It’s commonplace today to bemoan the erosion of democracy almost everywhere. Seemingly endless polls document citizens’ complaints; even more...
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Can Violent Extremists Leave Their Pasts Behind?
Guest host Michael Niconchuk looks for answers with experts Juncal Fernandez-Garayzabal and Noah Tucker. Violent extremism is growing globally. It...
SPOTLIGHT: War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things
The war between Israel and Hamas is a classic “lose/lose” proposition: there can be no winners, with a range of outcomes that stretch from bad...
Pandemic Fallout: Unmasking Ethical Failures / Ruth Faden
Dr. Ruth Faden explains what happened during COVID and how we can do better. According to the WHO, the COVID pandemic killed almost seven million...
What’s Wrong with America? / Lars Trägårdh
The United States seems to be on the verge of some kind of Judgement Day. Extreme partisanship, a past (and future?) president facing seemingly...
Blot Out the Sun? / Luke Iseman & Andrew Song
Luke Iseman and Andrew Song explain how they think they can cool the planet. Supposedly, Herodotus wrote that when the Greeks were told that the...
CAN DEMOCRACY TOLERATE INTOLERANCE AND SURVIVE?
In an opinion poll of 19 mostly Western democracies conducted last year, almost half of respondents said they were dissatisfied with how democracy...
Diplomatically Speaking / Ashok Mirpuri
"There is nothing dramatic in the success of a diplomatist. His victories are made up of a series of microscopic advantages: of a judicious...
Leadership in a World, Disrupted
In June, 2023, the Tällberg Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) organized a gathering of past winners and honorees of the...