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Departures Podcast with Zephyr Teachout

By Editor | Published: January 7, 2021

After the siege of the Capitol, we talk about some other pressing threats against American democracy.

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If no one reports a massacre somewhere on earth, has it still happened?

By Merve Şebnem Oruç | Published: January 4, 2021

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?” Philosopher George Berkeley asked this question while he was looking for answers to the notion that perception creates our reality. “Sound” is used to describe a physical phenomenon, an audible wave of pressure; but it is also an […]

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Departures Podcast with Rana Mitter

By Editor | Published: December 28, 2020

For much of China’s history, the Communist Party leadership sought to portray the country’s experience in World War II as that of a victim of Japan. But now, as China grows much more powerful and influential, the historical memory is also adapting to tell a different story. This week we are joined by Rana Mitter, […]

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Departures Podcast with Stephen Wertheim

By Editor | Published: December 23, 2020

The United States is a country that spent most of its history avoiding interventions, avoiding entanglement in great power politics, content to be isolated looking after their own affairs. Then suddenly, in just the past 75 years, it has become the world’s preeminent armed power in a position of global leadership. How did such a […]

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Departures Podcast with Onur Öymen

By Editor | Published: December 18, 2020

Over the past several years, Turkey’s relations with both the European Union and the United States have come under strain by factors both internal and external. The complexities of these relationships, in addition to the management of tensions with Russia and the Middle East on numerous fronts are not often clearly understood, even by well […]

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Departures Podcast with Elizabeth Thompson

By Robert Amsterdam | Published: December 15, 2020

Following the World War I breakup of the Ottoman Empire, Prince Faisal came into Damascus to declare his determination to build a constitutional democracy which would serve as the primary building block of a new sovereign state with guaranteed rights for a pluralistic population. Secular modernizers and Islamic reformers created groundbreaking new alliances which could […]

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