What is modernity? How is our world different from that of our ancestors? Why did sustained economic growth, individuality and political freedom first emerge in nineteenth-century Europe and not twelfth-century China? And can the miracle of modernity last? Amichai Magen and Stephen Davies discuss Davies’s new book The Wealth Explosion – The Nature and Origins of Modernity.
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In this episode of the Liberty & Responsibility Podcast, Amichai Magen talks with Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Larry Diamond, about his new book: Ill Winds – Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency.
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In this episode of the Liberty & Responsibility Podcast, Amichai Magen and Ralf Füchs (author and founder of the Center for Liberal Modernity) explore the meaning of Liberalism, its current crisis, and whether Liberalism can be reinvented to provide effective answers to humanity’s greatest challenges in the twenty-first century.
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In his new book Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, Swedish author and film-maker, Johan Norberg, hits back at the merchants of misery who try to persuade us all that we live in a dangerous, mean, unhappy, and doomed world and that the West is to blame for it all. In this episode of the Liberty & Responsibility Podcast, Amichai Magen and Johan Norberg talk about the 200-year miracle that has transformed human existence, mostly for the better.
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In this episode of the Liberty & Responsibility Podcast, Amichai Magen speaks with Richard Youngs (Professor of International Relations at Warwick University and Senior Fellow in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program, Carnegie Europe) about Young’s new book Europe Reset: New Directions for the European Union.
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In this episode of the Liberty & Responsibility Podcast, Amichai Magen speaks with Richard Youngs (Professor of International Relations at Warwick University and Senior Fellow in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program, Carnegie Europe) about Young’s new book Europe Reset: New Directions for the European Union.
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In this episode of the Liberty & Responsibility Podcast Amichai Magen hosts Irwin Cotler, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, to talk about Russia, the murder of Sergei Magnitsky, and the Magnitsky Laws.
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In this episode of the Liberty & Responsibility Podcast Amichai Magen and Alexander Pevzner (Director of the Chinese Media Center) discuss China’s evolving global ambitions.
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In this episode of the Liberty & Responsibility Podcast, Joao Carlos Espada (Professor of Political Studies and Director of the Institute for Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal) joins Amichai Magen in conversation about Espada’s new book The Anglo-Saxon Tradition of Liberty and what that tradition can teach us today.
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Every week hosts Jaime and Moises discuss all the things that made them goop, gag and left them shook’d. Hear them talk about their favorite things (also their not so favorite things) in pop culture, from RuPaul recaps to whatever Lindsay Lohan is doing right now…
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