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November 29, 2023

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Nastya Stanko
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in conversation with 
The New Yorker's Moscow correspondent 
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Joshua Yaffa

Reporting Ukraine: An Evening with One of Ukraine's Premier War Correspondents 

 

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A joint event with Bard College Berlin

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March 2, 2023

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Joshua Yaffa
Author and contributing writer for
The New Yorker

A Continent at War

Russia, Ukraine, and the West

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October 5, 2022

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Thomas Homer-Dixon
Executive Director 
of the Cascade Institute
Royal Roads University

Commanding Hope

The Power We Have

to Renew a World in Peril

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September 30, 2021

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Jan-Werner Mueller
Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Princeton

Democracy Rules

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March 25, 2021

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Robert B. Zoellick
Former Ambassador, Diplomat and President of the World Bank

America in the World

U.S Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Past, Present and Future

 

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September 21, 2020

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Jan-Werner Mueller
Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Princeton

Trump's Lesson: Rebuilding Democracy After the Crisis

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March 6, 2020

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Kamilla Arku
Pianist
Callie Shell
Photography

“Hope, Never Fear”: A Personal Portrait of the Obamas and a musical program of pioneering African-American composers

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September 24, 2019

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David Frum
Writer, Political Commentator

POPULISM, POLARIZATION

AND CORRUPTION 

How Can Western Democracy Survive?

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November 5, 2018

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Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer Prize winning historian, journalist and commentator
on geo-politics 

Democracy and Disinformation 

Understanding our New Normal

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October 26, 2023

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David Frum
Writer, Political Commentator and
best-selling author

Can America Be Trusted Again?

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December 12, 2022

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Odd Arne Westad
Elihu Professor of History
and Global Affairs
Yale University

U.S. - China Relations

in light of the Ukraine War

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April 27, 2022

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George Packer
Award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic

Is there still hope?

America in Crisis and Renewal

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June 28, 2021

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Jason Stanley
Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University
 

How Fascism Works

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February 2, 2021

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Arun Chaudhary
American Political Operative and Filmmaker

To Lead a Movement, You Need a Story / Bringing Art into the World of Political Campaigns

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July 20, 2020

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Nina Jankowicz
Author and Disinformation Fellow
at the Wilson Center

How to Lose the Information War

Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict

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December 3, 2019

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Timothy Snyder
Levin Professor of History,
Yale University

Can the United States be a Free Country?

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February 28, 2019

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Timothy Snyder
Levin Professor of History,
Yale University

THE ROAD TO UNFREEDOM

RUSSIA, EUROPE, AMERICA

Democracy in Danger

Photo: ©Ine Gundersveen

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April 26, 2023

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Matt Armstrong
Expert on public diplomacy
and political warfare

The Politics of US Information Warfare: 

The history, why we are so bad at this, and current challenges given the domestic and geopolitical situation.

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October 19, 2022

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Professor of History and Italian Studies
New York University

Strongmen

How Illiberal Leaders Consolidate Power

and How They Can Be Defeated

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October 25, 2021

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Steven I. Wilkinson
Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale
Siddharth Varadarajan
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Wire
Manjari Chatterjee Miller
Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations 

Is India’s Democracy at Risk? 

Democratic success, regional tension, and foreign policy today

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May 18, 2021

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David W. Blight
Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies and of American Studies, Yale University

Frederick Douglass: Prose Poet of Democracy in His Time and Our Own

 

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December 10, 2020

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Odd Arne Westad
Elihu Professor of History at Yale
 

The Sources of Chinese Conduct

Are Washington and Beijing Fighting a New Cold War?

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June 25, 2020

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David Frum
Writer, Political Commentator
 

A Post-Trump America

How to renew American world leadership after Trump

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October 8, 2019

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Daryl Davis
Musician and Social Activist

KLAN  WE TALK? 

How Can You Hate Me When You Don't Know Me?

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February 15, 2019

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Ben Rhodes
Obama Administration Security Advisor and Speechwriter

Reflections on My Years in the Obama White House

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Photo: ©Natalie Moser

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