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Commonwealth Club of California Podcast

The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's largest public affairs forum. The nonpartisan and nonprofit Club produces and distributes programs featuring diverse viewpoints from thought leaders on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast — the oldest in the U.S., since 1924 — is carried on hundreds of stations. Our website features audio and video of our programs. This podcast feed is usually updated multiple times each week.

‘2000 Meters to Andriivka’: Screening with Director Mstyslav Chernov

51 mins; December 08, 2025

Faith in Climate Progress

62 hours 5 mins; December 05, 2025

World AIDS Day: Are We Winning the Fight?

66 hours 23 mins; December 04, 2025

Tim Wu: The Age of Extraction

64 hours 26 mins; December 03, 2025

The Status Kuo, with Jay Kuo

67 hours 51 mins; December 02, 2025

Mother of Methadone and Fighting Against Today’s Addiction Crisis

56 mins; December 01, 2025

The Case that Haunted California: D.A. Thien Ho on the Golden State Killer, with Dion Lim (EXPLICIT)

70 hours 49 mins; November 30, 2025

Jeffrey Rosen: The Pursuit of Liberty

71 hours 13 mins; November 29, 2025

ENCORE: Small Dollar, Big Impact

59 mins; November 28, 2025

'All the Empty Rooms' Film Screening with Q&A

39 mins; November 27, 2025

Ken Stern: The Secret to an Enduring and Thriving Life

66 hours 53 mins; November 26, 2025

Michael McFaul: Autocrats vs Democrats and the New Global Order

69 hours 39 mins; November 24, 2025

ACLU’s Cecillia Wang: Defending Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Hostile Times

62 hours 54 mins; November 23, 2025

Week to Week Politics Roundtable and Social Hour: November 17, 2025 (EXPLICIT)

65 hours 53 mins; November 21, 2025

Joe Manchin: Coal, Climate, and ‘Common Sense’

58 mins; November 21, 2025

Reports from COP30: Climate Talks in the Amazon

60 hours 52 mins; November 14, 2025

Justice Anthony Kennedy: Life, Law, and Liberty

62 hours 6 mins; November 11, 2025

Julia Ioffe: A Feminist History of Modern Russia (EXPLICIT)

65 hours 34 mins; November 10, 2025

NYT’s Kenneth Vogel Exposes the Shadowy World of Foreign Lobbying in D.C.

67 hours 7 mins; November 09, 2025

Jimmy Wales: The Seven Rules of Trust (EXPLICIT)

69 hours 7 mins; November 08, 2025

Environmental Peacebuilders Working in the Midst of War

63 hours 36 mins; November 07, 2025

Joyce Vance: Giving Up is Unforgivable

70 hours 27 mins; November 04, 2025

Philip Taubman and William Taubman: McNamara at War

68 hours 17 mins; November 03, 2025

When Climate Work Comes at a Cost: Dispatches From the Upside Down

63 hours 56 mins; October 31, 2025

Innovative Financing for Innovative Impact: The Future of Humanitarian Assistance

64 hours 43 mins; October 30, 2025

Start in Your Own Backyard: Transforming Where We Live with Radical Common Sense

67 hours 21 mins; October 29, 2025

Why Higher Ed Should Stand up to Trump, with Michael Roth

66 hours 34 mins; October 26, 2025

Mary Roach: Adventures in Human Anatomy

63 hours 41 mins; October 25, 2025

Adaptation: When Prevention Isn’t Enough

59 mins; October 24, 2025

Steven Pinker: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows

60 hours 10 mins; October 23, 2025

Edward Frenkel—Back to the Roots: How Do We Revive Pythagorean Tradition in the Age of AI?

86 hours 57 mins; October 22, 2025

Film Screening: On Healing Land, Birds Perch (EXPLICIT)

49 mins; October 21, 2025

Prop. 50 Explained: What’s at Stake for California . . . and Congress

59 mins; October 20, 2025

October Week to Week Political Roundtable and Social Hour

62 hours 18 mins; October 19, 2025

Building and Preserving the Web: A Conversation with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Brewster Kahle

62 hours 34 mins; October 18, 2025

San Francisco Opera: The Monkey King

51 mins; October 17, 2025

Ani Dasgupta on Moving From Promises to Progress

62 hours 7 mins; October 17, 2025

Joe Manchin: Dead Center

60 hours 41 mins; October 16, 2025

Former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano on Trump's "Misuse of Presidential Power"

59 mins; October 15, 2025

The Superpower Struggle to Control TikTok, with Emily Baker-White and Mike Isaac

56 mins; October 14, 2025

Shaka Senghor: How to Be Free

63 hours 13 mins; October 13, 2025

Borders, Power, and the Press: How the World is Being Remade

59 mins; October 11, 2025

De-Hyping Hydrogen

64 hours 59 mins; October 10, 2025

BONUS: Remembering Dr. Jane Goodall

22 mins; October 07, 2025

The Art of Second Chances: Community-Led Pathways to Justice and Prosperity

73 hours 0 mins; October 07, 2025

Taylor Brorby and Suzie Hicks Tell The Stories We Don’t Always Hear

57 mins; October 03, 2025

Dan Wang: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

69 hours 32 mins; October 02, 2025

The Science of Happiness

67 hours 23 mins; October 01, 2025

Mayor Daniel Lurie: “People Are Betting on San Francisco Again”

68 hours 18 mins; September 30, 2025

Angus Fletcher: Primal Intelligence

66 hours 19 mins; September 29, 2025

An Empire of Ideas: How Ancient India Transformed the World, with William Dalrymple

65 hours 1 min; September 28, 2025

Understanding the Complexities of Our New Global Landscape

69 hours 12 mins; September 27, 2025

Scientists Who Won’t Be Silenced

69 hours 31 mins; September 26, 2025

Jill Lepore: A History of the U.S. Constitution

58 mins; September 26, 2025

Savor San Francisco: Chefs, Stories, and Bites (EXPLICIT)

76 hours 55 mins; September 25, 2025

Women Empowering Women: The Art of Transformation

41 mins; September 24, 2025

Politics in September: Week to Week Political Roundtable (EXPLICIT)

62 hours 33 mins; September 22, 2025

Policy Whiplash: Checking In With Labor Unions

56 mins; September 19, 2025

The Role of the Military in Domestic Law Enforcement—Would They Fire on Civilian Demonstrators if so Ordered?

79 hours 33 mins; September 16, 2025

Fall Literary Salon: Maxine Hong Kingston, Aimee Liu, Lily Hoang and Pete Hsu (EXPICIT)

59 mins; September 15, 2025

The 15th Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture: Cancer Commons

72 hours 58 mins; September 13, 2025

Gloria Walton and Wawa Gatheru Believe in Grassroots Change, Not Just Charity

65 hours 5 mins; September 12, 2025

Technology for Good: How Nonprofit Leaders Are Using Software and Data to Solve Our Most Pressing Social Problems

71 hours 34 mins; September 08, 2025

Humanities West Presents WWII's Grand Alliance: The 80th Anniversary

131 hours 12 mins; September 06, 2025

How Students and Teachers Are Talking About Climate

57 mins; September 05, 2025

When Kids Have Mentors, Cities Get Stronger

61 hours 9 mins; September 04, 2025

Nathaniel Stinnett: Climate Disruption Is a Homicide, Not a Suicide

16 mins; September 03, 2025

Jesus, San Francisco: The City’s Resurrection from Perceived Ashes (EXPLICIT)

66 hours 57 mins; August 30, 2025

Small Dollar, Big Impact

60 hours 53 mins; August 29, 2025

Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation

73 hours 58 mins; August 25, 2025

Batteries Now Included

55 mins; August 22, 2025

The Future of Gun Violence Prevention with Rob Bonta, David Hogg, and Leaders in the Fight for Safety

79 hours 1 min; August 21, 2025

Week to Week Politics Roundtable: August 18, 2025

66 hours 32 mins; August 20, 2025

Are We Living Inside a Video Game? Rizwan Virk on his 'Simulation Hypothesis'

66 hours 40 mins; August 16, 2025

Cause of Death: Air

56 mins; August 15, 2025

Hip-Hop Meditation: An Intriguing Evening of Music and Mindfulness

57 mins; August 11, 2025

Young People Are Bringing Climate To Court. And Winning.

62 hours 13 mins; August 08, 2025

How Low Birth Rates and Longer Lifespans Could Disrupt the Global Economy

63 hours 43 mins; August 06, 2025

Agents of Change: The Women Who Transformed the CIA

62 hours 51 mins; August 05, 2025

Time to Strengthen Local Health Ecosystems in California

60 hours 32 mins; August 04, 2025

The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing

67 hours 39 mins; August 03, 2025

Sam Bloch: Shade, The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource

61 hours 46 mins; August 01, 2025

Scorching Premiums: Climate Costs Hit Insurance Market

63 hours 28 mins; August 01, 2025

Vali Nasr: Iran's Grand Strategy

69 hours 52 mins; July 31, 2025

“The Playbook of a Dictator”: UC Berkeley’s Erwin Chemerinsky on Trump and the Rule of Law

66 hours 30 mins; July 30, 2025

Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Its Use

67 hours 50 mins; July 28, 2025

ENCORE: AI’s Power Demands: Do We Really Have the Energy for This?

59 mins; July 25, 2025

Crystal Haryanto on Taylor Swift: An Icon in the Music and Business Worlds

65 hours 7 mins; July 24, 2025

Gil Duran on Trump, Tech, and the Nerd Reich

65 hours 27 mins; July 21, 2025

Midsummer Political Roundtable: A Week to Week Special

64 hours 17 mins; July 20, 2025

Trump’s Megabill Comes for the Clean Energy Transition

66 hours 3 mins; July 18, 2025

Dr. Monica Gandhi: The Impact on American Science and Medicine of the Current Administration

53 mins; July 17, 2025

Democracy Noir: Documentary Film Screening

33 mins; July 12, 2025

Biomimicry & Green Burial: Living and Dying with Nature in Mind

53 mins; July 11, 2025

Dr. David Kessler: Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine

63 hours 47 mins; July 11, 2025

San Francisco Pride Third Annual Human Rights Summit (EXPLICIT)

67 hours 43 mins; July 10, 2025

San Francisco Pride Third Annual Human Rights Summit (EXPLICIT)

55 mins; July 10, 2025

San Francisco Pride Third Annual Human Rights Summit Segment 4 EXPLICIT

58 mins; July 10, 2025

San Francisco Pride Third Annual Human Rights Summit (EXPLICIT)

58 mins; July 10, 2025

San Francisco Pride Third Annual Human Rights Summit Segment 3

55 mins; July 10, 2025

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