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Moderator, Mary Sarotte joined Niall Ferguson for an exciting and at times tense discussion on Kissinger. Among the topics discussed were US past Foreign Policy, the Soviet Union, the contrasts between the prosperity of South Korea against North Korea, and the third world as a scene of multiple proxy wars.

Niall Ferguson on Kissinger | Institute of Politics

Robert Gordon PhD '67 calls his new book a revised version of his thesis for Professor Robert Solow, "47 years late." The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War upends the typical narrative about the wonders of twenty-first century American innovations.

In this interview, Gordon shares his thoughts on American growth and shares some memories of his MIT years. Read more: http://bit.ly/21bLmTd

Episode Transcript: https://bit.ly/2Je9zY4

The Rise and Fall of American Growth (Alumni Books Podcast)

Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University, and author of “Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist,” sits down with Aroop Mukharji to talk about everything from Kissinger, the “secret swinger,” to why ISIS is like the Bolsheviks.

Watch the series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QezWCcPFaU&index=2&list=PLp1QSxtgPnf5jtL09yzdIlpSuNMOijtm9

More about Niall Ferguson: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/experts/1420/niall_ferguson.html

Belfer Center website: http://www.belfercenter.org

Niall Ferguson on Kissinger and U.S.-China | Belfer Center

When Michael spoke to Five Thirty Eight's founder Nate Silver, he highly recommended Daniel Kahneman's groundbreaking book Thinking Fast and Slow. Now, Michael talks to Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning author and founder of behavioral economics, in a rare interview, in which he not only discusses his best-selling book, but also shares personal stories about growing up Jewish in Nazi-occupied Paris, his early years in the Psychology branch of the Israel Defense Forces and his fascinating research on decision making and happiness.

#42 Daniel Kahneman

New York Times political correspondent Maggie Haberman joins Daily Beast editor-in-chief John Avlon to discuss his new book, Washington’s Farewell: the Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations.

George Washington and the Hyper-Partisan Now

Award-winning journalist, academic and author Stephen Kinzer discusses his latest book The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire.

Show Notes
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/05/13/new-allies-for-new-world/xVbB3usL9CPF7vvPDliTNM/story.html
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/06/10/saudi-arabia-destabilizing-world/ivMeb7TWGk1fQaVjZWWKGP/story.html
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/05/27/foreign-policy-mixtape/3UEjCooruAmF3uHoJXQb8O/story.html

Websites
http://stephenkinzer.com
https://twitter.com/stephenkinzer

Books
https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Kinzer/e/B00455F1NC/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

About the Guest
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him “among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling.”

Kinzer’s most recent book is “The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War.” The novelist John le Carré called it “a secret history, enriched and calmly retold; a shocking account of the misuse of American corporate, political and media power; a shaming reflection on the moral manners of post imperial Europe; and an essential allegory for our own times.”

Kinzer’s previous book was “Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future.” “Stephen Kinzer is a journalist of a certain cheeky fearlessness and exquisite timing,” The Huffington Post said in its review. “This book is a bold exercise in reimagining the United States’ big links in the Middle East.”

In 2006 Kinzer published “Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.” It recounts the 14 times the United States has overthrown foreign governments. Kinzer seeks to explain why these interventions were carried out and what their long-term effects have been. He is also the author of “All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror.” It tells how the CIA overthrew Iran’s nationalist government in 1953.

Kinzer spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times, most of it as a foreign correspondent. His foreign postings placed him at the center of historic events and, at times, in the line of fire. While covering world events, he has been shot at, jailed, beaten by police, tear-gassed and bombed from the air.

In 1996 Kinzer was named chief of the newly opened New York Times bureau in Istanbul, Turkey. He spent four years there, traveling widely in Turkey and in the new nations of Central Asia and the Caucasus. After completing this assignment, Kinzer published “Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds.”

He has also worked in Africa, and written “A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa called this book “a fascinating account of a near-miracle unfolding before our very eyes.”

Before joining the New York Times, Kinzer was Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe. He is now a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, where he teaches international relations. He contributes to The Guardian and the New York Review of Books, and writes a world affairs column for The Boston Globe.

In 2009, Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, awarded Kinzer an honorary doctorate. The citation said that “those of us who have had the pleasure of hearing his lectures or talking to him informally will probably never see the world in the same way again.”

The University of Scranton awarded Kinzer an honorary doctorate in 2010. “Where there has been turmoil in the world and history has shifted, Stephen Kinzer has been there,” the citation said. “Neither bullets, bombs nor beating could dull his sharp determination to bring injustice and strife to light.”

Stephen Kinzer: The True Flag of American Empire #051

The founder of peace and conflict studies, Dr. Johan Galtung, discusses his predictions of the US Empire collapsing and becoming a dictatorship, before eventually rebuilding its democracy.

