POSTHOC Salons LIVE w/ Susan MacTavish Best - Intimate Conversations on Topics of the Zeitgeist

Today’s guest is Jean Lee, one of the world’s foremost experts on North Korea and a journalist whose reporting has reshaped how we understand one of the most secretive countries on earth. Jean co-hosted the BBC World Service’s acclaimed podcast  The Lazarus Heist , the gripping true-crime investigation into the billion-dollar cyberattacks tied to North Korea — from the Sony Pictures hack to global...

Susan MacTavish Best interviews Jim Kennedy,   President at ThREE Consulting & Caldera Holding LLC.   Susan and Jim discuss  the economic, national security and geopolitical ramifications of China’s rare earth monopoly.  Live music from Queen Esther and   Firas Zreik . 

Susan MacTavish Best interviews Ali Kashani, CEO and co-founder of last mile robot delivery company Serve Robotics (NASDAQ: SERV). Musicians Queen Esther and friends perform live. About Ali Kashani:  Dr. Ali Kashani is the co-founder and CEO of Serve Robotics, the maker of Level 4 autonomous sidewalk delivery robots that has received investments from Uber and NVIDIA.  Founded in 2017 as the roboti...

I'll be speaking with Hind Hassan, the 2024 winner of The Neal Conan Prize for Excellence in Journalism.   We'll be discussing her life, experiences, and views on the current state of journalism.  With live performances from Posthoc's artist in residence, Queen Esther & pianist Sharp Radway.

I'll be speaking with national security expert and geopolitical thinker  Dmitri Alperovitch . Dmitri recently published  World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century . With live performances from Posthoc's artist in residence, Queen Esther.

The History of Intelligence with  Max Bennett .  Max is the author of  The Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains,  and is the cofounder & CEO of Alby, an AI company based in NYC. This salon features music by  Queen Esther  & Friends and   is supported by a grant Posthoc received from  Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF).   Templ...

Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba.  Neil is a specialist in the philosophy of human rights, philosophy and technology, sexual ethics, and research on alternative sexualities. He is the co-editor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press) and Fragile Freedoms: The Global Struggle for Human Rights (Oxfo...

Posthoc Salons founder, Susan MacTavish Best, interviews Lisa Ferri about  her experiences covering the Trump trial, the verdict , and  what she sees ahead in the media landscape  in the run up to the Presidential election.    Lisa is an Emmy award-winning journalist who's spent three decades covering politics and culture inside some of America's most storied newsrooms: 60 Minutes, MSNBC&#...

Does Consciousness Matter?  A  conversation   w/philosopher  David Chalmers   in SoHo for  evening filled with conversation, live music, homemade food and our warm NYC Posthoc community.    The salon is supported by a grant Posthoc received from  Templeton World Charity Foundation  (TWCF) .  TWCF funds grants that are accelerating research on consciousness , and  David is a fellow grantee of TWCF.

In this episode of the POSTHOC Digital Podcast, Susan interviews Deborah Bonello, former Head VICE News Latin America and author of NARCAS: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America's Cartels. Deborah made the journey to the POSTHOC LA warehouse all the way from Mexico City to discuss her reporting on female-led organized crime that ultimately led to writing NARCAS.

For our last Posthoc salon of 2023 we invited economist Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg into our living room for an evening of conversation and music.  Hilda is an entrepreneur, investor, author and philanthropist. She is the founder and chairman of Strategic Investment Group, an independent investment management firm. For a dozen years, Hilda was the Chief Investment Officer (Pensions) at The World Bank...

We hosted a salon with  Substack  in LA to celebrate their community of writers and creators, and to meet the company's co-founder Hamish McKenzie, whose interview you're about to hear. We discussed the origins of the company, Hamish's own background as a writer and what about the platform fosters such a unique relationship between creators and subscribers. 

The Age of Prediction salon was co-hosted with Amy Brand , Publisher, MIT Press celebrating the publication of the new book T he Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk by MIT Press authors Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher Mason. Igor is the Founder/CEO of WorldQuant, a quantitative investment firm. Christopher is Professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weil...

