WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

By Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal

Based on his Wall Street Journal Opinion column "Free Expression," Editor-at-Large Gerry Baker speaks every week with some of the world's leading writers, influencers and thinkers about a variety of s... more

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The podcast currently has 160 episodes available.

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression episodes:

April 11, 2022 Garry Kasparov on Putin and "the Virus of Imperialism"
On this episode of Free Expression, Wall Street Journal Editor at Large Gerry Baker speaks with Russian-born chess grand master and outspoken Vladimir Putin critic Garry Kasparov about how the U.S. and its allies are still not taking the Russian menace seriously enough and why the future of the free world may depend on the collapse of the Putin regime.

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April 06, 2022 Will Vladimir Putin Escalate the Brutality in Ukraine?
On this episode of Free Expression, Wall Street Journal Editor at Large Gerry Baker speaks with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about the need for a new US global strategy following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, why Putin’s war is faltering and how the west should deal with the emerging challenges from the China-Russia alliance.

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33min
March 28, 2022 Orville Schell
Wall Street Journal Editor at Large Gerry Baker speaks this week with author and scholar Orville Schell about whether China can put pressure on Russia to end the invasion of Ukraine and what effect it may have on Xi Jinping's own ambitions to forcibly reclaim Taiwan.

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34min
March 21, 2022 Dr. Albert Bourla
On this episode of Free Expression, Wall Street Journal Editor-at-Large Gerry Baker speaks with Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla about how his company was able to develop a Covid-19 vaccine in under a year, the risks of new variants, and why some people distrust scientific institutions.

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33min
March 14, 2022 Stephen Kotkin
On this episode of Free Expression, Wall Street Journal Editor-at-Large Gerry Baker speaks with one of the world’s pre-eminent historians of Russia, Stephen Kotkin, about the autocratic ambitions behind Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, how the west can do more to resist his aggression and how he has placed China at an inflection point in its rise to global superpower status.

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44min
March 08, 2022 William P. Barr
On this episode of Free Expression, Wall Street Journal Editor-at-Large Gerry Baker speaks with William Barr about his tumultuous time as Attorney General in the Trump administration. Barr forcefully refutes Donald Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen, states why Donald Trump should not run again in 2024, and explains how the Trump presidency began to turn the tide against the progressive march through U.S. culture and institutions.

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45min
February 28, 2022 Niall Ferguson
On this episode of Free Expression, Gerry Baker speaks with historian and author Niall Ferguson about why the war in Ukraine represents a paradigm shift for the world, why Vladimir Putin is “rattling the nuclear saber,” and how this crisis is worse for Joe Biden than the ones that engulfed Jimmy Carter’s presidency in 1979.

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41min
February 21, 2022 Lawrence H. Summers
In this episode of "Free Expression," former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers tells Gerry Baker why he would have rather been wrong in predicting the high rate of inflation, why the risk of a recession is high, and why the idea of a federal gas tax holiday is "the ultimate policy gimmick."

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40min
February 15, 2022 Condoleezza Rice
On the inaugural episode of Free Expression, Wall Street Journal Editor-at-Large Gerry Baker speaks with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about the latest developments in the Russia/Ukraine crisis, the United States' possible role in the conflict, and her take on free speech on college campuses in her role as Director of the Hoover Institution.

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33min
February 11, 2022 Free Expression
Wall Street Journal Editor-At-Large Gerry Baker explains what is new podcast "Free Expression" is all about

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