An Interview with Emma Sky, Former Advisor to the Commanding General of US Forces in Iraq
The Politic sits down with Jackson Institute Senior Fellow Emma Sky to discuss the Iraq War, the practice of diplomacy, and the Yale World Fellows Program.
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An Interview with Henry Giroux, the McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest
“We need to reclaim public and higher education as a public good, as a democratic public sphere that is absolutely vital for educating students to be engaged and critical citizens. That should be as important as national defense.”
An Interview with Austan Goolsbee, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors
“The standard of evidence in academics is ten out of ten, and the time pressure is one out of ten. And in Washington, it’s kind of the reverse. The standard of evidence is much lower than in an academic setting, but you have to have it by Friday.”
An Interview with Rosemary DiCarlo, Jackson Institute Senior Fellow and Career Diplomat
When I was working at the U.S. mission, in the morning I could be doing Yemen, then Ukraine in the middle of the day, and Syria at the end.
An Interview with Gro Harlem-Brundtland, Former Prime Minister of Norway
In Norwegian politics, “It’s the argument or the passion which you decide to express yourself which counts, not money. “
An Interview with Shani Hilton, Executive Editor at BuzzFeed News
“The thing about Buzzfeed that’s really cool is that we have a bunch of different identities – you can see that both in the types of people who work in the newsroom and the content we produce. We really try to reach people where they are. And that means that we have to maintain a lot of different identities at once.”
An Interview with George Pataki, Former Governor of New York
I believe that I am the best candidate because deep down I know that I can run this country well. It requires having a positive agenda that people can understand, and it requires making that agenda acceptable across party lines to enough Democrats so you can actually accomplish something.
An Interview with Andrew Flowers, Quantitative Editor at FiveThirtyEight
I definitely wanted to write for a popular audience, I just didn’t know it would be from the nitty-gritty world of journalism rather than the “Ivory Tower high-horse” position, so to speak. We like to say data journalism is social science on deadline. So I think I’ve kind of melded these two worlds.