Transcript: http://guadalajarageopolitics.com/2017/09/10/johan-galtung-us-empire-will-collapse-and-become-a-dictatorship-058

Show Notes
USA–Where Are You Heading? https://www.transcend.org/tms/2017/09/usa-where-are-you-heading
Pentagon Study Declares American Empire Is Collapsing https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/pentagon-study-declares-american-empire-is-collapsing-746754cdaebf
DOD Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1358
US Power Will Decline Under Trump Says Futurist Who Predicted Soviet Collapse https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d7ykxx/us-power-will-decline-under-trump-says-futurist-who-predicted-soviet-collapse

Websites
https://www.transcend.org
https://www.galtung-institut.de

Books
https://www.transcend.org/tup/index.php?book=5

About Johan Galtung
Johan Galtung, dr, dr hc mult, a professor of peace studies, was born in 1930 in Oslo, Norway. He is a mathematician, sociologist, political scientist and the founder of the discipline of peace studies. He founded the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (1959), the world's first academic research center focused on peace studies, as well as the influential Journal of Peace Research (1964). He has helped found dozens of other peace centers around the world. He is currently the president of the Galtung-Institut for Peace Theory & Peace Practice.

He has mediated in over 150 conflicts between states, nations, religions, civilizations, communities, and persons since 1957. His contributions to peace theory and practice include conceptualization of peace-building, conflict mediation, reconciliation, nonviolence, theory of structural violence, theorizing about negative vs. positive peace, peace education and peace journalism. Prof. Galtung's unique imprint on the study of conflict and peace stems from a combination of systematic scientific inquiry and a Gandhian ethics of peaceful means and harmony.

Johan Galtung has conducted a great deal of research in many fields and made original contributions not only to peace studies but also, among others, human rights, basic needs, development strategies, a world economy that sustains life, macro-history, theory of civilizations, federalism, globalization, theory of discourse, social pathologies, deep culture, peace and religions, social science methodology, sociology, ecology, future studies.

He is author or co-author of more than 1600 articles and over 160 books on peace and related issues.

He is the weekly editorialist for TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS, which features solutions-oriented peace journalism.

He is founder (in 2000) and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University, the world's first online Peace Studies University. He is also the founder and director of TRANSCEND International, a global non‑profit network for Peace, Development and the Environment, founded in 1993, with over 500 members in more than 70 countries around the world. As a testimony to his legacy, peace studies are now taught and researched at over 500 universities across the globe and some are contributing to peacemaking efforts in conflicts around the world wihtout buying into the securitization sell out.

He was jailed in Norway for six months at age 24 as a Conscientious Objector to serving in the military, after having done 12 months of civilian service, the same time as those doing military service. In jail he wrote his first book, Gandhi's Political Ethics, together with his mentor, Arne Naess.

As a recipient of over a dozen honorary doctorates and professorships and many other distinctions, including a Right Livelihood Award (also known as Alternative Nobel Peace Prize), Johan Galtung remains committed to the study and promotion of peace.

Johan Galtung: US Empire Will Collapse and Become a Dictatorship #058

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Washington Post columnist on the true story behind one of Josef Stalin's greatest crimes, against the people of Ukraine, during the Soviet famine of the early 1930s.

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McKenzie Wark on her essay, "My Collectible Ass," published in the 85th issue of e-flux journal, October 2017.&nbsp;In conversation with journal editor Stephen Squibb. 

Read the essay: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/156418/my-collectible-ass/
Subscribe to the podcast via itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/mckenzie-wark-on-fate-art-collecting-in-digital-age/id1332021431?i=1000399156007&mt=2

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McKenzie Wark on the fate of art collecting in the digital age

Today on the show, a conversation about climate change and the Arctic between Canadian journalist and best-selling author Naomi Klein and Danish journalist Martin Breum.

Naomi Klein & Martin Breum

What do Mark Zuckerburg and Martin Luther have in common? Historian and political commentator Niall Ferguson explains in his newest book The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. Ferguson stopped by The New York Public Library to speak with Gillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times, about the power and limitations of networks throughout history, our news feeds and censorship.

Networking with Niall Ferguson and Gillian Tett: The NYPL Podcast Ep. 200

Zach Blas in conversation with Laurel Ptak, Art in General's Executive Director &amp; Curator, on the occasion of Blas's exhibition&nbsp;Contra-Internet&nbsp;at Art in General and his lecture-performance&nbsp;Metric Mysticism&nbsp;at e-flux. 

Zach Blas&nbsp;is an artist and writer whose practice confronts technologies of capture, security, and control. Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His recent works respond to biometric governmentality and network hegemony. 

Read more about the exhibition, on view through April 21, 2018, at http://www.artingeneral.org/exhibitions/650

Read Zach Blas' essay in e-flux journal #74 (June 2016): "Contra-Internet" http://www.e-flux.com/journal/74/59816/contra-internet/

Contra-Internet with Zach Blas and Laurel Ptak

Foreign policy expert Robert Kagan discusses our nation's retreat from its international responsibilities under President Trump and why it could mean the end of the world order America created after WWII.

Robert Kagan on why Americans don't want the US to be the leader of the free world

Mike Ware on the discovery of the cyanotype

Does the symbiotic relationship between China and America--Chimerica as Niall Ferguson calls it--give reason to hope that America's present economic situation will turn out to be not a crash, but a correction?

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy, democratic governance, and national security. Briefings will include thoughtful and informed analysis from our top scholars.

NIALL FERGUSON: COVID-19 in the Light of History and Network Science.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 11AM PT/ 2PM ET

Niall Ferguson: COVID-19 in the Light of History & Network Science | Hoover Virtual Policy Briefing

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