While their parents, the one-child policy generation, instituted in the 1980s and 1990s, which produced a generation of “only me” children, accepted the government mandates in every area of their lives, the restless generation does not. They are increasingly consumer-oriented, questioning government dictates, and expanding their world.
Eric Weiner, award-winning journalist, former foreign correspondent for NPR, and best-selling author of The Geography of Bliss, among others, joined hosts Dennis McCuistion and Jim Falk for a rollicking discussion on his newest work, The Socrates Express, and shared insights from some of our favorite philosophers.
Is anti-Semitism still an issue in the U.S. and elsewhere? Our experts, Holly Huffnagle: The American Jewish Committee’s, U.S. Director, for Combating Antisemitism and Sara Abosch Jacobson, Ph.D., Senior Director for Education in the Dallas Holocaust Museum, say absolutely.
There is no doubt that the pandemic has caused our relations with China to plummet and accelerated the competition between us. They are also the third-largest trading partner the U.S. has and the second-largest economy in the world and the most formidable competition that the U.S. has. Bringing some new perspectives on this growing concern is David J. Firestein, the inaugural president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations (Bush China Foundation).
Universities have become big businesses — and our cities their company towns. But if there is a cost to those who live in their shadow, are there also positive benefits?
John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, authors of The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It, join hosts Dennis McCuistion and Jim Falk for an in-depth and thought-provoking conversation on how COVID has uncovered serious deficiencies in governments around the world.
Judge Clay Jenkins joins hosts Dennis McCuistion and Jim Falk to discuss the COVID response.
Join expert guests to discuss COVID's impact on education.
Join expert guests Yoram Solomon, Ph.D., and Robert E. Hall to discuss how we regain trust.
Join expert guests Matthew Wilson, PhD, and Larry J. Sabato, PhD, to discuss what went wrong and what went right in the 2020 elections.
