Rocky Talk

This episode's guest is Sadhana Hall, Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Center, speaking about her new book "Leadership Blueprints." Interview by Dartmouth student Kristabel Konta '24. Edited by Laura Hemlock. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy

This episode's guest is Alissa Johannsen Rubin an International Correspondent for the The New York Times. Have we lost our commonly held point of departure for thinking about current events, science, health care, and culture? As a country we do not agree on the fundamentals so often -- not always -- journalists are under attack even before they embark on their reporting. How can journalists preser...

This episode's guest is Tina Nadeau, Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court. She is The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center's Perkins Bass Distinguished Visitor. Incarceration does not treat substance use disorder, it cultivates it. As NH and the nation face a crippling opioid epidemic, Chief Justice Tina Nadeau explains that if we want to increase public safety, reduce the cost of incarcerati...

This episode's guest is Janos Marton ’04, National Director of Dream Corps JUSTICE. He speaks about the first 100 days of the Biden presidency, his work in criminal justice, and his time at Dartmouth. Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Edited by Laura Hemlock. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy

This episode's guest is Oren Cass, Executive Director of American Compass. What makes the dogma of American conservatism so peculiar is its lack of any discernible conservatism. Tax cuts and more tax cuts, with some free trade mixed in, may or may not be good policy, but they are not conservative in any meaningful sense of the word. America’s challenges in the 21st century are different than those...

This episode's guest is Nicholas Christakis, Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, at Yale University. Apollo's Arrow offers a broad account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020 and of how the pandemic will unfold, and ultimately end, in the coming years. Using up-to-the-moment information, and drawing on epidemiology, sociology, medici...

This episode's guest is Glenn Blumhorst, President & CEO, National Peace Corps Association. In President Kennedy’s first days in office, he asked Sargent Shriver to create the Peace Corps, which over the last 60 years has sent over 250,000 Americans to more than 140 countries to serve as global citizens. Glen Blumhorst looks back at Kennedy’s campaign promise and forward to what lies ahead for the...

This episode's guests are Peter R. Fisher, Clinical Professor, Tuck School, Dartmouth College and Curt Welling D'71, T'77, Clinical Professor of Business Organization, Tuck School, Dartmouth College Dartmouth College as they discuss GameStop, Robinhood, and Reddit: Market Structure, Social Media, and Financial Bubbles—New Wine or Old Wine in New Bottles?. Tuck professors Peter R. Fisher and Curt W...

Guest Mark W. Huddleston, President Emeritus, University of New Hampshire. Student loan debt in the United States now exceeds $1.6 trillion dollars, having nearly doubled over the last ten years. Some maintain that this debt burden is so onerous that young Americans have been forced to delay starting families and to forgo buying their own homes. Although the federal government has declared a tempo...

This episode's guest is Anne Alstott, the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor at Yale Law School. A solution to inequalities wherever we look—in health care, secure retirement, education—is as close as the public library. Or the post office, community pool, or local elementary school. Public options—reasonably priced government-provided services that coexist with private options—are all around us, ready...

This episode's guest is Monica Delores Hooks ’92, Executive Director of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative. A conversation with a historical perspective, highlighting the leadership and policy initiatives coming from the City of Atlanta, and focusing on economic mobility for women. Interview by Dartmouth student Sydney Towle '22. Edited by Laura Hemlock. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Compose...

Today's guest is Sonu S. Bedi, Professor of Government at Dartmouth College as he discusses his work in the study of race. Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Edited by Laura Hemlock. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy

Guest Linda Fowler, Professor of Government, Emerita, Frank J. Reagan Chair in Policy Studies, Emerita, Past Director, Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth College. Large numbers of people do not regard the election of President Biden as legitimate, while the majority who accept or even celebrate him remain worried about the strains on our constitutional system. The question arises, then, whether our 18t...

Guest Lisa Baldez, Professor of Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College Nearly every country across the globe has ratified the U.N. treaty on women’s rights. Most of the world’s constitutions formally guarantee equality between men and women. Gender quotas for women candidates are found in every region of the world. The United States enjoys none of these mech...

A Conversation with CNN anchor Jake Tapper '91. CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper ’91 joined the network in January 2013. Tapper currently anchors a one-hour weekday program, The Lead with Jake Tapper, which debuted in March 2013, and has hosted CNN's Sunday morning show, State of the Union, since June 2015. Tapper imparts his political expertise on State of the Union by co...

Dr. Carlos Algara is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso, joining the department in fall 2020. Prior to coming to UTEP, Dr. Algara was a 2019-2020 American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow placed in the United States Senate. He received his Ph. D. from the University of California, Davis. His research agenda focuses on the nature of i...

Jason Lyall is the inaugural James Wright Associate Professor of Transnational Studies at Dartmouth College. He also directs the Political Violence FieldLab at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. His research examines the effects and effectiveness of political violence in civil and conventional wars. His current projects include: (1) the relationship between inequality an...

The 2020 election in New Hampshire has been overshadowed by the Presidential Race; however, the results of this election may impact New Hampshire politics for the next decade. This program will examine the current “state of the race” in New Hampshire and discuss electoral implications. ndrew Smith has been Director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center since 1999 and is Professor of Pra...

Author and CNN commentator Keith Boykin ’87 examines the raging conflict between America's emerging black and brown population and its dwindling white majority. Keith Boykin ’87 is a CNN political commentator, New York Times best-selling author, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton. Keith has taught at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University...

Frank R. Baumgartner holds the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professorship in the Department of Political Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is one of the leading scholars of public policy, framing, agenda-setting, policy change, and lobbying in the US and has published extensively on these topics in both US and comparative perspectives. The death of George Floyd while in police custody and othe...

Mark W. Huddleston served as president of the University of New Hampshire from 2007 to 2018, the longest presidential tenure in UNH history. During this podcast he discusses the status of Higher Ed in America. At least through the end of the 20th century, American higher education had been the envy of the world: thousands of colleges and universities, large and small, public and private, served, y...

A longtime Supreme Court analyst, Linda considers how the Supreme court is contributing to the fraying of American civil society. Linda Greenhouse is the 2020 Rockefeller Center Constitution Day speaker. Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy

A conversation with Sanat Mohapatra '20, founder of Unmasked, an anonymous, mental health social media app for college students. Sanat discusses his app and experience at Dartmouth. Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy

A conversation with Daniel Benjamin, Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College. Daniel Benjamin discusses "Covid-19 and the Fate of Globalization." Interview by Dartmouth student Ben Vagle '22. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy

A conversation with Professor Herschel Nachlis, Policy Fellow at the Rockefeller Center and Research Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. Professor Nachlis discusses "Crisis Governance: Lessons from American Policy History." Interview by Dartmouth student Eliza Jane Schaeffer '20. Edited by Laura Howard. Music: Debussy Arabesque no 1. Composer: Claude Debussy