Podcast Episodes

Will 2019 Be the Moment of Truth for Israeli Democracy?

Will Israel's democratic institutions prove resilient? How is the party system changing and is Israel headed for a tyranny of the majority?

Yohanan P…

7 years, 3 months ago

YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

Dr. Cecile Kuznitz, director of Jewish Studies at Bard College and author of YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddis…

7 years, 3 months ago

When We Let Our Schooling Interfere with Our Education

Yossi Dahan, a law and philosophy professor at the Ramat Gan College of Law and Business and at the Open University, and the chairman of the Adva Cen…

7 years, 3 months ago

Kill Thy Neighbor

When do people to commit mass violence against an ethnic, religious or racial group in their midst? Does the demand for minority rights inevitably sp…

7 years, 4 months ago

Us and Them: Is There Any Way Out?

Nurit Novis-Deutsch, a psychologist of religion, values, morality and identity, believes that people who perceive themselves as having a complex iden…

7 years, 4 months ago

When Zionism and Human Rights Got Along

Before human rights was a universally accepted concept, and before there was Israel, there were prominent Jews who supported both. Some would contrib…

7 years, 4 months ago

All the King's Men: Tribal Leadership in Modern Jordan

Prof. Yoav Alon, a historian of the Middle East, discusses his award-winning book The Shaykh of Shaykhs: Mithgal al Fayiz and Tribal Leadership in Mo…

7 years, 4 months ago

Matthew Goodwin: Get to Know the New Nationalists

From Hungary to Brazil, to Italy, the UK and US a special style of nationalist politics seems to be taking over. But is the current wave of national-…

7 years, 5 months ago

The Human Experience in Objects: The Case for Museums in the 21st Century

Neil McGregor, the former director of the British Museum, analyzes the enduring validity of museums in the age of technological upheavals and fake ne…

7 years, 5 months ago

Corruption: A Very Glocal Problem

Transparency International is among the most prominent global organizations fighting corruption through exposure, documentation and measurement.

Deli…

7 years, 5 months ago