Video & audio

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Discussion on NAPA Management Matters podcast, September 29, 2025.

Interview with Shaye Ganam, QR770 Calgary, September 18, 2025.

Video for the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, July 2025.

Interview with Angela Kokott, 880 CHED Edmonton, June 10, 2025.

Interview with Mercedes Stephenson on Global News’ The West Block, May 4, 2025. (Starts at 4′ 35″)

Interview with Sam Dingman, KJZZ, about the “hundred days” benchmark for presidents, April 30, 2025.

Interview on the Hill Times Hot Room podcast, February 7, 2025.

Talk at Canada School of Public Service, December 18, 2024.

Interview with Catherine Cullen, CBC Radio’s The House, November 9, 2024 (starts at 34′ 30″).

Lecture at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, November 6, 2024.

Opening comments at the Max Bell Foundation’s PolicyForward conference, October 7, 2024.

Interview with Rob Breakenridge, QR Calgary 770AM, October 4, 2024. (Starts at 34 min 30 sec)

Lecture at Missouri Southern State University, September 17, 2024.

Lecture for the Institute for Research on Public Policy, “The adaptable country,” Ottawa, June 13, 2022.

Lecture at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn, December 13, 2022.

Interview with Carrie Saldo of WGBY’s Connecting Point about Can Government Do Anything Right?, April 13, 2018.

Interview with Katie Rose of the Centre for Public Impact about Can Government Do Anything Right?, November 16, 2017.

Interview with David Lile of KFRU Radio about Four Crises of American Democracy, July 13, 2016.

Interview with Public Radio’s BackStory about The End of Protest and America’s First Great Depression, September 20, 2014. (Segment B of broadcast)

Interview on University of Melbourne’s Up Close about The End of Protest, June 2014.

Interview on Radio New Zealand Sunday Morning with Wallace Chapman on government secrecy, May 25, 2014.

Interview on Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National Sunday Morning with Jonathan Green on The End of Protest, May 25, 2014.

Interview with Hearsay Culture about The End of Protest, November 25, 2013.

Cornell University Press promotional video about The End of Protest, October 2013.

Cornell University Press promotional video about America’s First Great Depression, April 2012.

Legal Talk Network podcast about America’s First Great Depression, January 2012.

Legal Talk Network podcast about Wilson Quarterly article on WikiLeaks, April 2011.

Legal Talk Network podcast about The Logic of Discipline, March 2010.

YouTube video about the book The Logic of Discipline, November 2009.

Making access to information laws work: video interview by the World Bank Institute, September 2008.

The BBC World Service program The Right to Know includes excerpts of interview with Professor Roberts, August 8, 2008.

Interview, RadioWest (KUER Salt Lake City), on “The War We Deserve,” December 12, 2007.

Interview, Here and Now (WBUR Boston), on “The War We Deserve,” November 21, 2007.

Interview, Think (KERA Dallas/Fort Worth), on “The War We Deserve,” October 25, 2007.

Interview, Hearsay Culture (KZSU Stanford University), on Blacked Out, October 25, 2006.

C-SPAN2 BookTV, March 21, 2006, on Blacked Out, recorded at Powell’s Books, Portland, Oregon.

Interview, Rustbelt Radio (WRCT Pittsburgh), on Blacked Out, January 30, 2006.