Listen to Madison Institute Forum Programs

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  • 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