Statecraft
by Santi Ruiz
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How to Give Money + Should You Quit Your Job?
How to Give Money + Should You Quit Your Job?
About this podcast
Statecraft is an interview series about how policy actually gets made.
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Episodes
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- How to Give Money + Should You Quit Your Job? · 1 h 7 minAI could bring a huge windfall to American philanthropy. Caleb Watney wants to make sure that money is spent well. Caleb is Coefficient Giving's first managing director of public…
- How to Build a Policy School · 57 minMy guest today is Will Howell, the inaugural dean of the School of Government & Policy at Johns Hopkins, which welcomes its first class in fall 2028. His argument is that the…
- How to Build an Authoritarian Regime · 1 h 21 minA while back, Edward Luttwak explained to us how to stage a coup. Julian Waller focuses on the next step: how authoritarian regimes are built and maintained. We discuss: *…
- The James C. Scott Memorial Episode · 1 h 3 minToday, my guest is writer, thinker, and friend Dan Wang. He was on Statecraft a year ago, but this time, we're talking about a scholar who has shaped both of our thinking: the…
- Merit vs. Tenure: Reforming Federal Firing · 46 minToday we have a special repeat guest, Scott Kupor, Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The OPM is the people function in the federal government — the department…
- "The Strongman Presidency" · 58 minOn today’s episode, we’re continuing a conversation about presidential power that we broached a couple of weeks ago on Statecraft in an essay called, “What Trump Can Learn From…
- How the National Security Strategy Gets Made · 58 minIn the last six months, we’ve been covering big strategic documents published by the executive branch. We’ve interviewed Dean Ball, the principal author of the Trump…
- Ten Thoughts on Government Data · 13 minGovernment data often underpins policy debates. Nevertheless, those who work with it will know how uniquely frustrating it can be. Relative to the private sector, government…
- When FAFSA Broke, They Called This Guy · 1 h 15 minJeremy Singer is the President of College Board, which he has led for over a decade. In that role, he oversees the SAT, AP, and other core elements of the U.S. college access…
- How a Congressional Office Actually Works · 1 h 9 minBaillee Brown is Head of Government and External Affairs at Inclusive Abundance, which works to help members of Congress get more interested in abundance-policy areas…
- How to Rewire City Hall · 1 h 1 minJames Anderson leads the Government Innovation Program at Bloomberg Philanthropies, the umbrella for the charitable giving of billionaire and former three-term New York City…
- What’s Wrong with Nonprofits? · 1 h 26 minToday’s guest is Greg Berman, and we talk about nonprofits — Non-Governmental Organizations, or NGOs. Greg’s got a new book out called The Nonprofit Crisis: Leadership Through…
- One Year of Trump’s Economic Statecraft · 1 h 32 minWhen I got this episode on the calendar a month ago, my vision was, “Let’s get three of the smartest, most thoughtful liberals I can find on the topic of economic statecraft, and…
- What’s Wrong with NIH Grants? · 1 h 11 minMike Lauer is the former Deputy Director for Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health. A cardiologist and researcher, he joined the NIH’s National Heart, Lung…
- 99.8% of Federal Employees Get Good Performance Reviews. Why? · 1 h 2 minToday we’re joined by Scott Kupor, Director of the Office of Personnel Management. I think of it as the federal HR department — he makes a compelling case that it’s really the…
- Did the CHIPS "Everything Bagel"...Work? · 1 h 35 minCHIPS, the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors Act, is another. It spurred a massive investment boom in semiconductors on American soil, led by the CHIPS…
- How to Save Science Funding · 1 h 0 min If you’re a scientist, and you apply for federal research funding, you’ll ask for a specific dollar amount. Let’s say you’re asking for a million-dollar grant. Your grant covers…
- Should the Feds Bail Out Chicago? · 1 h 5 minThe full transcript for this conversation and many others can be found at www.statecraft.pub. Today we’re joined by David Schleicher. David is Professor of Property and Urban Law…
- How Diplomacy Works in Africa · 1 h 35 minToday we’re joined by Judd Devermont, one of the most experienced Africa policy hands in Washington. He spent 16 years as an intelligence analyst, serving in both the Obama and…
- How to Run New York City · 1 h 18 minYou can find the full transcript of this conversation at www.statecraft.pub. The likely next mayor of New York City is Zohran Mamdani, if polling is anywhere close to being…
