This week’s show featured the speeches of two keynote speakers from a recent conference held at Boston University, entitled “The U.S. And Europe: Partnership or Competition?”
Alain Juppe, mayor of Bordeaux and former Prime Minister of France talked about the differences between European and American perspectives on the Middle East. Wolfgang Ischinger, German ambassador to [...]

This week’s show featured the 18th Great Debate organized by Boston University’s College of Communication. This year’s question was “Should the Law Protect a Reporter from Having to Reveal Confidential Sources?”
Members of the team arguing for the affirmative included New York Times reporter Judith Miller, Robert A. Bertsche, a journalist turned lawyer who is a [...]

This week’s show featured a talk on “School Inspection, Accountability, and the Design of School Systems” by Michael Barber, a senior advisor to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
As head of the British Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit, Barber oversees health, education, and other public service sectors. Part of his responsibility is to oversee school inspections, [...]

This week’s show featured the last of three installments from the annual lecture series, “The Fascination with Jewish Tales,” by teacher, author, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel.
In this lecture, titled “Evil and Redemption,” Wiesel discussed the root of evil, and the notion of redemption, which, according to him, “begins when indifference ends.”
Wiesel has [...]