Foreign Affairs Circle

Richard M. Perloff is a scholar of persuasion and political communication perceptions and effects. The author of academic textbooks on persuasion and political communication, as well as theoretical review articles on mass communication, he is a professor of communication, psychology, and political science at Cleveland State University

Joshua Bloom is a Fellow at the Ralph J. Bunche Center at UCLA. He is the co-editor of Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy and the collection editor of the Black Panther Newspaper Collection. Waldo E. Martin, Jr. is Professor of History at UC Berkeley. He is the author of No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar American, Brown Vs. Board of Education: A Bri...

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James Piereson is president of the William E. Simon Foundation and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he directs the Center for the American University. He has served as executive director and trustee of the John M. Olin Foundation, and has taught political science at several prominent universities. He is a frequent contributor to various journals and newspapers, including The New C...

How do we choose a candidate

A chat with ProfessorI George E. Marcus. He is professor of political science at Williams College and the author, coauthor, or coeditor of seven books, including, most recently, Political Psychology: Neuroscience, Genetics, and Politics.

A chat with Nikita Breznikov. He was a former 27 year police sergeant in Baltimore. He was the Department’s Domestic Violence Coordinator for several years, working closely with The House of Ruth and other organizations helping to protect victims and assist in the prosecution of the perpetrators, knows law enforcement. He is also an actor starring in the action film Brush with Danger. Now availabl...

A chat with Bill Ayers on Common Core, the democratic race and more. William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior Bill AyersUniversity Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), member of the executive committee of the Faculty Senate and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, taught courses in interpretive and qualitative...

An update on the Middle East with Dr. Amirkhizi. Our guest is Former Senior Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Afghanistan and professional public policy analyst, Dr. Mohammad Amirkhizi.

What is the difference between a democracy and a republic?

Dr. Carlos chats about whether or not an increase in the minimum wage is a good idea with Professor Meer. Jonathan Meer attended Princeton University for his undergraduate degree and Stanford University for his Ph. D. His recent work focuses on different aspects of charitable giving, including social pressure and long-term habit formation. In his free time, he enjoys bicycling, photography, and sw...

Dr. Carlos discusses gangs with retired LAPD Lt. Raymond Foster. You can find more on Lt. Foster at www.police-Lieutenant.com

Dr. Carlos discusses extremism with Professor Sherkat. Darren Sherkat is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at SIU Carbondale. He has published 54 articles in peer-reviewed journal and 11 chapters in edited books. His work has appeared in top general interest sociology journals like Social Forces, American Sociological Review, and Social Science Research. He has also performed...

Dr. Carlos discusses hollywood noir with Dina Di Mambro. Dina Di Mambro is a film historian and award winning entertainment writer who has worked as a research consultant for A&E Biography and "E" Entertainment Television documentaries. She started writing for Hollywood Studio Magazine and other publications while still in her teens. As a journalist, she has interviewed such luminaries as Glenn Fo...

Dr. Carlos discusses with Peter Ferrara how to make America prosperous and help Americans. Peter Ferrara is senior fellow for entitlement and budget policy at The Heartland Institute, a senior fellow at the Social Security Institute, and the general counsel of the American Civil Rights Union. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy...

Dr. Carlos discusses illegal immigration and its effects on the economy and crime with Dr. Camarota. Dr. Steven Camarota serves as the Director of Research for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a Washington, DC-based research institute that examines the consequences of legal and illegal immigration on the United States. The Center promotes an informed debate on comprehensive immigration re...

Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato, he was a special assistant/adviser to the Multi-National Force in Iraq on rule-of-law issues and practiced international, political, commercial, and antitrust litigation at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb.

A different take on the Iran deal with Professor Kamrava of Georgetown University in Qatar

A look at rational political thinking

Dr. Carlos chats with Alex Nowrasteh. He is the immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. His popular publications have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, and elsewhere. His academic publications have appeared in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Orga...

Dr. Carlos chats with E.G. Vallianatos. He is the author of five books, including Harvest of Devastation and This Land is their Land, as well as over two hundred articles, including recent pieces in Alternet and Truth-Out.org. He is a blogger for The Huffington Post. Previously, he worked in risk evaluation at the EPA for twenty-five years, and now lives in Claremont, California. His co-author McK...

Dr. Carlos chats with Ibram X. Kendi. He is an assistant professor of African American history at the University of Florida. He authored the award-winning book, The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965–1972. He has received research fellowships, grants, and visiting appointments from a variety of universities, foundations, professional assoc...

Ronald T. Hosko joined LELDF in April 2014 after retiring from a thirty year career in the FBI. After graduating from the Temple University School of Law, he began his work as a Special Agent in Jackson, Mississippi. In the late 1980s, he transferred to Chicago, working undercover and in assignments focused on complex financial crimes and violent crimes. He worked closely with other federal, state...

Edward Alden is the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), specializing in U.S. economic competitiveness. In addition, Mr. Alden is the director of the CFR Renewing America publication series and co-author of the recent CFR Working Paper Managing Illegal Immigration to the United States. The former Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times, his work focus...

Governor Chet Culver is currently Founder of the Chet Culver Group, a renewable energy and infrastructure consultancy that works with individuals and public and private sector entities to provide strategic consulting, cut through red tape and promote cutting-edge ideas that will move the country forward. Under Governor Culver’s leadership as Iowa’s 40th Governor (2007-2011), Iowa was recognized as...