Episodes
7 days ago
7 days ago
We are joined this week by Dr. Po-Shen Loh, professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University, social entrepreneur, and innovator, to discuss some of the challenges and opportunities the rise of AI will pose to work, education, and democracy. Throughout our conversation, we analyze how humans can--and must--remain supreme in an AI world.
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Episode 130 - Haiti: the conversation no one is having, with Brian Concannon
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
We are joined this week by Brian Concannon, the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti. We discussed the history of Haiti, the role of the U.S. and France in that history, and how that history has led to the current situation in Haiti. We also talked about what U.S. policy towards Haiti should look like moving forward and how Haiti has been a world leader in the past and can be once again in the future.
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Episode 129 - The U.S.-China relationship & rivalry with Dr. Michael Beckley
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Monday Jun 03, 2024
We are joined this week by Dr. Michael Beckley, professor of political science at Tufts University and Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, for a discussion on U.S. policy towards China. Dr. Beckley discusses the challenges China currently faces, why those challenges should concern the U.S., and what the U.S. needs to do both economically and militarily to counter China.
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Episode 128 - Election Issues 2024: Crime & Guns
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
We're back this week with the latest installment in our monthly series of episodes analyzing how individual issues might affect the 2024 election. In this episode, we discuss the feelings people have around crime in the U.S., how those feelings combine with the messaging about crime by the two major parties to give one of those parties a significant advantage, what Presidents Trump and Biden did during their terms in office around crime and guns, and what a second term of either president might look like in dealing with these issues.
Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
We are joined this week by TIME editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs to discuss the challenges and opportunities journalism faces today, how TIME is navigating that landscape, and what his vision is for covering the most controversial stories of the day, including and especially the 2024 election here in the U.S.
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Episode 126 - Debating the campus protests
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Wednesday May 08, 2024
We discuss and debate every aspect of the campus protests that have proliferated across the country over the past few weeks, including who the protesters are, what they are protesting, what the goals of the protests are, and how these protests compare to historical protest movements.
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Episode 125 - Election Issues 2024: Taxing & Spending
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
The third installment in our monthly series of episodes analyzing how individual issues might affect the 2024 election returns as we take a look at what taxing, spending, the budget, and the national debt would look like with Congress and the Presidency under control of either of the two major parties.
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Ricky reflects on being a father, and then we welcome on Dr. Eugene Beresin, a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Executive Director of the Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds to talk about mental health and the rise of loneliness in our society. We discuss why people seem to be increasingly lonely and what we can as family members, friends, mentors, and as a society to make things better.
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Episode 123 - The importance of ballot access & RFK Jr. with Larry Sharpe
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
We are joined this week by Larry Sharpe, the Director of National Organizing for American Values 2024, a Super PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to talk about the importance of ballot access, generally, and the importance of getting RFK on the ballot, in particular. Larry, himself a former gubernatorial candidate in New York, makes a fascinating and compelling case for not only why people should want RFK to win but also how RFK could actually win the presidency.
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Episode 122 - Election Issues 2024: Abortion
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Our monthly episode analyzing how individual issues might affect the 2024 election returns as we take a look at the state of the abortion debate from both a long-term, post-Dobbs perspective, and a short-term perspective given recent cases around mifepristone and IVF. It's an issue on which Democrats have an advantage, but will that translate to electoral results in the fall?