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Episodes
The Merits of Merit - with Adrian Wooldridge of The Economist
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the pandemic, standardized tests were suspended in an entire range of educational institutions. Will these changes be temporary or permanent? ...
A New Crime Wave? - With Jason Riley
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
JASON RILEY’S BOOK: “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell”https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/maverick-jason-riley/1137602681?ean=9781541619685 TH...
Presidents and Pandemics - with Tevi Troy
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Books and essays discussed in this episode: Shall We Wake the President: Two Centuries of Disaster Management from the Oval Office by Tevi Troyhttps:...
A Rosh Hashanah Special: Business Principles from the Book of Genesis
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this podcast, we’ve talked to a lot of policy-makers, pundits, professionals and practitioners about big picture trends they are observing and ex...
A Post-Delta World — with Dr. Sid Mukherjee
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To find the published pieces discussed in this episode: “What the Coronavirus Crisis Reveals About American Medicine”, by Sid Mukherjee, The New ...
Delta Politics - with Mike Murphy
28 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Pandemic has either caused a crack-up in our politics or accelerated the crack-up that was well under way. And just when it looked like things wer...
Afghanistan & The New Geopolitics - With Fred Kagan
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A few websites referenced in this episode:AEI's Critical Threats Project: https://www.aei.org/profile/frederick-w-kagan/Institute for the Study of War...
China’s Great Wall of Steel? - with Matt Pottinger
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
China’s borders have been sealed for well over a year now. And those borders will be closed for the foreseeable future. That, obviously, is a result...
The New Inflation - with Mohamed El-Erian
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
https://www.ft.com/content/77ed35a0-cf91-4c7e-b779-a57ecc6b1045
Delta... This is New York!
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This was supposed to be the summer that we returned to normal, here in New York City and in every major city around the world. Right? But now there’...
Unexpected Presidential Advisors - with Gary Ginsberg
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who do presidents, prime ministers and business leaders listen to in the midst of managing a crisis? It’s a question that’s always interested me, ...
Social Decay and The Pandemic - with Yuval Levin
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yuval currently wears three hats:At the American Enterprise Institute think tank, he’s the Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies....
Blackstone’s Jonathan Pollack on Real-Estate Post Corona
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many have been surprised that areas of the real estate market are booming, Post Corona. So what do we know about the pandemic’s impact on an exodus ...
Naftali Bennett - Who Are You?
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We thank the 92nd Street Y for hosting us then, and for this podcast episode now. You can subscribe to the 92Y podcast here:https://podcasts.apple.com...
Tom Cotton on the Lab Leak Hypothesis of Covid19
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One piece that we reference throughout both discussions is by former New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade that he published on Medium. Here i...
Is The Problem In Israel Rooted in 1967 or 1948?
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Danny is also a columnist for Bloomberg View and he's the author of more than ten books. Here are three that I highly recommend: his history of the St...
"God and the Pandemic"
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
News just out of the CDC has created fresh opportunities for normal, communal time together, indoors — just like we did pre-Corona. One of the ritua...
Post Corona Has Arrived - And This Is What It Sounds Like
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Social links:Amit Aronsohn on InstagramYonatan Sagiv on TwitterYaara Keydar on InstagramDanna Stern on Twitter
Is China Turning Crisis Into Opportunity? With Josh Rogin
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Josh Rogin is a long-time foreign affairs journalist, currently a columnist for the Global Opinions Section of the Washington Post. He’s also a Poli...
Will We Ever Go To The Movies Again… And Does That Matter?
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
That phrase - going to the movies - that shared experience in a movie theater full of strangers already makes me nostalgic, like listening to vinyl re...
Zoom University: Is Covid The Ultimate Higher Education Disruptor?
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The price of college has been skyrocketing over the past few decades, escalating far higher and faster than the rate of inflation. According to one st...
The Covid Presidency with Maggie Haberman
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Before joining The Times, Maggie was a reporter at Politico, The New York Post and The New York Daily News. She’s a lifelong New Yorker. According t...
Vaccination Nation: Is our Post Corona future unfolding now in Israel?
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To learn more about 'Vaccination Nation' visit startupnationcentral.org
Will We Do Better Next Time?
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jim is the former editor of Popular Mechanics, where he helped reposition that century-old brand to become a major voice on contemporary tech issues. ...
John Dickerson on The Presidency Post Corona
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In addition to 60 Minutes, John recently published his third book, the New York Times Best-Seller The Hardest Job in the World: The American Preside...
Bret Stephens on Geopolitics Post Corona
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bret is a Pulitzer Prize winner and an op ed columnist for the Times, where his column appears Thursdays and Saturdays.Bret is the author of "America ...
When IS Post Corona, anyway? Part 2 - Turning the Corner
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we post this podcast, the US has vaccinated about 7.6 percent of our population, The UK is at 11.7%. Canada and Germany are hovering around 2.5...
Is New York Over? Part 3 - Crime and the City
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve had a public health shock, followed by an economic shock, followed by a civic and societal shock. An emerging crisis in public security looms ...
When IS Post Corona, anyway? Part 1 - Vaccination Nation
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we post this podcast, the US has vaccinated about 2 percent of its population, Canada is at 0.5 percent, France is at 0.001 percent, and Israel? 20...
How Will History Judge 2020?
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To call 2021 a historic year is an understatement. But what’s less obvious is how to put the pandemic of 2020 in a historical context. What lessons ...
Is New York Over? Part 2 - Broadway
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is New York over? It’s a question that’s hotly debated these days. We will return to this question from time to time over a number of episodes in ...
Is New York Over? Part 1 - The Subway
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is New York over? It’s a question that’s widely debated these days. We will return to this question from time to time in a number of episodes. On ...
Billy Beane on the future of sports
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dan sits down with Billy Beane, who became famous outside the world of sports when Brad Pitt portrayed him in the film adaptation of Michael Lewis’s...
Adam Grant on the future of work
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After a macro conversation on the societal effects of shifts in the workforce, Dan sits down with Adam Grant to understand the implications of remote ...
Derek Thompson of The Atlantic on the Post-Corona workforce
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When the global economy came to a halt this spring, tens of millions of American workers found themselves working from home - and millions more found ...