Point B

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With so many competing claims, what is the right thing to do? Carnegie Council is shedding light on global issues by interviewing public figures on a set of moral questions.

In this weekly podcast, host Devin Stewart asks thought leaders about the state of the world today and how we get to a better future.

These interviews are part of our Centennial project, the Thought Leaders Forum.

With so many competing claims, what is the right thing to do? Carnegie Council is shedding light on global issues by interviewing public figures on a set of moral questions.

In this weekly podcast, host Devin Stewart asks thought leaders about the state of the world today and how we get to a better future.

These interviews are part of our Centennial project, the Thought Leaders Forum.

If you would like more information or have ideas on interviewees, please contact Devin Stewart at dstewart@cceia.org.


44 Pieces

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Point B: Thought Leader: Juan Somavia
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"We may have globalization, we have more interconnectedness, lots of things are happening, more trade. But what's the moral compass? You have the f...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:58
Point B: Thought Leader: Dambisa Moyo
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"Moral leadership to me is about selflessness. But in a world of personal aggrandizement and short-term-ism, I do fear that we'll see less moral le...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 03:07
Thought Leader: Nobuo Tanaka
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"It is amazing that more than 2 billion people do not have access to electricity. All people equally have a right to have a very healthy and comfor...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:40
Thought Leader: Anne-Marie Slaughter
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"There are things we can't do, even with all the power of the United States. But then we shouldn't hide from it. We shouldn't turn away and pretend...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:51
Thought Leader: Mustafa Ceric
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"I would advise my dear intellectuals of this age and time and place to give us some good imagination, especially to the young people."

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:26
Point B: Thought Leader: Emily Lau
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"I hope that world leaders will really sit down and think about the circumstances of those people who have been suffering for many years. Why can't...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:34
Thought Leader Kwame Anthony Appiah
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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The more our societies are in conversation, the more likely it is, when it comes to having to make the hard decisions that are involved in discussi...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 03:54
Thought Leader: Carne Ross
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"At the heart of this form of anarchist theory, which is what this is, is a belief that true self-determination, self-realization of the self, can ...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
Thought Leader: Mary Ellen Iskenderian
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"I'm a huge believer in role models. I think that pretty much any woman who gets up and puts herself out there, whether she wants to be or not, is ...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 03:36
Thought Leader: Victor Cha
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"Technology creates all this open space that needs to be filled. And if you leave space to be filled, people fill it by saying things that don't ma...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 03:38
Thought Leader: Pankaj Ghemawat
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"What I have in mind with rooted cosmopolitanism and distance sensitivity is something that's much, much more practical and to my mind achievable."

  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 03:14
Thought Leader: Steve Coll
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"I do believe there is a global ethic. It has to do with the dignity of individuals, the right to security and liberty, both. I do believe that the...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
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Thought Leader: Ahmed Rashid
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"Violence is linked to a continued intolerance of minorities. In many countries in many parts of the world, this is something we inherited from the...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:20
Thought Leader: Jonathan Haidt
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"My general view is that left and right are like yin and yang. I think it's great to have one side that's calling attention to global issues and on...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:42
Thought Leader: Enrique Penalosa
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"The wealthy have a responsibility to have a certain degree of austerity, to show that they are admired and respected, not because they have materi...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:26
Thought Leader: Michael Walzer
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"Where is the political space within which you can organize and mobilize for greater equality across the globe? That's a question I don't have an a...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:13
Thought Leader: Luis Moreno-Ocampo
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"The new world, the 21st century is about global communication and global citizenship. I see this particularly in the young people."

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:06
Thought Leader: Richard Lugar
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"I do approach it in a positive way, that we ought to be thinking about nutrition for every human being, keeping people alive so they have a chance...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:19
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Thought Leader: Kishore Mahbubani
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"You've got to balance national interest against global interest. I think that's the direction in which global ethics is going to go."

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:21
Thought Leader: Rebecca MacKinnon
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"Even dictatorships go to great lengths to create these fake elections to prove to the world that they have consent of the governed. It's sort of a...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: :13