Podcast Episodes

Cyber (In)Security in a Connected World

Who makes the rules of cyber warfare? Who are the cyber powers?

Cyber insecurity is a reality of life in the digital age. We all worry about being hacked, about losing personal or corporate secrets t…

Published on 4 years, 3 months ago

Cyber (In)Security in a Connected World

Cyber insecurity is a reality of life in the digital age. We all worry about being hacked, about losing personal or corporate secrets to online bandits. But what happens when nations do it?  Is that …

Published on 4 years, 3 months ago

Can We Innovate Our Way to Better Times?

Are we smart enough to translate discoveries into tangible benefits for people?

2021 may go down in history as the year of the Great Awakening. Relentless disease, floods, fires, droughts, food insec…

Published on 4 years, 4 months ago

Who Cares About Migrants?

Where do they go and who will take them? Who worries about them in a world that is focused on coping with Covid?

The world is a mess: climate change in real time, the lingering and sometimes resurgen…

Published on 4 years, 4 months ago

A German Millennial Looks at a New — Or, at Least, Different — World

The 20th century ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the collapse of the Soviet Union. If you've come of age since then, the struggles of The Cold War are the stuff of history books.

For all practica…

Published on 4 years, 4 months ago

Are Your Thoughts Safe?

Neuroscientists know more about how the brain works than ever before; unlocking the brain's potential could transform our world.

In Hamlet, Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is good or bad, but thinking ma…

Published on 4 years, 4 months ago

Worth Repeating: The Chinese Puzzle

What does China want from the rest of the world? Jonathan Ward thinks they want victory.

What does China—or, more particularly China’s leadership and the Chinese Communist Party— want from the rest o…

Published on 4 years, 4 months ago

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 21st Century Style

If art is a window on the soul of a nation, what does ours look like? Who do we think we are in the sense of identity?

We live in a time of profound change. For anyone who doubted how fundamentally o…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Worth Repeating: Does Democracy Have a Future in Latin America?

From Mexico to Argentina there has been an accelerating erosion of representative democracy.

By any measure, Latin American democracy is in trouble. From Mexico to Argentina—and most of the countries…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Worth Repeating: The best of times, and the worst of times

This week’s guests are dedicated to trying to make the world the kind of place it could and should be.

Even as the pandemic, like some giant glacier, slowly and unevenly recedes, the world seems froz…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago