Guest: Joshua Muravchik — Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Future of the United Nations: Understanding the Past to Chart a Way Forward and Exporting Democracy: Fulfilling America’s Destiny.

Guest’s Biography

Host: Mahesha Subbaraman — A high school Lincoln-Douglas debate coach in Minnesota, an Amherst College graduate, the founder/owner of Trinity Briefs, and creator of Colloquy.

Topic Discussed: Have US policies established after September 11, 2001 substantially reduced the risk of terrorist acts against the United States?

Books Cited During Interview:

What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (Bernard Lewis)
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Lawrence Wright)

Length: 33 min.

         

Guest: Joseph S. Nye, Jr. — University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and author of The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go it Alone and Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics.

Guest’s Biography & Publications

Host: Mahesha Subbaraman — A high school Lincoln-Douglas debate coach in Minnesota, an Amherst College graduate, the founder/owner of Trinity Briefs, and creator of Colloquy.

Topic Discussed: Have US policies established after September 11, 2001 substantially reduced the risk of terrorist acts against the United States?

Sources Cited During Interview:

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates — Landon Lecture @ Kansas State University
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. — The Powers to Lead (Book)

Length: 21 min.

    

Guest: Benjamin Barber — Political theorist, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos (a public policy and advocacy organization), president and director of the international non-governmental organization (NGO) CivWorld, and author of Fear’s Empire: War, Terrorism, & Democracy.

Guest’s Personal Website

Host: Mahesha Subbaraman — A high school Lincoln-Douglas debate coach in Minnesota, an Amherst College graduate, the founder/owner of Trinity Briefs, and creator of Colloquy.

Topic Discussed: Have US policies established after September 11, 2001 substantially reduced the risk of terrorist acts against the United States?

Length: 36 min.

Resolved: US policies established after September 11, 2001 have substantially reduced the risk of terrorist acts against the United States.

Guest: Geoffrey Woglom — Chair of the Economics Department and Richard S. Volpert Professor of Economics at Amherst College.

Guest’s Personal Website: http://www.amherst.edu/~grwoglom/

Host: Mahesha Subbaraman — A high school Lincoln-Douglas debate coach in Minnesota, an Amherst College graduate, the founder/owner of Trinity Briefs, and creator of Colloquy.

Topic Discussed: Can the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 successfully mitigate economic slowdowns over the next year?

Length: 27 min.

Resolved: That the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 will successfully mitigate economic slowdowns over the next year.