Hey everyone the why it matters team is hard at work creating a fantastic fifth season for you all

it's set to drop in the new year but in the meantime I'd like to tell you about a new podcast from the Council on Foreign Relations.

It's called Nine Questions for the World.

It's a special limited edition series, and it's hosted by none other than the

presidents of the council and my boss Richard Haas. Over the course of this nine

part series Richard sits down with nine brilliant experts to ask big questions about the century to come.

All of the episodes are available right now for you to binge over the holidays,

giving you lots of great topics to discuss and debate with family and friends.

Here's the trailer to get you started and see you all in 2022.

Hello, I'm Richard Haas, the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, and this is

Nine Questions for the World, a special limited edition podcast series. It's based on nine events held at the Council on Foreign

Relations over the past year in celebration of our 100th anniversary. In each

episode you'll hear me in conversation with some of the best thinkers and

some of the biggest topics of our time as we ask fundamental questions about the

century to come. What makes the democracy vulnerable to becoming something else?

I mean, first of all, I should say I think democracies are always vulnerable to becoming something else.

Democracy's are fragile.

Are we seeing in some ways history reviving?

If history does teach something, I think it is that nothing lasts forever and that the unexpected may happen.

Let's do a little bit of demography 101. What is it? Why is it so important? Demography slowly but

quite unforgivably changes the realm of a possible. Give it a generation and

it will change the world.

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