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Brazos Wind Farm near Fluvanna, Texas. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GreenMountainWindFarm_Fluvanna_2004.jpg">Leaflet</a>

JUL 10, 2017 Podcast

The Earth Institute's Steven Cohen Offers Hope for a Sustainable Future

"I still believe that we're heading toward a renewable resource-based economy. I think that it's inevitable," declares Steven Cohen. How will we get there? A ...

JUL 6, 2017 Podcast

Tom Nichols on the Death of Expertise

Across the world today, there is active hostility towards experts, says Tom Nichols of the U.S. Naval War College, and this is a very ...

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JUN 29, 2017 Podcast

Amitai Etzioni on Avoiding War with China

The result of a war with China? "At best we have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons nobody will use which are ...

North Korea, Mass Games. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/fljckr/1027994656/sizes/l/">Stephan</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC</a>)

JUN 27, 2017 Podcast

Ali Wyne on the Risks of U.S. Disengagement from Asia

"Unless we are able to overcome our strategic attention deficit disorder for lack of a better phrase, and unless we are able to not only ...

JUN 23, 2017 Podcast

Soldiers and Civilization: How the Profession of Arms Thought and Fought the Modern World into Existence

The soldier "is at once the most and the least civilized of persons," says Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Reed Bonadonna. In this thoughtful conversation, he ...

Air strike in Sana'a, May 2015. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Air_strike_in_Sana%27a_11-5-2015.jpg">Ibrahem Qasim</a>  (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">CC</a>)

JUN 21, 2017 Podcast

Waleed Alhariri on the U.S. Covert Use of Lethal Force, and the Crisis in Yemen

Waleed Alhariri of the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies discusses the Center's new report on U.S. covert attacks against al Qaeda and other radical ...

JUN 13, 2017 Podcast

Yvonne Terlingen on the UN Secretary-General Selection Process

Until very recently, the United Nations selected its secretary-general entirely behind closed doors. Yvonne Terlingen, of the 1 for 7 Billion Find the Best UN Leader campaign, ...

Admiral James Stavridis. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni

JUN 12, 2017 Podcast

Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans

"Oceans dominate the world," says Admiral Stavridis. After all, 70 percent of the globe is covered by water. In this masterly overview of the seven seas, ...

Katarina Church and Stockholm Mosque, Stockholm, Sweden. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katarina_kyrka_%26_Stockholms_mosk%C3%A9.JPG">Poxnar/Wikimedia</a>

JUN 8, 2017 Podcast

James Traub on Immigrants and Refugees

What happens when Sweden, one of the most welcoming countries on Earth for migrants, simply runs out of beds? What are the unpleasant (and politically ...

JUN 7, 2017 Podcast

Shades of Red and Blue: The Next Generation of Leaders: Better Politics for A Better Future

This discussion brings together some of the brightest minds of the next generation of leaders and places them in the crucible of an imagined future ...