Elena Panaritis sits down with Todd Morley in Washington DC, and they both note the irony immediately. They are at the center of policy, in the capital of the country that has arguably solved the problem better than anyone — and it is also a city that, in Panaritis’s assessment, does not fully recognize informality … Read more
This episode has no studio and no expert. Elena Panaritis walks into a public park in Tunisia that has been taken over by several hundred people from Sub-Saharan Africa — by their own estimate, somewhere between 500 and 700. They did not choose the park. They had been gathering outside the UN office, trying to … Read more
There is a founding story Pablo Bustamante tells about his own family, and it sets the tone for everything that follows. Before entering Peru, Francisco Pizarro’s expedition was on the verge of turning back to Panama. Pizarro drew his sword, cut a line in the ground, and told his men that whoever wanted the gold … Read more
Charles Calomiris studies why equilibria break. He is an economic historian and an expert on financial crises, and Elena Panaritis brings him a question fitted to that specialty: everyone from Gen Z to the G7 is now questioning whether capitalism works, whether economics matters, whether banking and finance deserve any trust at all. Is the … Read more
Elena Panaritis caught Francis Fukuyama in Puebla, Mexico, at a festival of ideas, a day after he had laid out the crises stacked on the world’s agenda: democracy under strain, anxiety about AI, inflation eating into growth, climate divisions splitting societies. The same list that had dominated Davos six weeks earlier. Her question was where … Read more
Elena Panaritis recorded this conversation standing next to one of the last surviving stretches of the Berlin Wall. It was a deliberate choice, and by the end of the episode it reads less like a backdrop than an argument. Her guest, Berlin-based journalist Jörg Luyken, had just watched Germany vote in European elections. When he … Read more
