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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

NOV 17, 2010 Podcast

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Master raconteur Simon Winchester tells a series of gripping and little-known tales of the Atlantic, the ocean he calls "the inland sea of modern civilization."

NOV 15, 2010 Podcast

The U.S. Navy's New Energy Revolution

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus is working to chart a new course for the Navy and Marine Corps, that by 2020 will dramatically reduce the ...

NOV 12, 2010 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Handpicking Successors and the Brazilian Elections

Brazil's President Lula da Silva handpicked Dilma Rousseff as his successor, even though she has never held political office. How important is continuity in governments? ...

NOV 10, 2010 Podcast

Interview with Jonathan Rose on Green Real Estate

Jonathan Rose was one of the sustainability movement's "early adopters." He led the way in developing green affordable housing, and continues to focus on green ...

NOV 8, 2010 Podcast

Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power

Robert D. Kaplan declares that the Indian Ocean area will be the true nexus of world power and conflict in the coming years and it ...

Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

NOV 8, 2010 Podcast

Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

Ian Morris draws on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of ...

NOV 5, 2010 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: The EU and Serbia

Would Serbian admission to the EU prevent another Balkan War? Is promoting Serbian democracy more important than securing justice for 1990s genocides? In pursuing war ...

A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy

NOV 1, 2010 Podcast

A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy

Amar Bhidé takes apart the so-called advances in modern finance, showing how backward-looking, top-down models were used to mass-produce toxic products. He offers tough, simple ...

OCT 29, 2010 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Neo-liberalism and Welfare

Do markets promote the greatest good for the greatest number? What do you think? Should long-term economic growth, promised by a free market, be prioritized ...

OCT 27, 2010 Podcast

The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953

In a striking reinterpretation of the postwar years, Robert Dallek examines what drove leaders around the globe—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Mao, de Gaulle, and Truman—...