Oct 21, 2021
"The problem is ourselves." Timothy Snyder describes why the challenges of our democracies are not so much political figures like Trump, but ourselves as citizens. Snyder says it's about breaking down social barriers while addressing structural political problems like voter suppression and the manipulation of the...
Oct 7, 2021
In this episode, legal historian Samuel Moyn critically reflects on the pursuit of 'humane
wars.' "We fight war crimes, but we have forgotten the crime of
war," Moyn says. Thus, he says,
the wars of recent decades have led to a fixation on the means of
war, rather than a discussion of how to end them
sustainably.