology and Culture in American Life
Episode 49
What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ l…
11 years ago
On Russia and Putinism
Episode 50
This episode features Nicholas Burns and Strobe Talbott discussing Russia and Putinism. Burns is director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Talbott is …
11 years, 1 month ago