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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 14 days 9 hours 21 minutes
Strategic culture: The thing national security is made of
Dr. Tamir Libel, a research fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI), explains to host Gilad Halpern what "strategic culture" is and how it affects policy-making in the field of national security, in Israel and beyond. Song:...
Desired destination: Palestine
Dr. Uta Larkey, professor of German and the Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Languages at Goucher College in the United States, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the migration patterns of Jewish displaced persons from Germany in the...
Hold your noses: Floor crossing, coalition shopping & politicking in Israel
Prof. Csaba Nikolenyi, a political scientist at Concordia University in Canada and the director of the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies there, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the effects of the phenomenon of party swapping on political stability...
Strange bedfellows: Religious belief in the age of reason
Sam Fleischacker, a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his latest book The Good and the Good Book, which seeks to establish how valid sacred texts are for the modern, rational man....
The opening of the Jewish-American mind
Prof. Dov Waxman, a political science, international affairs and Israel Studies scholar at Northeastern University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his new book Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel, which explores the...
The 11th century Islamic modernist who preceded modernity
Aram Abu Saleh, a student at Jerusalem's Israel Arts and Science Academy, is the recipient of the Van Leer award for outstanding essays written by high school students. He talks to host Gilad Halpern about Abul 'Alaa al Ma'ari, a maverick 11th...
Literature as a gateway to Zionism
Prof. Russell Berman, a literary scholar at Stanford University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the pedagogic rationale behind his undergraduate seminar "Zionism and the Novel," and how a critical study of literature can enrich the debate about...
New Shtetls: Radical ultra-Orthodoxy in the 20th century
Prof. Motti Inbari, a religions scholar at the University of North Carolina Pembroke, is the author of the new book Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality. Prof. Inbari discusses with host Gilad Halpern...
Reimagining modernity: Crisis as the genesis of progress
Prof. Chandra Mukerji, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego, is the author of the forthcoming book Reimagining Modernity. She discusses with host Gilad Halpern her...
Out of the ivory tower: Academia thrust into 21st century
Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Prof. Gili Drori, head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and co-chair of the international conference "Internationalization, Globalization and Governance of Academia,"...