The Future Of..‪.‬ Azam Farooqui & Vasie Papadopolous

Gerald Butts has spent a lifetime working on environmental issues both in the public sector and now the private sector. Gerald was a key political advisor to Canadian Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and the Principal Secretary to Canada’s current Prime Minister - Justin Trudeau. Gerald also served as the CEO for the WWF - the World Wildlife Fund in Canada and is now the Vice-Chairman of the Eurasia Group where he consults on climate change, trade, energy, sustainable finance, and artificial intelligence.
 

Tasha Kheiriddin is a Canadian public affairs commentator, consultant, lawyer, policy analyst and writer.

Wagner James Au is the Author of "Making a Metaverse That Matters", SVP at AnyContext, founder & editor-in-chief of Metaverse news/culture blog New World Notes. 

Podcast recorded June 2023

Mark Higgins is a financial historian who has an upcoming book "Investing in US Financial History". We spoke with with him about the history of US financial markets, does history repeats itself? and the lessons for the future.

David Mikics is a Moores Distinguished Professor in the English Department and Honors College. His most recent book, "Slow Reading in a Hurried Age," came out from Harvard/Belknap in 2013 and was featured on NPR and in The New York Times. Other recent books are "The Annotated Emerson," and (with Stephen Burt) "The Art of the Sonnet," both also published by Harvard/Belknap, as well as "Who Was Jacques Derrida?" and "A New Handbook of Literary Terms," both from Yale. His book on Saul Bellow, "Bellow's People," appeared from Norton in 2015. Mikics is a columnist for Tablet magazine, where he writes regularly on subjects of Jewish interest, from politics and culture to literature (www.tabletmag.com/author/david-mikics). He has also written for The New Republic, The Jewish Daily Forward, The New York Times, the New Statesman, Huffington Post, and other publications. 
Mikics has won the University Teaching Excellence Award, its highest teaching honor. He teaches each year in the freshman Honors College course, the Human Situation, and also team-teaches a course with Robert Zaretsky of the history department called "Is Life Worth Living?

Ahsan I. Butt is an associate professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. His main research interests lie in nationalism, political violence, and South Asia. His book, Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy Against Separatists, was published by Cornell University Press in 2017 and won the 2019 International Studies Association award for best book in international security studies. His work has appeared in journals such as International Organization, Journal of Global Security Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Politics and Religion, and Security Studies, and has received generous support from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Mellon Foundation, the Stanton Foundation, and the United States Institute of Peace.
We spoke with him about why US went to Iraq, what were its ramifications and what are the lessons for the future.