Professor Dani Rodrik, of Harvard University, and the author of “Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate”, joins us today to discuss the three, five-alarm issues facing the globe: fighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty. Assuming that there is generally global …
If you’re like many people, their mood is sour about their station in life and that of our nation. It is a malaise, of sorts. You can tell that Americans are struggling to determine who they are, their role in the world and what life is all about. These are high order issues that people …
Secretary of Defense (or ‘War’, as he prefers) Pete Hegseth is a poster child for the way military education likes to inculcate recruits and students into a macho culture of masculinity. The Pentagon has a vast educational network through which to teach these lessons. It includes basic training, service academies like West Point, JROTC, ROTC …
America’s First Amendment is a model of free speech protection unparalleled across the globe. Yet, the United States saw the third largest decline in free speech between 2021 and 2024. And 2024 marked the 19th consecutive year in which civil and political rights declined globally. While it may seem paradoxical that while the new voices …
The host of America Trends, Larry Rifkin, has in the later stages of life taken up keyboards and songwriting. He is putting out his third album of originals, in collaboration with Alasdair MacKenzie, as part of the music project he calls Rockaway. The album, titled “Wrong Side of Love”, contains 16 songs that still offer …
The pardon power that the President has is, as Constitutional prerogatives go, about as absolute as it can be. Coupled with the friendly majority Donald Trump has on the United States Supreme Court, which gave him immunity from prosecution for many crimes charged in connection with his pardons, and you have what some call a …
Deborah Schwartz, a healthcare attorney, saw how medical insurance companies put profit over patient and the impacts it had. While inside the health insurance industry, she tried to change the practices she saw which were antithetical to better health outcomes, but since leaving the field, she’s writing about in her new novel, “EmmaCare” and sounding …
Most families require two incomes these days to survive. Thus, by definition the working parent is populating every workplace. And while accommodating the needs of working parents may be difficult for some small companies with not a person to spare at any time, what about the larger companies that have infrastructure to do so? Are …
Have you ever heard the word gerontocracy? Well, according to our guest, you’re living in one. The point may be best illustrated by the last two presidential campaigns where we elected an elderly man, Joe Biden, to be our president in 2020 and when feeling that he was too old to serve another term, we …
Our guest feels that we are in the midst of the greatest transformation in high education in over a hundred years. The factors at play are the demographic shifts in the country, the economy and technology. Arthur Levine, President of Brandeis University and co-author of the new book, “From Upheaval to Action: What Works in …