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Podcasts
If it’s illiberal, is it democracy?
Europe is increasingly divided: between the frugal North and the Club Med South; between the illiberal East and the progressive West. In many ways,...
Leadership Special: Sylvia Earle, world-class oceanographer and educator
In this special episode, you will meet Sylvia Earle, one of the three 2020 prize winners. Listen, as she is interviewed by Ashok Mirpuri,...
Casas Muertas
Venezuela has been in a death spiral for years. The country have been devastated by political repression and economic depression; its people suffer...
When is too much freedom too much?
Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University, is widely considered one of America's leading legal scholars on freedom of speech and has...
“Expect to have very violent reactions after the pandemic”
Pierre Lellouche worries that bad is likely to get worse. Listen as he discusses how Europe got stuck between the United States and China, the...
Iran’s Annus Horribilis
2020 was an awful year for Iran. A year that started with the assassination of the country's widely popular, leading general ended with the...
High Anxiety
There is mounting evidence that the pandemic is generating a global mental health crisis. How do we cope with the results? Dr. Jonathan DePierro and...
Do you believe in Magic?
Magician Mark Mitton explores how magical thinking (or, at least, a magician’s thinking) can help us through this crisis Mark Mitton is a magician...