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From time to time, Worldview devotes attention to a specific issue, presenting a variety of interviews and reports about the topic. Find information about some of our more recent series below.
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Building Blocks
Worldview looks at the institutions and events that the world is built on. From the World Bank to the Pakistan Peoples Party, we break down the origin of these organizations and explain the role they play in international news.
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Covering the Lens
We present a week of shows on the media’s reporting of global issues in our Covering the Lens series.
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Critical Thinking on Capitalism
From March 24-31, Worldview explores the legacy and future of capitalism’s winners and losers in the Critical Thinking on Capitalism series.
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Eboo Patel Commentary
Eboo Patel is founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation.
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Eco Question Time
Eco Question Time
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Election Essay Contest
Worldview listeners submitted essays about the upcoming election, focusing on the foreign policies of U.S. presidential candidates.
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Environmental War and Peace
We’ll take an in-depth look at the intersections of the environment and conflict.
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Eyewitness to the Iron Curtain
Twenty years ago, a dizzying succession of events took place that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the end of an era. We’ll mark these anniversaries with a new series called Eyewitness to the Iron Curtain where we’ll talk to Chicagoans who experienced life under the Soviet Union and its satellite countries.
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Food Mondays
Mondays in July, we examine the global supply chain with stories from around the world about what we eat and why it matters.
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Geopolitics of Archaeology
We explore the politics swirling around the fields of archaeology, anthropology and history. We’ll dig up the forgotten roots of “Western Civilization,” and we’ll find out what happens when stolen antiquities end up in museums and universities.
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Global Notes
Every Thursday, Radio M’s Tony Sarabia checks in to tell us about global music happening right here at home. Hear interviews with far-flung musicians, artist profiles, and of course, lots of music.
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Here, There
Here, There examines how other countries approach universal questions. We’ll start by taking a look at public transportation systems, from the Paris Metro to bus rapid transit in Bogota.
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Higher Education in the Middle East
In the last few years, universities have been sprouting up all over the Middle East. To wean themselves off oil, Gulf states have financed big-name Western institutions like Northwestern University to open up local branches. Saudi Arabia, a nation in which women cannot legally drive, recently opened its first coed university. This week, we’ll look at where higher education in the Middle East, where it’s headed and how it’s changing the region.
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Justice After Conflict
From the Nuremberg trials to Guantanamo Bay, we look at international justice after conflict.
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Life After Bush
President Bush will leave the White House in eight months. This week, Worldview asks what his departure will mean for the U.S. on a range of foreign policy issues.
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My Global Activism Vacation
Winter is almost over which means vacation. Worldview wants to hear from individuals who chose to spend their break on volunteer vacations.
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National Security Whistleblowers
Worldview presents a week of shows on National Security Whistleblowers, the people who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and criminal abuse in the executive branch.
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Robert L. Price's Arts & Architecture Commentary
Price is an Associate with Gensler, a professional architecture, design, planning and consulting firm with 2500 employees and 31 offices. Robert is also a former Board Member of the University of Notre Dame Architecture Board. Robert currently is Gensler’s Technical Director for Asia.
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The Legacy of American Empire
We take a look at the history of America’s expansion during the Age of Imperialism.
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The World’s Waste
We all generate waste but what happens to its collection in times of conflict? Garbage can be as deadly as the fighting itself. All this week we’ll take a look at garbage. Not all trash is created equal. There’s a growing market for recycled waste, everything from aluminum to glass, but not everyone has access to those markets.
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The Geopolitics of Drugs
We present a week-long series on the geopolitics of the international narcotics trade.
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Doug Cassel Human Rights Commentary
Cassel is director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame Law School. Doug's commentaries may be heard most Wednesdays on Worldview.
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End of the World
We present a special series of shows exploring how society, the world, even the universe might meet its end.
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After Independence
In the After Independence series, Worldview explores the struggle for independence and the challenges faced by post-colonial African nations.
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Milos Stehlik Film Commentary
Milos Stehlik has been a regular film commentator for Chicago Public Radio since 1988 and has reported for National Public Radio from the Cannes, Berlin, and Karlovy Vary International Film Festivals. His international film reviews can be heard Fridays on Worldview.
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Information Wars—PR, Propaganda and Public Diplomacy
“Information Wars” investigates the ways governments and firms/corporations/companies spread information to shape attitudes.
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Watch Your Language
Advances in technology and travel make communication easier than ever. But new problems are arising as languages encounter each other.
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The Geopolitics of Energy
The series explores the strategic, political and economic alliances between countries based on their hunt for energy, and the part U.S. Foreign Policy plays in creating these alliances.
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Trapped People—The Politics of Travel
There was a time when travel was limitless for those with money, and passports were unncessary. Now, many international disputes restrict people from moving around too much.
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Global Education
In conjunction with Chicago Matters: Valuing Education, Worldview explores the value of education worldwide.
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