Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, in conversation with Rudyard Griffiths, Chair and moderator of the Munk Debates.
The following is a sample of the Munk Debates’ weekly current affairs podcast, Friday Focus.
On this week’s edition of the Friday Focus podcast, Janice and Rudyard start the show with a discussion of the wildfires choking the North East of the continent with smoke and dangerous levels of air pollution. Is this a sneak peek into what awaits North America in a world of runaway climate change? How do we respond to the climate threat when humanity is being pressed with crises right and left, from pandemics to inflation to AI to the largest land war in Europe since WWII? On the back half of the show, exclusively for Munk donors, the conversation focuses on the Ukraine offensive, which started in earnest this week. What can we discern from its opening flints and forays? How is Russia likely to respond? When will we start to see the outlines of how this war will end, and is the likely endgame a frozen conflict or a more meaningful and lasting peace?
This podcast is a project of the Munk Debates, a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to fostering civil and substantive public dialogue.
More information at www.munkdebates.com.
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Be it Resolved, the elites have betrayed America
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Munk Dialogue with Charles Asher Small: Qatar's influence on campus protests
Be it Resolved, Israel should take out Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Munk Dialogue with Ambassador Dennis Ross: a new Middle East strategy
Munk Dialogue with Gregg Carlstrom: Israel and Iran's shadow war explodes into the open
Munk Dialogue with Richard Haass: a crumbling world order
Be it Resolved, TikTok is a national security threat and should be sold or banned.
Be it Resolved, American workers have never had it so good
Be it Resolved, Donald Trump is a weak general election candidate.
Munk Dialogue with Rose Gottemoeller: assessing Russia’s nuclear threats
Munk Dialogue with Gilead Sher: why a two-state solution is the only viable path to peace
Be it Resolved, the Democrats need a new nominee
Munk Dialogue with Sarah Paine: the rise of the Russia-China axis
Be it Resolved, western governments must resume funding to UNRWA
Munk Dialogue with John Mearsheimer: why Ukraine needs to break ties with the West
Munk Dialogue with David Horovitz: is it possible to defeat Hamas?
Munk Dialogue with Michael Knights: Houthi attacks in the Red Sea
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