Best Commonwealth Club Of California Podcasts (2025)

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CLIMATE ONE: Reports from COP30: Climate Talks in the Amazon 1:00:52

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The UN climate convention known as COP30 is now underway in Brazil. As the nations of the world gather to discuss their efforts to rein in climate disruption, the facts are clear: we’re not doing enough, fast enough, to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Climate-fueled disasters are …

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Justice Anthony Kennedy: Life, Law, and Liberty 1:02:06

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When President Reagan nominated Anthony Kennedy to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1988, few could have expected that he would not only serve for 30 years but would also author landmark opinions on such contested issues in American society as abortion, gay rights, and free speech. At the ideological center of an increasingly divided court, Kennedy became…

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Julia Ioffe: A Feminist History of Modern Russia 1:05:34

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How was the history of Russia made by its women through the cataclysms of revolution, war, idealism, and defeat? Join us for an engaging tour of Russia through the lives of its women. Journalist Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union in 1990. She wouldn’t return for nearly two decades, and when she did, she found a country significantly c…

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NYT’s Kenneth Vogel Exposes the Shadowy World of Foreign Lobbying in D.C. 1:07:07

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Join us for a special program that goes inside Washington’s murky foreign lobbying industry and reveals the world of the politically connected and powerful Americans who get rich working on behalf of brutal dictators, corrupt oligarchs, and global arms dealers. New York Times investigative reporter Kenneth P. Vogel has used exclusive sources, thous…

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Jimmy Wales: The Seven Rules of Trust 1:09:07

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In an age defined by disinformation, division, and deepening suspicion, one question looms large: How do we rebuild fundamental trust in one another? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales offers an answer in his new book, The Seven Rules of Trust—a sweeping and deeply reflective look at how one of the internet’s most improbable success stories came to be. …

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CLIMATE ONE: Environmental Peacebuilders Working in the Midst of War 1:03:36

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Fossil-fueled climate disruption is driving political instability around the world. The relationship between climate disasters and conflict are well-established — and also complicated. Even in war-torn regions like Israel and Palestine, people work across political and ethnic divides to address humanitarian and climate crises. The Arava Institute f…

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Joyce Vance: Giving Up is Unforgivable 1:10:27

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Is this the beginning of a countermovement to Project 2025? Join us as legal expert Joyce Vance diagnoses our country’s democratic ills and offers a prescription of citizen action as a cure. Vance’s message is a call to action, based on placing our current crisis in historical context and coming up with a vision for what to do next. Despite what sh…

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Philip Taubman and William Taubman: McNamara at War 1:08:17

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Robert S. McNamara was widely considered to be one of the most brilliant men of his generation. He was an invaluable ally of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as their secretary of defense, and he had a deeply moving relationship with Jackie Kennedy. But to the country, McNamara was the leading advocate for American escalation in Vie…

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CLIMATE ONE: When Climate Work Comes at a Cost: Dispatches From the Upside Down 1:03:56

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Human-caused climate change is fueling extreme floods, wildfires, rising seas, and record-breaking heat all around the world. At the same time, some of the most senior U.S. government officials and other powerful actors are actively defunding climate programs, dismantling research institutions, erasing decades of environmental data, and launching d…

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Innovative Financing for Innovative Impact: The Future of Humanitarian Assistance 1:04:43

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This year marked the steepest retreat to foreign assistance in recent memory, and the human cost is staggering. Global needs are growing more complex under the weight of today’s crises, while the aid system—built for a different era—is facing unprecedented disruption. Yet, this moment of upheaval may be the catalyst needed for meaningful humanitari…

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Start in Your Own Backyard: Transforming Where We Live with Radical Common Sense 1:07:21

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Steve Nygren is the founder and CEO of Serenbe, a wellness community created as a model to demonstrate that preserving green space interlaced with agriculture, housing and retail is not only economically viable, but the future of community wellbeing. Nygren, a visionary placemaker—someone who specializes in transforming public spaces into areas tha…

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Why Higher Ed Should Stand up to Trump, with Michael Roth 1:06:34

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Mary Roach: Adventures in Human Anatomy 1:03:41

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The human body is invincible—at least from the perspective of modern medicinal innovation. Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and Fuzz, follows the astonishing evolution of body part replacement, from sculpting noses from brass to crafting body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3-D printing. While these advancements are mi…

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CLIMATE ONE: Adaptation: When Prevention Isn’t Enough 59:00

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So much of the conversation about the climate crisis focuses on prevention. But no matter how well we succeed on that front, climate-induced disasters are already causing hundreds of billions of dollars of damage worldwide every year — not to mention destroying livelihoods and causing deaths. We're seeing those impacts today, and we need to be read…

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Steven Pinker: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows 1:00:10

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What’s common about common knowledge, and how does it become common? Common knowledge—the awareness of how others think and even how others think others think—is needed for social coordination, things as basic as driving on the same side of the road or using paper currency. And it has a hidden logic that makes it all work. Cognitive psychologist an…

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Edward Frenkel—Back to the Roots: How Do We Revive Pythagorean Tradition in the Age of AI? 1:26:57

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Historian Charles H. Kahn wrote that Pythagorean contributions to Western thought were "on the one hand, a mathematical understanding of the world of nature; and, on the other hand, a conception of human destiny that points beyond the visible world and beyond the mortal body to a higher form of life." Unfortunately, for the following 2,500 years, w…

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Film Screening: On Healing Land, Birds Perch 49:38

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Film screening and Q&A with director Naja Pham Lockwood and panelists; building community and healing through food with Bay Area Vietnamese chefs and restaurateurs. Join us for a film screening of On Healing Land, Birds Perch, a documentary by Naja Pham Lockwood, a Vietnamese-born filmmaker, which explores the continuing aftershocks of the Vietnam …

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CLIMATE ONE: Reports from COP30: Climate Talks in the Amazon 1:00:52

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Justice Anthony Kennedy: Life, Law, and Liberty 1:02:06

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Julia Ioffe: A Feminist History of Modern Russia 1:05:34

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NYT’s Kenneth Vogel Exposes the Shadowy World of Foreign Lobbying in D.C. 1:07:07

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Jimmy Wales: The Seven Rules of Trust 1:09:07

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CLIMATE ONE: Environmental Peacebuilders Working in the Midst of War 1:03:36

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Joyce Vance: Giving Up is Unforgivable 1:10:27

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Philip Taubman and William Taubman: McNamara at War 1:08:17

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CLIMATE ONE: When Climate Work Comes at a Cost: Dispatches From the Upside Down 1:03:56

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Innovative Financing for Innovative Impact: The Future of Humanitarian Assistance 1:04:43

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Start in Your Own Backyard: Transforming Where We Live with Radical Common Sense 1:07:21

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Why Higher Ed Should Stand up to Trump, with Michael Roth 1:06:34

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Mary Roach: Adventures in Human Anatomy 1:03:41

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CLIMATE ONE: Adaptation: When Prevention Isn’t Enough 59:00

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Steven Pinker: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows 1:00:10

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Edward Frenkel—Back to the Roots: How Do We Revive Pythagorean Tradition in the Age of AI? 1:26:57

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Film Screening: On Healing Land, Birds Perch 49:38