Conversations with Jim Zirin is a talk show designed to analyze national and world events. The series features high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, law, business, foreign relations, national security, counterterrorism, media, lifestyles, literature, the arts, and the military. The series is hosted by Jim Zirin, a leading litigator and contributor to major publications including Forbes, the Daily Beast, the Nation, The Times of London, The Washington Post, The Daily News, and the ...
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How Do We Fix Our Broken Politics? | Bob Bauer
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Political lawyer Bob Bauer, who prepared Biden for his debate with Trump, pleads for ethics in a political climate where incivility, lawfare, and outright misrepresentations have become the order of the day.
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Are Happy Days Here Again for the Democrats? | Matt Cooper
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Biden cedes the contest against Trump to Vice President Kamala Harris who instantly captured the lead in the polls. Will it last? Veteran Washington journalist Matt Cooper gives Jim Zirin his take on the volcanic changes in the race.
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Will Trump's Felony Conviction Block His Path to the White House? | Nina Burleigh
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Courts have found Donald Trump inspired an insurrection, sexually abused a woman in a department store dressing room, engaged in a scheme to defraud for which he was fined $500 million, and was guilty of 34 felony offenses involving a hush money payment to a porn star. Amazingly, he is the GOP nominee for president. Journalist Nina Burleigh, author…
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What Is Kyung Wha Kang's Vision for the Asia Society? | Dr. Kyung-wha Kang
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No stranger to New York, Dr. Kyung Wha Kang, the former foreign minister of Korea, has hit the ground running at the Asia Society. She tells Jim of her goals for the society, and candidly discusses US foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific region.
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Will We See a Cure for Any of the Degenerative Diseases Any Time Soon? | Richard Lifton
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Richard Lifton, the 11th president of Rockefeller University, the nation’s leading research institution located in New York City, tells Jim about the latest advances in scientific research and the never-ending search for a cure.
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What is the Greatest Global Risk in 2024? | Ian Bremmer
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Ian Bremmer, president and founder of the risk consultancy, Eurasia Group, as well as the popular host of GZERO World which people can see on public television, in a thought-provoking interview analyzes for us the top 10 global risks this year. Heading the list is unsurprisingly the presidential election looming on the horizon, with the internal po…
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Overcoming the Danger of Disinformation in the November Election | Barbara McQuade
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Barbara McQuade, former US Attorney for Michigan, is author of a new book, which has swept the nation, this week #3 on the New York Times best seller list. The book is entitled “Attack from Within—How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.” In the book, she shows how dictators spew disinformation online, and use it to seize power. We discuss how, if…
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Why History Matters According to Director of New-York Historical Society | Louise Mirrer
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I sit with Louise Mirrer, the guiding spirit of the New-York Historical Society for the past two decades. Under her leadership, the museum has reinvigorated its commitment to greater public understanding of history and its relevance with blockbuster exhibitions about slavery and the Vietnam War.
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Discussing Higher Education, Free Speech, and Reproductive Rights | Donna Shalala
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Donna Shalala, for eight years Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, was later elected to Congress from Florida. An staunch advocate for reproductive rights and a fierce opponent of hate speech on campus, she has spent most of the past two decades, in higher education. Now, she ponders her future as interim president of the New Sch…
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Can We Get Russia Right As Long As Vladimir Putin Remains in Power? | Tom Graham
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Thomas Graham, a Russia expert and author of the terrific new book, "Getting Russia Right," was one of three former national security officials to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in secret back channel talks last April, possibly paving a way forward to end the war in Ukraine. He tells Jim why our post-Soviet effort to partner with …
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How Will Warfare Be Conducted into the Next Century? | Andrew Roberts
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Andrew Roberts, one of the greatest biographers of the English language today, has co-authored his 20th book with General David Petraeus, called "Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine." He tells Jim how warfare has developed over the last eight decades, and applies the history to what we see today in Gaza.…
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Can We Count on More Diversified Programming at Lincoln Center? | Henry Timms
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Henry Timms, the tremendously effective CEO at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, tells Jim he will never stop innovating. Since taking over in 2019, he has accomplished the renovation of David Geffen Hall, and expanded programming to include concerts of hip-hop, and even an LGBTQ mariachi group. Henry is having much fun at Lincoln Center, and…
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Did Andrew Cuomo Get a Raw Deal? | Melissa DeRosa
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New Yorkers overwhelmingly elected Andrew Cuomo as their governor. His approval rating soared to 77 percent. The next year, he found himself hounded out of office by political enemies, accusing him of sexual harassment and covering up the number of COVID deaths in nursing homes. Melissa DeRosa, his former chief of staff, tells Jim of a political ca…
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Should Trump be disqualified from the Ballot? | Kermit Roosevelt
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Constitutional law Professor Kermit Roosevelt has studied the original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment. He tells Jim Zirin that Donald Trump should be disqualified from seeking the presidency because he engaged in an insurrection on January 6. The matter is before courts in 21 states. It will certainly reach the Supreme Court.…
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The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer | Kai Bird
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Kai Bird's biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer inspired the hit movie. He tells Jim how the father of the atomic bomb fell victim to McCarthyism when they revoked his security clearance nine years later after a deeply flawed hearing.
