Shahidul Alam is many things: world-class photographer, Bangladeshi human rights activist, teacher, and author. He is also a provocateur, whose...
Podcasts
Pricing the Priceless: The ultimate, maybe the only climate solution / Paula DiPerna
Humanity is hardwired to value the valuable, to conserve even to hoard treasure. The atmosphere, the oceans, earth’s ecosystem are vital to life,...
Trump Agonistes / Joon Kim
Donald Trump continues to make history: he is the only American president (serving or former) ever to have been criminally indicted. He already...
Our Blue Planet / Asha de Vos
Asha de Vos has done pioneering work on blue whales and joined this week for a conversation about her work in Sri Lanka. The planet “Earth” should...
“When you strike at a king, you must kill him” / Yevgenia Albats
Yevgenia Albats, a journalist in forced exile from Russia, thinks that Prigozhin is a “dead man walking.” Maybe Putin, too. A few days ago the world...
What Does ChatGPT Think? / Rebecca Finlay
Rebecca Finlay delves into the questions surrounding the regulation of AI, its limitless potential, and the challenges faced in controlling its...
Georgia on My Mind / Nino Evgenidze
Russia's invasion of Ukraine seems likely to be one of those seminal events that will divide our future histories: BI and AI. That's obviously true...
What’s Love Got to Do With It? Building a Different Middle East / Gilles Kepel
Over the last several months, there have been a series of extraordinary developments in the Middle East that could have almost as big an impact on...
Is India Back? / Milan Vaishnav
India had the world's largest economy until the 17th century but suffered almost 500 years of decline afterward. However, India is currently the...