The Common Good Podcast

“The Coming Economic Clash” - Dr. Stephen Roach, Economist, Yale University, former Chief Economist, Morgan Stanley 

Monday, May 21st, 2018

Dr. Charles Armstrong, "New Day,  New Deal for North Korea?"

The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies, Columbia University

Convener: John Harwood

Admiral (Ret.) Mike Mullen, former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, joined The Common Good for an invigorating conversation on national security challenges -- from North Korea to current wars, the troubling trend of politicization of the military, and thoughts on the Trump Administration.

Moderator: John Harwood, Chief Washington correspondent, CNBC

Susan Del Percio, "The Trump Era and the GOP- What's Working, What Needs to Change?, Republican strategist and political commentator; Founder, Susan Del Percio Strategies

John Della Volpe, "Decoding the Youth Vote - Quake or Bust?"', Director of Polling, Institute of Politics, Kennedy School, Harvard

Honorable David Jolly, "How Rigged is Our System?", Former Congressman (R-FL), Attorney, Political Consultant

Bill Schneider, "What Really Drives Elections?", Leading political analyst, author of Standoff: How America Became Ungovernable

"Trump - Year One" Presidential Panel

With:

Douglas Brinkley, Presidential historian

Roger Cohen, New York Times 

David Frum, Atlantic Monthly

Dana Perino, former White House Press Secretary (Moderator)

Ed Rollins, advisor to four U.S. Presidents

Indivisible Founders Leah Greenberg & Ezra Levin

"Citizen action sweeping the country"

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Ezra Levin Co-founder and co-Executive Director of the Indivisible Project. Previously, Ezra worked as a poverty policy wonk and advocate. He most recently served as the Associate Director of Federal Policy at Prosperity Now. He was Deputy Policy Director for Congressman Lloyd Doggett and an AmeriCorps VISTA in the Homeless Services Division of the San Jose Housing Department. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and a master’s in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University

Leah Greenberg Co-founder and co-Executive Director of the Indivisible Project. She most recently served as Policy Director for the Tom Perriello for Governor of Virginia campaign. Previously, she managed the Partnership for Freedom, a $6 million public-private partnership on human trafficking, served as an Advisor to the State Department’s Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review process, coordinated interagency engagement for the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, and worked on the Hill for Congressman Tom Perriello. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and a master’s degree in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Ambassador Jan Kickert, UN Permanent Representative, Austria

"The Ticking Atomic Clock"

eh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security

"Homeland Security in the Trump Years"

Chemi Peres on the new memoir written by his father Shimon Peres, former President & Prime Minister of Israel, “No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel”

Monday, September 18, 2017

Shimon Peres, a leading statesman in his country and around the world, penned the book, “No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel", shortly before his death, intertwining the historic moments of his own life and of Israel's -- and the future he hopes for his nation. Shimon Peres was one of Israel’s founding fathers and for more than six decades was an architect of its ascent from a fragile state to a global power. In 1994, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to forge peace between Israel and the Palestinians. In 1996, he founded the groundbreaking Peres Center for Peace and Innovation to focus on developing and implementing imaginative peacebuilding programs around the world. Peres died in September 2016, shortly after finishing his work on this book. He was ninety-three years old.

Chemi Peres, son of the late president of Israel, Shimon Peres, is one of Israel’s foremost venture capital and innovation pioneers.  He is the Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Pitango Venture Capital. Prior he served 10 years in the Israeli Air Force. Chemi is currently the Chairman of the Peres Center for Peace.

Rob Riemen, a European public intellectual and cultural critic, is the founder, president and CEO of the Nexus Institute, a leading international center for philosophical debate and intellectual discourse. Founded in 1994 by Riemen in the Netherlands, the Nexus Institute is widely acknowledged for the quality of its insight into contemporary issues. Riemen has lectured widely around the world and is also an international best-selling author, with numerous critically acclaimed publications.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018