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Can America Still Lead? Foreign Policy in an Age of Division with Joel Rubin

What happens when America loses its foreign-policy playbook? RBI acting director Eli Karetny talks with veteran diplomat and policy strategist Joel Rubin about the vacuum of strategic vision shaping U.S. decisions from Venezuela to Ukraine to Gaza. R... more

21 Nov 2025 • 1 hr

Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change

In Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change, scholars and practitioners who have worked together in various capacities across different school systems examine systemic equity leadership in U.S. public schools over the course... more

20 Nov 2025 • 57 min

Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)

In How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations (Princeton University Press, 2025), Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnat... more

19 Nov 2025 • 54 min

Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025)

Americans have always fought over the meaning of freedom and equality. What is not commonly recognized is that the battles most pivotal in defining our democracy, from the framing of the Constitution to the decades-long backlash to the civil rights m... more

18 Nov 2025 • 53 min

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Recent Guests

Joel Rubin

Foreign policy expert and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Ralph Bunch Institute for International Studies

Episode: Can America Still Lead? Foreign Policy in an Age of Division with Joel Rubin

Decoteau Irby

Educator, author, and scholar focused on educational justice and equity

University of Illinois Chicago

Episode: Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change

Carl Benedikt Frey

Dieter Schwartz Associate Professor of AI and Work at the Oxford Internet Institute

Oxford University

Episode: Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Vanessa Williamson

Senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and senior fellow at the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center.

Brookings Institution

Episode: Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025)

Hélène Landemore

Professor of Political Science at Yale University

Yale University

Episode: On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore

David Garland

Arthur T Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University

New York University

Episode: David Garland, "Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Miranda Spivack

An award-winning veteran reporter and editor covering the issue of government accountability.

Episode: Miranda S. Spivack, "Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back" (The New Press, 2025)

Joseph P. Viteritti

Author of "Radical Dreamers, Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education"

Hunter College

Episode: Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Christopher Ali

Associate Professor at University of Virginia in the Department of Media Studies

University of Virginia

Episode: Christopher Ali, "Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity" (MIT, 2021)

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United States3 years ago
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Very long 10 min it’s enough
C’est trop long shorten and efficiency
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Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change

Q: Can you define equity and justice for the listeners, please?

Equity is about fairness in terms of process and outcomes, achieved by redistributing resources and opportunities. Justice relates to broader issues of power and oppression, aiming for liberation and self-determination.

Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Q: What was the sort of 19th-century sweet spot that allowed for such incredible growth in America?

The founding fathers created an institutional framework that banned internal tariffs and laid the groundwork for a patent system that drove 19th-century growth.

Vanessa S. Williamson, "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History" (Basic Books, 2025)

Q: Why was now the time for you to write this book?

I realized I had a bunch of questions about what taxes do for our politics and why our politics are the way they are around taxation.

Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Q: What is the single most urgent action that you would give a policy maker to correct the American failure of education?

Listen to parents whose kids are not doing OK.

Joseph P. Viteritti, "Radical Dreamers: Race, Choice, and the Failure of American Education" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Q: To what extent do you believe that the failure of American education is primarily a race issue or an income issue?

It's both race and income, but black and brown children disproportionately come from poor families, so you can't escape the race issue.

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