Had the pleasure of hearing Judge Howard Morrison speak at the University of Greenwich. He’s sharp, direct, and very funny. A man who has stepped between armed factions, drafted laws with a stroke of the pen (literally), and taught Radovan Karadžić how to cross-examine witnesses. He describes himself as a “fully qualified grumpy old man.” Hard to argue.
Category: Lecture
Reid Hoffman’s lecture at LSE: AI insights from ChatGPT
Attending Reid Hoffman’s lecture at LSE felt like glimpsing the future—but not for the reasons you’d think.
A season of lectures: From petro-aggression to prison reform
Ten years after reading Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience, I finally met its author, Alexander Etkind, in person. He gave a brilliant lecture at King’s College London on petro-aggression—when an oil and gas producer attacks a neighbor, often to tighten control over energy transit.