Episodios

  • BN+: Constitutional Scholar Akhil Reed Amar on America’s Equality Story

    BN+: Constitutional Scholar Akhil Reed Amar on America’s Equality Story
    Nov 25 2025
    Yale constitutional law professor Akhil Reed Amar's second book in a trilogy is titled "Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920." In Professor Amar's introduction, he writes: "Millions of Americans can recite by heart Lincoln's opening line at Gettysburg. But how many of us understand it?" "This sentence," Professor Amar continues, "sits at the very center of this book." Akhil Amar, born in 1958 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was raised in California. After law school at Yale, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, and became a junior professor back at his alma mater at age 26. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 10 m
  • Q&A: Enes Kanter Freedom, "In the Name of Freedom"

    Q&A: Enes Kanter Freedom, "In the Name of Freedom"
    Nov 24 2025
    Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, chosen third in the NBA draft in 2011, is the author of "In the Name of Freedom." In his book, he talks about advocating for human rights as a professional athlete. The Turkish American basketball player has been critical of the NBA and Nike for doing business with China and has called out LeBron James for staying silent on China's human rights abuses. He has also testified in front of Congress about the authoritarian rule of Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 5 m
  • ABC: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts

    ABC: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts
    Nov 23 2025
    Jose Andres joins David M. Rubenstein to discuss his career, his global relief efforts with World Central Kitchen, his books, and his love of food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 2 m
  • AW: Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty on Understanding Today’s Russia

    AW: Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty on Understanding Today’s Russia
    Nov 23 2025
    Former CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty talked about her experiences covering Russia and Russian Presidents Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Putin. She spoke at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 3 m
  • BN+: Kenneth Feinberg, "What is Life Worth?"

    BN+: Kenneth Feinberg, "What is Life Worth?"
    Nov 18 2025
    Kenneth Feinberg is a Washington-based attorney who served as a special master of the US government's 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Mr. Feinberg worked for 33 months, pro bono, deciding who should be compensated as a result of the deaths and injuries from 9/11. Kenneth Feinberg, who today is 79, was interviewed on C-SPAN's Q&A program about his book, "What is Life Worth: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9-11." Here is an encore presentation of that July 1, 2005, interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 2 m
  • Q&A: Rep. James Clyburn on “The First Eight” and the Rise of Black Political Leadership

    Q&A: Rep. James Clyburn on “The First Eight” and the Rise of Black Political Leadership
    Nov 17 2025
    Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) talks about eight Black representatives from South Carolina who served in Congress during the Reconstruction Era. The eight included Joseph Rainey, the first Black politician elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and Robert Smalls, a Civil War hero who fled the Confederacy to fight for the Union Army. Both were former slaves. Rep. Clyburn became the ninth Black congressman from South Carolina nearly a century later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 5 m
  • ABC: Walter Isaacson on the Minds That Shape Our Modern World

    ABC: Walter Isaacson on the Minds That Shape Our Modern World
    Nov 16 2025
    Walter Isaacson is a Professor of History at Tulane. He has been the editor of Time Magazine, the CEO and Chairman of CNN, and the CEO of the Aspen Institute. He is the author of Elon Musk (2023), Leonardo da Vinci (2017), Steve Jobs (2011), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992). Isaacson is a graduate of Harvard College and Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He began his career at The Sunday Times in London and then New Orleans’ Times-Picayune. He joined TIME in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor, and editor of digital media before becoming the magazine’s 14th editor in 1996. He became chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    58 m
  • After Words: George Selgin, "False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Bitcoin"

    After Words: George Selgin, "False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Bitcoin"
    Nov 16 2025
    University of Georgia professor emeritus George Selgin argued that many of FDR's New Deal programs were counterproductive and impeded recovery during the Great Depression. He spoke at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 4 m