This episode's guest is Nicholas Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, at Yale University. Apollo's Arrow offers a broad account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020 and of how the pandemic will unfold, and ultimately end, in the coming years. Using up-to-the-moment information, and drawing on epidemiology, sociology, medicine, public health, history, virology, and other fields, it explores what it means to live in a time ...
Apr 15, 2021•24 min
This episode's guest is Glenn Blumhorst, President & CEO, National Peace Corps Association. In President Kennedy’s first days in office, he asked Sargent Shriver to create the Peace Corps, which over the last 60 years has sent over 250,000 Americans to more than 140 countries to serve as global citizens. Glen Blumhorst looks back at Kennedy’s campaign promise and forward to what lies ahead for the Peace Corps. Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Edited by Laura Hemlock. Music: Debu...
Mar 16, 2021•19 min
This episode's guests are Peter R. Fisher, Clinical Professor, Tuck School, Dartmouth College and Curt Welling D'71, T'77, Clinical Professor of Business Organization, Tuck School, Dartmouth College Dartmouth College as they discuss GameStop, Robinhood, and Reddit: Market Structure, Social Media, and Financial Bubbles—New Wine or Old Wine in New Bottles?. Tuck professors Peter R. Fisher and Curt Welling will consider the recent GameStop/Robinhood controversy from a variety of perspectives: regul...
Mar 11, 2021•26 min
Guest Mark W. Huddleston, President Emeritus, University of New Hampshire. Student loan debt in the United States now exceeds $1.6 trillion dollars, having nearly doubled over the last ten years. Some maintain that this debt burden is so onerous that young Americans have been forced to delay starting families and to forgo buying their own homes. Although the federal government has declared a temporary moratorium on debt repayment in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, many are pressing for more p...
Mar 09, 2021•23 min
This episode's guest is Anne Alstott, the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor at Yale Law School. A solution to inequalities wherever we look—in health care, secure retirement, education—is as close as the public library. Or the post office, community pool, or local elementary school. Public options—reasonably priced government-provided services that coexist with private options—are all around us, ready to increase opportunity, expand freedom, and reawaken civic engagement if we will only let them. Int...
Mar 01, 2021•26 min
This episode's guest is Monica Delores Hooks ’92, Executive Director of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative. A conversation with a historical perspective, highlighting the leadership and policy initiatives coming from the City of Atlanta, and focusing on economic mobility for women. Interview by Dartmouth student Sydney Towle '22. Edited by Laura Hemlock. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
Feb 22, 2021•25 min
Today's guest is Sonu S. Bedi, Professor of Government at Dartmouth College as he discusses his work in the study of race. Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Edited by Laura Hemlock. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
Feb 02, 2021•23 min
Guest Linda Fowler, Professor of Government, Emerita, Frank J. Reagan Chair in Policy Studies, Emerita, Past Director, Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth College. Large numbers of people do not regard the election of President Biden as legitimate, while the majority who accept or even celebrate him remain worried about the strains on our constitutional system. The question arises, then, whether our 18th century structure worked and if it fulfilled its functions or fell short. Interview by Dartmouth s...
Jan 29, 2021•34 min
Guest Lisa Baldez, Professor of Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College Nearly every country across the globe has ratified the U.N. treaty on women’s rights. Most of the world’s constitutions formally guarantee equality between men and women. Gender quotas for women candidates are found in every region of the world. The United States enjoys none of these mechanisms. Opponents often claim that women in the United States already have ‘enough’ legal rights and...
Jan 27, 2021•25 min
A Conversation with CNN anchor Jake Tapper '91. CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper ’91 joined the network in January 2013. Tapper currently anchors a one-hour weekday program, The Lead with Jake Tapper, which debuted in March 2013, and has hosted CNN's Sunday morning show, State of the Union, since June 2015. Tapper imparts his political expertise on State of the Union by conducting interviews with top newsmakers on politics and policy, covering Washington, the country and...
Dec 03, 2020•16 min
Dr. Carlos Algara is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso, joining the department in fall 2020. Prior to coming to UTEP, Dr. Algara was a 2019-2020 American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow placed in the United States Senate. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. His research agenda focuses on the nature of ideological representation in the United States, political parties, electoral accountability, legislat...
Dec 01, 2020•28 min
Jason Lyall is the inaugural James Wright Associate Professor of Transnational Studies at Dartmouth College. He also directs the Political Violence FieldLab at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. His research examines the effects and effectiveness of political violence in civil and conventional wars. His current projects include: (1) the relationship between inequality and violence; (2) assessing the effectiveness of aid programs in conflict settings; and (3) civilian c...
