Podcast appearances and mentions of Edmond J Safra

What can a banker who built one of the biggest financial empires in the world and was a major philanthropist teach us about strategic leadership? A lot, in fact. I talk to Dan Gross, the author of a biography on Edmond J. Safra called ‘A banker's life'. It's a fascinating counter to many of the practices we hear and see – for better or worse – in modern day life. Safra was incredibly ambitious, looking to build wealth, nurture his community, and build bridges across the world. We hear about his approach to:Entrepreneurship, starting at a very young age.Developing relationships across different cultures in three continents.Putting purpose at the centre of his business and life.Working out the customers he wanted to serve, and the risks he wanted to take (or not).Work-life integration.Succession planning.Safra treated his business as a family. And led a dynamic, colourful life, professionally and personally. About Dan:Dan Gross is one of the most widely-read writers on finance, economics, and business history. Over the past three decades, he has reported from more than 30 countries, covering everything from the dotcom boom and the rise of China to the global financial crisis of 2008-2009. He worked as a reporter at The New Republic and Bloomberg News, wrote the “Economic View” column in The New York Times, and served as Slate's “Moneybox” columnist. Gross is a bestselling author of eight books, including Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time; Generations of Corning; Dumb Money: How America's Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation; and Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline and the Rise of a New Economy.His great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Aleppo and Damascus.Resources:Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-gross-ba46a02/‘A banker's journey' book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bankers-Journey-Edmond-Global-Financial/dp/1635767857My resources:Sign up to my Strategic Leader newsletter (http://bit.ly/36WRpri) for stimuli, ideas, guidance and tips on how to lead your team, organisation or self more effectively, delivered straight to your inbox:  If you're not subscribed already do subscribe to my youtube channel (http://bit.ly/3cFGk1k) where you can watch the conversation.Take the Extraordinary Essentials test (https://bit.ly/3EhSKY5) to identify your strengths and development areas.For more details about me:★Services (https://bit.ly/373jctk) to CEOs, entrepreneurs and professionals.★About me (https://bit.ly/3LFsfiO) - my background, experience and philosophy.★Examples of my writing (https://bit.ly/3O7jkc7).★Follow me and engage with me on LinkedIn (https://bit.ly/2Z2PexP)★Follow me and engage with me on Twitter (https://bit.ly/36XavNI).My equipment:★ Shure SM7B Vocal Dynamic Microphone: https://amzn.to/3AB9Xfz★ Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 3rd Gen USB Audio Interface : https://amzn.to/3AFeA8u★ 2M XLR Cable: https://amzn.to/3GGxkbf★ Logitech Brio Stream webcam. https://amzn.to/3EsWt6C★ Elgato Key Light: https://amzn.to/3Xhiqyh★ Elgato Light Strip: https://amzn.to/3gyZF8P★ Riverside.fm for recording podcasts. bit.ly/3AEQScl ★ Buzzsprout Podcasting Hosting gets (listing podcasts on every major podcast platform along with listening analytics. bit.ly/3EBPNTX[These are affiliate links so I receive a modest commission if you buy them.]

Who was Edmond J. Safra? "The greatest banker of his generation," in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut's Jewish quarter. An innovative avatar of financial globalization, and a faithful heir to a tradition of old-world banking. The leading champion and protector of the Sephardic diaspora.  In A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire (Radius Book Group, 2022), financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like Safra, traces his heritage to Aleppo, Syria, reconstructs the public life of an intensely private man. With exclusive access to Safra's personal archives, Gross tracks the banker's remarkable journey from Beirut to Milan, São Paulo, Geneva, and New York--to the pinnacle of global finance.Edmond Safra was fifteen in 1947, when his father sent him to establish a presence in Milan, Italy. Fluent in six languages, and with an eye for value, managing risk, and personal potential, Safra was in perpetual motion until his tragic death in 1999. The modern, global financial empire he built was based on timeless principles: a banker must protect his depositors and avoid excessive leverage and risk. In an age of busts and bailouts, Safra posted remarkable returns while rarely suffering a credit loss. From a young age, Safra assumed the mantle of leadership in the Syrian-Lebanese Jewish community, providing personal aid, supporting the communities that formed in exile, and championing Sephardic religious and educational efforts in Israel and around the world. Edmond J. Safra's life of achievement in the twentieth century offers enduring lessons for those seeking to make their way in the twenty-first century. He inspired generations to make the world a better place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who was Edmond J. Safra? "The greatest banker of his generation," in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut's Jewish quarter. An innovative avatar of financial globalization, and a faithful heir to a tradition of old-world banking. The leading champion and protector of the Sephardic diaspora.  In A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire (Radius Book Group, 2022), financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like Safra, traces his heritage to Aleppo, Syria, reconstructs the public life of an intensely private man. With exclusive access to Safra's personal archives, Gross tracks the banker's remarkable journey from Beirut to Milan, São Paulo, Geneva, and New York--to the pinnacle of global finance.Edmond Safra was fifteen in 1947, when his father sent him to establish a presence in Milan, Italy. Fluent in six languages, and with an eye for value, managing risk, and personal potential, Safra was in perpetual motion until his tragic death in 1999. The modern, global financial empire he built was based on timeless principles: a banker must protect his depositors and avoid excessive leverage and risk. In an age of busts and bailouts, Safra posted remarkable returns while rarely suffering a credit loss. From a young age, Safra assumed the mantle of leadership in the Syrian-Lebanese Jewish community, providing personal aid, supporting the communities that formed in exile, and championing Sephardic religious and educational efforts in Israel and around the world. Edmond J. Safra's life of achievement in the twentieth century offers enduring lessons for those seeking to make their way in the twenty-first century. He inspired generations to make the world a better place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Who was Edmond J. Safra? "The greatest banker of his generation," in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut's Jewish quarter. An innovative avatar of financial globalization, and a faithful heir to a tradition of old-world banking. The leading champion and protector of the Sephardic diaspora.  In A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire (Radius Book Group, 2022), financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like Safra, traces his heritage to Aleppo, Syria, reconstructs the public life of an intensely private man. With exclusive access to Safra's personal archives, Gross tracks the banker's remarkable journey from Beirut to Milan, São Paulo, Geneva, and New York--to the pinnacle of global finance.Edmond Safra was fifteen in 1947, when his father sent him to establish a presence in Milan, Italy. Fluent in six languages, and with an eye for value, managing risk, and personal potential, Safra was in perpetual motion until his tragic death in 1999. The modern, global financial empire he built was based on timeless principles: a banker must protect his depositors and avoid excessive leverage and risk. In an age of busts and bailouts, Safra posted remarkable returns while rarely suffering a credit loss. From a young age, Safra assumed the mantle of leadership in the Syrian-Lebanese Jewish community, providing personal aid, supporting the communities that formed in exile, and championing Sephardic religious and educational efforts in Israel and around the world. Edmond J. Safra's life of achievement in the twentieth century offers enduring lessons for those seeking to make their way in the twenty-first century. He inspired generations to make the world a better place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Who was Edmond J. Safra? "The greatest banker of his generation," in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut's Jewish quarter. An innovative avatar of financial globalization, and a faithful heir to a tradition of old-world banking. The leading champion and protector of the Sephardic diaspora.  In A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire (Radius Book Group, 2022), financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like Safra, traces his heritage to Aleppo, Syria, reconstructs the public life of an intensely private man. With exclusive access to Safra's personal archives, Gross tracks the banker's remarkable journey from Beirut to Milan, São Paulo, Geneva, and New York--to the pinnacle of global finance.Edmond Safra was fifteen in 1947, when his father sent him to establish a presence in Milan, Italy. Fluent in six languages, and with an eye for value, managing risk, and personal potential, Safra was in perpetual motion until his tragic death in 1999. The modern, global financial empire he built was based on timeless principles: a banker must protect his depositors and avoid excessive leverage and risk. In an age of busts and bailouts, Safra posted remarkable returns while rarely suffering a credit loss. From a young age, Safra assumed the mantle of leadership in the Syrian-Lebanese Jewish community, providing personal aid, supporting the communities that formed in exile, and championing Sephardic religious and educational efforts in Israel and around the world. Edmond J. Safra's life of achievement in the twentieth century offers enduring lessons for those seeking to make their way in the twenty-first century. He inspired generations to make the world a better place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

Who was Edmond J. Safra? "The greatest banker of his generation," in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut's Jewish quarter. An innovative avatar of financial globalization, and a faithful heir to a tradition of old-world banking. The leading champion and protector of the Sephardic diaspora.  In A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire (Radius Book Group, 2022), financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like Safra, traces his heritage to Aleppo, Syria, reconstructs the public life of an intensely private man. With exclusive access to Safra's personal archives, Gross tracks the banker's remarkable journey from Beirut to Milan, São Paulo, Geneva, and New York--to the pinnacle of global finance.Edmond Safra was fifteen in 1947, when his father sent him to establish a presence in Milan, Italy. Fluent in six languages, and with an eye for value, managing risk, and personal potential, Safra was in perpetual motion until his tragic death in 1999. The modern, global financial empire he built was based on timeless principles: a banker must protect his depositors and avoid excessive leverage and risk. In an age of busts and bailouts, Safra posted remarkable returns while rarely suffering a credit loss. From a young age, Safra assumed the mantle of leadership in the Syrian-Lebanese Jewish community, providing personal aid, supporting the communities that formed in exile, and championing Sephardic religious and educational efforts in Israel and around the world. Edmond J. Safra's life of achievement in the twentieth century offers enduring lessons for those seeking to make their way in the twenty-first century. He inspired generations to make the world a better place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Who was Edmond J. Safra? "The greatest banker of his generation," in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut's Jewish quarter. An innovative avatar of financial globalization, and a faithful heir to a tradition of old-world banking. The leading champion and protector of the Sephardic diaspora.  In A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire (Radius Book Group, 2022), financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like Safra, traces his heritage to Aleppo, Syria, reconstructs the public life of an intensely private man. With exclusive access to Safra's personal archives, Gross tracks the banker's remarkable journey from Beirut to Milan, São Paulo, Geneva, and New York--to the pinnacle of global finance.Edmond Safra was fifteen in 1947, when his father sent him to establish a presence in Milan, Italy. Fluent in six languages, and with an eye for value, managing risk, and personal potential, Safra was in perpetual motion until his tragic death in 1999. The modern, global financial empire he built was based on timeless principles: a banker must protect his depositors and avoid excessive leverage and risk. In an age of busts and bailouts, Safra posted remarkable returns while rarely suffering a credit loss. From a young age, Safra assumed the mantle of leadership in the Syrian-Lebanese Jewish community, providing personal aid, supporting the communities that formed in exile, and championing Sephardic religious and educational efforts in Israel and around the world. Edmond J. Safra's life of achievement in the twentieth century offers enduring lessons for those seeking to make their way in the twenty-first century. He inspired generations to make the world a better place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/finance

Who was Edmond J. Safra? “The greatest banker of his generation,” in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut's Jewish quarter. An innovative avatar of financial globalization, and a faithful heir to a tradition of old-world banking. And also a leading champion and protector of the Sephardic diaspora.  In A Banker's Journey, financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like Safra, traces his heritage to Aleppo, Syria, reconstructs the public life of an intensely private man. KAN's Mark Weiss spoke with Daniel Gross about his book. (Photo: Courtesy Radius Publishing)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Shuster hosts. Author Daniel Gross joins to talk about his latest book that covers the life of Edmond J Safra. Insider Policy and Politics Correspondent Kimberly Leonard discusses how aging affects the brain, specifically politicians and presidents. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to Charles' Alpha Investor newsletter today: https://pro.banyanhill.com/m/2054150 (https://pro.banyanhill.com/m/2054150) Who was Edmond J. Safra? Some know him as “the greatest banker of his generation.” He founded four massive financial institutions on three continents. That's why financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross set out to uncover the history behind this 15-year-old prodigy that built an empire based on these timeless principles: a banker must protect his depositors and avoid excessive leverage and risk. Safra posted remarkable returns in an age of busts and bailouts while rarely suffering a credit loss. This banker's journey offers enduring lessons for those seeking to make their way in the twenty-first century. He inspired generations to make the world a better place. Topics Discussed: An Introduction to Daniel Gross (00:00:00) Warren Buffett-level returns (00:10:20) How to succeed in a world of crowded trades (00:24:25) Banking in a time of no deposit insurance or bailouts (00:21:19) How the $10 billion deal at HBSC was done and protected the people (34:56) It's business AND it's personal (00:42:22) Guest Bio: Daniel Gross is one of the most widely-read writers on finance, economics, and business history. Over the past three decades, he has reported from more than thirty countries, covering everything from the dotcom boom to the global financial crisis and the Great Recession of 2008–2009.  Gross worked as a reporter at The New Republic and Bloomberg News, wrote the “Economic View” column in The New York Times, and served as Slate's “Moneybox” columnist. At Newsweek, where he was a columnist and correspondent, he authored seven cover stories. He is a bestselling author of eight books, including Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time; Generations of Corning; Dumb Money: How America's Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation; and Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline and the Rise of a New Economy. Gross was educated at Cornell University and holds an M.A. in American history from Harvard University. His great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Aleppo and Damascus. Resources Mentioned: https://www.amazon.com/Bankers-Journey-Edmond-Global-Financial/dp/1635767857 (A Bankers Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire) https://www.amazon.com/Vendetta-American-Express-Smearing-Edmond/dp/0060167599/ (Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra) Transcript: https://charlesmizrahi.com/uncategorized/2022/08/30/building-global-financial-empire-daniel-gross/ (https://charlesmizrahi.com/podcast/)

Peter Filichia, Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Flying Over Sunset, Company, West Side Story (Movie), NY Pops Holiday Concert with Kelli O’Hara, and Becoming Dr. Ruth @ Edmond J. Safra Hall, Museum of Jewish Heritage This Week on Broadway has been coming to you every read more The post This Week on Broadway for December 19, 2021: Flying Over Sunset appeared first on BroadwayRadio.

The groundbreaking Edmond J. Safra Parkinson's Wellness Program was founded in 2007 to help improve the lives of those impacted by Parkinson's Disease. Through education, exercise, support groups, and other programs, and in collaboration with the medical and local communities, people impacted by Parkinson's remain active, connected, and empowered. Through a collaboration between the JCC and the Parkinson's Foundation, supported by Northwell Health, the program has grown into a hub for the New York Parkinson's community, and has been adapted nationally. In this episode, we'll hear Rabbi Joy Levitt discuss the founding of the program with two of the driving forces behind it: Caroline Kohles, the JCC's Senior Director of Health and Wellness, and Dr. Alessandro Di Rocco, neurologist and director of Northwell's Movement Disorders Program. Visit https://mmjccm.org/parkinsons to learn more about the program.

As more and more people get their DNA sequenced, through health care initiatives, biobanks and direct-to-consumer testing, an array of ethical questions arise. From how results are shared with research participants, to the ambiguities surrounding gene editing, Patrick and this week's guest, Dr Anna Lewis, Research Associate at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, dive deep into the big questions surrounding genetics and medicine.

As more and more people get their DNA sequenced, through health care initiatives, biobanks and direct-to-consumer testing, an array of ethical questions arise. From how results are shared with research participants, to the ambiguities surrounding gene editing, Patrick and this week's guest, Dr Anna Lewis, Research Associate at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, dive deep into the big questions surrounding genetics and medicine.

What did the Founding Fathers mean by the words, "We hold these truths to be self evident..."? In what ways did they weave the concept of equality into this founding document? How should we deal with the hypocrisy of Jefferson and others who pledged their lives to the words "all men are created equal" while at the same time enslaving people? What's the difference between our political constitution and our social constitution, and how are they aligned in America today? Dr. Danielle Allen joins us to answer these questions and explore the history, meaning, and philosophical foundations of our Declaration of Independence. Dr. Danielle Allen is the author of "Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality." She is also the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, Director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and the principle investigator for the Democratic Knowledge Project. Follow her on Twitter at @dsallentess.

Over recent years many countries and organisations have introduced legislation and policies to support whisteblowers, yet the challenges remain. Although a vital function of any organisation, whistleblowing can have significant personal and professional impacts. In this episode we speak to Professor Kate Kenny of NUI Galway about her research into whistleblowing and discuss both the challenges and opportunities. Kate Kenny is Professor of Business and Society at National University of Ireland Galway. She has held research fellowships at the Edmond J. Safra Lab at Harvard University and Cambridge's Judge Business School. Her research focuses on organization studies, specifically political and psychosocial approaches. Kate's recent book ‘Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory' (Harvard University Press, 2019) examines whistleblowing with a focus on the financial sector. Her book ‘The Whistleblowing Guide' (Wiley, 2019) with Professors Wim Vandekerckhove and Professor Marianna Fotaki is aimed at practicing managers, coaches and others working in this space. Watch a short video on the findings from research into best practice in Speak-Up/ Whistleblowing arrangements, mentioned in the podcast. Short pieces on Covid-19, healthcare and whistleblowing, featured in the The Conversation and RTE Brainstorm Reports, videos and research from Professor Kenny are all on www.whistleblowingimpact.org

What happens when the ties between the people who study psychiatric drugs and the companies who make them become too cozy? A discussion with UMass Boston psychology professor Lisa Cosgrove.    Lisa Cosgrove, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston where she teaches courses on psychiatric diagnosis and psychopharmacology. She was a Research Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University (2010-2015) and served as a consultant to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, child psychiatrist Dainius Puras. Lisa and her studentsconduct research that broadly aims to shift the current biomedical paradigm and integrate a human rights approach in mental health policies and practices. Specifically,her research addresses 1) the ethical and medical-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of academic-industry relationships and 2) the ways in which commercialized science reinforces epistemic injustice and undermines an appreciation for the moral and political context of physical and emotional suffering.  She is co-author, with Bob Whitaker, of Psychiatry under the influence: Institutional corruption, social injury and prescriptions for reform. Her recent publications have addressed the ethical issues that arise with the use of digital phenotyping and digital psychotropic drugs. For information on Professor Cosgrove's work on institutional corruption as a fellow at Harvard's Safra Centre see here

In this podcast, Dr. Eeks chats with Dr. Cecilia Rikap of Argentina, Dr. Marc-Andre Gagnon of Canada and Dr. Mercedes Garcia Carrillo of Argentia who, along with a few other researchers, conducted a study and wrote a paper titled: "Whose shoulders is health research standing on? Determining the key actors and contents of the prevailing biomedical research agenda."In the podcast, they will discuss what the dominant biomedical research agenda is and why it's so important; what its chief contents are; the players that have the most influence over the dominant research agenda (including how much industry influences it), and what is not included in the agenda and why that is important. They will also suggest ways to improve the contents of the agenda and ensure that no one has a monopoly over influencing it. In addition, they talk a little about science, funding and vaccine access as it relates to the current pandemic.Dr. Mercedes García Carrillo is a biologist and a CONICET postdoctoral scholar. Currently, she is part of the Cancer Systems Biology and Philosophy Laboratory at the Institute of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Translational Biology of the University of Buenos Aires. Her research is focused on studying the impact of commonly used herbicides on human cell lines and microbial soil communities. Mercedes holds a PhD in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires. Her PhD research was focused on the development of emergent food preservation techniques for the treatment of fruit and vegetable beverages. Dr. Cecilia Rikap is a tenure researcher at the CONICET, Argentina’s national research council, and visiting professor of the IDHES, Université Paris Saclay. She is also an associate researcher of COSTECH, Université de Technologie de Compiègne and CEPED, IRD/Université de Paris, and a professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Her research is centered around the rising concentration of intangible assets, focusing on power relations and the distribution of data and innovation-related economic gains, resulting geopolitical tensions, and the effects on knowledge commons & development. She is the author of the book Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered (Routledge, 2021). She holds a PhD in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Dr. Marc-André Gagnon is Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). He is a Research Fellow with the WHO Collaborating Center on Governance, Accountability and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector. His research focuses on pharmaceutical policy and on the political economy of the drug industry. More specifically, his on-going research focuses on comparative analysis of health care coverage (and pharmacare), on innovation policy and intellectual property in the knowledge-based economy, as well as institutional corruption in pharmaceutical research. He holds a PhD in political science from York University, a Diplôme d’études approfondies in economics from Paris-I Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/Saint-Cloud. His did his postdoctoral studies in Law with the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy at McGill University and in Ethics with the Edmond J. Safra Centre for Ethics à l’Université Harvard.Follow Dr. Eeks on Instagram here.Or Facebook here.Or TwitterOr YoutubeSubcribe to her 

Professor Kate Kenny is a leading expert in the field of Whistleblowing.  In this podcast Kate draws on psychosocial approaches to take a fresh look at Whistleblowing.   Whistle-blowers are consistently treated by the media and public as traitors or hero’s. Take Edward Snowden, for some he is a courageous hero who sacrificed his career and put himself in danger for ‘truth-telling’, for others he is a traitor for giving away secrets to enemies of the state.  Kate builds a broader case that situates whistle-blowers in their organisational and social context. In this fascinating conversation Kate discusses how whistleblowing is an organisational phenomenon and how group and social dynamics influence how whistle-blowers act, and how they are responded to.  Many organisations respond positively to whistle-blowers yet some continue to enact 'whistleblower retaliation'.   Kate also discusses the importance of organisations more generally, and how they impact on our psychic and emotional lives, individually and collectively.    Bio Kate Kenny is Professor of Business and Society at NUI Galway.  She has held research fellowships at the Edmond J. Safra Lab at Harvard University and Cambridge's Judge Business School.  Her research focuses on organization studies, specifically political and psychosocial approaches. She has researched whistleblowing in organisations since 2010. Along with numerous articles in peer review journals on this topic, she has published two books on whistleblowing: Whistleblowing: Toward a new theory (Harvard University Press, 2019) and The Whistleblowing Guide (Wiley Business, 2019, with Wim Vandekerckhove and Marianna Fotaki). She has written and contributed to articles in the Financial Times, the Irish Times, the Guardian among others.  Her work has been cited in the UK House of Commons, Ireland’s parliament and in policy documents at EU level.  Kate’s recent book ‘Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory’ (Harvard University Press, 2019)  adopts a psychosocial framing to whistleblowing. Her book ‘The Whistleblowing Guide’ (Wiley, 2019) with Professors Wim Vandekerckhove and Professor Marianna Fotaki is aimed at practicing managers, coaches and others working in this space. The Psychosocial and Organization Studies (Palgrave, 2014 with Professor Marianna Fotaki) is an edited collection of contributions from experts in this field. Watch an interview with Kate and Chris Smalls, Amazon whistleblower mentioned in the discussion.  Short pieces on Covid-19, healthcare and whistleblowing (as mentioned), featured in the The Conversation and RTE Brainstorm  Reports, videos and research from Professor Kenny are all on www.whistleblowingimpact.org

The psychedelic drug psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, is as good at reducing symptoms of depression as conventional treatment, a small, early-stage trial has suggested. The study, run by Imperial College London's Centre for Psychedelic Research, is among the first to test psilocybin against the usual drug treatment, an SSRI, in this case Escitalopram. Prof David Nutt is the Deputy Head of the Centre, and co-author of the study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week. He is the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit at Imperial College London.

The psychedelic drug psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, is as good at reducing symptoms of depression as conventional treatment, a small, early-stage trial has suggested. The study, run by Imperial College London's Centre for Psychedelic Research, is among the first to test psilocybin against the usual drug treatment, an SSRI, in this case Escitalopram. Prof David Nutt is the Deputy Head of the Centre, and co-author of the study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week. He is the Edmond J. Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit at Imperial College London.

Photo: Yemenite Jewish family reading from the Psalms.The New John Batchelor ShowCBS Audio Network@BatchelorshowRescuing the last Jews in ravaged Yemen. Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie @RabbiElieAbadie, @AmericanSephard Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres  Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie, Chair of the American Sephardi Federation’s Council of Sephardic Sages, comes from a long and distinguished rabbinical lineage dating back to fifteenth century Spain and Provence. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, he grew-up in Mexico City before settling in the United States. Following in the footsteps of the greatest Jewish scholar and philosopher Moses Maimonides (the RAMBAM), he is both a rabbi and a physician. Rabbi Dr. Abadie, founder of both NYC’s Edmond J. Safra Synagogue and the Moise Safra Community Center, is now based in Dubai, UAE.  https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/03/houthis-deport-some-yemens-last-remaining-jews https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-13-yemeni-jews-leave-pro-iran-region-for-cairo-nations-community-down-to-6/ https://www.yemenembassy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Houthi-Ideology.pdf https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/the-uaes-unprecedented-role-in-helping-reunite-jewish-family-is-symbolic-655389

Food insecurity poses one of the most pressing development and human challenges in the world. This has been true for a very long time. And still there is a little social consensus on who ought to do what to solve the hunger problem. Today we're talking with Dr. Michelle Jurkovich, Author of a new book entitled "Feeding The Hungry Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger." She argues that food is a critical economic and social right, and presents a toolkit of ideas for more effective rights advocacy. Dr. Jurkovich is a Political Scientist on the Faculty of the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Interview Summary Let's begin with this: hunger and food insecurity are very often discussed as either distribution or supply problems. Your book encourages a different view. Can you explain? Often, we hear hunger framed as a technical problem with technical solutions. So, if only we could learn to grow more food with fewer inputs and in more environmentally sustainable ways. And if only we could improve market access to that food, then we could solve the hunger problem. But few benefits in society are ever distributed equally or fairly. Even when scientific advancement allows those resources to exist in abundance and the world currently produces more food than it needs to feed even its ever-growing population. Should new crop varieties and farming methods enable it to produce an even greater surplus, there'd still be no guarantee that that abundance would reach those most in need, the most marginalized in society. So hunger isn't a supply problem, but the distribution framing of the problem. Saying we just need to be able to improve market access and people's ability to pay for food. So here we have the poverty is causing the problem frame, is also problematic. And here's why. Underlying that hunger is a distribution problem frame is the assumption that poverty necessarily will preclude access to food. And that seems completely reasonable on its face. Let's think about other equally complicated and expensive to solve social problems where we do not make that assumption. For instance, universal access to primary education. So let's imagine a seven year old child has no access to education. Who might we imagine the community would think was to blame for the inability of that child to attend a school? I don't think poverty would be most people's response. Even in the most politically conservative communities in the US, the state, by which I mean the government, would be seen as to blame if the seven-year-old child did not have access to a free education. Access to primary education is a human right which society has determined and reiterated in law that the state is obliged to provide to children living within its borders. And poverty should not preclude access to primary education. But if you consider the same seven-year-old child and ask who is to blame if that child does not have access to dinner when he gets home, you're likely to get a very different answer. Well, if he went to school, he could at least have gotten lunch. Of course, this doesn't help with food on the weekends or holidays or dinners or should the child not attend school. Or doesn't the Catholic church have a soup kitchen? Or aren't there food banks, which are often funded by private donations? Or, well, if his parents worked harder, they'd be able to afford enough food for their kid. Providing education is not cheaper or easier for the government to do than providing adequate food for the child. But societies have determined despite this cost, that poverty ought not preclude access to education for the same kid that poverty does preclude access to dinner. And I use that example not to deny the gross inequalities that exist in our public education system in the US, but rather to highlight how it's not inevitable that societies think your access to an essential need necessarily ought to be determined by your ability to purchase it. I argue that a core challenge for the hunger problem, is consensus on who ought to be responsible for ensuring individuals have access to adequate food and who's to blame when individuals are hungry. And when there's no consensus on who is ultimately responsible for ensuring the right to food, it's difficult to effectively leverage social pressure to compel change. If we don't first reach a consensus on these core questions especially who's ultimately responsible for ensuring people have access to adequate food. Is it the national government, civil society, food banks that are often funded through private generosity, corporations, etc. If we do not have a norm in society then indeed a given actor is responsible for ensuring a right to food, such that if the right to food remains unfulfilled we know which actor is to blame and can effectively focus advocacy on that actor, we should expect hunger to continue much as before. It's a fascinating perspective you provide. And not one that I've heard discussed in much detail. So this is really a very much needed perspective. So, if there has been a long history of the right to food in international law, and you mentioned that there just aren't enough parties taking responsibility and lack of overall coordination for this, why is that the case, do you think? Right. And this is a core puzzle - this tension between laws and norms. And the answer is, because laws are not the same as norms and oftentimes we can have existing law, and that doesn't necessarily mean there's a norm in a given society that indeed a particular actor really is obliged to do a particular thing or to behave in a particular way. So in this case, there certainly is international law. And sometimes even domestic law, ascribing responsibility to national governments to ensure the right to food of its people. In a growing number of countries, the right to food is even included in national constitutions. And if we were to look at the first mention of a right to food, we can think back to the drafting of the universal declaration of human rights in the 1940s. It was a unique moment in time because at the time in which the right to food was included in the declaration, it didn't already exist on any national constitution or other international convention. So it was at that moment, a new right. But of course over time, it has been reiterated in other legally binding treaties and conventions including the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, as well as other agreements. Some of which the United States have even signed on to like the voluntary guidelines on the right to food in 2004. But, we know laws and norms don't always walk hand in hand in society. So when I say a norm, I mean, a socially shared standard of appropriate behavior for actors of a given identity. So norms tell you who is expected to behave in a particular way, such that if they don't, you can more effectively focus social pressure. So to take one example here in Boston, if you're riding our subway system, there's an expectation that commuters stand on the right and walk on the left of the escalator going in and out of the station. And if you were to stand on the left, you'll get a side-eye or maybe even a shove or a verbal review that lets you know that you're violating the social expectation by commuters. You ought to stand on the right and walk on the left. And tourists very often get this wrong not being aware of the social norms here in Boston, and Bostonians are quick to clue them in sometimes more kindly than others. But having a norm allows for social pressure to compel an actor who is expected to do a particular thing to change that behavior and make good on that expected action. But if there's no norm, even if societies agree on a moral principle, that is a shared understanding that something is bad or tragic or wrong, here that children go hungry in the modern age for instance, we shouldn't expect that same social pressure to compel change. Because if there is no norm, then there's no norm violator. Sometimes laws and norms can walk hand in hand. There are laws against murdering people and there are social norms that match those laws, but sometimes they don't. And so my book looks at an important community of international anti-hunger organizations and argues that in this community, there is no norm that any one unitary actor such as the national government really is expected to act in ways that insurance people aren't hungry. But norms aren't static things, they grow and they change over time and they differ from place to place. So there may be a growing norm of this obligation in India, for instance. And changes in the way the government and media are discussing food insecurity in the US during the pandemic, may itself open up space to build such a norm domestically. But I don't believe we're there yet. And we'll have to see if after the shock of the pandemic subsides, if Americans go back to having a relatively high tolerance for hunger in their country with limited domestic pressure and advocacy centered on the government as a violator when that hunger persists. I would like to get your ideas on what can be done about this. But before we do that, let's talk a little bit about how you did your research. So you did extensive interviews with staff at top international anti-hunger organizations, and you also did extensive archival research at FAOs archives and the US and UK national archives. What were you interested in understanding as you did this research? Two tracks of things. For the archives, I was of course interested in the past. So here, I wanted to understand how hunger had been put on the political agenda internationally, as a problem that was to be solved. And so I looked at starting in 1943, the Hot Springs Conference, which took place here in Hot Springs, Virginia. Which was a key moment where States came together at a really interesting time. And you can imagine World War II is still going on. It's a bit of an odd time for the US government to call for an international conference to talk about hunger, but they did. So part of the research was in trying to unpack what made food a salient issue at that moment, such that responding to hunger, not domestically but internationally, would become a core theme for this first conference. And this conference was important too because it resulted in the construction of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the FAO a few years later, which to this day is very important international organization in responding to the hunger problem. And I also wanted to look at key moments like when food was included in the universal declaration of human rights during the drafting process and in the covenant on economic, social, cultural rights. In particular looking at how both the US and the UK government considered its inclusion. The interviews construct the majority of the rest of the book. And here I'm interested in understanding how senior staff at top international anti-hunger organizations understand blame for chronic hunger. Who if anyone is to blame for the problem and how they believe the problem should be solved. Your book talks about a new model for dealing with international anti-hunger advocacy efforts called a buckshot model. Can you explain what that is? To the purpose of the model is to help describe and explain the behavior of international anti-hunger advocacy. So in my own field of international relations, we often assume that when faced with a human rights violation or another bad outcome, that activists necessarily will join together and they will agree on a single unitary actor to target their advocacy efforts, to apply pressure, to compel that actor to change its behavior in response to whatever that violation may be. But in terms of international anti-hunger advocacy, we see a wide diffusion of target actors, not a concentrated pressure on one. So here we see advocacy targeting transnational corporations, international financial institutions, outside states, as well as national governments and others. And the buckshot model helps to map that diffusion. We also assume in some of our prior scholarship, that there's a specific directionality in advocacy work. Namely, that local NGOs often in global South countries will reach out to international NGOs often headquartered in global North countries and invite them to join an advocacy effort. But in the case of international anti-hunger advocacy, that directionality is more complicated, and oftentimes the reverse is also true. So international NGOs may decide abroad contours of an advocacy effort in their own headquarters. Then reach out to local partners to join in. The book probes the causes of that type of advocacy. And it looks to what enables differences in advocacy around food from other human rights and considers what may be some of the limitations of that type of advocacy in holding any one actor accountable. This work is fascinating and it speaks to how these efforts are financed, who controls the conversation, what nations and the world sees such fundamental rights. So I think your book rates and makes a really nice contribution in that regard. But let's talk about the global pandemic and how that has exacerbated food insecurity, both here and abroad. What lessons can be applied from your book to the anti-hunger efforts that are occurring? We are certainly seeing, the issue of hunger in the United States receive increased attention both by the media and public officials during the pandemic. And there have been meaningful changes in public food assistance measures during the pandemic. So for example, beginning in March of 2020 and up until now, you have seen some states begin to implement publicly funded food assistance programming that has been rarely if ever seen in US history. So in cities like New York City and in Boston, ready to eat hot meals are being provided to all who need them, regardless of age, income or employment status. In California they implemented a novel reimbursement program designed to pay restaurants for providing free or reduced cost food, I think specifically to seniors. As well as nationwide there've been reforms to allow for online purchase through increased P-EBT credits. Though on this point it's worth noting that USDA has restricted that online benefits in many states like Massachusetts to use an either Walmart or amazon.com. So this does raise some serious concerns about monopolizing benefits to large corporations. Perhaps the most visible changes, have taken place in modifications to free or reduced school lunch programs during the pandemic. So previously, if American children needed a free lunch, they were required to meet specific eligibility requirements which has to be physically present at school to receive it. And being a hungry child wasn't enough to entitle them to a meal. They were required to perform a service in exchange - this is the attending of school. And in much of America, dinner time, school holidays, weekends, summer breaks, they left the same children without a venue for prepared food and existing WIC and SNAP programming did not adequately fill that void. But the pandemic has resulted in many school districts making lunches and breakfast available for pickup without conditions applied to all children who need them. As we've seen with the rising hunger rates, however, that is not an adequate response, it remains quite inadequate. But it does represent a change in the conditionalities applied for hungry children to access meals. And those are important changes for how public food assistance programs work in the US, and I think they're promising. And yet, the US has historically shown a very high tolerance for hunger within its borders, at least for specific populations of individuals. So food insecurity rates among households with children headed by a single woman in the US have consistently been between 28.7% and 35.3% every year since 2014. And the USDA estimates food insecurity rates among black households, again, every year has ranged between 19.1% and 26.1%. And among Hispanic households, again, every year between 15.6% and 22.4% since 2014. And this persisted due to the very limited public food assistance available in the US. But of course, this did not get much media attention. And historically, Americans have not been entitled to adequate nutritious food when they're hungry. At least not at the expense of federal or state governments. Public food assistance programs are and have always been limited and supplemental and not designed to cover all nutritional needs. The effects of limited government engagement with hunger have disproportionately affected women and people of color and resulted in a patchwork system of assistance where charities and privately funded food banks attempt to fill the gaps left by the government's supplemental nutrition assistance program or SNAP. So the question for us now I think, is whether the increased attention and funding during the pandemic will be short-term responses or whether this might signal a potential opening and reconsidering state obligation to the right to food in a post pandemic world. Bio Dr. Michelle Jurkovich is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at UMass Boston and a Visiting Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.  She is the author of Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger (Cornell University Press, 2020).  Her research interests include hunger and food security, economic and social rights, and ethics.  Her work has been published in International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, and Global Governance, among other outlets. In 2020 she was awarded a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress (residency postponed due to the pandemic).  Previously, she served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology fellow working in the Office of Food for Peace at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University.  

Recorded on February 3, 2021, this podcast features a Matrix Distinguished Lecture by Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and Director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Professor Allen's lecture focuses on the findings of "Our Common Purpose: Reinventing Democracy for the 21st Century," a report by the American Academy's Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship. Allen served as co-chair of the Commission, which convened weekly for two years in support of this project. As detailed in the report, the Commission was established to “consider what it means to be a good citizen in the twenty-first century, and to ask how all of us might obtain the values, knowledge, and skills to become still better citizens…. Through its recommendations, the Commission has looked to increase citizens' capacity to engage in their communities, counter rising threats to democratic self-government, and rebuild trust in political institutions.” (To learn more, visit https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose​.) The lecture was introduced and moderated by Henry Brady, Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Podcast: Vox Conversations (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Best of: An inspiring conversation about democracy with Danielle AllenPub date: 2020-12-17This conversation with Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen in fall 2019 is one of my all-time favorites.  Allen directs Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. She's a political theorist, a philosopher, the principal investigator of the Democratic Knowledge Project, and the co-chair of a two-year bipartisan commission of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, which just this year released “Our Common Purpose,” a report with more than 30 recommendations on how to reform American democracy. Her 2006 book Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education, which forms the basis for this conversation, is the most important exploration of what democracy demands from its citizens that I've ever read. I talk about democracy a lot on this show, but it's her life's work I tried a bunch of different descriptions the first time this episode was released and they all failed the conversation. I had no better luck this time. I loved this one, and, at a moment when the future of democracy looks even darker than it did a year ago, I think you will too. Don't make me cheapen it by describing it. Just download it.References:"Building a Good Jobs Economy" by Dani Rodrik and Charles SabelBook recommendations:"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell"What America Would Be Like Without Blacks" by Ralph EllisonMen in Dark Times by Hannah ArendtCredits:Producer/Audio engineer - Jeff GeldResearcher - Roge KarmaPlease consider making a contribution to Vox to support this show: bit.ly/givepodcasts Your support will help us keep having ambitious conversations about big ideas.New to the show? Want to check out Ezra's favorite episodes? Check out the Ezra Klein Show beginner's guide (http://bit.ly/EKSbeginhere)Want to contact the show? Reach out at ezrakleinshow@vox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

This conversation with Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen in fall 2019 is one of my all-time favorites.    Allen directs Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. She’s a political theorist, a philosopher, the principal investigator of the Democratic Knowledge Project, and the co-chair of a two-year bipartisan commission of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, which just this year released “Our Common Purpose,” a report with more than 30 recommendations on how to reform American democracy. Her 2006 book Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education, which forms the basis for this conversation, is the most important exploration of what democracy demands from its citizens that I've ever read. I talk about democracy a lot on this show, but it’s her life’s work   I tried a bunch of different descriptions the first time this episode was released and they all failed the conversation. I had no better luck this time. I loved this one, and, at a moment when the future of democracy looks even darker than it did a year ago, I think you will too. Don’t make me cheapen it by describing it. Just download it. References: "Building a Good Jobs Economy" by Dani Rodrik and Charles Sabel Book recommendations: "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell "What America Would Be Like Without Blacks" by Ralph Ellison Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt Credits: Producer/Audio engineer - Jeff Geld Researcher - Roge Karma Please consider making a contribution to Vox to support this show: bit.ly/givepodcasts Your support will help us keep having ambitious conversations about big ideas. New to the show? Want to check out Ezra’s favorite episodes? Check out the Ezra Klein Show beginner’s guide (http://bit.ly/EKSbeginhere) Want to contact the show? Reach out at ezrakleinshow@vox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mason Marks, Assistant Professor at Gonzaga University School of Law and Edmond J. Safra/Petrie-Flom Center Joint Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard University, and Dustin Marlan, Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts College of Law Dartmouth, discuss their work on the regulation and use of psychedelics. Marks's scholarship is available here, and Marlan's scholarship is available here. They begin by explaining what psychedelics are and their emerging medical uses. They reflect on the strict regulation of psychedelics, and how it limits research into medical uses, as well as infringing on civil liberties. Marks in Twitter at @MasonMarksMD and Marlan is at @DustinMarlan.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr Reality discusses "Harvard Global Health Institute" and the "Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics" wanting 13 states to initiate new lockdowns in late July (2020). Not one of the 13 states adhered to Harvard's demand. Using data graphs Dave shows you what happened in the 13 states that ignored Harvard. What will happen when [...]

When news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, months after its declaration, the U.S. activated re-constitution simultaneously along political, economic, and social dimensions. But achievement of social organization resting simultaneously on principles of freedom and equality would be long in coming, and the tempo of progress various along each of those three dimensions. Ultimately the social constitution of racial supremacy has been the hardest to displace and has woven its knotty, tenacious tentacles through political and economic dimensions as well. The time has come for a full liberation across all three domains and for justice by means of egalitarian participatory democracy, supported by truly free labor. This keynote will sketch out that vision of liberation and the relevance of RadicalxChange ideas to it. SPEAKERDanielle Allen is an American classicist and political scientist. She is the James Bryant Conant University Professor and the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 2015, Allen was UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. As of January 1, 2017, she is also James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor. She has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education (2004), Why Plato Wrote (2010), and Our Declaration (Norton/Liveright, 2014). In 2002, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her ability to combine “the classicist’s careful attention to texts and language with the political theorist’s sophisticated and informed engagement.” She is currently working on books on citizenship in the digital age and political equality. Allen is a frequent public lecturer and regular guest on public radio affiliates to discuss issues of citizenship, as well as an occasional contributor on similar subjects to the Washington Post, Boston Review, Democracy, Cabinet, and The Nation. MODERATORE. Glen Weyl is a political economist and social technologist whose work focuses on harnessing computers and markets to create a radically equal and cooperative society. He is the Founder and Chairman of the RadicalxChange Foundation, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and a lecturer at Princeton University. Glen was recently honored as a Bloomberg Top 50, one Wired Magazine’s 25 leaders shaping the next 25 years of technology, and one of Coindesk’s most influential people in blockchain for 2018. More at www.glenweyl.com. About Radical Markets: www.radicalmarkets.com.

For this very special 4th of July episode, Dr. Danielle Allen returns to explore the history, meaning, and philosophical foundations of the Declaration of Independence. What did the Founding Fathers mean by the words, "We hold these truths to be self evident..."? In what ways did they weave the concept of equality into this founding document? How should we deal with the hypocrisy of Jefferson and others who pledged their lives to the words "all men are created equal" while at the same time enslaving people? What's the difference between our political constitution and our social constitution, and how are they aligned in America today? Dr. Danielle Allen is the author of "Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality." She is also the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and the principle investigator for the Democratic Knowledge Project. Follow her on Twitter at @dsallentess.

My first conversation with Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen in fall 2019 was one of my all-time favorites. I didn’t expect to have Allen on again so soon, but her work is unusually relevant to our current moment. She’s written an entire book about the deeper argument of the Declaration of Independence and the way our superficial reading and folk history of the document obscures its radicalism. (It’ll make you look at July Fourth in a whole new way). Her most recent book, Cuz, is a searing indictment of the American criminal justice system, driven by watching her cousin go through it and motivated by the murder that ended his life. Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, which Allen directs, has released the most comprehensive, operational road map for mobilizing and reopening the US economy amidst the Covid-19 crisis. And to top it all off, a two-year bipartisan commission of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, which Allen co-chaired, recently released a report with more than 30 recommendations on how to reform American democracy — and they’re very, very good. This is a wide-ranging conversation for a wide-ranging moment. Allen and I discuss what “all men are created equal” really means, why the myth of Thomas Jefferson’s sole authorship of the Declaration of Independence muddies its message, the role of police brutality in the American revolution, democracy reforms such as ranked-choice voting, DC statehood, mandatory voting, how to deal with a Republican Party that opposes expanding democracy, the case for prison abolition, the various pandemic response paths before us, the failure of political leadership in this moment, and much more. References: My first conversation with Danielle Allen Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center's Covid-19 work "Our Common Purpose" report on reinventing democracy for the 21st century Book recommendations: To Shape a New World by Brandon Terry and Tommie Shelby  Solitary by Alfred Woodfox  The Torture Letters by Laurence Ralph Want to contact the show? Reach out at ezrakleinshow@vox.com Please consider making a contribution to Vox to support this show: bit.ly/givepodcasts Your support will help us keep having ambitious conversations about big ideas. New to the show? Want to check out Ezra’s favorite episodes? Check out the Ezra Klein Show beginner’s guide (http://bit.ly/EKSbeginhere) Credits: Producer/Editer/ Jack-of-all-audio-trades Jeff Geld Researcher - Roge Karma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Covid-19 continues to ramp up protests as the conversation shifts as to whether we should reopen economies yet or not. Political polarity popularizes again while the left argues that the right just want people to die, and the right argue that the left is attempting to implement their long awaited socialist agenda. Meanwhile, unemployment skyrockets and stock plummet to levels comparable the Great Depression. How should we engage this conversation as Christians and regain the credibility we are obviously losing? REFERENCES: 1. Covid-19 Stats: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html 2. Tom Frieden outlines 4 phases for the economy to reopen https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/we-all-want-to-reopen-the-economy-but-it-wont-be-quick-or-easy/2020/04/13/8a281d7e-7db1-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html 3. Contact tracing is labor intensive and unemployment is projected to reach 16.4% by May https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/04/17/unemployment-rate-to-hit-16point4percent-in-may-says-economist.html 4. Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Resilience Roadmap https://www.pandemictesting.org/ 5. Ben Shapiro argues that state mandated temporary lockdown are constitutional and have been done before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f9bvzKGezg 6. Dan Crenshaw and Bill Maher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTGBJMDcras 7. Israel drug by Pluristem Terapeutics is being tested in the United States https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2020/april/israeli-covid-19-treatment-with-100-survival-rate-tested-on-first-us-patient 8. Dr Fauci says that the economy will not recover until Covid-19 is controlled https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/fauci-us-economy-wont-recover-until-coronavirus-controlled

Do we have enough personal protective equipment? Are we mobilizing fast enough to scale up the testing and tracing required? In episode six, Nathaniel discusses the health response to COVID-19 with Sarah Downey, the President and CEO of Michael Garron Hospital, and the need for a war-time effort with Danielle Allen, Professor and the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

A binary choice is often given in the conversations about the right pathway to defeat the coronavirus: we must prioritize lives over the economy or the economy over lives. Political theorist Dr. Danielle Allen joins Dan to describe a third pathway - treating the virus as a major national security threat and aggressively building an infrastructure for fighting and surviving the pandemic. A wartime mentality that shifts our economy to the production of testing capacity and test administration, personal protective equipment, and tools for case identification and contact tracing. Dr. Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004), Why Plato Wrote (2010), Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (2014), Education and Equality (2016), and Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. (2017). She is the co-editor of the award-winning Education, Justice, and Democracy (2013, with Rob Reich) and From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in the Digital Age (2015, with Jennifer Light). She is a former Chair of the Mellon Foundation Board, past Chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Allen is also the principal investigator for the Democratic Knowledge Project, a distributed research and action lab at Harvard University. The Democratic Knowledge Project seeks to identify, strengthen, and disseminate the bodies of knowledge, skills, and capacities that democratic citizens need in order to succeed at operating their democracy.

Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service—yet they always suffer for it. Allison Stanger, professor of International Politics and Economics, took Town Hall’s stage to bring us an episodic history of whistleblowing as an important but unrecognized cousin of civil disobedience. With accounts from her book Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump, Stanger highlighted histories of whistleblowing as a tool for holding powerful elites accountable in America. She recounted a range of whistleblowing episodes, from the national security debates surrounding Edward Snowden to the dishonesty of Donald Trump—all the way back to the corrupt Revolutionary War commodore Esek Hopkins, whose dismissal led in 1778 to the first whistleblower protection law. Stanger showed us how, with changing technology and increasing militarization, the exposure of misconduct has grown more difficult to do and more personally costly for those who do it—yet American freedom, especially today, depends on it. Sit in with Stanger for a retrospective on the critical practice of whistleblowing throughout the history of our nation, and an unflinching look at its critical role in our democracy. Allison Stanger is Technology and Human Values Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Russell Leng ‘60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, New America Cybersecurity Fellow, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She is the author of One Nation Under Contract. Presented by Town Hall Seattle. Recorded live in The Forum on Friday, November 15, 2019. 

Psychiatry Under the Influence investigates how the influence of pharmaceutical money and guild interests has corrupted the behavior of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry during the past 35 years. The book documents how the psychiatric establishment regularly misled the American public about what was known about the biology of mental disorders, the validity of psychiatric diagnoses, and the safety and efficacy of its drugs. It also looks at how these two corrupting influences encouraged the expansion of diagnostic boundaries and the creation of biased clinical practice guidelines. This corruption has led to significant social injury, and in particular, a societal lack of informed consent regarding the use of psychiatric drugs, and the pathologizing of normal behaviors in children and adults. About the Authors Robert Whitaker is the author of five books, two of which—Mad in America, Anatomy of an Epidemic, and Psychiatry Under the Influence—tell of histories of psychiatry, and of its treatments. Anatomy of an Epidemic won the Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism in 2010. He is a former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, USA. Lisa Cosgrove is Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA and a Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, USA.  She is also a clinical psychologist. She has co-edited and co-authored casebooks on the ethical and medico-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of financial conflicts of interest. She received the 2014 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology for her paper “Industry’s Colonization of Psychiatry.” Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad). We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society, and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change. Our non-profit organization promotes such change in two ways: (1) We publish a webzine, madinamerica.com, that provides news of psychiatric research, original journalism articles, and a forum for an international group of writers—people with lived experience, peer specialists, family members, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, program managers, journalists, attorneys, and more—to explore issues related to this goal of “remaking psychiatry.” (2) We run Mad In America Continuing Education, which hosts online courses taught by leading researchers in the field. These courses provide a scientific critique of the existing paradigm of care, and tell of alternative approaches that could serve as the foundation for a new paradigm, one that emphasizes psychosocial care, and de-emphasizes the use of psychiatric medications, particularly over the long-term. While the general public may take the courses, we are primarily marketing the courses to provider organizations and mental health professionals, including psychiatrists. We believe that this mix of journalism, education and societal discussion can provide the seed for a much-needed remaking of mental health care in the United States. It is evident that our current “brain disease” model is flawed in so many ways, and we believe that it needs to be replaced by a model that emphasizes our common humanity, and promotes robust, long-term recovery and wellness. We also believe it is important to provide readers with the opportunity to add their voices to this discussion. We encourage readers to leave comments (see our posting guidelines), and to submit personal stories and op-ed submissions. We encourage our readers to visit our forums to further this communal discussion. We welcome feedback and comments on how we can improve this website, and continue to build an online community that...

Danielle Allen directs Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. She’s a political theorist, and a philosopher, and the principal investigator of the Democratic Knowledge Project. I talk about democracy a lot on this show, but it’s her life’s work. I've tried a bunch of different descriptions here, but they fail the conversation. I loved this one. Don’t make me cheapen it by describing it. Just download it. References: Talking to Strangers by Danielle Allen "Building a Good Jobs Economy" by Dani Rodrik and Charles Sabel Book recommendations: "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell "What America Would Be Like Without Blacks" by Ralph Ellison Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt Want to contact the show? Reach out at ezrakleinshow@vox.com News comes at you fast. Join us at the end of your day to understand it. Subscribe to Today, Explained We are conducting an audience survey to better serve you. It takes no more than five minutes, and it really helps out the show. Please take our survey here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers and clinicians are learning that Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an umbrella term that covers similar but distinct variants of the disease that may result from differences in biology. Symptoms may be similar, but each person’s disease may have different features, rate of progression, needs, and treatments connected to the specific underlying cause. In this era of “personalized” medicine, a goal is to treat each person’s condition according to their unique disease. To do so, neurologists will need to be able to define and identify those differences (“biomarkers”) that will allow a truly personalized approach to treatment. A biomarker is a measurable indicator of a normal or abnormal bodily function. Examples are imaging such as MRI, chemicals in the blood or brain, brain wave patterns, sleep cycles, or even specific signs and symptoms.  Having biomarkers indicative of specific variants of the disease could help to design clinical trials to test therapies. It would allow researchers to include individuals with similar underlying biology when they test a potential new drug to be able to understand if it works for that form of PD. In a trial that included people falling under the umbrella term of “PD,” for example, researchers could see who benefited from the drug and then examine them to see what biomarkers they had in common. In this podcast, Dr. Anthony Lang, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson’s Disease at the Toronto Western Hospital in Canada, discusses the need for biomarkers when searching for disease-modifying therapies – those treatments that can actually modify the course of PD and not just treat its symptoms. And he tells us why it is sometimes hard to tell the two apart.

Danielle Allen, James Conant University Professor at Harvard University, is the director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Allen discusses the deficiency of civics education in America resulting from policies wrought by polarized politics. She talks about the importance of egalitarian and participatory democracy. Her Democratic Knowledge Project identifies skills, knowledge, and habits citizens need to participate in democracy; and how to participate in a digital space while being intentional about self protection. Additionally Allen reflects on her memoir Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. about her cousin who was incarcerated 11 years prior to his death at a young age. Allen gave a talk titled "The Ethics of Public Participation in a Digital Age" on May 21, 2019 as the Oregon Humanities Center's 2018-19 Kritikos Lecturer.

Medical professionals have a lot to offer people in the early and middle stages of Parkinson’s disease. People with PD can visit their teams of doctors, nurses, social workers, and other health professionals on a regular basis in an office or clinic setting. A problem can arise, however, when determining how to best help people in the more advanced stages of the disease, when they develop more symptoms of greater severity and have limited mobility. Dr. Jori Fleisher of the Rush University Medical Center Movement Disorders Program in Chicago, a Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence, helped develop a home visit program to address this issue when she was at New York University Medical Center. The Edmond J. Safra Interdisciplinary Home Visit Program brings a multidisciplinary team of health professionals to the homes of people with PD when they need care the most.

The disruptive power of social protest.   And Bill Press talks with Carolyn Fiddler about the political power of democrats in 2018.   Author and Harvard political scientist Danielle Allen tells a tragic story of how the “war on drugs”   has abandoned the people it’s supposed to protect. Kenneth Andrews of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill answers this question about social protest in the era of Trump.  Can it lead to long term change? And Bill Press interviews Carolyn Fiddler of Daily Kos about all the wins  that Democrats are racking up around the country.   ------------------------------------- Support the Show Had enough of Fox News, the House Freedom Caucus, and Donald Trump? If you want the facts that you won’t get from them or from the fake news sites of the alt-right … then stay tuned! . Our sponsor, 21st Century Democrats, works hard to get everyday Democrats involved in returning our party to its roots... and to success at the ballot box. Sit back and listen, then stand up and fight. And follow 21st Century Democrats on Facebook for all the latest progressive news. We’re glad you can join us. -------------------------------------   Danielle Allen Danielle Allen is  the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.   She was  awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 2001. In her most recent book, “Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.,” she tells the story of her cousin, a young man who was tried as an adult at age 15 for attempted carjacking.  After 13 years in prison, he was released and died violently at the age of 29. It is a story she says, about the deep and destructive “war on drugs” that has corrupted a criminal justice system that has abandoned our nation’s youth.   Kenneth Andrews Half a million protesters are expected to show up in Washington, DC  later this month. Even more will join them in sister marches across the country. Led by students from Parkland, Florida, their goal is to change the nation’s gun laws. Protest historian Kenneth Andrews says it takes more than hitting the streets to create long term change.   Carolyn Fiddler Bill Press talks “Blue Wave” with Carolyn Fiddler of Daily Kos.   Jim Hightower Why not the Doug Jones Average.

The Edmond J. Safra National Parkinson’s Wellness Initiative aims to build community hubs for people with Parkinson’s – outside the medical setting – to create more opportunities for exercise, connect people to support and educational resources and provide motivation to get out and be active. Founded ten years ago in New York and now expanded to Boston, Chicago, Tampa, FL, and Washington, DC, the initiative is a partnership between Parkinson’s Foundation Centers of Excellence and Jewish Community Centers, with support from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation. Clinical social worker Amy Lemen of New York University Langone Medical Center was the original project lead for the New York program and led expansion of the national network. She describes the program, what it offers, who can participate and how.

Elizabeth Ashford is senior lecturer in moral philosophy at the University of St Andrews. She did her MA at UNC Chapel Hill and her BA and DPhil at Oxford University, and was awarded her DPhil in 2002. Her main research interests are in moral and political philosophy. She has recently finished a contribution to UNESCO Volume I, Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right (OUP forthcoming), and her current research project is to develop a book on utilitarian and Kantian conceptions of impartiality and of rights. During the academic year 2005-6 she was a Visiting Faculty Fellow in Ethics at the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and the following summer she was an H.L.A. Hart Visiting Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Ethics and the Philosophy of Law. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Ashford's talk - 'The Infliction of Severe Poverty as the Perfect Crime' - at the Aristotelian Society on 13 November 2017. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

This week, Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman on his new book about  the criminalization of poverty in America. Author and Harvard political scientist Danielle Allen tells a tragic story of how the “war on drugs”   is failing our nation’s young people. And Bill Press interviews journalist Emma Roller about a radical idea to reform America’s prisons.   Support the Show Are you tired of Tea Party Republicans and Rush Limbaugh dominating the airwaves? Do you want the facts you won't get on Fox -- or even on CNN? Then stay tuned.     Peter Edelman Peter Edelman is a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He served as an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration. In 1996 he resigned because he opposed a welfare reform bill signed by President Clinton.  His latest book is  “Not a Crime to be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America”.   Danielle Allen Danielle Allen is  the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.   She was  awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 2001. In her most recent book, “Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.,” she tells the story of her cousin, a young man who was tried as an adult at age 15 for attempted carjacking.  After 13 years in prison, he was released and died violently at the age of 29. It is a story she says, about a failed “war on drugs” that has given up on our nation’s youth.   Emma Roller Bill Press interviews journalist about Emma Roller about the “prison abolition movement”  that seeks a more humane response to incarceration.   Jim Hightower Donald Trump's strange bromance with Rodrigo Duterte

What does it mean to be a citizen in America in 2017? Guests Danielle Allen, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and University Professor at Harvard University Erhardt Graeff, PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media Shanelle Matthews, Director of Communications for the Black Lives Matter global network

A deeply personal memoir that critiques the American prison system, Danielle Allen’s Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.tells a coming-of-age story born of the tragedy of mass incarceration. Her fifteen-year old cousin Michael was arrested and tried as an adult for attempted carjacking. Dropped into the Los Angeles prison system as a teenager, he served eleven years before returning to South Central—a region racked by gang warfare—and eventually lost his life to violence just three years later. How did we lose an entire generation to the American prison system following the War on Drugs, and how can we reduce mass incarceration moving forward?  Danielle Allen is a University Professor at Harvard University and the Director for the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. A political theorist, she is widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in ancient Athens and modern America. Join Allen and the Brennan Center for a discussion on the “new American story”—narcotics, gangs, the War on Drugs—and the impact of the criminal justice system on the African American community in the late twentieth century.

1-54 Forum London 6 - 8 October 2017 Artist talk Nadine Bilong (Independent Curator) will lead a conversation with Pascale Marthine Tayou around the artist's current projects, including his site-specific artwork Summer Surprise (2017), installed at the fair in The Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court. (in French with English interpretation) Image: © Katrina Sorrentino www.1-54.com

In this episode of Houghton75, we speak with Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, about her research and teaching on the Declaration of Independence, including John Adams’ role in creating it, supported by evidence found right here at Houghton. Find out more about the exhibition and Houghton Library’s 75th anniversary celebrations at http://houghton75.org/hist-75h Transcript and detailed music notes: http://wp.me/p7SlKy-vC Music Fife & Drum Ensembles from the Internet Archive https://archive.org/

From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Tomer Perry, a postdoctoral fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University examines using game design principles to enhance teaching by making engaging and immersive home assignments and classroom activities. For inspiration, he turns to the rich (and rapidly growing) world of designer board games, reviewing game mechanics that can transfer from tabletop game design to effective pedagogy.

Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Howard Marks, co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management. Marks is a member of the investment committees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Edmond J. Safra Foundation; a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum; chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Drawing School; and an emeritus trustee of the University of Pennsylvania (where from 2000 to 2010 he chaired the investment board). This commentary aired on Bloomberg Radio.

Mariano Mosquera: Preventing Corruption Mariano Mosquera, is an Edmond J. Safra Network Fellow at Harvard University and Postdoctoral Fellow of the National University of Cordoba. He is a professor of Ethics and Access to Public Information of the National University of Córdoba and professor of Public Policy at the Catholic University of Cordoba. Key Points Different places in the world have different concepts of corruption. A lot of corruption is created by poorly conceived or implemented laws. Some actions may be legal but should be still be considered institutional corruption. Just trying to catch corrupt individuals doesn’t work; we need to change the rules that incentivize or allow corruption. If you can anticipate corruption you can help prevent it. Rather than immediately reporting corruption, sometimes it’s better to simply steer the conversation another way. Resources Mentioned Mariano Mosquera’s website Harvard articles by Mariano Mosquera Will You Leave a Rating or Review? If you’ve benefitted from the Coaching for Leaders podcast this year, kindly consider taking a moment to leave a rating or review for the show on iTunes. Thank you in advance! Activate Your Free Coaching for Leaders Membership Get immediate access to my free, 10-day audio course, 10 Ways to Empower the People You Lead. Give me 10 minutes a day for 10 days to get the most immediate, practical actions to become a better leader. Join at CoachingforLeaders.com. Related Episodes CFL144: How We Do Things Around Here To Get Results CFL154: Eight Ways To Use Power For Good CFL254: Use Power for Good and Not Evil Next Episode Bonni and I return for the monthly question and answer show. Submit your question for consideration next week or for the first question and answer show the first Monday of every month at http://coachingforleaders.com/feedback

Mariano Mosquera: Preventing Corruption Mariano Mosquera, is an Edmond J. Safra Network Fellow at Harvard University and Postdoctoral Fellow of the National University of Cordoba. He is a professor of Ethics and Access to Public Information of the National University of Córdoba and professor of Public Policy at the Catholic University of Cordoba. Key Points Different places in the world have different concepts of corruption. A lot of corruption is created by poorly conceived or implemented laws. Some actions may be legal but should be still be considered institutional corruption. Just trying to catch corrupt individuals doesn’t work; we need to change the rules that incentivize or allow corruption. If you can anticipate corruption you can help prevent it. Rather than immediately reporting corruption, sometimes it’s better to simply steer the conversation another way. Resources Mentioned Mariano Mosquera’s website Harvard articles by Mariano Mosquera Will You Leave a Rating or Review? If you’ve benefitted from the Coaching for Leaders podcast this year, kindly consider taking a moment to leave a rating or review for the show on iTunes. Thank you in advance! Activate Your Free Coaching for Leaders Membership Get immediate access to my free, 10-day audio course, 10 Ways to Empower the People You Lead. Give me 10 minutes a day for 10 days to get the most immediate, practical actions to become a better leader. Join at CoachingforLeaders.com. Related Episodes CFL144: How We Do Things Around Here To Get Results CFL154: Eight Ways To Use Power For Good CFL254: Use Power for Good and Not Evil Next Episode Bonni and I return for the monthly question and answer show. Submit your question for consideration next week or for the first question and answer show the first Monday of every month at http://coachingforleaders.com/feedback

[à Torah et à travers, ouvertures bibliques pour décideurs ], est un programme dirigé par le professeur Armand Abécassis, directeur des Études juives de l’Alliance israélite universelle. Il vise le rapprochement entre les textes bibliques et des situations d’ordre éthique que les participants peuvent rencontrer au cours de leur vie professionnelle. Ce programme s’adresse à des femmes et à des hommes exerçant des responsabilités au sein de leur organisation : entrepreneurs, créateurs d’entreprise, cadres dirigeants, chefs de service dans les administrations et les établissements publics, décideurs. L’originalité de l’enseignement tient au caractère personnalisé, interactif et approfondi de la démarche. Les candidats doivent être en situation de décideurs, c’est-à-dire disposer de l’autorité nécessaire pour opérer des choix dans leur organisation. Ils doivent avoir une connaissance minimale du judaïsme afin de tirer profit de la formation dispensée. 10 à 12 séances de trois heures en soirée sont prévues entre Octobre 2016 et Juin 2017. L’enseignement est suivi d’une discussion de groupe qui doit aboutir à un autre éclairage, à une autre manière d’appréhender la situation, le but recherché étant de permettre aux participants d’aborder avec un regard nouveau la question de départ, de faire sens, en respectant à la fois les ambitions de l’organisation et l’épanouissement des individus. Pour toute information, contactez Martine Azen : bethhamidrach@aiu.org ou 01 55 74 79 16 ( répondeur) Les séances se dérouleront au Centre Alliance Edmond J. Safra, 6 bis rue Michel Ange, 75016 Paris.

Dr. Lang and I talk about redundancies in the brain, the tendency towards addiction, bio-markers and neurological disorders and vaccines, neuro-plasticity and diagnosis. Get a copy of his book: “Parkinson’s Disease: A Complete Guide for Patients and Families” here. Biography Dr. Lang directs a large multifaceted clinical research program in the field of Parkinson’s disease and related movement disorders. Dr. Lang’s research includes clinical studies of poorly recognized neurological disorders. Dr. Lang is Director of the Edmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson’s Disease at the University Health Network and the University of Toronto and Director of the Movement Disorders Centre at the Krembil Neuroscience Centre. Lancet Neurology, the world's leading medical journal, has referred to Dr. Lang as “a master of movement disorders.” In addition to leading Canada’s busiest Parkinson’s clinic, Dr. Lang is dedicated to advancing research, including studies of poorly recognized neurological disorders; clinical trials of new therapies; and basic and clinical studies involving molecular biology, neurophysiology, neuropsychology and imaging. In 2010, Dr. Lang was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada and in 2011 he was elected a Fellow of both the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada. Also in 2011, he was recognized as the most highly cited investigator in the field of Parkinson’s disease in the world for the decade, 2001-2009.  ---------- For more information about my podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit my site here. With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

European Lab WInter forum 2015 2025 : la prochaine décennie culturelle ? 15 - 17 décembre, la Gaîté lyrique, Paris La valeur de la démocratie : conf. call avec Larry Lessig Lawrence Lessig est professeur de droit à l’école de Droit de Harvard, et ancien directeur du Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics à l’Université d’Harvard. Il a aussi été enseignant à l’école de Droit de Stanford ou est a été créé le Center for Internet and Society et à l’Université de Chicago. Larry Lessig a aussi travaillé avec le Juge Richard Posner à la 7e cour d’appel de Justice Antonin Scalia à la Cour Suprême des Etats-Unis. Lawrence Lessig est aussi le Président et fondateur de Creative Commons, membre des bureaux de MAPLight, Brave New Film Foundation, The American Academy, Berlin, AXA Research Fund et iCommons.org et est membre exécutif de la Sunlight Foundation. Il est membre de l’Académie Américaine des Arts et des Sciences et de l’American Philosophical Association et à été récompensé de nombreux prix dont le Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award, le Fastcase 50 Awards et fait partie du classement Scientific American’s Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig est diplômé en économie et en management de l’Université de Pennsylvanie, en philosophie à l’université de Cambridge et est également diplômé de Yale. Photo : ©Brice Robert

Sep. 5, 2015. Danielle Allen discusses "Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Danielle Allen is a professor and political theorist who has published extensively on democratic theory, political sociology and the history of political thought. Her work as a classicist and political scientist has examined justice and citizenship in ancient Athens and modern America. Some of Allen's publications are "The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens," "Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education" and "Why Plato Wrote." Her latest book, "Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality," delivers an in-depth examination of America's Declaration of Independence and develops a bold interpretation that we cannot have freedom as individuals without equality among us as a people. Allen is a frequent public lecturer and contributor to The Washington Post, Boston Review, Democracy, Cabinet and The Nation. She is also the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6913

Can independent and local government ethics commissions reduce political corruption? Journalist Gregg Fields interviews Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Network Fellow Carla Miller about putting the heart back into government ethics training, and how a shift towards local government ethics initiatives may create an avenue for citizens to have an impact at the state level and beyond. For more information, visit http://www.cityethics.org/

Autism affects one in sixty-eight children. This is the story of the Suskind family. Owen, diagnosed with autism as a child, developed an affinity for Disney films. Through their scripts and characters he was able to reconnect with language and expression, his family, and his environments. In this exclusive podcast for the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Owen’s father Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind speaks candidly with Lab Fellow Christine Baugh about his newest and most personal book, Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism. This is a memoir of family, love, and constancy, and a book that has begun to change the direction of autism research as we know it. For more information, visit http://lifeanimated.net.

Donation strategies of elite campaign contributors are the focus of research for Dr. Jen Heerwig, a sociologist and research fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. In this labcast, journalist Gregg Fields interviews Heerwig on the Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, which significantly raises the amount deep-pocketed donors can give to federal candidates.

Untold stories, distortion of truth, and the immediate and extraordinary need for global, collaborative investigative journalism. Brooke Williams, a journalism fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, interviews pioneer author and journalist Charles Lewis about his life’s work holding the powerful accountable, shedding light on institutional corruption and all the work yet to be done.

Dr. John Ruggie—one of the 25 most influential international relations scholars in the United States and Canada (according to Foreign Policy magazine), Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Law School professor, and the author of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights—talks with bioethicist and Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellow Dr. Jennifer E. Miller about his experiences drafting and implementing the UN Guiding Principles. These principles constitute the most comprehensive and authoritative global standard in the area of business and human rights, to date.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind interviews Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Director Lawrence Lessig about his upcoming march across New Hampshire. For more information, visit www.nhrebellion.org/

Wall Street is in for a shakeup under the newly adopted Volcker Rule. In this first exclusive podcast for the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard business professor emeritus Malcolm Salter and financial journalist Gregg Fields discuss what it does, what lies ahead—and why every American should care.

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders affects drugs with sales in the billions of dollars. In research supported by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Lisa Cosgrove of UMass-Boston investigated financial ties between DSM panel members and the pharmaceutical companies that have a vested interest in finding new indications for their blockbuster drugs. In this podcast, she tells journalist Gregg Fields what she found, what it means—and why we all should care. "Tripartite Conflicts of Interest and High Stakes Patent Extensions in the DSM-5," Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: www.karger.com/Article/FullText/357499.

50 years after President Lyndon Johnson declared War on Poverty, the number of Americans living below the poverty line remains stubbornly high. Daniel Weeks, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, discusses the political dimensions of persistent poverty in America and presents solutions to overcome the systematic disenfranchisement of millions of poor people in the democratic process—including the upcoming NHRebellion walk across New Hampshire for campaign finance reform, led by EJ Safra Center Director Lawrence Lessig.

1) Guideline on assessment and management of psychiatric disorders in individuals with multiple sclerosis and 2) Topic of the month: Parkinson's and parkinsonism disorders. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Mark Keegan interviews Dr. Sarah Minden about AAN paper on assessment and management of psychiatric disorders in individuals with multiple sclerosis. Dr. Adam Numis is reading our e-Pearl of the week about airplane headache. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Binit Shah interviews Dr. Melissa Armstrong about diagnosis, management and prognosis of atypical parkinsonian disorders. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Keegan, Minden, Numis and Armstrong.Dr. Keegan serves as Chief Editor of eMedicine and receives research support from Terumo BCT.Dr. Minden received honoraria and travel reimbursement for meetings from Pfizer Inc, Merck Serono, Genentech, Inc., Novartis, and Avanir Pharmaceuticals; received research support from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Center for Mental Health Services, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; holds stock options in Merck Serono, Schering-Plough Corp, and GlaxoSmithKline.Dr. Numis serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Armstrong serves on the Level of Evidence Review Team for Neurology®; is an evidence-based guideline methodology consultant for the AAN; receives research support from Abbvie as local sub-investigator; received a 2011 Movement Disorders Society travel Scholarship to the MDS International Congress; and in 2010-2011 was partially funded by a Edmond J. Safra Fellowship at Toronto Western Hospital.

1) Evidence-based guideline on periprocedural management of antithrombotic medications and neurovascular disease and 2) Topic of the month: Treatment of movement disorders. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Andy Southerland interviews Dr. Melissa Armstrong about the guideline on periprocedural management of antithrombotic medications and neurovascular disease. Dr. Roy Strowd is reading our e-Pearl of the week about HINTS of stroke. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Binit Shah interviews Dr. Kapil Sethi about management of of non-dopa responsive axial motor symptoms. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Armstrong, Strowd and Sethi.Dr. Armstrong serves on Neurology, Level of Evidence Review Team; received funding for a trip to the MDS International Congress; received research support from Abbott and was partially funded by a Edmond J. Safra Fellowship at Toronto Western Hospital.Dr. Strowd serves on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section. Dr. Sethi serves on the scientific advisory board for International Essential Tremor Foundation; serves as an editorial board member of Neurology, Journal of Neuroscience, Medscape; is a consultant for Biogen Idec, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Ipsen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Allergan, Inc; serves on the speakers' bureau of Biogen Idec, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Ipsen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Allergan, Inc; received publishing royalties from Marcel Dekker Publisher; holds stock options in Elan Corporation and Pfizer Inc; involved in legal proceedings for welding litigation defense; receives research support from NPF center, Biogen Idec, GlaxoSmithKline, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and NIH.

In Twilight of the Elites, Chris Hayes outlines the effects, and then the cause, of America's crisis of authority, and calls for a sweeping overhaul of the social order. Over the last decade, America has had to adjust to economic and political dysfunction and the near-total failure of each pillar institution of our society. Hayes offers an original theory about how we came to this pass and concludes that the meritocratic system upon which we depend to select the country's best and brightest is fatally flawed, creating a ruling elite that is no longer functional.Chris Hayes is editor-at-large of The Nation and host of "Up With Chris Hayes" on MSNBC. He has been a fellow at Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics and at the New America Foundation. Since 2003 he's written about political culture and political economy for numerous publications including the New York Times Magazine, Time, The New Republic, and The Guardian. Hayes is a graduate of Brown University. Recorded On: Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Lawrence Lessig, an acclaimed expert in constitutional law, cyberlaw, and intellectual property, and director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, focuses on questions of governance and corruption. He spoke at the University of Massachusetts Boston October 20, 2011 as part of IDEAS Boston 2011. To learn more about IDEAS Boston, visit www.ideasboston.com.

A dazzlingly incisive presenter, Lawrence Lessig specializes in identifying deep systemic problems in public process (such as copyright malfunction and Congressional dysfunction) and then showing how they can be cured. Currently he is bearing down on the corruption of Congress by the practice of private funding for public elections through campaign contributions. He writes: "The dependency of modern campaign finance is the single most important cause of the bankruptcy of Congress. Fixing this bankruptcy is the single most important reform effort that Americans face just now." As he did with helping fix copyright problems via Creative Commons, he has a plan for reforming elections to reestablish Congressional trust and effectiveness. (Public trust in Congress is currently at 12%.) Lessig is director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and author of Republic, Lost (2011) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (2000 and 2006).

Lawrence Lessig, Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School spoke at Dartmouth on May 27, 2010. Professor Lessig discussed the connection between special interest money and critical policy decisions, explaining why past attempts at reform have gone nowhere, and then presented a way forward that would unite citizens of all backgrounds—left, center, and right—who are fed up with lobbyists’ influence in Washington. This talk was co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies, the Dartmouth College Library, the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, Dartmouth Computing Services and Research Computing, and ISTS.

Elie Abadie, M.D., Rabbi, Edmond J. Safra Synagogue of New York City

UC Hastings law professor Ashutosh Bhagwat welcomes Lawrence Lessig, known as the Elvis of cyberlaw. For much of his career, Lessig focused his work on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He argues copyright laws should be updated in our hybrid economy - one where commercial entities leverage value from sharing economies. Lessig is now the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21098]

UC Hastings law professor Ashutosh Bhagwat welcomes Lawrence Lessig, known as the Elvis of cyberlaw. For much of his career, Lessig focused his work on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He argues copyright laws should be updated in our hybrid economy - one where commercial entities leverage value from sharing economies. Lessig is now the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 21098]