Unanswered Questions XI
Air Date: - Season 4 - Episode 14 | Edwin takes on some unanswered—and still burning—questions. Almost every episode, we run out of time before we run out of questions. We save them, and these episodes give us a chance to address topics such as current affairs, history, WWIII, antisemitism, energy, eugenics, and more. Edwin will also be accepting questions live via the Zoom Q&A. Join us for another no-holds-barred, nothing-off-the-table session.Show Topics: Unanswered Questions
The Artificial Intelligence Threat
Air Date: - Season 4 - Episode 13 | AI—artificial intelligence—has arrived. Experts everywhere are warning that AI could wipe out 80% of all jobs—and perhaps even civilization. Privacy expert Sharon Polsky joins Edwin to confront the threats and sound the alarm.Show Topics: Artificial Intelligence, AI, Privacy
Yom HaShoah: What Ukraine Has Done to the Jews
Air Date: - Season 4 - Episode 12 | In a land where Jews had been brutally slaughtered en masse by their own neighbors in the prior generation, it was in Ukraine that Nazi Germany chose to commence the Holocaust by Bullets, recruiting villagers for assistance. This topic, crying out for examination, is today too hot to handle for many. Join Edwin for a hard, unfiltered look at the past.
The Edwin Black Show is on hiatus for Passover 2023/5783
Air Date: | Chag Pesach Sameach Happy Easter Blessed Ramadan The Edwin Black Show is on hiatus in observance of Passover. Chag Pesach Sameach! From Edwin, Carol, and Team Black. We’ll be back on April 20 for our observance of Yom HaShoah.
The Vintage Boys Are Back for Passover 2023/5783
Air Date: - Season 4 - Episode 11 | The usual suspects—Ken Abramowitz, Shel Freilich, Joshua London, Jeff Morgan, and Zalmi Unsdorfer—join Edwin for the usual reasoned deliberations on the best whiskies and wines for the occasion, as well as discussions of current events and history, both recent and ancient. Next year in Jerusalem! Before the holiday discourse, we welcome special guest Holly Abernathy in Nashville.Show Topics: Vintage Boys, Whiskey & Wine
Special Event: IBM and the Holocaust at Furman University
Air Date: | Edwin Black on IBM and the Holocaust at Furman University, Younts Conference Center. Part of the “Americans and the Holocaust” Exhibit, cosponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library AssociationShow Topics: IBM and the Holocaust
Special Event: Edwin Black on Journalism at Furman University
Air Date: | Edwin Black visits Furman University to answer journalism students’ questions. With 2.2 million books in print, he is the New York Times bestselling author of IBM and the Holocaust, Financing the Flames, The Transfer Agreement, and more. He has been recognized for his writing and human rights work with numerous awards, including the International Human Rights Award, the Moral Compass Award, the Justice for All Award, the Moral Courage Award, the Drum Major for Justice Award, a DLA Human Rights Citation, the AJC Integrity Award, the Carl Sandburg Award, the Smolar Award, multiple Rockower Awards, and a Special Michigan Legislative Human Rights Tribute.Show Topics: Journalism
Privacy in Peril II at the Canadian Privacy Conference
Air Date: - Season 4 - Episode 10 | Spying, lying, denying, and the dangers of passive consent with privacy experts Michael Geist and Sharon Polsky, who join Edwin at the Canadian Privacy and Data Governance Conference, March 22–23, 2023, Ottawa.Show Topics: IBM and the Holocaust, Privacy
Special Event: Edwin Black Keynote on IBM and the Holocaust
Air Date: | Edwin Black delivers the keynote at Canada's PACC-CAPP’s Privacy and Data Governance Conference in Ottawa: "IBM and the Holocaust—It Began with a Privacy Breach and Ended in Auschwitz"Show Topics: IBM and the Holocaust, Privacy
Woodrow Wilson—National Racist or Global Peacemaker?
Air Date: - Season 4 - Episode 9 | He sent American troops to Europe to fight in a needless war to “save the world for democracy,” ensured self-determination for colonized peoples, won the Nobel Peace Prize, re-segregated the US to “put Black people in their place,” uplifted the Klan, and then disappeared, his wife Edith acting as president. He—and she—changed the world forever. Who was Wilson? Historian Chris Lovett joins Edwin.Show Topics: US History