

The Miracle of Modernity
What is modernity? How is our world different from that of our ancestors? Why did sustained economic growth, individuality and political...


Ill Winds: A Conversation With Larry Diamond
In this episode of the Westernaissance Podcast, Amichai Magen talks with Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Larry Diamond, about his new...


Can Liberalism Reinvent Itself Again?
In this episode of the Westernaissance podcast, Amichai Magen and Ralf Fücks (author and founder of the Center for Liberal Modernity)...


Inside the Syrian and Iraq Wars
War reporter, Middle East analyst, and author, Jonathan Spyer, talks with Amichai Magen about his new book Days of the Fall: A Reporter's...


The Good Old Days Are Now!
In his excellent new book Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future, Swedish author and film-maker, Johan Norberg, hits back at...


Democracy Lessons for Cautious Optimists: A conversation with NDI President Kenneth Wollack
Kenneth Wollack joined the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in 1986 and has led the organization since 1993. Wollack will retire in...


Europe Reset: A conversation with Richard Youngs about the future of the European Union
Amichai Magen in conversation with Richard Youngs (Professor of International Relations at Warwick University and Senior Fellow in the...


Iran in a Transformed Middle East
Amichai Magen and former Head of the Mossad Research and Intelligence Division, Sima Shine, discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions and...


Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change
Amichai Magen and former Deputy National Security Adviser of Israel, Chuck Freilich, discuss Freilich's new book: Israeli National...


Murder Most Foul: Sergei Magnitsky and the Magnitsky Laws
Amichai Magen and the Honorable Irwin Cotler, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, talk about Russia, the murder of...