Season 5

It’s been almost four years since the last Presidential election and the battle for the future of our democracy is still raging. Much of it is in the spotlight, through national news media, popular podcasts, books, and social...

What you are about to hear is one of my favorite clips from one of my favorite interviews. It provides a glimpse into events that rapidly unfolded during the evening of Saturday, January 28, 2017, when an Executive Order sign...

Welcome to the fourth installment of our series on democracy and the rule of law. In our last installment, retired Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice Robert Cordy described his work advising judges in Russia and Turkey how t...

Welcome to our third special replay episode of Higher Callings. In our first two episodes in this series on Democracy and the Rule of Law, we heard from Elizabeth Andersen and Karen Green of the World Justice Project about th...

Because we're now entering election season, we've decided to republish excerpts from some of the past episodes of Higher Callings that listeners may find relevant to their voting decisions. Several of our interviews have focu...

Because we're now entering election season, we've decided to republish excerpts from some of the past episodes that listeners may find relevant to their voting decisions. Several of our interviews have focused on Democracy an...

Tom Grilk is a lawyer who began his career in private practice at a major Boston law firm, then worked as in-house counsel at several area tech companies, and, from 2011 until 2022, served as President and CEO of the …

The phrase “The Rule of Law” is one we often hear and many of us invoke, but do we have a shared understanding of what it means? And even if we can arrive at a common definition, why does the …