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Ben Bernanke: “Like being a paleontologist”
Episode 172
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interes…
1 year, 6 months ago
Nicholas D. Anderson, "Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Episode 128
Territorial expansion is typically understood as a centrally driven and often strategic activity. But Nicholas D. Anderson’s new book, Inadvertent Ex…
1 year, 6 months ago
Alan Greenspan: “The man who knew”
Episode 174
More than any other single institution, the US Federal Reserve drives global capital markets with its decisions and communications. While its interes…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Vote Gap: What’s Pulling Young Men and Women Apart?
Episode 11
Why are young men leaning right while young women shift left? Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones speak with NYU’s Scott Galloway, political…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Good Father Syndrome: Why Strongmen Still Seduce
Episode 165
In this episode of International Horizons, RBI director John Torpey speaks with Stephen Hanson and Jeffrey Kopstein, co-authors of The Assault on the…
1 year, 6 months ago
Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 767
In today's post-Roe v. Wade world, U.S. maternal mortality is on the rise and laws regarding contraception, involuntary sterilization, access to repr…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
Episode 207
The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. B…
1 year, 6 months ago
Russell Blackford, "How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 527
Liberalism is in trouble. As a set of ideas, it has lost much of its historical authority in guiding public policy and personal behaviour. In this po…
1 year, 6 months ago
Randy Laist and Brian Dixon, "Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis" (Fourth Horseman, 2024)
Episode 545
Figures of Freedom: Representations of Agency in a Time of Crisis takes on the idea and terminology of freedom, examining our understanding of this c…
1 year, 6 months ago
Maurizio Ferrera, "Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 44
The starting point of this book is the 'civil war' of ideas that broke out during the early 2010s about the purpose and even the desirability of the …
1 year, 6 months ago