Lectures tagged "liberal"

US Supreme Court and Race
Randall Kennedy
March 10, 2010
01:07:00
Two Harvard legal scholars discuss the complex and often misunderstood history of how decisions by the United States Supreme Court have affected the legal status of racial minorities in America, and ask if the Supreme Court has been a friend or a foe to African Americans.
Conscience of a Liberal
Paul Krugman
February 9, 2009
01:16:42
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman talks with David Gergen of the Harvard Kennedy School about the foundations of the liberal political and economic systems. In the current economic downturn, Krugman asks what we learn from past liberal successes and failures.
War Stories: Inside Campaign 2008
David Axelrod
December 11, 2008
01:09:35
Obama Campaign manager David Plouffe and strategist David Axelrod, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, and pollster Bill McInturff discuss the day-to-day management and overall strategies of the 2008 presidential election campaigns with Gwen Ifill.
How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
James K. Galbraith
October 20, 2008
01:43:47
While liberals continue to believe in the free market, conservatives have abandoned it all together. If conservatives no longer take free markets seriously, why should liberals?
Electing a President
Madeleine Kunin
February 18, 2008
01:30:44
Madeleine Kunin, David Yepsen, and Tom Oliphant share their insights about the unprecedented 2008 presidential campaign.