In this week's edition of the Posthoc podcast we're interviewing  Matt Gutman in Los Angeles  about his life, experiences and  his new book .   Matt is  ABC News' Chief National Corresponden t and his book  No Time to Panic  came out this week and is currently featured in Oprah's book club. We'll also hear a musical performance from  Queen Esther  who flew in from NYC for her v...

You're listening to the Posthoc Salon Podcast and in this episode we'll be speaking with  Emma Cherniavsky, CEO of UNHCR (UK) , the UK arm of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. We'll here music from pianist  Maria Angel Garcia, who  won first prizes and has been a semi- finalist in well renowned national and international piano competitions.  This salon is supported by...

Embracing the Future of Humanity with Art & Science -  This salon, tackling the rapid evolution of our relationship with technology, was co-hosted in London with  Templeton World Charity Foundation  and co-moderated by TWCF President Andrew Serazin. Our guest interviewees will include artist  Agnieszka Pilat ,  who paints large-scale portraits of technology with the help of AI-powered painting...

In this episode of the Posthoc podcast, Susan will be doing her third interview with Justin Garcia, Executive Director of  The Kinsey Institute  at Indiana University about  The State of Sex, Love, Gender and Well-Being  in 2023 in Los Angeles and Beyond. This is POSTHOC's second salon with Justin; our  last one  was a public salon in the fall of 2022 with New York Public Radio at WNYC's G...

Posthoc's latest salon on forgiveness was co-hosted w/ Templeton World Charity Foundation , surrounding their participation in Harvard University's conference “Forgiveness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives." We invited Templeton grantee, psychologist Ev Worthington who has been studying the science of forgiveness for over 30 years and in addition to being a renowned researcher on the su...

In this episode of the Posthoc podcast, Susan interviews Dan Lyons, a New York Times best-selling author who has also written for the HBO hit series Silicon Valley, served as senior editor at Forbes, and has been published in virtually every major outlet from The Economist, NYT and Wall Street Journal to Wired, NPR, BBC and The Guardian. Dan's latest book  STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth...

On this week's edition of the Posthoc podcast, you'll hear our conversation with Templeton World Charity Foundation grantee  Sander van der Linden , Professor of Social Psychology in Society in the  Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab.  Sander's book  Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation...

On this episode of the Posthoc podcast, Susan interviews longtime former Editor of  Food & Wine , and  founder of  Speaking Broadly  DANA COWIN .  This salon was co-hosted with  OLIVER ZAHN, astrophysicist and cofounder of data science company  Climax Foods .  After 3 years of rigorous research and development by top food scientists, Climax&nbs...

On this episode of the Posthoc podcast, we interview author and journalist David Gelles. David is the author of the new book "The Man Who Broke Capitalism," a dive into the tumultuous legacy left behind by Jack Welch. David is a reporter on the Climate desk at The New York Times and has profiled many CEOS as the Corner Office columnist.

Paul Rosolie is the wildlife director of  JungleKeepers , an organization that protects some of the world's most crucial rainforest habitat. Along with running a conservation project called Tamandua Expeditions that uses tourism to support rainforest conservation, Paul’s work has taken him to some of the last dark places on the map: For the past 16 years he has specialized in t...

This salon with Pray.com is part of our ongoing series on human flourishing with Templeton World Charity Foundation . In 2021 TWCF launched a five-year initiative which has included expanding our scientific understanding of how the practice of spiritual and religious exercises are linked to outcomes that are associated with human flourishing. Pray.com was founded in 2016 in California.&n...

Welcome to our first digital salon in a series that is presented by healthcare company GALILEO (www.galileo.io). In this salon, Susan MacTavish Best (Posthoc) and Carolyn Manning (Galileo) will be speaking to Professor Frank Keil about his new book WONDER. Frank Keil is Psychology & Linguistics Professor at Yale University. For the past 40 years, he has studied how adults and children learn an...