Saturday, November 3, 2007

Assorted Podcasts

Statecraft, and How to Restore America’s Standing in the World

Media and Democracy in Post-Putin Russia: has the death of press freedom been exaggerated?

The Hubris Syndrome: the intoxication of power

Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life

Surprise Attack Reconsidered


The Israeli Economy: Thriving in a Complicated Environment


America's Strategic Opportunity with India


GUILT

The 18th century politician and philosopher Edmund Burke was once moved to comment:

“Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.”

Burke was touching upon a question that has animated theologians and philosophers for centuries. Is the feeling of guilt a vital part of our moral lives or can it do more harm than good? And how does guilt relate to reason and the workings of the mind? The answers seem to cut deeply into our understanding of what it is to be human.


Hedge Hunters: Hedge Fund Masters on the Rewards, the Risk, and the Reckoning

Cecchetti Says Fed Statement `Pretty Neutral'

Ethics on the Couch

Philosopher Kings

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