The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Original air date: December 17, 2014) – Utah is home to 50,000 refugees, with the vast majority residing in Salt Lake County. Refugees are becoming an important demographic in the community, but their stories are rarely told and their own small communities are not well understood by native Utahns. A…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Original air date: May 27, 2015) – Professor Cheyney Ryan believes that people really don’t want to fight wars anymore. Prof. Ryan works with the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. He is engaged in a multi-year project exploring the relation of pacifism and non-violence to contemporary just…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: June 8/11, 2016) — Dr. Omid Safi, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, spoke recently on April 6, 2016. Dr. Safi specializes in contemporary Islamic thought and Islamic spirituality. During this hour he speaks about the past, national, and international relationship between the United…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: June 1/4, 2016) — Recently distinguished former U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill gave a timely and illuminating talk at the Hinckley Institute of Politics about the challenges the next U.S. president will face with North Korea and China, as well as in the Middle East. Ambassador Hill is a…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: May 25/28, 2016) — This spring the Hinckley Institute of Politics hosted its second annual “HIP Talks” competition, co-sponsored by the Wayne Owens Fund and the ASUU. The event brought together the University of Utah’s best and brightest students in a two-minute speech competition. This program highlights the…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: May 4/7, 2016) — One of the nation’s leading experts on terrorism policy and national security spoke at the Hinckley Institute on March 22. Juan C. Zarate is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also the senior national security analyst for…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: April 27/30, 2016) — Leif Wenar is author of Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World. He is currently the Chair of Philosophy and Law at King’s College in London. Wenar argues that the proposition of no longer buying oil from repressive authoritarian regimes…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: April 20/23, 2016) –A few weeks ago the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Vivint Inc, Matt Eyring spoke about some of his company’s visions and strategies for creating what they call the “smart home”. Vivint is based in Provo, Utah. Eyring and some of his team visited…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: April 13/16, 2016) — Professor Patrick Dobel. He is the John and Marguerite Walker Corbally Professor in Public Service at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, where he hass taught since 2011. Dobel says people often create self-narratives that allow them…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: March 23/26, 2016) — Recently Rosemary O’Leary, the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas, spoke about her research into Guerilla Government at the Hinckley Institute of Politics. According to O’Leary, Guerilla government describes situations where public employees – because of their…
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