Nov 23, 2020•21 min
The 2020 election in New Hampshire has been overshadowed by the Presidential Race; however, the results of this election may impact New Hampshire politics for the next decade. This program will examine the current “state of the race” in New Hampshire and discuss electoral implications. ndrew Smith has been Director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center since 1999 and is Professor of Practice in the UNH Department of Political Science. He has more than 30 years’ experience in academic ...
Nov 17, 2020•22 min
Author and CNN commentator Keith Boykin ’87 examines the raging conflict between America's emerging black and brown population and its dwindling white majority. Keith Boykin ’87 is a CNN political commentator, New York Times best-selling author, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton. Keith has taught at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York and at American University in Washington, D.C. He is a co-founder and first board presi...
Oct 20, 2020•21 min
Frank R. Baumgartner holds the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professorship in the Department of Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is one of the leading scholars of public policy, framing, agenda-setting, policy change, and lobbying in the US and has published extensively on these topics in both US and comparative perspectives. The death of George Floyd while in police custody and other dramatic instances of law enforcement brutality are fueling protest movements focused upon crimina...
Oct 14, 2020•19 min
Mark W. Huddleston served as president of the University of New Hampshire from 2007 to 2018, the longest presidential tenure in UNH history. During this podcast he discusses the status of Higher Ed in America. At least through the end of the 20th century, American higher education had been the envy of the world: thousands of colleges and universities, large and small, public and private, served, year in and year out, as conveyer belts to the middle class for millions of students and as drivers o...
Oct 06, 2020•23 min
A longtime Supreme Court analyst, Linda considers how the Supreme court is contributing to the fraying of American civil society. Linda Greenhouse is the 2020 Rockefeller Center Constitution Day speaker. Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
Sep 30, 2020•26 min
A conversation with Sanat Mohapatra '20, founder of Unmasked, an anonymous, mental health social media app for college students. Sanat discusses his app and experience at Dartmouth. Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
Jul 24, 2020•24 min
A conversation with Daniel Benjamin, Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College. Daniel Benjamin discusses "Covid-19 and the Fate of Globalization." Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
Jun 10, 2020•16 min
A conversation with Professor Herschel Nachlis, Policy Fellow at the Rockefeller Center and Research Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. Professor Nachlis discusses "Crisis Governance: Lessons from American Policy History." Interview by Dartmouth student Eliza Jane Schaeffer '20. Edited by Laura Howard. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
Jun 03, 2020•28 min
A conversation with Professor Charles Wheelan. Charles Wheelan discusses his book “The Rationing,” a book about a pandemic. Interview by Dartmouth student Sydney Towle '22. Edited by Laura Howard. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
Jun 01, 2020•22 min
A conversation with Kate Hilton, JD, MTS. Kate Hilton discusses “The Psychology of Change.” Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Edited by Laura Howard. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
May 26, 2020•21 min
A conversation with journalist Lucy Hornby, 2020 Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard Fellow. Lucy Hornby discusses “After the Coronavirus: China and the U.S.” Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Edited by Laura Howard. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
May 15, 2020•14 min
A conversation with Professor Devin Singh, Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College. Professor Singh discusses "Should We Cancel Debt? Insights from the Ancient World?" Interview by Dartmouth student Sydney Towle '22. Edited by Laura Howard. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
May 08, 2020•20 min
A conversation with Professor Ron Shaiko, Associate Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. Professor Shaiko discusses "Who is Responsible for Responsible Citizenship?" Interview by Dartmouth student Sydney Towle '22. Edited by Laura Howard. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
May 01, 2020•20 min
A conversation with Professor Mia Costa, Assistan Profesoor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. Professor Costa discusses "Identity, Incivility, and Policy Issues in Congressional Communication." Interview by Dartmouth student Eliza Jane Schaeffer '20. Edited by Laura Howard. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
Apr 24, 2020•24 min
A conversation with Professor Russell Muirhead, Interim Director of the Rockefeller Center, Chair of the Department of Government at Dartmouth College, and the Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics. Professor Muirhead discusses his latest book "A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy." Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy
Apr 17, 2020•22 min
A conversation with Reverend Liz Theoharis, director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice and Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She was on campus as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Dartmouth College. Her talk, "What Has Become of His Dreams: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, The Poor People's Campaign, and Building a Movement for Today" was co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center with the Tucker Center. Interview by D...
Mar 04, 2020•20 min
