The 2 Best PolicyCast Podcast Episodes
1) 225 Staying Power: Tony Saich on 100 Years of the Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party rules a country that is already an economic superpower and is poised to become a military and geopolitical one as the 21st Century unfolds. But Harvard Kennedy School Profe...Show More
225 Staying Power: Tony Saich on 100 Years of the Chinese Communist Party
35:12 | Jun 10th, 2021
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2) 224 Between blind faith and denial: Finding a productive approach to merging policy, science, and technology
With a new administration taking power in Washington, many people who had been alarmed by partisan attacks on science and expertise breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that science would be restored t...Show More
3) Forget smaller or bigger. If you want better government, invest.
HKS Professor Elizabeth Linos, a behavioral scientist and founder of The People Lab, says the recent government cuts by the Trump administration and its so-called Department of Government Efficiency a...Show More
4) Christiane Amanpour says objective journalism means pursuing truth—not neutrality
HKS COMMENCEMENT SPECIAL EDITION Award-winning international journalist and interviewer Christiane Amanpour developed her philosophy of journalism—which favors the pursuit of objective truth over neut...Show More
5) The Arctic faces historic pressures from competition, climate change, and Trump
Harvard Kennedy School Professor John Holdren and Jennifer Spence, the director of the Arctic Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs say the alarm bells ringing in the A...Show More
6) Moments that matter: How to bake fairness into the workplace
Study after study has shown that the well-intentioned ways of trying to achieve fairness in the workplace—trainings, leadership development programs, networking events, speaker events—simply haven’t d...Show More
7) Crypto is merging with mainstream finance. Regulators aren’t ready
Today PolicyCast welcomes two guests who were among the first experts to try to bring the wild world of cryptocurrency under the supervision of the U.S. financial regulatory system. Timothy Massad, wh...Show More
8) Professor Joe Nye coined the term “soft power.” He says America’s is in decline under Trump
When you’re exploring an important and widely held concept or idea in the world of policy and academia, it’s rare that you’re able to go straight to the original source. Joseph Nye is a former dean of...Show More
9) America’s geopolitical realignments, authoritarianism, and Trump’s endgame
In less than three months, the Trump administration has radically reconfigured America’s relationships with both traditional allies and adversaries. So how do you make sense of foreign and economic po...Show More
10) If the courts can’t defend the rule of law, who can?
With a Republican Congress apparently unwilling to check President Donald Trump’s power, many Americans fear a looming constitutional crisis and are looking to the federal courts to ride to the rescue...Show More