Podcast Episodes

Nate Silver: On the Edge

Professional risk takers—poker players and hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and blue-chip art collectors—can teach us a lot about navigatin…

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Polling and the 2024 Election

Join us as marketing research expert and political pollster Josh Libresco returns to Commonwealth Club World Affairs to provide us with insights into…

1 year, 5 months ago

Former US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross: Risks and Rewards

Before being named President Trump’s secretary of commerce in 2017, Wilbur Ross had already earned a reputation as the “King of Bankruptcy” over his …

1 year, 5 months ago

What If We Get It Right?

In the face of hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and other fossil fueled disasters, it’s easy to feel hopeless about the future of the climate. But mar…

1 year, 5 months ago

Yuval Noah Harari and Aza Raskin: The Making and Unmaking of Humanity

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The Handmaid's Tale: Opera of Searing Contemporary Resonance

In this whirlwind 2024 political election year, public affairs issues include gender considerations, reproductive rights and governing boundaries.

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1 year, 5 months ago

No Justice Without Climate Justice

Before Justin J. Pearson became a national voice for common sense gun regulation, he was a strong advocate for climate and environmental justice, hav…

1 year, 5 months ago

Arlie Russell Hochschild: Stolen Pride and the Rise of the Right

What’s the “pride paradox”?

For all the efforts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, people have often ignored what e…

1 year, 5 months ago

Talmage Boston: How the Best Did It

Join us to hear Talmage Boston’s explanations of how the leadership traits of America’s eight greatest presidents could (or at least should) be imple…

1 year, 5 months ago

Sergeant Nyaradzo Auxilia Hoto: Protecting Africa’s Wilderness, "Sergeant Nyaradzo Auxilia Hoto: Protecting Africa’s Wilderness, with a Powerful All-Female Ranger Force

Sergeant Nyaradzo Auxilia Hoto grew up in Huyo village, in Nyamakate, located in Zimbabwe’s mighty Zambezi Valley. From an early age, she dreamed of …

1 year, 5 months ago