Podcast Episodes

Is America Racist — if so, will it ever not be?

Three global thinkers—a Mexican journalist (Ana Paula Ordorica), a Kenyan poet (Sitawa Namwalie) and a Congolese choreographer (Faustin Linyekula)—what they think is happening in America now.

America…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

First, help yourself - A Moroccan leader on coping with life after Covid

Like everywhere else, Morocco must cope with the potentially overwhelming health, economic and political consequences of the pandemic.  But unlike most places, the country has a well-designed, focuse…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

The Millennial Future

In the midst of a global pandemic, many countries, leaders and people have turned local.  That is not all bad: some people are working to strengthen their local communities, exploring new grassroots …

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

Is it possible to be optimistic about climate change?

For the first time in 75 years, the whole world is focused on the same problem and, in the process, mobilizing unprecedented political will, state authority and fiscal resources as well as relying on…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

Is Europe’s future green or black?

The global Covid-19 pandemic has exposed deep fissures in the global political and economic fabric. For democracy to survive, the social contract needs to be reimagined; economies needs to be re-engi…

Published on 5 years, 6 months ago

The American Condition

What is the state of the Union? Has the American dream become American carnage? Covid-19 has laid bare many pre-existing fissures and deep distress in American society. Can the exhausted majority rea…

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago

Climate after Covid

Christiana Figueres—climate activist, one of the key architects of the Paris Climate Agreement and 2016 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner—passionately believes that the pandemic offers…

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago

The value(s) of democracy

Democracy is under huge pressure everywhere, made worse by the global pandemic.  Too many governments in too many places are failing to deliver on the basic social contract with their citizens.  In t…

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago

Will Democracy Survive Covid-19?

Democracy and democratic institutions were under severe pressure well before the novel Coronavirus appeared. Could the added burden of the pandemic break the back of democracy as we have known it? Ho…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

Understanding Coronavirus and its Implications

Anne Goldfeld, 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner, is a clinician and a medical doctor with long experience—in the lab and on the front lines of care—with epidemics. Together with …

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago