Global I.Q. Minute with Jim Falk
featuring Dr. Ben Carson
Our latest Global I.Q. Minute is with Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson. Carson describes the world as a "third-grade classroom with no teacher," and says the U.S. needs to provide global leadership. He wants to end the ISIS threat now ("Nothing I wouldn't use to destroy them") and employ oil as an implement to control Russian President Vladimir Putin. Additionally, Dr. Carson proposes giving Palestinians a nation carved out of potentially verdant land in either Jordan or Egypt. Listen now for the full Global I.Q. Minute.
Global I.Q. Minute with Jim Falk
featuring Evan Osnos
Council President Jim Falk and The New Yorker writer Evan Osnos recently sat down for an insightful Global I.Q. Minute. Osnos, the author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China, says that the China's growing economic power shows it is time to hear their voice in world affairs. Within, he says, the nation's government is coping with a population that has become acquainted with new freedoms while, outside, the U.S. faces the issue of "figuring out how much control China will have over its own neighborhood and how much the U.S. is prepared for that change." Hear the full interview now →
Charles Murray
Is Washington think-tanker Charles Murray the most controversial non-politician speaker on the Council's calendar? (See for yourself on Tuesday, June 2.) In recent days Murray has been the target of a thinkprogress.org piece that also aimed a glancing blow at Jeb Bush for reading Murray's books. He's the focus of a Washington Post Monkey Cage column analyzing why he's a media magnet. And on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, Murray explained, "I'm not so worried about the big corporations and I certainly don't want to get rid of the regulations that are important and necessary. But the lives of people are being constantly impeded by stupid, pointless regulations. And that's what I want to do something about."
A Conversation With the Dalai Lama
Nobel laureate and spiritual leader His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama returns to Dallas for an open-to-the-public event on Wednesday, July 1, at Moody Coliseum on the Southern Methodist University campus. "A Conversation With the Dalai Lama" is hosted by SMU and the George W. Bush Presidential Center in conjunction with the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth. The event begins at 1:30 p.m. in Moody. Tickets go on sale Monday, May 18, at ticketmaster.com. For additional updates visit SMU Forum.
She's No "Shrinking Violet"
You can figure no one on any continent has ever called Mona Eltahawy a "shrinking violet." Our June 18 speaker is a globally-known critic of misogyny in Islam and a hard-driving journalist not afraid to confront the powerful. The title of her latest book gives a hint of her "direct" nature: Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. She proudly accepts the label "radical feminist Muslim."