Conversations – Economic Theory: Robert Ashford and Dr. Edward Wolff

From 2000, well after Bill Clinton declared the end of the Old Left. From the description:

The Guests talk about economic theory in a Paradigm sense. The raise the idea that it ultimatly is the basic source which informs all National & International Political decison making at a policy leval. They (particurly Ashford) strongly question the “Labor Theory of Value” which informs in a fundemental sense virutlaly all Economic Theory from from the far Left to the far Right as outdated in an era when economic production (and the trends therein) is increasingly the result of capital assets which are overwhelmingly owned by a very narrow owership class.

Conversations with History – Seyla Benhabib

Yale political theorist Seyla Benhabib is UC Berkeley’s Harry Kreisler’s guest in a discussion of how political theory can further our understanding of globalization and its impact on the struggle for human rights.

Lee Kuan Yew on Charlie Rose

I feel like Charlie Rose is an incredibly patronizing and almost irrelevant interviewer, but he manages to let Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore, wax a little about the wider world.

David Brooks at the World Affairs Council

David Brooks, a “Nancy Pelosi-Democrat”, talks with Jane Wales at the World Affairs council, describing his “Arethra Franklin policy”. Mr. Brooks is smart, pragmatic and engaging and seems to think that there’s been a shift away from economics and towards identity politics across the globe, specifically in Iraq, and in the US.

Milton Friedman on Limited Government

Milton Friedman lays out his case for a limited government in the usual and compelling way in a public television interview from the 50’s. His view that the minimum wage was the worst policy in terms of outcome for blacks is very interesting and seemingly right-on. Too bad the right in America spends even more than those damn ‘tax-and-spenders’.

Christopher Hitchens on Iraq

An interview with Christopher Hitchens on Iraq at the Hoover Institutition, August 24th 2007.

Al Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel that is Challenging the West

I’ll be aggregating Al Jazeera English streams regularily because it’s one of the few English language video news outlets outside of the first world; you can take it with a grain of salt if you’d like. This Massachusetts School of Law video interview with author and fashion model Hugh Miles about his book is an ‘as good as any’ comprehensive introduction to the news network, despite being ‘annoyingly’ biased towards the Doha-based network.

A nice short read by the author published by Foreign Policy magazine outlining the history and global prospects of the network. The bibliography at the end provides an ample jumping off point if interested.

2005 New York Times Review

2005 Fresh Air interview with the author