- -: The Public Option's Unfair Advantage? Gov't Bailouts - Michael Cannon
November 13, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/13/How_Government_Competes_in_Health_Insurance Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, denounces a public option. He says a government backed health plan will gain an unfair advantage over the private market simply by bei...
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- -: Democracy and the Wired World - Michael Wesley
November 16, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/04/Is_Democracy_Not_For_Everyone In this panel debate, Lowy Institute Executive Director Michael Wesley explores how advancements in communication technologies have facilitated the spread of global democracy. "Fatalism is dead," he says. "Democracy is he...
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- -: The Return of Ayn Rand: Will Economics Spark the Next Culture War?
November 24, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/28/The_Goddess_of_the_Market_The_Meaning_of_Ayn_Rand Ayn Rand biographer Jennifer Burns examines the history of Rand's influence on the modern GOP. Examining the reemergence of Rand's popularity among Republicans, Burns speculates on the "unfolding of a ...
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- -: Larry Summers: No Upside to Prolonged Recession
January 20, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/30/Larry_Summers_Innovation_and_Economic_Growth President Barack Obama's top economic adviser Lawrence Summers warns against the "profoundly misguided view" of treating the recession as cathartic, as necessary suffering. "I think that addressing the rece...
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- -: Do Government Regulations Actually Help Big Business? - Tim Carney
January 21, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/12/Obamanomics_Is_Obama_Bankrupting_America Timothy Carney argues that government regulations tend to help large corporations because new requirements are often more difficult for smaller companies to follow. From tobacco to climate change, Carney believ...
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- -: Do Suspected Terrorists Have Rights to Trials? - John Coughenour
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/22/One_Year_Counting_When_Will_Guantanamo_Close U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour rejects the practice of using "another set of rules" to convict suspected terrorists. "We either live up to our responsibilities as being a leader in human right...
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- -: Life in a Concrete Cube: Albie Sachs Recalls Apartheid
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/21/Albie_Sachs_The_Strange_Alchemy_of_Life_and_Law Albie Sachs, a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, recalls being placed in solitary confinement without trial while living under South African apartheid. Sachs describes the experie...
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- -: Tear It Down? Whistleblower Says Time to Bulldoze Gitmo
February 4, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/22/One_Year_Counting_When_Will_Guantanamo_Close Guantanamo whistleblower Stephen Abraham defends the White House's proposal to move Gitmo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Facility in rural northwestern Illinois and calls for a public demolition of t...
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- -: Cory Doctorow: Is Your Search History Really Anonymous?
February 9, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/31/Rethinking_Privacy_in_an_Age_of_Disclosure_and_Sharing Boing Boing editor and blogger Cory Doctorow warns that Web searches are more difficult to "anonymize" than is commonly believed, citing AOL's accidental data disclosure in 2006. "Would it harm yo...
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- -: How Google Uses Your Information - Peter Barron
February 9, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/31/Rethinking_Privacy_in_an_Age_of_Disclosure_and_Sharing Peter Barron of Google responds to the question: "Why does Google need to know so much about me?" Barron reassures the public that Google collects personal data not to "do anything sinister," but ...
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