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What Is the Legacy of George P. Shultz? | Philip Taubman
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George P. Shultz, our 60th secretary of state, was a consummate diplomat — a solver of seemingly intractable national and global problems. Many credit him, along with Ronald Reagan, with peacefully ending the cold war and for a time the nuclear arms race with the Russians. His biographer, the award-winning foreign correspondent Philip Taubman, tell…
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Is the Oath of the Cabinet to Trump or the Constitution? | Mark Esper
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Donald Trump appointed Mark Esper Secretary of Defense. During the stormy 16 months he was in office, Esper often clashed with Trump’s directives to use the military in ways Esper thought inappropriate, including using the military to change the election results. Trump fired Esper in November 2020 a few days after he lost the election. Esper, a lif…
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Why Is This Camelot Different from All the Others? | Bart Sher
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Superstar director Bart Sher tells Jim Zirin about the fourth revival of Camelot on Broadway with book by Aaron Sorkin. Nominated for a Tony — this one is deep in contemporary significance and is perhaps the most memorable.
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What Are the Obligations of Good Citizens? | Richard Haass
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My latest conversation with diplomat Richard Haass, author of the book ‘The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens’. We discussed indicting a former president, the state of political discourse, and the obligations all citizens share.
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Is the West Containing China? | Kevin Rudd
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Xi Jinping recently secured a precedent-breaking third term as president of China during a session of a rubber stamp parliament. In a blistering speech, he accused the United States of “containment” of China, a term reminiscent of the Cold War. Kevin Rudd, Australian Ambassador to the United States, finds Xi’s speech alarming, arguing robust diplom…
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What Did Donald Trump Learn from Roy Cohn? | Ken Auletta (2018)
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Jim Zirin revisits his 2018 interview with super journalist and gifted writer Ken Auletta, recorded on March 12, 2018. In 1978, Ken profiled for Esquire the pugnacious attorney Roy Cohn whom he called the "personification of evil." Cohn died in 1986 discredited and disbarred. Donald Trump was a Cohn client and close friend. He called Cohn his mento…
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Will Trump Go to Jail? | Laurence Tribe (2021)
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Jim Zirin revisits his 2021 interview with renowned Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe, recorded on April 19, 2021. Larry discusses all the civil suits and potential criminal charges targeting Donald Trump. He tells Jim Zirin that Trump has some interesting defenses in the possible criminal cases, but, at the end of the day, he wil…
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What is the Strongest Case Against Donald Trump? | Martin London (2022)
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Jim Zirin revisits his 2022 interview with seasoned lawyer Martin London, recorded on September 26, 2022. Marty reviews the indictable crimes of which Donald Trump may be accused. He tells Jim Zirin which case he thinks is strongest. As a top litigator, Marty addresses the tactics of where DOJ will want to bring its case, when Merrick Garland will …
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Will Biden Run in 2024? | Chris Whipple
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Chris Whipple, author, documentary filmmaker, and TV producer got inside the Oval Office in his latest book, The Fight of his Life. With unprecedented access, he sizes up the Biden presidency in mid-stream and comes to some surprising conclusions. Published earlier this year, the book acquires greater relevancy with the President’s challenges growi…
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Who Turned the Lights Out at General Electric? | Bill Cohan
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Author Bill Cohan has written a fascinating whodunit about the rise and fall of General Electric. Founded by Thomas Edison in 1892, GE rose to become a corporate behemoth featuring a $600 billion market cap, and a triple-A credit rating. Today, GE has all but disappeared, its market cap down to $87 billion. Bill performs the autopsy and tells me wh…
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Will the Metropolitan Opera Survive? | Peter Gelb
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Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, has weathered a parade of challenges including stormy union negotiations, serious financial constraints, a two-year covid shutdown, the firing of his star soprano Anna Netrebko because of her support for Putin, and a devastating cyber-attack which crippled his box office for nine days. Notwiths…
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Must We Blame Israel on the Jews? | Walter Russell Mead
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Leading foreign policy thinker Walter Russell Mead, author Of “The Arc of a Covenant--The United States, Israel, and The Fate of the Jewish People,” tells Jim that it is not just American Jewry in whom Israel has found strong support, but American Zionists of all stripes who understand that the entanglement between the Jewish people, the Jewish sta…
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Can a Lawsuit Become a Trainwreck? | David Dorsen
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Top-flight Washington lawyer David Dorsen represented hedge fund operator Michael Lauer for part of Lauer’s 14-year struggle to achieve justice from the SEC in a deeply flawed civil fraud action. At the end of the day, a jury cleared Lauer of all criminal charges, but when the dust settled, Lauer lost all of his money, and the alleged victims got n…
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Must We Re-Think the Traditional Meaning of Marriage? | Edith Windsor & Robbie Kaplan (2012)
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Lawfully married in 2007 to Thea Spyer, her companion of 40 years, Edith Windsor found herself the beneficiary of Ms Spyer's estate but was denied the spousal deduction for federal estate taxes. She sued, claiming that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional. Edie and her lawyer Robbie Kaplan tell Jim Zirin that historic discriminatio…
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Who was Harry Guggenheim? | Dirk Smillie
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Visionary Harry Guggenheim was a man for all seasons: captain of industry, racehorse breeder, newspaper publisher, diplomat, a pioneer in commercial aviation and rocketry, a lifelong friend of Charles Lindbergh, and a museum builder. His biographer Dirk Smillie unravels the puzzle of this complicated man and tells Jim what the secret of Harry’s suc…
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Is There a Thumb on the Scale of Lady Justice? | Dahlia Lithwick
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Journalist Dahlia Lithwick writes a best-selling book profiling eight women lawyers who fought for equal rights during the Trump era. Her account begins in 2016 and ends with the Dobbs abortion decision this year. She notes the loss of yardage, but is certain that the struggle for freedom will continue.…
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