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Justice Amy Coney Barrett on "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution"
Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett joins host David M. Rubenstein to discuss her new book, her early life and her view of the Constitu…
9 months, 1 week ago
Empire of AI - Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Journalist Karen Hao discussed her reporting on OpenAI under the leadership of Sam Altman. The Commonwealth Club of California hosted this event.
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9 months, 1 week ago
BN+: Dan Wang on Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
The book is called "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future." Author Dan Wang was born in China in 1992. His parents moved to Canada when he …
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Q&A: Jill Dougherty — My Russia: War or Peace and a Life Covering the Kremlin
Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty discusses her life-long interest in Russia, which she first visited in 1969 as an exchange student. A f…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
From the Library of Congress: John Grisham on Storytelling and Justice
From the Great Hall of the Library of Congress, master of the legal thriller John Grisham joins host David M. Rubenstein to discuss his early life, w…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
AW: "Rocket Dreams..." C. Davenport, Musk, Bezos and space race
The Washington Post's Christian Davenport reported on the private companies in space flight and the rivalry between Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
BN+: Jonathan Mahler on The Gods of New York: NYC in the 1980s
The names are almost all known nationally: Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, David Dinkins, Al Sharpton, Larry Kramer, and Donald Trump. These are people who w…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
AW: Jane Goodall "Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink"
Jane Goodall talked about her book Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink (Grand Central Publishin…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
BN+: Inside McNamara at War: Philip and William Taubman on Vietnam and U.S. Power
Philip Taubman and his brother William have written what the publisher Norton is calling "McNamara at War: A New History." It's a full life biography…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Christopher Scalia, "13 Novels Conservative Will Love (but Probably Haven't Read)"
Critic and opinion writer Christopher Scalia, son of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, recommends 13 novels with conservative themes that, he says, ar…
9 months, 4 weeks ago