PREVIEW: “Tariffs, Greenbacks, Qatar’s Air Force One, and American Empire” with Assoc. Prof. David Smith
How do you reconcile Trump's passion for American Greatness with his disengagement from international systems which America set up? What are the consequences so far of Trump's tariff flip-flops? Can U...
22 Touko 202528min
Josh on... Can You Change People's Minds?
We've got a special treat for you today. Josh sat down with the hosts of the "Changed My Mind" podcast, who interrogated him about whether it's really possible, in our divided times, to change someone...
19 Touko 20251h 33min
"The Game-ification of Everything" with Gurwinder Bhogal
Gurwinder rose to fame writing elaborately insightful Twitter threads about how to be human in the twenty-first century. He now publishes The Prism, on Substack, a guide to navigating the digital age....
15 Touko 20251h 42min
“Free Thought vs Free Speech” with Jenara Nerenberg
Are people too disagreeable these days? Or, in fact, are we losing the knack for disagreement? Are we self-silencing? Or getting more rude? Jenara Nerenberg is the founder and host of The Neurodiversi...
12 Touko 20251h 5min
"Does Alien Life Exist?" with astrophysicist Dr Sara Webb
Are we alone? If alien life exists, why can't we find it? What's "the great filter"? Why is the universe set up the way it is? What are the chances there 's some purpose to it all? And is BBC News cor...
8 Touko 20251h 21min
“Conspiracies, Echo Chambers & Culture Wars” with Sacha Judd
The internet is a dumpster fire. Are you a firefighter? Or an arsonist? This episode is a cracker. Sacha Judd is an expert on internet subcultures. A former lawyer, she has become something like “the ...
5 Touko 20251h 44min
PREVIEW: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dave Sweeney
Do nuclear weapons protect Western civilisation? Or are they an insane error that humanity should undo? Is nuclear power worth the cost and risk? Dave Sweeney co-founded the International Campaign to ...
2 Touko 202550min
BONUS: "Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Furore" with Tyson Yunkaporta
Have indigenous Welcomes-to-Country gone too far? On Friday, far-right hecklers disrupted the Welcome to Country (i.e. the land acknowledgment, in North American parlance) of a profound Australian nat...
1 Touko 20251h 11min
