Podcast Episodes

Friday Focus: China Snub – Inflation Immiseration

Season 2 Episode 48

Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Be it Resolved, Putin deserves a dead end, not an off ramp, in Ukraine

Season 2 Episode 103

When Putin invaded Ukraine in the Spring of 2022, the western world reacted in understandable horror.  The first major ground mobilization in Europe since The Second World War arrived in shocking, gr…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Friday Focus: Chief Twit – Crypto Carnage

Season 2 Episode 47

Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Be it Resolved it's time we cancelled Winston Churchill

In 2002, Winston Churchill was voted the greatest Briton who ever lived, beating Darwin, Shakespeare and Elizabeth I to take the top spot. Just 18 years later, a statue of the former British Prime Mi…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Friday Focus: Autumn of Discontent – Rocket Man

Season 2 Episode 46

Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Be it resolved Let’s engineer a better human being

We’ve come a long way since DNA was first discovered in the mid 19th century. Today’s scientists are using powerful engineering techniques to edit genes in human eggs and sperm, curing diseases and r…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Friday Focus: Round The World – Cuban Missile Crisis

Season 2 Episode 45

Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Munk Dialogue with Dmitri Trenin: the threat of nuclear war

The war between Russia and Ukraine has killed thousands of people and displaced 13 million Ukrainians. Yet despite heavy losses on both sides, the conflict shows no signs of abating anytime in the ne…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Friday Focus: Bond Vigilantes – Dr. K

Season 2 Episode 44

Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding dire…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Munk Dialogue on the bivalent COVID-19 booster: do the benefits outweigh the risks?

Season 2 Episode 99

Health Canada, the FDA, and the CDC have approved COVID bivalent vaccines to anyone over the age of 12. This booster is different from previous COVID shots, targeting multiple strains of the novel co…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago