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Repairing America’s Broken Social Compact | Danielle Allen
Repairing America’s Broken Social Compact | Danielle Allen
One issue links the political ructions and failures that have afflicted America in 2020: trust – or, rather, the lack th... Read more
15 Dec 2020
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30mins
Ranked #2
Harvard’s Jeffrey Frankel Measures the GOP’s Tax Plan
Harvard’s Jeffrey Frankel Measures the GOP’s Tax Plan
Jeffrey Frankel, a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a former member of President Bill ... Read more
12 Dec 2017
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23mins
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Atul Gawande Asks Katherine Semrau How We Can Improve Maternal and Newborn Health
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Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande interviews Katherine Semrau, an epidemiologist who leads the Better Birth program at Ari... Read more
13 Feb 2018
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29mins
Ranked #4
Kent Harrington on Trump’s Intelligence Antipathy
Kent Harrington on Trump’s Intelligence Antipathy
Throughout American history, “intelligence” has been a valuable commodity in politics and war, helping nearly every pres... Read more
5 Jun 2018
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27mins
Ranked #5
Minxin Pei on the Rise of Emperor Xi
Minxin Pei on the Rise of Emperor Xi
In March, China’s National People’s Congress rubber-stamped the elimination of presidential term limits, clearing the wa... Read more
10 Apr 2018
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27mins
Ranked #6
Ten Years After the Crisis: An Economic Parley
Ten Years After the Crisis: An Economic Parley
Ten years ago, asset prices were in free fall, credit markets had seized up, and millions of people were losing their ho... Read more
25 Sep 2018
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51mins
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Jim O'Neill on the Evolution of Global Governance
Jim O'Neill on the Evolution of Global Governance
The Western-led international order is in disarray, with this year’s chaotic G7 summit being an obvious case in point. B... Read more
17 Jul 2018
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24mins
Ranked #8
Measuring Inequality | Angus Deaton & Anne Case
Measuring Inequality | Angus Deaton & Anne Case
When it comes to tackling the challenges of inequality, are we asking the right questions? Or, for that matter, measurin... Read more
12 Feb 2019
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29mins
Ranked #9
PS Voice: Unpacking Brexit, with Shashi Tharoor
PS Voice: Unpacking Brexit, with Shashi Tharoor
Former UN Under-Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor, an MP for the Indian National Congress, unpacks Brexit. See acast.com/... Read more
26 Jan 2017
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20mins
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Mark Leonard on Italy and the Future of Europe
Mark Leonard on Italy and the Future of Europe
Following the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote and the rise of populists in Central Europe, does the emergence of a Euroskep... Read more
19 Jun 2018
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27mins
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Revisiting The End Of The Cold War | John Lewis Gaddis
Revisiting The End Of The Cold War | John Lewis Gaddis
Thirty years ago this week, the world watched in awe as thousands brought down the Berlin Wall, marking the beginning of... Read more
5 Nov 2019
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27mins
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PS Voice: Paola Subacchi on Financial Stability
PS Voice: Paola Subacchi on Financial Stability
Paola Subacchi, Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House, discusses financial stability, China, Brexit, and Italy with PS... Read more
5 Oct 2017
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21mins
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Nina Khrushcheva on Russia in 2018 and Beyond
Nina Khrushcheva on Russia in 2018 and Beyond
With President Vladimir Putin the only viable candidate in the presidential election in March, a fourth term is all but ... Read more
30 Jan 2018
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25mins
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Facing Up to Facebook | Roger McNamee
Facing Up to Facebook | Roger McNamee
According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder and CEO, his creation was supposed “to make the world more open and ... Read more
26 Mar 2019
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30mins
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America’s Impeachment Struggle | Noah Feldman
America’s Impeachment Struggle | Noah Feldman
Donald J. Trump became the third president in US history to be impeached. Whatever the impact on his prospects for re-el... Read more
17 Dec 2019
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29mins
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A Referendum on the EU Experiment? | Yascha Mounk
A Referendum on the EU Experiment? | Yascha Mounk
European Parliament elections have traditionally been tedious, low-turnout affairs. But five years of financial and migr... Read more
21 May 2019
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28mins
Ranked #17
The Future of the Establishment | Matthew Goodwin
The Future of the Establishment | Matthew Goodwin
As the United States and the United Kingdom gear up for elections in the next year, many are asking if populist national... Read more
22 Oct 2019
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30mins
Ranked #18
The G20 On Shaky Ground | Lawrence Summers
The G20 On Shaky Ground | Lawrence Summers
Although fair and free trade is one of the G20’s guiding principles, protectionism has re-emerged in many member states ... Read more
2 Jul 2019
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32mins
Ranked #19
What Do Mainstream Economists Get Wrong About Poverty And Growth? | Abhijit Banerjee
What Do Mainstream Economists Get Wrong About Poverty And Growth? | Abhijit Banerjee
By focusing on practical solutions to small questions, Abhijit Banerjee helped revolutionize development economics. Now,... Read more
18 Feb 2020
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21mins
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The Secret Openings of US Foreign Policy | William Burns
The Secret Openings of US Foreign Policy | William Burns
When Donald Trump took the stage at his inauguration in January 2017, he promised to put an end to the multilateral appr... Read more
7 May 2019
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31mins