Assorted Podcasts

Nobel Laureate Michael Spence sees `chaotic' economic growth in China

Tyler Cowen of George Mason Says XM, Sirius `May Go Bankrupt Anyway'

Martin Baily Isn't `That Concerned' About U.S. Stock Market

William Cline, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, talks about the U.S. budget deficit, the performance of Asian currencies versus the dollar and concerns over capital flows into the U.S.

Warsh, Author, Discusses `Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations'

Orszag of CBO Says Health Care Is `Central Fiscal Challenge'

Miron of Harvard Says Legalizing All Drugs Is `Right Answer'

Nicolas Retsinas, director of housing studies at Harvard University, talks about the implications of rising defaults in the subprime mortgage market.

Barry Eichengreen, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, talks about his new book `The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond', Europe's university system and labor market, and the outlook for Asian economic

Nobel Laureate Solow Says Subprime Mortgage Market `in Trouble'

Finland's schools rule

Prospects for a Transhuman mind?

Penny van Oosterzee on The Discovery of the Hobbit

Baudrillard Obit
A discussion about the French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, provocateur and keen photographer, Jan Baudrillard, who died this week at the age of 77. Baudrillard was probably best-known for his theory of hyperreality, where he argued that mass media and modern consumerist society had built up such a complex sturcture of symbols and simulated experience that it was no longer possible to comprehend reality as it might actually exist.He became notorious though, for his 1991 work, "The Gulf War did not take place" and ten years later, his essay "The Spirit of Terrorism, following the attacks of September 11.

The struggle for existence: Darwin to Hitler

Let's get metaphysical

Is it art?
Arthur C Danto, one of the most significant philosophers in the English-speaking world, has evolved a theory of what art is and how we can know it when we see it. Moreover, his theory has turned out to be a powerful tool for analysing the history of philosophy too. According to Danto, philosophy becomes necessary when the need arises to distinguish between two indiscernibles: is it real life or is it a dream? Is it cause and effect or just one damn thing after another? Is it a Brillo box or is it art?

One of the most contested pieces of real estate on the planet
History of Temple Mount, and at the political and geographical position it holds in modern day Jerusalem

Spiritual Classics II: Hasidic Tales