Joel Kotkin argues that the withering of democratic process and institutions reflects the deeper transformation of American and European societies:...
Is it the End of Democracy?
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Podcasts
What’s Next for the Climate: A Post Glasgow Perspective
No one is better positioned to answer those questions than Denmark's Climate Ambassador Tomas Anker Christensen. Tomas was deeply engaged in the...
Saving Democracy, One New Leader at a Time
Alice Barbe, a French political activist, recently shared her ideas, hopes and solutions on how politics ought to work. Do you think she is headed...
Will There Be War? / Constanze Stelzenmüller
Listen as Constanze Stelzenmüller—an expert on Germany, geopolitics and trans-Atlantic relations - shares her views on what is at stake. Hostile...
Looking for Change in All the Right Places: The New Middle East
What's going on? Has the Middle East of strict Islam suddenly turned into something more modern? Listen to Neil Quilliam, a deeply knowledgeable,...
Are the Bad Guys REALLY Winning?
Listen as Anne Applebaum discusses how this new world(dis) order might evolve. What does she mean by “the 21st century is, so far, a story of the...
Searching for New Leaders
Great leaders may or may not be born that way, but their skills and abilities certainly evolve and mature over time. That is why we established an...
Looking For—and Finding—Real Leaders
The only hope for a world awash in troubles is that leaders with vision, universal values, and determination will seize the moment. But just...
Give Peace a Chance (this time in the Middle East)
Listen as Ambassador Dina Kawar parses the possibilities, good and bad, in the Middle East Ambassador Dina Kawar was appointed as Ambassador...