Each episode of Why It Matters breaks down an issue that is shaping our world’s future. Join host Gabrielle Sierra as she speaks with the leaders and thinkers who are facing these questions head on. Fueled by the minds at the Council on Foreign Relations, Why It Matters brings some of the world’s most compelling stories home to you.
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Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Whether you think we are making history or repeating it, it’s safe to say we are living in a historic time. In this episode, Why It Matters asks three historians to weigh in on how to use the past to examine the present and make better choices for the future.
Featured Guests:
Richard N. Haass (President, Council on Foreign Relations)
Margaret MacMillan (Professor of History, University of Toronto)
Annette Gordon-Reed (Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard Law School)
For more information on this episode, visit us at cfr.org/podcasts/living-history