Ideas are powerful. They stimulate, they inspire… ideas can change the world.

Produced in partnership with the New Books Network, The Van Leer Series on Ideas brings you conversations with innovative Israeli and global thinkers about their latest books, and the meaning and impact of their work.

Join host, Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D., as she interviews today’s most important writers, scholars and thought leaders on the biweekly podcast, The Van Leer Series on Ideas.

Recent guests include:

• Michael Sandel – The Tyranny of Merit
• Emmanuel Navon – The Star and the Scepter: a Diplomatic History of Israel
• Margaret MacMillan – War: How Conflict Shaped Us
• Robert Plomin – Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
• Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz – The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream has Obstructed the Path to Peace
• Paula Frederiksen – When Christians were Jews: The First Generation
• Alexander Kaye – The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: The Struggle for Legal Authority in Modern Israel
• Seth M. Siegel – Troubled Water: What's Wrong with what we Drink?

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