The Common Good Podcast

The Common Good was proud to present an electrifying evening of predictions on the black swans and dark horses of this year’s election season - “On the Fault Lines: Decision 2018” Midterm Elections Power Panel, co-hosted by Hunter College. What are the ramifications of one of the most consequential elections in a generation? Listen to experts Nate Silver, Hayley Barbour, David Gergen, Ann Lewis, Gerald Seib, and Gloria Borger discuss the upcoming midterm elections. 

Dr. Yascha Mounk - "The People vs. Democracy"

Professor of Political Theory, Harvard University, author of The People vs. Democracy: Why our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save it

May, 2018

Honorable Mike Rogers

Former Congressman, Chair, House Intel Committee

"Cyber Wars"

Session Convener: John Harwood, Chief Washington Correspondent, CNBC

Honorable Antony Blinken "Grading Trump on the World Stage", Former Deputy Secretary of State; Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors. 

Session Convener: John Harwood, Chief Washington correspondent, CNBC.

Garry Kasparov, "Winter is Here- The Real Russian Threat"

Leading Russian Dissident; Chair, Human Rights Foundation; World Chess Champion 

Convener: John Harwood, Chief Washington Correspondent CNBC

Dr. Kori Schake, Deputy Director- General, International Institute for Strategic Studies - China: The Hegemonic Rival to the US

Christopher Ruddy, a noted journalist and entrepreneur, is CEO and President of Newsmax Media Inc., one of the nation’s leading news media companies.

Tuesday, October 24th, 2017

Congressman Adam Schiff, Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Russia Investigation Task Force

Hosted by Secretary Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security

Friday, September 15, 2017

Newsmaker and rising congressional leader, Congressman Adam Schiff, appeared with special host & TCG Honorary Board Member Secretary Jeh Johnson for an elegant luncheon and briefing. Congressman Schiff, the Ranking Minority Member on the House Intelligence Committee and Russia Investigation Task Force, gave the latest on the Russia election interference probe, the growing threat to liberal democracies from a rise in authoritarianism, prospects for the Midterm elections, and many other consequential topics. Financial advisor Peter Maroney and TCG Founder Patricia Duff co-hosted the event.

Erik Prince, Chairman of Frontier Services Group

"Rethinking the Afghanistan War"

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Erik Prince is an American businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL officer best known for founding the government services and security company Blackwater USA, now known as Academi. He served as its CEO until 2009 and later as chairman, until Blackwater Worldwide was sold in 2010 to a group of investors. Prince currently heads the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group and is chairman of Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group Ltd. He lives in both Middleburg, Virginia and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Ambassador Robert Ford is a distinguished career diplomat who left the U.S. Department of State after thirty years of service in April 2014. His accomplishments were recognized with the Distinguished Service award, the State Department’s highest award, a Presidential Honor award in 2012 for his stewardship of the American Embassy in Damascus during a crisis period, and the Profile in Courage award in 2012 from the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston for human rights work. Ford served as the U.S. Ambassador to Syria (2011-2014), to Algeria (2006-2008) and also served as Deputy Ambassador of Iraq and Bahrain. Other foreign posts included in Egypt, Turkey, and Cameroon. He served in Morocco at the beginning of his career as a Peace Corp Volunteer. He is now a scholar at the Middle East Institute where he writes and speaks about Iraq, Syria, and North Africa. He is also a fellow at Yale University Jackson Institute where he teaches Arab politics and diplomacy.

Robert Pietrzak and Maureen White Co-Host