Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Monday, August 24, 2020.
Elizabeth Cousens on the 75 years of highs and lows of international cooperation.
Cousens is the UN Foundation’s third president and chief executive officer, who is leading the Foundation’s next generation of work to support the United Nations. Cousens has been at the forefront of global policymaking and innovation for over 20 years.
She is a diplomat and thought leader who has worked on the frontlines of peace processes, played an influential role in UN policy innovations from peacebuilding to the Sustainable Development Goals, and helped build public-private partnerships to solve global challenges at scale.
This program is made possible by program sponsor Erie Insurance and the Oliver and Mary Langenberg Lectureship Fund.
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Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, August 20, 2020.
Emily Bazelon on mass incarceration and how to change the prosecution system.
Bazelon is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. She is the bes...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, August 19, 2020.
Cato Institute Chairman Robert A. Levy traces the erosion of the Constitution’s original intent.
Levy is chairman of the board of directors at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C., which he joined as ...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Tuesday, August 18, 2020.
In Martha Jones’ second time at Chautauqua this season, she discusses the Nineteenth Amendment.
Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at The Johns Hopkins University, and a legal and...