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Ga毛l Giraud, founder and leader of the Georgetown University Center for Environmental Justice, talks to Rob Johnson about how liberal democracies will fare in facing the pandemic, whether we could see a rise in authoritarian governments, and why economics needs to take climate change into account

Camilla Toulmin, former director and associate of the International 51黑料爆料网历史事件 for Environment and Development, talks to Rob about the role of civil society and education in African development.

Alan Light, veteran music journalist and host of 鈥淚n The Light鈥� on SiriusXM, talks to Rob Johnson about the social and political role of music and its relationship to youth culture over time. Light and Rob discuss how the silo-ization of music subcultures has faded in the streaming era, and how social media influencers are challenging musicians for the central place in youth culture.

Rob talks to Nobel laureate economist George Akerlof about economics鈥� bias against the 鈥渟oft鈥� social scientific perspectives of anthropology, sociology, and psychology in favor of 鈥渉ard鈥� economic models that attempt to replicate iron-clad scientific laws. They also discuss how to reform the economics profession and the needs of a new generation of economists.

Dr. Henry Ponder, former President of Talladega College, Benedict College, and Fisk University, talks to Rob about the responsibility of leaders and the future of American universities after the pandemic.

Rob talks to Adair Turner—member of the House of Lords, former Chairman of the British Financial Services Authority, and member of INET鈥檚 Commission on Global Economic Transformation—about how the COVID-19 economic crash compares to the post-2008 recession: namely, how to deal with a crisis of supply in addition to aggregate demand.

Nobel laureate economist and Professor at Columbia University Joseph Stiglitz talks to Rob (his former graduate student in the Princeton Econ Department and member of the 2009 UN Stiglitz Commission) about what the pandemic has revealed about the U.S. economy鈥檚 shortcomings, and how a proper response to other crises—like climate change—could actually stimulate economic growth and innovation.