Podcast Episodes

Hot War, Cold War, New War

A few weeks ago, Belarus shocked the world when it forced a commercial flight from Athens to Vilnius to land and seized two passengers, one a dissident journalist. But that outrage was only the most …

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

Worth Repeating: Live and Let Live

2020 will be remembered as the Pandemic Year, when a deadly pathogen somehow moved from bat to human—and the rest is history still being written. Six out of 10 infectious diseases are zoonotic: every…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

A New Middle East

A case can be made that the Middle East is going through a realignment as significant as any since statesmen drew lines on maps after World War I or since the state of Israel was created in 1948.  Ne…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Does Democracy Have a Future in Latin America?

By any measure, Latin American democracy is in trouble. From Mexico to Argentina—and most of the countries in between—there has been an accelerating erosion of both the forms and realities of represe…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Welcome to the High-Tech Barbecue

Real, honest-to-god, good tasting steaks—without the downsides of factory farming.

Agriculture as it is practiced today—industrial scale ranching and farming—is already a huge contributor to the acce…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Heart of Darkness

Michela Wrong who has spent nearly three decades writing about Africa, as a journalist, and as an author, talks about the people, the politics, and the day-to-day realities.

Africa is growing or, to …

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Leadership Special: Fio Omenetto and Bright Simons

Listen as two prize winners and friends Fio Omenetto and Bright Simons, discuss how great leaders can change everything.

Today’s world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, pros…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

The hope of our future

“Youth is the hope of our future.” When it comes to governance, is that a good thing in a world where there is a growing body of evidence that youth's satisfaction with democracy is declining...

Fili…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Leadership Special: Jan Eliasson, Former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

Jan Eliasson, one of the most accomplished global diplomats of our era, discuss how great leaders can change everything.

Today's world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, pros…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Alone together: China and America

We seem to be moving from a world where markets ruled to one where politics rules: the politics of nationalism and confrontation, of East versus West instead of East and West.

It wasn't that long ago…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago