Podcast appearances and mentions of Stephen Holmes

Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna. His books include Is it Tomorrow, Yet? After Europe, and The Light that Failed: A Reckoning, which was co-authored by Stephen Holmes. In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Ivan Krastev explore how Donald Trump is—and isn't—similar to Mikhail Gorbachev, the impact of the Trump revolution, and whether we've finally reached the end of history. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: goodfightpod@gmail.com Podcast production by Mickey Freeland and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google X: @Yascha_Mounk & @JoinPersuasion YouTube: Yascha Mounk, Persuasion LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Ed Leaders podcast, Luke Callier and Mathew Irving sit down with Stephen Holmes, founder of The 5Rs Partnership, a global strategy consultancy for schools and universities. Stephen brings his wealth of experience—from navigating the quirks of school leadership to redefining reputation management in education. They discuss why schools need to stop being "vanilla," the secret sauce behind building reputation, and how facilities alone won't win the hearts of discerning parents. Stephen offers practical insights into strategic planning, aligning school culture with long-term goals, and managing the ever-evolving expectations of today's "investor-like" parents. Tune in for a no-nonsense conversation packed with real-world advice and a side of wit that will leave school leaders thinking differently about their approach to reputation and strategy. Highlights: The three pillars schools must manage to shape perceptions. Why schools must define themselves to attract the right families. The importance of linking infrastructure to educational intent. How the “shopping mall mentality” has changed the parent-school relationship. Why bold, narrow focus beats being “exceptional at 50 things.” Stephen's bold prediction for the next decade in education. You can also connect with us personally at LinkedIn: Luke Callier - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/ljcallier/⁠ Mathew Irving - ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathew-irving-b6b91430/  Guest Links: Website: https://5rspartnership.com/  Special thanks to our partners: People Bench - https://peoplebench.com.au/ Paperly - https://paperly.education/ Head on over to edleaders.com.au to hear more about our journey. If you'd like to know more about being a guest or would like to sponsor our show - check out https://www.edleaders.com.au/collabs As always if you have questions, feedback, or a suggestion from a leader you'd like to hear from - send us a message! Please remember if you have a spare minute, please leave us a review on iTunes or your favorite podcast player which will help more like-minded school leaders discover us. Go Well.

Yascha Mounk and Ivan Krastev discuss what Trump's reelection will mean for the future of the world. Ivan Krastev is a political scientist, the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria, and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Krastev is the author of After Europe and, with Stephen Holmes, of The Light that Failed: A Reckoning. In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Ivan Krastev discuss the advent of the Trump era in American politics; why liberals need to eschew their nostalgia for an older form of politics that now appears irretrievably lost; and how America's retreat will transform European culture. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community  Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In de laatste aflevering van deze serie onderzoeken we de machtspositie van Rutte, en daarmee die van Nederland in de Europese Unie. Terwijl nationale krachten in Europa groeien, vragen lidstaten steeds meer van de EU. Denk aan het gezamenlijk inkopen van vaccins, het beschermen van data van burgers tegen tech-giganten als Facebook, het vluchtelingenbeleid. Hoe speelt Rutte dit (machts)spel? En komt zijn verhaal voor de Nederlandse bühne overeen met zijn besluiten in Brussel? Hiervoor praten we met journalist en EU-expert Caroline de Gruyter. Het boek van Caroline de Gruyter heet ‘Beter wordt het niet'. Een briljant boek over de relatie tussen Oost- en West-Europa is ‘Falend licht' van Ivan Krastev en Stephen Holmes. Ga naar voor alle boeken uit de podcast naar: https://www.boekenwereld.com/wie-is-rutteSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mass murder is the killing of numerous people at the same time, in the same place. There are significant differences between mass and serial killers and our focus today will be on the former, mass murderers. Mass murderers often die at the crime scene by suicide or police action. Rarely do they surrender but that's exactly what happened at Oxford High School when Ethan Crumbly opened fire. ======================================= Get 10% Off your TruthFinder subscription with code EVIL10 at checkout: https://truthfinder.pxf.io/c/3466408/1404760/15694  

Episode Notes Wyndham Hotels & Resorts executives used strong language Thursday to explain to investors why they were rejecting the $9.8 billion hostile bid from Choice Hotels, reports Senior Hospitality Editor Sean O'Neill.   O'Neill writes Wyndham executives highlighted a lack of cash up-front and Choice's alleged weaker performance as major concerns about a deal. In addition, Wyndham said any deal between the two companies would take more than 12 months to clear regulatory review. The prospects for a deal aren't completely dead, but it faces long odds. “It's hard for us to say no more than we've already said no,” said Stephen Holmes, chairman of Wyndham's board.  Next, Royal Caribbean executives are optimistic they'll see strong demand for cruises in China when they return there next April, writes Global Tourism Reporter Dawit Habtemariam.  Royal Caribbean International CEO Michael Bayley said during the third-quarter earnings call that the company has seen strong bookings for China sailings next year. Bayley added that bookings are already ahead of 2019 levels, a record year for Royal Caribbean. Habtemariam reports the company doesn't expect a slowdown in consumer spending, with Royal Caribbean customers having a median household income of above six figures.  Finally, a Dubai billionaire believes the city is home to too many millionaires and it doesn't have enough resources to cater to its increasingly wealthy population, writes Middle East Reporter Josh Corder. Real estate magnate Mohamed Alabbar, one of Dubai's wealthiest men, said the city's growth isn't sustainable. Corder reports Dubai's population is expected to increase from the current 3.5 million to 5.5 million by 2030. A recent report stated the United Arab Emirates is expected to attract a large number of millionaires from India.  Alabbar added one of Dubai's problems is that the city is trying to build too much, too quickly.

We continue our team-by-team breakdowns. This episode we head to Jackson, MS and Daytona, Beach FL. Jerry Bell and Stephen Holmes of HailWildcats and Zo Phillips of Tiger Talk with 1400 Klub join us to talk BCU and JSU respectively. We will talk about everything from coaching change to recruiting through the portal. All this and more.

In de laatste aflevering van deze serie onderzoeken we de machtspositie van Rutte, en daarmee die van Nederland in de Europese Unie.Terwijl nationale krachten in Europa groeien, vragen lidstaten steeds meer van de EU. Denk aan het gezamenlijk inkopen van vaccins, het beschermen van data van burgers tegen tech-giganten als Facebook, het vluchtelingenbeleid. Hoe speelt Rutte dit (machts)spel? En komt zijn verhaal voor de Nederlandse bühne overeen met zijn besluiten in Brussel? Hiervoor praten we met journalist en EU-expert Caroline de Gruyter.Het boek van Caroline de Gruyter heet ‘Beter wordt het niet'. Een briljant boek over de relatie tussen Oost- en West-Europa is ‘Falend licht' van Ivan Krastev en Stephen Holmes. Ga naar voor alle boeken uit de podcast naar: https://www.boekenwereld.com/wie-is-rutteWie moet er volgens jou centraal staan in het volgende seizoen van de Wie Is-reeks? Stem mee op: www.wieis.nl‘Wie is Rutte?' is een productie van VBK AudioLab en Uitgeverij Atlas Contact. Redactie is in handen van Rachel van de Pol en Simon Dikker Hupkes. Productie: Ellen van Dalsem, Hedi de Vree en Bart Jeroen Kiers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we discuss the crimes of serial rapist Kenneth Bogard, who preyed on San Diego women in the early 1990s, and discuss the typologies of rapists.Follow this link to become a Teacher's Pet:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1662730/supportE-mail me at Pugmomof1@gmail.com; visit me on Instagram as True Crime University_Donate via PayPal to help me keep the show going: bullymom7@yahoo.com   References:   wikipedia, Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior by Ronald Holmes and Stephen Holmes 2002, So Good, So Good, So Good: Confessions of the Piano Dude by Gregg Akkerman 2019, uspp.csbsju.edu, harfordmedlegal.typepad.com, Bureau of Justice Statistics, The Evil That Men Do by Stephen G Michaud and Roy Hazelwood 1998, girlsaskguys.com, North County Times, LA Times, cdcr.ca.gov, Santa Cruz Sentinel, institute.law.ucla.edu, Psychology TodayMy music is "Motivational Day" by AudioCoffee from Pixabay MusicSupport the show

Nem só de consensos vive o pensamento trinitário. E hoje vamos ver como Stephen Holmes busca um consenso antigo para deslocar uma noção comum dos modernos. Em vez de procurar analogias para família, igreja ou sociedade na Trindade, nosso amigo batista ressalta como essa ansiedade de procurar aplicações prontas para o dogma trinitário acabaram por distorcer o que a igreja ocidental e oriental, católica romana, protestante ou ortodoxa oriental, confessa em seus credos ecumênicos. Veja uma transcrição deste episódio em nosso blog. Na Pilgrim você também pode ler o que Holmes considera o principal resumo da doutrina clássica da Trindade (sem uma oposição entre Ocidente e Oriente): o tratado de Agostinho sobre ela. Se você gostou deste episodio, compartilhe o Em Suma, um produto gratuito da Pilgrim, para que possamos continuar financiando este trabalho. _____ PARA SE APROFUNDAR Stephen R. Holmes. “Triune Creativity: Trinity, Creation, Art and Science” In: Trinitarian Sounding in Systematic Theology. Stephen R. Holmes. “ Three Versus One? Some Problems of Social Trinitarianism". Journal of Reformed Theology 3(1):77-89 Stephen R. Holmes. The Quest for the Trinity. Mark Husbands. “The Trinity is not our social program” In: Daniel Treier (ed.) Trinitarian Theology for the Church. _____ JÁ CONHECE A PILGRIM? A nossa plataforma oferece acesso a conteúdos cristãos de qualidade no formato que você preferir. Na Pilgrim você encontra audiolivros, ebooks, palestras, resumos, livros impressos e artigos para cada momento do seu dia e da sua vida: https://thepilgrim.com.br/ _____ SEJA PILGRIM PREMIUM Seja um assinante da Pilgrim e tenha acesso a mais de 10.000 livros, cursos, artigos e muito mais em uma única assinatura mensal: https://thepilgrim.com.br/seja-um-assinante Quais as vantagens? Acesso aos originais Pilgrim + Download ilimitado para ouvir offline + Acesso a mais de 10.000 títulos! + Frete grátis na compra de livros impressos em nossa loja _____ SIGA A PILGRIM No Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pilgrim.app/ no Twitter: https://twitter.com/AppPilgrim no TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pilgrimapp e no YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy1lBN2eNOdL_dJtKnQZlCw Entre em contato através do contato@thepilgrim.com.br. Em suma é um podcast original Pilgrim. Todos os direitos reservados. O ponto de vista deste texto é de responsabilidade de seu(s) autor(es) e colaboradores diretos, não refletindo necessariamente a posição da Pilgrim ou de sua equipe de profissionais. _____ SIGA-ME NAS REDES SOCIAIS No Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theolo.gui/ No Twitter: https://twitter.com/GCPdf

Yoram Hazony is the president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. He is the author of 'The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture' (https://amzn.to/3MuRyHO), 'God and Politics in Esther' (https://amzn.to/41gpHQ4), 'The Virtue of Nationalism' (https://amzn.to/3KNKvbW), and, more recently, 'Conservatism: A Rediscovery' (https://amzn.to/3zI1fLF). You can find out more about Yoram on his website: https://www.yoramhazony.org/. He joins me for a discussion of the Bible as a political text. Within the conversation, I also mention Joshua Berman's 'Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought' (https://amzn.to/3KOqkLj), Eric Nelson's 'The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought' (https://amzn.to/43bWN5c), Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes's, 'The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel' (https://amzn.to/3UqA5CE), and Yechiel Leiter's 'John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible' (https://amzn.to/3ZOPr4M). If you have enjoyed my videos and podcasts, please tell your friends. If you are interested in supporting my videos and podcasts and my research more generally, please consider supporting my work on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/zugzwanged), using my PayPal account (https://bit.ly/2RLaUcB), or by buying books for my research on Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/36WVSWCK4X33O?ref_=wl_share). You can also listen to the audio of these episodes on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/alastairs-adversaria/id1416351035?mt=2.

Almost 20 years of planning and work came together at the end of February when Transport for London opened the final parts of the £655M Bank Station Capacity Upgrade project. The station now boast 40% more capacity, new entrances and step free access and in this new episode NCE editor Claire Smith explores the story behind this outcome. Claire is joined by University College London associate professor of project management Simon Addyman, Dragados operations director Stephen Holmes and HS2 Euston Station project director Andy Swift to do a deep dive on the planning, procurement and delivery of the project. While each of the guests have now moved onto other roles, they talk about how the “Bank Station family” was brought together by taking a different approach to project delivery. Andy, Simon and Stephen explain why that approach was needed to create a workable project and the benefits that brought when it came to dealing with the technical challenges of the work too. Simon emphasises the dialogue and collaboration environment that the set up created to allow innovation to be fostered and “give people working on the project a real voice” too. Andy also points to Dragados' focus on the outcome of the project right from the outset as a real enabler as well. While all three believe that every infrastructure project is different, they each believe that there is much for the civil engineering industry to learn from the successes of the project. The Engineers Collective is powered by Bentley Systems. Around the world, engineers and architects, constructors and owner-operators are using Bentley's software solutions to accelerate project delivery and improve asset performance for transportation infrastructure that sustains our economy and our environment. Together, we are advancing infrastructure. Find out more at www.bentley.com

Stephen Holmes - Guest Preacher

Stephen Holmes is the Editor in Chief of DEVELOP3D, a publication with its own voice dedicated to product development, design, and CAD. The outlet also offers stories related to 3D printing, as well as product reviews on peripherals and computers. Additionally, the team behind DEVELOP3D hosts its own live event, DEVELOP3D Live, on November 1. We really enjoyed Stephen´s opinionated clear take on 3D printing and the promise of our industry.

Guests featured in this episode:Stephen Holmes, the Walter E. Mayer Professor of Law and co-director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University. Stephen has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships from, among others, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Wissenschaftkolleg in Berlin, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the IWM in Vienna. Between 1994 and 1996, he served as Director of the Soros Foundation program for promoting legal reform in Russia and Eastern Europe, and was also named Carnegie Scholar in 2003-2005 for his work on Russian legal reform. He is also the co-author of The Light that Failed: A Reckoning  with Ivan Krastev, a book that details the ride of authoritarian antiliberalism in Russia.  GLOSSARYWhat is the Kievan Rus ?(00:8:11 or p.2 in the transcript) Kievan Rus (862-1242) was a medieval political federation located in modern-day Belarus, Ukraine, and part of Russia (the latter named for the Rus, a Scandinavian people). The name Kievan Rus is a modern-day (19th century) designation but has the same meaning as 'land of the Rus,' which is how the region was known in the Middle Ages.The Rus ruled from the city of Kiev (also given as Kyiv) and so 'Kievan Rus' simply meant "the lands of the Rus of Kiev". The Rus are first mentioned in the Annals of Saint-Bertin which records their presence in a diplomatic mission from Constantinople to the court of Louis the Pious (r. 814-840) in 839. The annals claim they were Swedes, and this is possible, but their ethnicity has never been firmly established. Source:  What was the crisis and annexation of Crimea ? (00:08:38 or p.2 in the transcript) As pro-Russian protesters became increasingly assertive in Crimea, groups of armed men whose uniforms lacked any clear identifying marks surrounded the airports in Simferopol and Sevastopol.. Masked gunmen occupied the Crimean parliament building and raised a Russian flag, as pro-Russian lawmakers dismissed the sitting government and installed Sergey Aksyonov, the leader of the Russian Unity Party, as Crimea's prime minister. On March 6 the Crimean parliament voted to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation, with a public referendum on the matter scheduled for March 16, 2014. On the day of the referendum, observers noted numerous irregularities in the voting process, including the presence of armed men at polling stations, and the result was an overwhelming 97 percent in favour of joining Russia On March 18 Putin met with Aksyonov and other regional representatives and signed a treaty incorporating Crimea into the Russian Federation. Western governments protested the move. Within hours of the treaty's signing, a Ukrainian soldier was killed when masked gunmen stormed a Ukrainian military base outside Simferopol. Russian troops moved to occupy bases throughout the peninsula, including Ukrainian naval headquarters in Sevastopol, as Ukraine initiated the evacuation of some 25,000 military personnel and their families from Crimea. On March 21 after the ratification of the annexation treaty by the Russian parliament, Putin signed a law formally integrating Crimea into Russia. Source:  Democracy in Question? is brought to you by:• Central European University: CEU• The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: AHCD• The Podcast Company: Novel Follow us on social media!• Central European University: @CEU• Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva: @AHDCentreSubscribe to the show. If you enjoyed what you listened to, you can support us by leaving a review and sharing our podcast in your networks! 

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has transformed Europe within a matter of weeks. A continent once fractured by the refugee crisis is now taking in millions of refugees. Countries such as Germany have made considerable pledges to increase military spending. The European Union said it would cut off Russian oil and gas “well before 2030” — a once unthinkable prospect. The European project seems more confident in itself than at any other time in recent history.But some European countries are also seeing trends in the opposite direction. This month in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist government won re-election easily. The far-right leader Marine Le Pen lost this past weekend's French presidential election to the incumbent, Emmanuel Macron, but secured a significant 41.5 percent of the vote, up from 33.9 percent in 2017. And nationalist movements — Brexit in Britain, the Five Star Movement in Italy and others — have become potent political forces in recent years.So what's next for Europe? Will Putin's invasion reinvigorate the collective European project? Or will the continent revert to its preinvasion path of fracture, division and nationalism?Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria and the author of numerous books, including “After Europe” and, with Stephen Holmes, “The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy.” He's also one of my favorite people to talk to on the subject of Europe, liberalism, democracy and the tensions therein.We discuss how European identity went from revolving around war to being centered on economic trade, why Europe has treated the Ukrainian refugee crisis so differently from previous refugee crises, how the West's overly economic understanding of human motivation blinded it to Putin's plans, what the relative success of politicians like Le Pen and Orban means for the future of Europe, how fears of demographic change can help explain phenomena as different as Putin's invasion and Donald Trump's election, whether Putin's invasion can reawaken an exhausted European liberalism and much more.Mentioned:“The End of History?” by Francis FukuyamaThe End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama“We Are All Living in Vladimir Putin's World Now” by Ivan Krastev“The Crisis of American Power: How Europeans See Biden's America” by Ivan Krastev“The Power of the Past: How Nostalgia Shapes European Public Opinion” by Catherine E. de Vries and Isabell Hoffmann from Bertelsmann StiftungBook Recommendations:Free by Lea YpiThe Age of Unpeace by Mark LeonardTime Shelter by Georgi GospodinovThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Our executive producer is Irene Noguchi. Special thanks to Kristin Lin and Kristina Samulewski.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is one of the biggest and most confusing political events of our lifetimes. We aim to bring some clarity in this special four-part series from Vox Conversations and host Zack Beauchamp, The War in Ukraine, Explained. In part four, Zack speaks with author, political scientist, and scholar of European politics Ivan Krastev. They discuss the reverberations of Russia's invasion of Ukraine across Europe, from a sudden change of course in Germany and elections in France to the threatened intellectual foundations of the European Union nations' shared postwar identity, and how the war in Ukraine will shape the EU's future relations with the U.S. and China — and the future of Europe itself. Host: Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp), Senior Correspondent, Vox Guest: Ivan Krastev, political scientist; chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies; permanent fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna References:  The Light That Failed: Why the West is Losing the Fight for Democracy by Stephen Holmes and Ivan Krastev (Pegasus; 2020) "We Are All Living in Vladimir Putin's World Now" by Ivan Krastev (New York Times; Feb. 27) "How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict" by Ivan Arreguín-Toft (International Security, vol. 26 (1); 2001) Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt (Penguin; 2006) The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani (FSG; 1997) Enjoyed this episode? Rate Vox Conversations ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Vox Conversations by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Support Vox Conversations by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts This episode was made by:  Producer: Erikk Geannikis Editor: Amy Drozdowska Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey Deputy Editorial Director, Vox Talk: Amber Hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our guest for today is Nathan Stuck, the Director of Corporate Culture and Strategic Impact at Ad Victoriam Solutions. Spending over 4 years in the company, Nathan has helped build Ad Victoriam's workplace culture and was there when it needed to be restructured. Nathan shares his learnings through his growing company and gives us a few tips on what your company can do as well. We also continue our segment with Ragan's Communications Leadership Council with Stephen Holmes, Vice President of Corporate Communications & External Affairs at The Home Depot on ESG communications. You can find our resource guides as well as our guests' contacts on our associated blog page: www.internalcommspro.com/shownotes You can learn more about Ragan's Communications Leadership Council on their website: https://commscouncil.ragan.com/ Music Provided by Bensound

In his address to the IIEA, Ivan Krastev argues that the COVID-19 pandemic marks the real beginning of the 21st century, abruptly turning Europeans to face the future. The political challenge presented by COVID-19 confronted European leaders with a strategic choice: they can either fight to preserve a globalised world of open borders, or work towards a softer version of de-globalisation. He contends that the great paradox of the pandemic was that it was the EU's failure rather than its success that demonstrated its relevance and spurred European governments towards deeper integration. About the Speaker: Ivan Krastev is the Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna, and a globally renowned author and political scientist. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of The International Crisis Group and member of the Board of Directors of GLOBSEC. Ivan Krastev is the author of "Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe" (Allen Lane, 2020); The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (Allen Lane, 2019), co-authored with Stephen Holmes; and “After Europe” (UPenn Press, 2017); among other books.

Samantha Besson Droit international des institutions Collège de France Année 2021-2022 Ivan Krastev - Conférencier invité - Cycle europe du Collège de France : L'angoisse du déclin. Démocratie, démographie et clivage Est-Ouest en Europe En démocratie, la règle veut que les citoyennes et les citoyens élisent celles et ceux qui les gouvernent. Mais, dans les faits, les gouvernements tendent eux aussi à choisir celles et ceux qui les élisent. Ils opèrent ce choix par l'élaboration de lois sur la citoyenneté et de lois électorales, mais aussi par la mise en place de politiques migratoires, par le recours au redécoupage électoral à des fins politiques (gerrymandering), ou encore par l'entrave au droit de vote. La série de conférences proposées ici analyse la façon dont les majorités ethnoculturelles, en diminution dans les États membres de l'Union européenne (UE), tentent de préserver leur pouvoir et leur identité face à leur propre déclin démographique et à l'afflux migratoire. La thèse défendue est que le conflit actuel entre le libéralisme et l'illibéralisme en Europe n'est autre que l'expression de la rivalité entre deux images, idéalisées et opposées, du « peuple » que se choisissent différents gouvernements. Le libéralisme manifeste l'approbation donnée à un corps politique inclusif et représentatif de la diversité des sociétés modernes. L'illibéralisme s'appuie sur le majoritarisme démocratique pour préserver le caractère ethnique des démocraties nationales. Cette série de quatre conférences s'inscrit dans le cycle Europe du Collège de France 2021-2022 consacré au thème Les deux Europes. Conférence en anglais avec traduction simultanée en français. De l'importance du clivage Est-Ouest en Europe Ivan Krastev est président du Centre for Liberal Strategies de Sofia (Bulgarie) et membre permanent de l'Institute for Human Sciences de Vienne (Autriche). Il est également membre fondateur du Conseil européen des relations étrangères, membre du conseil d'administration de l'International Crisis Group et écrit régulièrement des articles pour le New York Times. Il est l'auteur de Est-ce déjà demain ? Le monde paradoxal de l'après-Covid-19 (traduit en français par Frédéric Joly et Amélie Petit pour les éditions Premier Parallèle, 2020 ; disponible en anglais aux éditions Penguin, octobre 2020) ; Le Moment illibéral (traduit en français par Johan Frederik Hel Guedj pour les éditions Fayard, 2019 ; disponible en anglais aux éditions Allen Lane, 2019), coécrit avec Stephen Holmes et lauréat de la 30e édition du prix annuel Lionel‑Gelber ; After Europe (UPenn Press, 2017) ; Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics on Protest (UPenn Press, 2014) et In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders? (TED Books, 2013). En 2020, Ivan Krastev a reçu le prix Jean Améry de l'essai européen. L'Europe est un labyrinthe complexe traversé de nombreuses lignes de faille et de divisions internes. Cette conférence introductive se concentre sur certaines de ces fractures qui caractérisent l'Europe d'aujourd'hui : la fracture Nord-Sud ; celle liée à la densité de population (manifeste dans l'écart entre les valeurs culturelles et les préférences électorales des personnes vivant dans les zones métropolitaines d'Europe et celles des zones rurales) et la fracture générationnelle. La thèse proposée sera la suivante : si remédier à ces clivages est certes d'une importance capitale pour l'avenir de l'UE, c'est en réalité la fracture Est-Ouest qui sera déterminante pour la préservation de l'Union en tant qu'espace libéral-démocrate. Conference in English with simultaneous translation into French. How Important Is the East-West Divide in Europe? Europe is a complicated maze with many fault lines and internal divisions. This introductory lecture focuses on several of the faults lines in today's Europe: the North-South Divide; the Density Divide (gap in cultural values and electoral preferences between people living in Europe's metropolitan areas and the rural areas); and the Generation Divide. It argues that while bridging all those divides is critically important for the future of the EU, it is the East-West divide that will have most importance for the preservation of the Union as a liberal-democratic space.

Los títulos de la entrega de hoy de La ContraPortada, el especial de libros de La ContraCrónica son: - "Campos de Níjar" de Juan Goytisolo - https://amzn.to/3BCoF3W - "La luz que se apaga: Cómo Occidente ganó la Guerra Fría pero perdió la paz" de Ivan Krastev y Stephen Holmes - https://amzn.to/3mXX5dd - "Señores de Roma" de Colleen McCullough - https://amzn.to/3DNMEyO - "La canción de Troya" de Colleen McCullough - https://amzn.to/3BTGEDh - "El primer siglo después de Béatrice" de Amin Maalouf - https://amzn.to/3gZGYrX Consulta los mejores libros de la semana en La ContraBiblioteca: https://diazvillanueva.com/la-contrabiblioteca/ Apoya La Contra en: · Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/diazvillanueva · iVoox... https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-contracronica_sq_f1267769_1.html · Paypal... https://www.paypal.me/diazvillanueva Sígueme en: · Web... https://diazvillanueva.com · Twitter... @diazvillanueva · Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/fernandodiazvillanueva1/ · Instagram... https://www.instagram.com/diazvillanueva · Flickr... https://www.flickr.com/photos/147276463@N05/?/ · Pinterest... https://www.pinterest.com/fernandodiazvillanueva Encuentra mis libros en: · Amazon... https://www.amazon.es/Fernando-Diaz-Villanueva/e/B00J2ASBXM Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Hey friends!On this podcast, we will be talking about all thing's crime. From murder, to missing persons, to mass shootings, to just plain old spooky! Layered with some lighthearted humor...and some not so lighthearted humor. Please be advised that this podcast is filled with adult content and explicit language; listener discretion is advised.  Happy Pride month! In honor of pride month, we will be covering cases that were catalysts for change in LGBTQIA2+ community, cases that weren't investigated due to their connections to the community, and cases that were blatantly ignored due to homophobia. We want to highlight the adversity's this community has and continues to face as well as the absolute strength and resilience shown throughout history and today. For this episode, we discussed the absolute weirdo that is, Dennis Nilsen. He killed in England from 1978-1983, targeting members of the LGBTQIA2+ Community and other marginalized populations taking 15 lives and attempting to take 7 others. Dennis was able to continue killing for several years due to the homophobia in England at the time which led to police officers ignoring crimes that resembled “gay crimes” – which Dennis knew and used to his advantage. Our hearts are with the victims that were lost and with those that luckily survived. Please take a moment to remember the men that lost their lives and the others who nearly lost theirs: Stephen Holmes, 14  Kenneth Ockenden, 23 Martyn Duffey, 16 William Sutherland, 26 Malcolm Barlow, 23 John Howlett, 23 Graham Allen, 27 Stephen Sinclair, 20 7 unidentified men in their 20s Andrew Ho, survived Paul Nobbs, survived  Carl Stottor, survived Douglas Stewart, survived  Any other victim who survived the attacks WARNING: this episode contains very dark humor, uncomfortable laughter, younger victims, and graphic descriptions of crime scenes. Some people may find this episode triggering and may find it difficult to listen to.    Resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNFUgeA2kVg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUrwRrhslRU Music:    “H&E Home” by Devil Music    From – Free Music Archive    CC-BY-NC-NDPlease follow us on Instagram @abreathoffreshcrime for updates and content.Please feel free to message us on Instagram or email us at abreathoffreshcrime@hotmail.com if you have any suggestions of cases you want to hear or if you have any feedback for us on the cases already covered!Stay spooky and enjoy!Sheeya Latah!   

GhiaLogic reviews a touchy subject. Her friends Jordan Smith and Stephen Holmes stop by to share their input. A lot of different viewpoints on the church house, pastors, and the church community! All that matters is your personal relationship with God. Ingstagram: @InstagramX ghisalogic.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ghialogic/support

QIC's Stuart Simmons, Head of Currency, discusses the latest COVID-19 updates, asset market performances and themes, and domestic and global updates, touching on the deteriorating geopolitical environment, particularly around U.S. and China, having escalated with China introducing national security laws into Hong Kong. Beverley Morris, Director of Fixed Income & Absolute Return, speaks to the Friday announcement where the Treasury discovered the likely amount of employees covered was 3.5 million instead of their initial estimate of 6.5 million due to errors in applications, and further elaborates on the outlook of the job-keeper program. Beverley also provides an update on Australian bonds, noting bond market issuance is going to be lower due to this news, as bonds rallied in Australia on Friday. Andrew Whittaker, the Senior Portfolio Manager of Fixed Income, dives into the prospects for yield curve control, following interesting developments in the policy front in U.S. as they might look to implement macroeconomic based guidance, with reference to yield curve control. Paul Nicholson, the Director of Global Absolute Return & Income Funds provides an update on the ECB, and Franco-German debt deal following €500 billion of grants, where Wolfgang Schäuble has backed this deal stating it is not a mutualisation of the old debt but the new. Richard Garland, the Senior Portfolio Manager & Research Analyst of Global Credit, provides a macro credit update focusing on credit spreads and high yield markets. Stephen Holmes, the Global Credit Income Manager & Senior Research Analyst, talks to China shifting their tactics to stability over growth. Listen to find out more on these topics. Disclaimer: This information is solely for general information purposes. It is not financial product advice or an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy securities or any other investment, investment management or advisory services. In preparing this information, QIC has not taken into account any investor's objectives, financial situations or needs. QIC does not represent, warrant or guarantee that the integrity of this information has been maintained or that the information is free of errors, virus or interference. You are not permitted to rely on this information, and any reliance on it, or decisions made based on it, are your responsibility. QIC therefore accepts no liability for any reliance on this information. Copyright QIC Limited, Australia. All rights are reserved. For more information about QIC, our approach, clients and regulatory framework, please refer to our website www.qic.com or contact us directly.

QIC's Stuart Simmons, Head of Currency, discusses the latest COVID-19 updates, asset market performances and themes, and domestic and global updates, highlighting a difficult week for risk assets and touching on the tensions brewing between US and China. Beverley Morris, Director of Fixed Income & Absolute Return, provides an update on US data regarding retail sales and industrial production, noting the trends in data are following the trends in the virus. Beverley also provides an update on Australian bonds, noting the movements of the RBA. Andrew Whittaker, the Senior Portfolio Manager of Fixed Income, elaborates on the pricing of the negative US rates, as the federal fund futures curve started to price in negative interest rate by late 2020. Richard Garland, the Senior Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst of Global Credit, provides a macro credit update highlighting the ETF buy in that started last week. Stephen Holmes, the Global Credit Income Manager & Senior Research Analyst, talks to GDP growth in China, what their expectations are, and the potential announcements from Premier Li Keqiang. Paul Nicholson, the Director of Global Absolute Return & Income Funds provides an update on the European markets. Listen to find out more on these topics. Disclaimer: This information is solely for general information purposes. It is not financial product advice or an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy securities or any other investment, investment management or advisory services. In preparing this information, QIC has not taken into account any investor's objectives, financial situations or needs. QIC does not represent, warrant or guarantee that the integrity of this information has been maintained or that the information is free of errors, virus or interference. You are not permitted to rely on this information, and any reliance on it, or decisions made based on it, are your responsibility. QIC therefore accepts no liability for any reliance on this information. Copyright QIC Limited, Australia. All rights are reserved. For more information about QIC, our approach, clients and regulatory framework, please refer to our website www.qic.com or contact us directly.

India is a complex country. The last few decades have been full of tumult. How does one make sense of it all? Raghu Sanjaylal Jaitley joins Amit Varma in episode 214 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about the many frames he uses to look at our politics, economics, culture and Dilip Kumar. Also check out: 1. Anticipating the Unintended -- Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu Sanjaylal Jaitley's newsletter. 2. Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin, featuring Raghu Jaitley. 3. Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, featuring Sanjay Lal. 4. It Happened One Night. 5. Persuasion -- Yascha Mounk's newsletter. 6. The Coddling of the American Mind -- Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. 7. A Meditation on Form -- Amit Varma. 8. Public Opinion -- Walter Lippman. 9. The World Outside and the Pictures in our Heads -- Walter Lippman. 10. A Venture Capitalist Looks at the World -- Episode 213 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sajith Pai). 11. Puliyabaazi -- Saurabh Chandra and Pranay Kotasthane's podcast. 12. ये लिबरल आख़िर है कौन? -- Episode 37 of Puliyabaazi (w Amit Varma). 13. Remembering Frédéric Bastiat (2007) -- Amit Varma. 14. The Candemakers' Petition -- Frédéric Bastiat. 15. Frédéric Bastiat's writings at Bastiat.org and Amazon. 16. Also on Amazon, the books of Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises. 17. Imagined Communities -- Benedict Anderson. 18. The First Assault on Our Constitution -- Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh). 19. Who Broke Our Republic? -- Episode 163 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Kapil Komireddi). 20. The Emotional Dog and its Rational Tail -- Jonathan Haidt. 21. Political Ideology in India -- Episode 131 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rahul Verma). 22. The Three Languages of Politics -- Arnold Kling. 23. Naya Daur, the anti-Nehruvian film from 1957. 24. Nehru's Hero: Dilip Kumar In The Life Of India -- Meghnad Desai. 25. The Twitter threads on Mahmood Farooqui by Kavita Krishnan and Audrey Truschke. 26. Misogyny and our Legal System -- Episode 58 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Madhav Chandavarkar and Hamsini Hariharan). 27. The Harshacharita of Banabhatta. 28. Murty Classical Library of India. 29. The End of History and the Last Man -- Francis Fukuyama. 30. The Light that Failed -- Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes. 31. Elite Imitation in Public Policy -- Episode 180 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Alex Tabarrok). 32. What Really Happened? — Lawrence H White on the 2008 Financial Crisis. 33. Range Rover -- Archives of Amit Varma's poker column for the Times of India. 34. The BJP’s Magic Formula -- Episode 45 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Prashant Jha). 35. How the BJP Wins -- Prashant Jha. 36. The Concept of the Political -- Carl Schmitt. 37. Most of Amit Varma’s writing on Demonetisation, collected in one Twitter thread. 38. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister -- Amit Varma. 39. Beware of the Useful Idiots -- Amit Varma. 40. The Tragedy of Our Farm Bills -- Episode 211 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah). 41. Fun Home -- Alison Bechdel. 42. Restaurant Regulations in India -- Episode 18 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Madhu Menon). 43. Kalyug -- Shyam Benegal's 1981 film. 44. India After Gandhi -- Ramachandra Guha. 45. Ramachandra Guha on The Seen and the Unseen: 1, 2, 3, 4. 46. The Ideas of Our Constitution -- Episode 164 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Madhav Khosla). 47. India’s Founding Moment — Madhav Khosla. 48. Jadunath Sarkar, Jagdish Bhagwati and Amartya Sen on Amazon. 49. The Idea of India -- Sunil Khilnani. 50. The Indian Trilogy -- VS Naipaul. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compunds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Amit has promised to resume The India Uncut Newsletter. So do subscribe, it's free! And check out Amit’s online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

In dieser Folge mit Robin, Meike & Anika: „Sprich mit mir“ von T. C. Boyle, „Oder sind es Sterne“ von Eva Munz und „Das Licht, das erlosch“ von Ivan Krastev, Stephen Holmes. Dieser Tage wäre er 90 Jahre alt geworden: Wir gedenken Thomas Bernhard, dem österreichischen Literaten in Lederhosen! Auch heißes Thema im Vorgeplänkel: Die Literaturkritik im Wandel – was ist da los im Feuilleton? Eure Podcast-Crew wirft einen kritischen Blick auf das Geschehen.

This newsletter is really a public policy thought-letter. While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought-letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. It seeks to answer just one question: how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution?PS: If you enjoy listening instead of reading, we have this edition available as an audio narration on all podcasting platforms courtesy the good folks at Ad-Auris. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.- RSJThe West German band Scorpions released their anthemic number Wind of Change sometime in early 1991. It is hard to find a better popular culture artefact that captures the mood in Europe during those times. The Berlin Wall had come down, democratic revolutions were sweeping across the countries of eastern Europe and it was clear the liberal democratic order running their economies on the ‘Washington consensus’ had won the Cold War.The lyrics had both that triumph and a hope for future contained within:“The world is closing inDid you ever thinkThat we could be so close, like brothersThe future’s in the airCan feel it everywhereBlowing with the wind of change..The wind of changeBlows straight into the face of timeLike a storm wind that will ring the freedom bellFor peace of mind”To broaden things a bit beyond Europe, the 90s were also the time when China was entering the global economy and India was ‘reforming’. Things seemed to be all converging towards the same end. The ‘end of history’ as Fukuyama put it was nigh. Liberal democracy was the ultimate political system. Nothing could better it. We just needed to wait for every nation-state to realise this truth.Not Quite The Expected FutureExactly 30 years later, the obvious question is staring at our face. There’s the rise of populist, xenophobic and authoritarian leaders all across eastern and central Europe over the last decade. Russia is a kleptocratic oligarchy that bullies it neighbours who don’t toe its line. On various counts, India has regressed on liberal values and has slowed considerably on reforms. China, contrary to expectations, didn’t become more liberal or democratic as it integrated itself with the world. Instead, it now mocks the liberal western order for its weakness while exporting its brand of illiberal governance as it continues it inevitable rise to the top. Leave these aside for a moment. What’s worse, even the western democracies that were flagbearers of liberalism are caught in the pincer-like grip of populist political urges on both the right and the left.So, what happened? How did the spirit of liberalism that pervaded the world in the 90s dissipate so easily? Well, there’s a whole small-scale industry that’s developed over the years to answer this question. And I must add I’m a platinum-card carrying customer of this industry. Over the last year or so I have been reading up every book that elaborates either on the failure of the market economy or the shortcomings of liberalism.The Light That FailedA recent entrant to this list is the magnificent ‘The Light That Failed: Why The West Is Losing The Fight For Democracy’ by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes. Krastev, a Bulgarian by birth, serves at the Institute for Human Science in Vienna while Holmes teaches at NYU School of Law. They bring a wide east-west perspective to their arguments on why liberalism failed. Among the books I have read in this genre (including Fukuyama’s Political Order And Political Decay), this is the most analytical in understanding the underlying psychosis of illiberal, populist movements sweeping the world.At the start of the book, the authors talk about John Feffer, a young American, who in 1990 spends most of the year traversing across post-Communist Europe with an intent to record the transition of these countries into free, open and liberal societies. There’s something Naipaul-ian about this. Naipaul wrote Among The Believers based on his travels across non-Arabic Muslim world with a long pre-Islamic history (Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia) immediately after the Iranian Revolution. Naipaul wandered around without a definite plan, talked to a cross-section of people and ended up with deep insights about these societies. In a similar vein, Feffer spends most of his time speaking to local people to document their hopes and apprehensions in times of tumultuous change in their lives. And quite like Naipaul went back to the same countries two decades later and wrote Beyond Belief, Feffer goes back in 2015 to speak to the same people on how their lives have panned out in the intervening period. What he found was a warped kind of capitalism had taken root that had accentuated inequalities in the society. There was widespread resentment of western values that were transplanted there and a feeling of betrayal about the failed promise of 1990s. Feffer concludes: Communism was the god that failed for the post WW2 generation in eastern Europe. For the current generation, liberalism is the god that failed.While Krastev and Holmes explain the reasons for the failing in eastern Europe in great detail, there are broader conclusions one can draw that could be used to explain the widespread disappointment about liberalism across the world. I drew three of them.Cheap Imitation: Liberal democracy adapted by these countries are a cheap imitation of the western model. There was limited attempt at locating it in the history and the culture of these nations. The national traditions were given a go by and there was no desire to transform the society from within to manage this transition. Foreign experts who barely understood the ground realities were flown in to set up democratic institutions. There was festering discontent among people who found the struggle to become a cheap imitation of a western democracy humiliating. The nativist backlash shouldn’t have surprised anyone. A spark was waiting to be lit. The populist leaders waded in. They questioned the superiority of this model, delegitimised the moral authority of political parties that followed the western liberal mores unquestioningly and spoke about a glorious past which should be the guiding light for the society. It worked. This is pretty much the playbook for all populist leaders around the world. Some of this has been followed in India too. The only thing remarkable about us is the backlash came some 70 years after independence. There was an undercurrent of resentment about western imitation in our society driven by a liberal constitution that seemed to have been thrust upon us. A combination of factors – heterogeneity in our society, charismatic leaders who were steeped in western ideals and an urban, educated elite who held the levers of power and media for long – seemed to have kept this resentment at bay for long. But this edifice is crumbling. Or maybe, it has already crumbled.Triumphalism of Liberals: The hard-won benefits of cold war were frittered away by a remarkable dropping of the guard by the liberals over the last two decades. As the authors write: “Liberalism fell in love with itself and lost its way”. The years of heady growth till 2008 where an interplay of forces of globalisation, technology advances and cheap credit kept the growth engine humming and led everyone to believe a rising tide was lifting all. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC, 2008) was a rude jolt. The faultlines of economic inequality, unaccountable financial institutions, a self-serving set of elites and a corrupt political class became stark and visible. The reckoning that was expected after the GFC never came. Instead the solutions to the GFC led most to believe the real culprits not only got away but also profited from it. The belief that losses are socialised while the gains are cornered by a few strengthened. GFC still casts a long shadow on the polity across the world. We have reached a stage where both the extreme right and left rile against liberalism to work up their base following the GFC. Demographic Anxieties: As the growth became more lopsided and inequality grew, the demographic anxieties strengthened. These anxieties take various shape in different democracies, but they have one similar feature – a sustained othering of the minority. The irrational fear that the more fecund minorities will gradually engineer a democratic and cultural ‘coup’ by turning themselves into a demographic majority and take over political and social power has gained strong currency. This takes shape differently across countries. In eastern Europe there is a steady degrowth of the native ethnic groups over the last 2 decades where the educated, liberal elites have voted with their feet and left their homes. In US and UK, income inequality, social fallout of globalisation and an ageing population has fed the paranoia about minorities. The story in India, of late, is well known to be repeated here. The common outcome of all of this is a lurch towards ethno-nationalism with a ‘nation-first’ doctrine. It is a far cry from the boundaryless global village that liberals thought they had achieved sometime back.In the list of books I have read over the past 18 months, The Light That Failed scores over others in its rigorous analytical dissection of the reason for failure of liberalism. It is short on rhetoric. And unusually for the genre, it believes a diversity of ideologies is good while simultaneously holding out hope that liberalism will learn its lessons. That it will not again strive for homogeneity and ideological dominance around the world. The authors end the book with a tip to Rudyard Kipling’s first book (from where the title is drawn) The Light That Failed. That novel had two different endings – one happy and one sad. The authors hope that a “chastised liberalism having recovered from its unrealistic and self-defeating aspirations to global hegemony, remains the political idea most at home in the 21st century. It is our choice to celebrate rather than moan.” That’s their expectation of a happy closure. HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters[Video] Krastev and Holmes discuss the book at CEU (Vienna) Get on the email list at publicpolicy.substack.com

In this episode we talk with Ivan Krastev about how the pandemic changed Europe. Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of The International Crisis Group and is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (Allen Lane, 2019), co-authored with Stephen Holmes, won the 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize. He is the author of "After Europe" (UPenn Press, 2017); "Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics on Protest" (UPenn Press, 2014) and "In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?" (TED Books, 2013). Ivan Krastev is the winner of the Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing 2020. His latest book "Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe" (in German by Ullstein, June 2020; in English by Penguin, October 2020) was published in more than 20 languages.

In his memoir The World as It Is, Ben Rhodes, Barack Obama’s closest national security aide, confides that, on the day Obama left the White House, the worry that haunted him most was: ‘What if we were wrong?’ That is, what if liberals had misinterpreted the nature of the post-Cold War period? ‘What if we were wrong?’ is the question Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes set out to explain in their recent The Light That Failed: A Reckoning, which takes Eastern Europe as exhibit A. The book meditates on how liberalism lost its appeal and its themes have clear echoes in East Asia.  Guest hosting today is Eddie Fishman. Do reach out to me on twitter or at jorschneider@gmail.com.  I have a newsletter!  Please consider supporting ChinaTalk.  Intro Music: HAYA乐团《迁徙》 全员战士风尝试突破 Outtro Music (thanks Stephen for the suggestion, very thematic!): Basement Tapes: Kansas City. Marcus Mumford on vocals and Johnny Depp (!) playing guitar. 

In his memoir The World as It Is, Ben Rhodes, Barack Obama's closest national security aide, confides that, on the day Obama left the White House, the worry that haunted him most was: ‘What if we were wrong?' That is, what if liberals had misinterpreted the nature of the post-Cold War period? ‘What if we were wrong?' is the question Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes set out to explain in their recent The Light That Failed: A Reckoning, which takes Eastern Europe as exhibit A. The book meditates on how liberalism lost its appeal and its themes have clear echoes in East Asia.  Guest hosting today is Eddie Fishman. Do reach out to me on twitter or at jorschneider@gmail.com.  I have a newsletter!  Please consider supporting ChinaTalk.  Intro Music: HAYA乐团《迁徙》 全员战士风尝试突破 Outtro Music (thanks Stephen for the suggestion, very thematic!): Basement Tapes: Kansas City. Marcus Mumford on vocals and Johnny Depp (!) playing guitar.  Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Extreme leaders, inequality, and unhappy citizens: what happened to the promise of a new day in Eastern and Central Europe? From the fall of the Wall to this pandemic era, looking at the legacy of an ill-fitting “politics of imitation,” with 2020 Gelber Prize-winners Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes.

Stephen Holmes is the Walter E. Mayer Professor of Law at New York University. With Ivan Krastev he is the author of "The Light that Failed: a Reckoning." Jack Goldsmith sat down with Holmes to talk about his new book and much more. The pair discussed the fate of liberalism in the decades following the fall of the Berlin wall, Holmes’ experience studying Eastern European politics, the problems with trying to export liberalism across the globe and the factors that have led to the global rise of illiberal leaders.

Das populistische Problem hat sich der westliche Liberalismus selbst eingebrockt: indem er sich nach 1989 für menschheitsbeglückend hielt und seine Ideologie exportierte. So sehen es Stephen Holmes und Ivan Krastev - sie analysieren, warum der Westen der Herausforderung durch Ostmitteleuropäer, Russen und Chinesen heute so hilflos gegenübersteht. Ein lesenswerter Band mit einem plausiblen Erklärungsmodell, findet Michael Kuhlmann. Aus dem Englischen von Karin Schuler Ullstein Verlag ISBN 978-3-55005-069-5 366 Seiten 26 Euro

Why liberal foreign policy is a bad fit for dark times.  What Netflix's Narcos can tell us about order and stability in international relations. Why Russia started an oil price war with Saudi Arabia.  Why the critical left doesn't understand power as well as it thinks.  If your think tank gets money from Ali Baba, that doesn't automatically make you a Chinese agent.  What does Bernie Sanders really think about China?  Also this episode: A brief history lesson on the politics of the American Progressive Era.  Matt Stoller tweet: https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1237580289888505856Rush Doshi tweet: https://twitter.com/SolomonYue/status/1237579397483261952Jeff Colgan tweet: https://twitter.com/JeffDColgan/status/1237075224446881792Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes on democracy's decline: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/opinion/democracy-eastern-europe.html

We spoke a bit about the rising strata insurance rates yesterday that seem to be pricing people out of what they thought were affordable homes.  Today we're talking to Stephen Holmes, Strata council member and condo owner at the Anchor Pointe building in New Westminster.

Professor Helge Høibraaten snakker om boken The Light That Failed av Stephen Holmes og Ivan Krastev. Utviklingen i Øst-Europa og Russland etter 1989 gikk ikke som vi trodde. Det handler om skuffelse, nasjonalisme og migrasjon fra øst til vest.

Allan and Darren begin this episode with Australia’s response to the novel coronavirus, including the government’s efforts to evacuate Australians from Wuhan, the decision not to charge evacuees, and the decision to the bar entry into Australia of foreigners who have been in or travelled through China. Darren then wonders whether the variation across countries in the response to the virus—notably the hostility of Cambodia’s Prime Minister to wearing masks—is connected to China’s influence. Next up is the UK’s decision to allow Huawei to participate in the country’s 5G network. Given Australia came to the opposite position, Allan grapples with the fact that he knows and trusts the judgments of individuals involved with both decisions. Darren asks whether there is much precedent for the inventions by four Australian MPs into the UK debate, or the recent piece by former Australian Signals Directorate senior official Simeon Gilding expressing disappointment with the UK’s decision. What’s the path forward now for Australia? Allan and Darren do not entirely agree. The discussion moves to trade. Now that the Trump administration has neutered the World Trade Organisation’s appellate body by blocking the appointment of new judges, what’s next for the WTO? One interesting possibility is the creation of parallel appellate structures that essentially replicate the WTO model and allow willing countries (including Australia) to prop up the WTO system while a more permanent set of reforms can (hopefully) be negotiated. Finally, Darren asks Allan about bilateral free trade agreements between Australia and both the UK and EU that are on the agenda for 2020. As always, we invite our listeners to email us at this address: australia.world.pod@gmail.com We welcome feedback, requests and suggestions. You can also contact Darren on twitter @limdarrenj Thanks to AIIA intern Isabel Hancock for research and audio editing, and Rory Stenning for composing our theme music.  Relevant links Jane Norman, “Coronavirus evacuees avoid $1,000 charge for flight from China after Federal Government backs down”, ABC News, 2 February 2020: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-02/government-blames-dfat-for-coronavirus-charge-mix-up/11921846 Hannah Beach, “Quieter response to coronavirus in countries where China holds sway”. New York Times, 2 February 2020: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/world/asia/china-coronavirus-philippines-thailand.html Latika Bourke, “Four Australian MPs urge Britain to ban Huawei”, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 January 2020: https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/four-australian-mps-urge-britain-to-ban-huawei-20200124-p53u9x.html Simeon Gilding, “5G choices: a pivotal moment in world affairs”, ASPI Strategist, 28 January: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/5g-choices-a-pivotal-moment-in-world-affairs/ Andrew Tillett and Hans van Leeuwen, “Australian warning over Trump’s WTO bear hug”, Australian Financial Review, 24 January 2020: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/australian-warning-over-trump-s-wto-bear-hug-20200123-p53u4h Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes, The light that failed: A reckoning, https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/308/308740/the-light-that-failed/9780241345702.html Scholar’s Stage, “Public intellectuals have short shelf lives—But why?”, 29 January 2020: https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/01/why-public-intellectuals-have-short.html Tyler Cowen, “How public intellectuals can extend their shelf lives”, 6 February 2020: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/02/how-public-intellectuals-can-extend-their-shelf-lives.html Kristen Roupenian, “Cat person”, The New Yorker, 4 December 2017: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person

Pompidou viert Gedichtendag met Jens Meijen, die onlangs zijn eerste bundel Xenomorf publiceerde. Werner Trio las 'Falend licht' van Ivan Krastev en Stephen Holmes, en Jeroen Laureyns trok naar de tentoonstelling 'American women' in Galerie Valérie Bach in Brussel.

Maggie Lewis, a law professor at Seton Hall University, discusses the recent presidential election in Taiwan, where she and other Chinese and Taiwanese legal scholars took part as independent observers. Maggie and Kaiser also discuss domestic Taiwanese politics, the impact of demographic and social trends within the context of the election, and cross-Strait relations in 2020.4:49: Political posturing toward the P.R.C.14:51: How the Hong Kong protests affected the election in Taiwan24:48: China, and Taiwanese independence32:18: The political views of Tsai Ing-wen37:00: Did China interfere in Taiwan’s presidential election?Recommendations:Maggie: Two recommendations related to the Pacific Northwest, where Maggie went to school: the band Sleater-Kinney and the Portland bookstore Powell’s.Kaiser: The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy, by Ivan Krasnev and Stephen Holmes.

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Original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqVAtL5OB7g Jesus presents the form of religious practice that should characterize his disciples. Within this episode, I advertise the following books: Wesley Hill, 'The Lord's Prayer': https://amzn.to/34zz2VY Simone Weil, 'Waiting on God': https://amzn.to/2L6Yhar Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes, 'The Beginning of Politics': https://amzn.to/2Y0UOzK If you have any questions or feedback, please send them to me on Curious Cat: https://curiouscat.me/zugzwanged. If you have enjoyed my output, please tell your friends. If you are interested in supporting my videos and podcasts and my research more generally, please consider supporting my work on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/zugzwanged), using my PayPal account (https://bit.ly/2RLaUcB), or by buying books for my research on Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/36WVSWCK4X33O?ref_=wl_share). You can also listen to the audio of these episodes on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/alastairs-adversaria/id1416351035?mt=2.

After communism fell, the promises of western liberalism to transform central and eastern Europe were never fully realised – and now we are seeing the backlash. By Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

Eine Demonstration von Prager Studenten am 17. November 1989 wurde zum entscheidenden Auslöser für den Beginn der Samtenen Revolution in der Tschechoslowakei. Da die Polizei voller Brutalität gegen die friedlich Protestierenden vorging, verlor das kommunistische Regime seinen letzten, ohnehin nur noch spärlichen Rückhalt. Mit der Gründung des Bürgerforums zwei Tage später - unter anderem durch Václav Havel - wurde ein Prozess in Gang gesetzt, der zum Ende der kommunistischen Herrschaft im Land führte. Radka Denemarková und Jáchym Topol - zwei der wichtigsten tschechischen Schriftsteller unserer Zeit - erinnern sich an die Samtene Revolution vor 30 Jahren, der britische Historiker Timothy Garton Ash verbindet einen persönlichen Rückblick mit einer Analyse unserer Gegenwart. Außerdem: Gedanken des Dichters SAID, Goethes "West-östlichen Diwan" lesend, und ein Versuch, den Liberalismus neu zu denken, angeregt durch die Politikwissenschaftler Ivan Krastev und Stephen Holmes.

Trettio år efter Berlinmurens fall står det klart att det inte var så enkelt som det verkade då en attitydförändring som stjärnstatsvetaren Ivan Krastev följt. Vår korrespondent Caroline Salzinger har träffat honom. För några år sedan kom Ivan Krastev med den mycket uppmärksammade boken Efter Europa, som skakade om bland beslutsfattare och debattörer som försökte förstå det förändrade Europa. Nu släpper Ivan Krastev, tillsammans med sin amerikanska kollega Stephen Holmes en ny bok, Ljuset som försvann, med anledning av just Berlinmurens fall. Att intervjua Ivan Krastev i dessa dagar är kanske det närmaste man inom statsvetenskapen kommer att intervjua en rockstjärna. Allra senast efter att han skrev Efter Europa, som landade som ett varningsskott på beslutsfattarnas bord, enligt nyhetssajten Politico, är han en av Europas ledande tänkare. Jag och kollegan från finska YLE får vänta i foajén på Humanistiska institutet i Wien, där han jobbar, vi hör honom ta avsked från de föregående journalisterna innan vi exakt på uttalad tid slussas in i biblioteket. Vi har fått 45 minuter prick, så vi värjer oss mot Ivan Krastevs övertalningsförsök att spilla dyrbara intervjuminuter på kaffe, vi misslyckas helt, och med 41 minuter kvar av vår tid kommer han tillbaka med två koppar automatkaffe, han ursäktar sig för att mjölken är slut och för att han känner att han bara rabblar sina svar. De här två veckorna innan boken släpps är hemska, säger mannen som avhåller sig från sociala medier och som enligt ryktet inte äger en mobiltelefon. Ivan Krastev är född och uppvuxen bakom järnridån, i Bulgarien, när Berlinmuren föll var han student vid universitetet i Sofia. Men han vill inte svara på vad han tänkte den 9 november 1989, eller dagen därpå, då den bulgariske diktatorn Zhivkov avgick. Man ska inte lita på sitt eget minne när det är revolution, säger Ivan Krastev, saker som känns självklara ena dagen är helt overkliga bara veckor senare, säger han och berättar istället vad han gjorde vid samma tidpunkt. Vi var ett gäng studenter som pratade med Bulgariens mest kände dissident. Dissidenten sa; ni ungdomar, jag är säker på att ni kommer att få uppleva kommunismen fall under er livstid. Mindre än ett år senare var dissidenten själv Bulgariens första fritt valda president. Tiden förvrids under revolutioner, på några veckor sker förändringar som känns som om de borde tagit år, säger Ivan Krastev. Men murens fall och kalla krigets slut var inte vilken revolution som helst, där den ena sidan besegras av den andra sidan, här stod två världsuppfattningar mot varandra och så bara försvann den ena. Det var som att historien själv vann över kommunismen. Historien hade kommit till sin slutdestination, och den hette västerländsk liberalism, sådan var tidsandan. Att ta efter västerländskt institutionsbyggande, västerländsk demokrati och västerländska värderingar var den enda vägen framåt. Och det var inte frågan om någon sorts kolonisering, de från kommunismen befriade länderna i öst ville ta efter väst, alla var överens om att det var det allenarådande alternativet. Så här i efterhand, konstaterar Ivan Krastev, kan man tycka att det var en smula motsägelsefullt. Liberalismen betonar ju just, att den mänskliga friheten utgår från hennes rätt att göra fria val, säger Ivan Krastev. Så följde vad han och medförfattaren Stephen Holmes kallar the age of imitation efterhärmningens tid. De befriade länderna i öst- och Centraleuropa satte igång att kopiera väst efter bästa möjliga förmåga, vad gällde politik, livsstil och konsumtionsmönster. Vissa länder imiterade bättre, hos andra gick det sämre. Det var ändå okej, så länge alla stämde in i kören, att västerländsk liberalism var den enda möjliga vägen framåt. Men snart började problemen. Till att börja med var det här den första revolutionen där inte förlorarna, utan vinnarna lämnade landet. För framtiden låg plötsligt inte, som brukligt var, längre fram i tiden, utan nästgårds. Polens framtid var Tyskland, säger Ivan Krastev. Varför slösa tid på att försöka ge ditt land en lysande framtid, när du istället kan flytta direkt till framtiden, resonerade många unga och välutbildade och flyttade västerut. De som blev kvar gjorde sitt bästa för att kopiera väst. Men att efterlikna, inte en upphöjd moralisk förebild á la Jesus, utan grannen bredvid är inte okomplicerat, Ivan Krastev menar att det mänskliga psyket injicerar rivalitet, tävlan och, så småningom, ett växande mindervärdeskomplex hos imitatören. Hur mycket de forna östländerna än försökte var de aldrig bra nog, och snart uppstod en djup förbittring. Och just den förbittringen menar Ivan Krastev är nyckeln till att de forna öststaterna plötsligt vände sig mot sina tidigare förebilder. I det ena landet efter det andra kom populister till makten, som gjorde kritiken och motståndet mot liberalismen till själva huvudtemat i sitt budskap. De nya ledarna sa, vi tänker inte härma längre. Så 30 år efter murens fall har väst brutalt väckts ur drömmen om att alla ville vara som vi, att vi förkroppsligade historiens slutstation. Det har förstås också påverkat EU, som länge missionerade för liberal demokrati som en självklar måttstock i världen. Nu håller missionären på att förvandlas till en munk, säger Ivan Krastev. EU oroar sig med all rätt för att det omvända ska ske nu, att omvärlden ska förändra unionen, så i en världs som domineras av illiberala ledare stänger EU in sig i sitt kloster. Men att den liberala hegemonins tid är förbi, betyder inte att liberalismen är passé, säger Ivan Krastev. Det kan göra liberalismen gott att ha tagits ned från sina höga hästar, där den länge satt förskonad från självkritik, säger Ivan Krastev. Vår intervjutid knappt slut förrän det ringer, det är dags för en Skype-intervju med tidningen Spiegel. Medan vi rafsar ihop våra saker frågar jag varför han tror att så många vill höra hans svar på vart Europa är på väg. Jag säger bara det alla redan vet, säger Ivan Krastev. Det finns saker som vi vet men som vi av någon anledning inte sätter ord på, det bara råkade bli jag som gjorde det, säger Ivan Krastev, och så tar intervjun med Spiegel vid. Jag och kollegan från YLE smyger ut, kvar på bordet står två koppar automatkaffe, orörda. Caroline Salzinger, Wien caroline.salzinger@sverigesradio.se

Episodio #52 Dennis Nilsen - Parte 2. Luego de matar a Stephen Holmes, bañar su cuerpo, vestirlo y acostarlo sobre su cama. Nilsen se masturbó sobre él. Entró en crisis, sabía que no podía quedarse con el cuerpo ya que pronto no sería más que un montón de carne descompuesta, y que la policía probablemente lo buscaría... Así qué enterró el cuerpo debajo de la duela de su apartamento donde permaneció por 8 meses. Hasta el 11 de Agosto de 1979, cuando inició una fogata en su patio en la que quemó los restos con una llanta encima para ocultar el olor. Desde ese momento, se dio cuenta que un cuerpo era suficiente para sobrellevar su soledad y deseos más íntimos, hasta que la inconveniencia de la muerte y putrefacción lo obligaban a buscar otro cuerpo fresco. Esta es la segunda parte de Dennis Nilsen. Señales Podcast. www.senalespodcast.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

North Macedonia and Albania wanted to start negotiations with the EU after having been candidate countries since 2005 and 2014. But the enlargement plans seemed to have stalled especially after opposition from France. Host Mark Leonard is joined by Susi Dennison, José Ignacio Torreblanca and Vessela Tcherneva to get to the bottom of things and the divisions particularly between France and Germany on this issue. Bookshelf: - "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff - "Spring" by Ali Smith - "The light that failed" by Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes - "State of the Union" Miniseries on BBC Two The podcast as recorded on 17 October 2019. Picture (c) JLogan|Wikipedia

Highlights of the Munich Security Conference 2019 Directly from the Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Mark Leonard, Ulrike Franke and Jonathan Hackenbroich share their post-conference insights. They discuss the speeches by German chancellor Angela Merkel, US vice-president Mike Pence, and Britain’s defence secretary Gavin Williamson, and talk about their favourite side-events. Bookshelf: * Munich Security Report 2019 "The Great Puzzle: Who Will Pick Up the Pieces?" https://www.securityconference.de/publikationen/munich-security-report/ * La ruée vers l'Europe : La jeune Afrique en route pour le Vieux Continent by Stephen Smith https://www.grasset.fr/la-ruee-vers-leurope-9782246803508 * The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers https://www.hodder.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781473619777 * The Light that Failed: How the West Won the Cold War But Lost the Peace by Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes (forthcoming September 2019) The podcast was recorded on Sunday, 17 February 2017. Picture: MSC / Kuhlmann

Wir befinden uns in London, es ist der 30. Dezember 1978. Dennis Nilsen geht nach seiner Arbeit noch in eine kleine Kneipe, um etwas zu trinken. Er trifft hier auf den 14 Jährigen Stephen Holmes, der erfolglos versuchte Alkohol zu kaufen. Nilsen lud den Jugendlichen – den er auf etwa 17 schätzt – in sein […] Der Beitrag FOD 055 – Der Leichenkoch von London erschien zuerst auf ISN Radio.

Gleb Pavlovsky, the mastermind behind much of the Kremlin’s ideological character and a prime architect of Putin’s “managed democracy,” takes part in this conversation on Russia. Speakers: Stephen Holmes, Gleb Pavlovsky. (Recorded: Sep 14, 2015)

More at http://philosophytalk.org/shows/liberty-vs-security. Edward Gibbon and James Madison both noted how liberties in Rome were among the victims of its growing empire. Is our society facing a similar problem, given what some public figures have said about choosing between how much liberty and how much security we want? Or is this a false choice put forward by those in power? John and Ken take a philosophical lens to the relationship between liberty and security with Stephen Holmes from the NYU Law School.

Preacher: Stephen Holmes/ Text: Genesis 50:15-21

Explore Hebrews 5:11-14. Why this much on Melchizedek? What is the warning in Chapter 6? Keep in mind the journey motif that continues to pervade the literary shape of the epistle. The journey language is used to describe Christian experiences. The wilderness generation is a lens used to describe the danger of apostasy. The imagery and analogy is thick. The lack of persevering faith is evidence for the lack of possessing God’s presence. In Hebrews 3:14 we read, “For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end…” The warnings are a call to faith to believers. Hebrews defines “real Christians” as those who have persevering faith. Consider an introduction to Stephen Holmes’ essay Death in the Afternoon.

St. Anselm was the Roman Catholic archbishop of Canterbury, and an important medieval Christian philosopher. He defined the concept of God as "that than which no greater can be thought." Using this concept, he argues that there must actually be such a being; this is his famous "ontological" argument for God's existence. And he also deduces that this being must be eternal, and omnipotent (etc.) - otherwise, he would not be that than which no greater can be thought. Present-day philosophers call this sort of reasoning "perfect being theology." But what is the key concept? Is it the concept of the greatest being there could possibly be? Or should we argue from the concept of an absolutely perfect being? Or should we start with the concept of a being who is truly worthy of human worship? In this episode, Dr. Mark C. Murphy, professor at Georgetown University, discusses these deep issues. He argues that the important concept for the Anselmian is absolute perfection. Here are Dr. Murphy's slides; it is recommended that you view this episode on youtube, as the video there syncs his slides with his talk. You can also listen to this episode on stitcher or itunes (please rate us there).  If you would like to upload audio feedback for possible inclusion in a future episode of this podcast, put the audio file here. Links for this episode: Dr. Murphy's home page "Does morality depend on God?" and "Why Philosophy of Religion?" Short 2013 videos by the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame "God and Moral Law" - Dr. Murphy's 2012 Plantinga Fellow Lecture "God Beyond Justice" - Dr. Murphy's 2012 lecture at the My Ways Are Not Your Ways conference God and Moral Law: On the Theistic Explanation of Morality Philosophy of Law: The Fundamentals Natural Law in Jurisprudence and Politics An Essay on Divine Authority Natural Law and Practical Rationality (kindle) Dr. Murphy's papers at PhilPapers the philosophy of Anselm Dale's introductory screencasts on two analyses of Anselm's ontological argument The Society of Christian Philosophers Peter van Inwagen Yujin Nagasawa Jeff Speaks John Keller trinities podcast interviews with Dr. Stephen Holmes: part 1, part 2  

This week I start with a long and insightful listener comment. Among other things, he asks how one's theology as unitarian or trinitarian affect one's discipleship, or how one follows Jesus as Lord. I give a short answer from my own experience here, confessing how my own confusions hindered my spiritual life. The listener also asks: doesn't Locke require too little? In particular, mustn't a Christian also, minimally, believe that Jesus was raised from the dead, and that he is now ruling as Lord? I argue that Locke, correctly, thinks that belief in Jesus as Messiah implies those beliefs as well, and I argue that he doesn't properly separate matters of belief (to what one must be committed in one's mind) from the issue of confession (what one must be willing to sincerely and publicly assert). Of course, to sincerely confess Jesus as Lord (or as Messiah) requires having certain beliefs, and I go through a long, and surely not exhaustive list of those here. Then we briefly compare this list to the famous "Apostles' Creed". Finally, we hear more from Locke, including the last portion of his book, a well-crafted plea that we should believe that God must have revealed as required for salvation only beliefs which ordinary folk are capable of understanding, and so, believing. Next week, we'll hear the very words of Locke's vehement critic, the Calvinist Anglican divine John Edwards. (1637-1716) We'll also hear a little of Locke's replies. You can also listen to this episode on youtube. Links for this episode: Part 1 - podcast episode 52 My main discussion of "negative mysterianism" about the Trinity. (See also here.) A previous post on the negative mysterian approach to the Trinity. podcast episode 12, on the "Apostles's creed" my interviews with William Hasker my interviews with Stephen Holmes

From left to right: Oliver Crisp's Beard, Oliver Crisp, Thomas McCall, Fred Sanders, Karen Kilby, Lewis Ayres, and Stephen Holmes. In this episode I share my reflections on this conference, and specifically on Trinity theories in contemporary academic theology. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher or iTunes (please subscribe, rate, and review us in either or both – directions here). It is also available on YouTube (you can subscribe here). If you would like to upload audio feedback for possible inclusion in a future episode of this podcast, put the audio file here. You can support the trinities podcast by ordering anything through Amazon.com after clicking through one of our links. We get a small % of your purchase, even though your price is not increased. (If you see “trinities” in you url while at Amazon, then we’ll get it.) Links for this episode: L.A. Theology Conference website Dr. Oliver Crisp and his books (and his beard - RIP) Dr. Thomas H. McCall and his Which Trinity? Whose Monotheism? (review) Dr. Fred Sanders and his The Deep Things of God Dr. Karen Kilby and her books Dr. Lewis Ayres and his Nicea and Its Legacy a post on talk of the "economic" vs. the "immanent" Trinity my Historical Supplement to my "Trinity" (both also in book form).

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38th Annual Outreach Conference - Putin III: The Aftermath of the Russian Presidential Elections Sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley April 28, 2012

After nearly 20 years in the hospitality industry Wyndham Worldwide chairman and CEO Stephen Holmes says he has seen several ”shifts” in the sector -- from the way that consumers plan their vacations to what they expect to find when they stay at a hotel. The most recent catalyst for change has been the global economic downturn. Wyndham -- one of the world's largest hospitality companies -- has weathered that storm and has actually grown since the recession began. In an interview with Knowledge at Wharton Holmes discusses what changes he has witnessed in the industry why timeshares have done surprisingly well during the downturn and what makes his stay at a hotel a happy one. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Elaine Scarry of Harvard University and Stephen Holmes of New York University discuss the ethical and human values associated with how the United States of America has approached terrorism, interrogation, and torture. (April 16, 2010)