Policy on Purpose Podcast
1) Unpacking clean energy transition in Texas with LBJ School energy experts Doug Lewin, Emily Beagle and Joshua Rhodes
What does the future of clean energy in Texas look like? On January 28, 2025, the LBJ School partnered with Canary Media and David Roberts of Volts to host an afternoon of discussions about policies s...Show More
2) Meet the Mayors: Greater Manchester’s Andy Burnham on Urban Innovation and the Austin-Manchester Sister City Partnership
What does city governance look like across the pond? The Mayor of Greater Manchester shed alight on his experience for the LBJ School. Elected in 2017, Mayor Andy Burnham has led initiatives to transf...Show More
3) Policy Leadership in the Age of AI – AI in National Security Policy
This is the fourth installment of our four-part podcast series on our Policy Leadership in the Age of AI symposium, which was hosted at the Bass Lecture Hall on October 1st, 2024. As part of UT’s 2024...Show More
4) Policy Leadership in The Age of AI: AI in Teaching and Learning
This is the third installment of our four-part podcast series on our Policy Leadership in the Age of AI symposium, which was hosted at the Bass Lecture Hall on October 1st, 2024. As part of UT’s 2024 ...Show More
5) Policy Leadership in the Age of AI – AI and the Future of Work
This is the second installment of our four-part podcast series on our Policy Leadership in the Age of AI symposium, which was hosted at Bass Lecture Hall on October 1st, 2024. As part of UT’s 2024 ini...Show More
6) Policy Leadership in the Age of AI – The Future of Precision Healthcare: Perspectives on Health AI Policy
This is the first installment of our four-part podcast series on our Policy Leadership in the Age of AI symposium, which was hosted at the LBJ Auditorium on October 1st, 2024. As part of UT’s 2024 ini...Show More
7) Policy Lessons from the Past: Dr. Will Inboden on the Reagan presidency and the role the United States played in ending the Cold War
Dr. Will Inboden, a national security scholar from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, masterfully describes Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy and the role of the...Show More
8) Policy Lessons from the Past: Dr. Jeremi Suri on America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
Presidential historian and scholar Dr. Jeremi Suri discusses a country rebuilding itself as it wrestles with competing visions of democracy, race and freedom, in a conversation moderated by Bill Shute...Show More
9) Policy Lessons from the Past: Dr. Sarah Coleman on the politics of immigration in modern America
Historian and Texas State University professor Dr. Sarah Coleman examines the history of the battles over U.S. immigrants’ rights since 1965—and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, emplo...Show More
10) Policy Lessons from the Past: Dr. Peniel Joseph on American’s struggle for racial justice
Historian and civil rights scholar Dr. Peniel Joseph discusses a powerful interpretation of the ongoing struggle for racial justice, calling this period as transformative as the movements post-Civil W...Show More