- Waging Peace: Citizenship in a Time of Unjust War
April 19, 2008 Total time: 59:52
Speaker: Scott Ritter served as Chief Weapons Inspector for the United Nations in Iraq in the 1990s.
Earlier, as a major in the U.S. Marine Corps, he was a ballistic missile expert in military intelligence.
Recent books include 'Waging Peace', 'Target Iran', and 'Iraq Confidential'.
- Democracy on the Brink: The Perils of Excessive Secrecy
November 3, 2007 Total time: 59:04
Speaker: Ted Gup, Investigative journalist and author of 'The Wall of Honor' and 'Nation of Secrets'.
- Two Talks on Restructuring the United Nations for the
21st Century:
'What Was Created in 1945 and What Has Developed Since Then', and
'Two Friendly Proposals for U.N. Reform'.
June 13, 2006 and June 12, 2007 Total time: 59:35
Speakers: Charles Weitz, former administrator in UNESCO and the Food and Agriculture Organization, and Joseph Elder,
Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- The Role of Culture in the
Successful Development of a Society
March 3, 2007 Total time: 58:58
Speaker: Lawrence Harrison, Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at the Fletcher School of
International Relations at Tufts University and author of "The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics
Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself"
- Beyond Economic Growth
April 14, 2007 Total time: 57:03
Speaker: Joshua Farley, Assistant Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics at the
University of Vermont and Fellow with the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics.
- Avoiding Cromwell
January 20, 2007 Total time: 59:36
Speaker: Dr. John P. Kaminski, Director, Center for the Study of the American Constitution,
Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Globalization: The Undermining of Democracy
November 18, 2006 Total time: 57:02
Speaker: Edward Friedman, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- The United Nations System: What We Created In 1945 and What Has Developed Since Then
June 13, 2006 Total time: 34:49
Speaker: Charles Weitz, who served the UN for many years in UNEscO and the Food and Agriculture Organization
- Abuse of Executive Power: Worse Than Watergate?
April 29, 2006 Total time: 58:10
Speakers: John Dean, White House Legal Counsel of President Nixon
Stanley Kutler, Professor Emeritus, Law School, UW-Madison
- Confronting Nuclear Proliferation
March 4 and April, 2006 Total time: 56:48
Speakers: Stephen I. Schwartz, expert on nuclear weapons and their proliferation,
Steven Leeper, U.S. Representative of Mayors for Peace,
with added comments by David Cieslewicz, Mayor of Madison
- Gulliver in Lilliput: American Foreign Policy in a Neo-Conservative Age
October 1, 2005 Total time: 59:19
Speaker: Shadia Drury, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Regina University in Canada
- Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocolyptic Confrontation With the World
April 17, 2004 Total time: 56:00
Speaker: Robert Jay Lifton, distinguished research psychiatrist and visiting professor, Harvard Medical School
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