Listen to Madison Institute Forum Programs

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• Public Schools Under Attack: Voucher, Charter and Virtual
  February 16, 2013      Total time: 59:31
  Speakers: Rep. Sondy Pope, Member of Wisconsin Assembly Education Committee; Marj Passman, Vice President, Madison School Board; Ellen Lindgren, President, Middleton School Board. Moderated by Ted Kinnaman, TMI Board Member.
  
  
• How Progressives Should Approach Dilemmas of 21st Century Politics
  March 10, 2012      Total time: 59:29
  Speaker: Erik O. Wright, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
  
• Colombia: Where the 1% and Multi-nationals Rule With Impunity
  February 25, 2012      Total time: 57:43
  Speaker: David Newby, President Emeritus of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, and President of Fair Trade Coalition.
  
  
• Re-imagining Capitalism: Can Democratic Principles Survive in Our Capitalist Economy?
  October 21, 2011      Total time: 59:48
  Speaker: William Greider, best-selling author and reporter for The Nation.
  
  
• "Unequal Protection" by Thom Hartmann, a Book Review
  March 12, 2011      Total time: 59:00
  Speaker: Fred Wade, constitutional lawyer and TMI Board member led the discussion of corporate personhood, the topic of "Unequal Protection".
  
  
• Why I Believe in Evolution
  December 6, 2010      Total time: 58:24
  Speaker: James F. Crow, Professor Emertius of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  
  
• Progressive Vision...Progressive Voices
  May 1, 2010      Total time: 57:07
  Speakers: Carin Clauss, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, "Supermajority, Filibusters and Democracy", and David Newby, President of Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, "The Role of Government in a Capitalist Society".
  
  
• How Corporations Use the Constitution to Dismantle Democracy
  May 1, 2010      Total time: 29:56
  Speaker: Jane Anne Morris, Corporate Anthropologist and author of "Gaveling Down the Rabble".
  
  
• The Origins of the Economic Crisis and the Way Out
  April 24, 2010      Total time: 59:44
  Speaker: Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and author of 'False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy'.
  Dean Baker Audience Discussion
  Total time: 47:31
  
  
• Corporate Personhood: Taking Stock
  November 21, 2009      Total time: 59:30
  Speaker: Jane Anne Morris, corporate anthropologist, and author of 'Gaveling Down the Rabble: How Free Trade is Stealing Our Democracy'.
  
  
• Focus on Central Asia: Afghanistan and the Neighborhood
  March 28, 2009      Total time: 57:56
  Speaker: Jeremi Suri, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
  
• The Shock Doctrine: A Post-election Challenge for Progressives
  November 7, 2008      Total time: 59:39
  Speakers: Naomi Klein, author of 'The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism'. The talk is followed by questions from Matt Rothschild, Editor of The Progressive.
  
  
• The National Platforms of the Two Major Political Parties
  September 13, 2008      Total time: 59:08
  Speakers: Charles Franklin, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. The talk is followed by two panelists: Bill Krause, activist in Republican Politics for over 50 years, and board member of Common Cause of Wisconsin; and Joe Elder, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  
  
• 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