Election Day Special: What's at Stake in Trump vs Biden?
In this U.S election special we were joined by historian Sarah Churchwell and Jonathan Freedland to speak about how Biden and Trump have performed in the final weeks of the presidential race, the batt...
3 Nov 202037min
Election Day Special, with Danielle Pletka, Emily Tamkin and Manveen Rana
In this week's episode we were joined by Danielle Pletka, Washington Post commentator and senior fellow at the American Enterprise; and Emily Tamkin, U.S editor of The New Statesman, to speak about ho...
3 Nov 202028min
BONUS: Ilhan Omar on the State of American Politics
Rep. Ilhan Omar, the groundbreaking Somali-American community organizer from Minnesota, speaks to public intellectuals Dr Cornel West and Professor Tricia Rose. She lays out her #PeopleFirst plan to t...
31 Okt 202029min
John Bolton and Emily Maitlis on Trump, Biden and the Election
John Bolton knows a thing or two about Donald Trump. So many things, in fact, that he’s now being investigated by the US Justice Department for potentially spilling classified information in his new b...
30 Okt 20201h
Wake Up Call: Why The Pandemic Exposes The Weakness of the West
Fear is on the march. All over the world citizens have surrendered basic freedoms to the state in order to be protected from Covid-19. Good government has become not just important but a matter of lif...
27 Okt 20201h 1min
The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X. with Tamara Payne and Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - includ...
23 Okt 20201h 5min
The Seduction of Autocracy, with Anne Applebaum and Jonathan Freedland
In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, f...
20 Okt 202056min
The European Green Deal is Not Fit For Purpose
This week's podcast is from our friends at Intelligence Squared Germany who hosted a live debate in Berlin last week on whether the EU's 'Green Deal', a plan to deliver both economic growth and carbon...
16 Okt 20201h 5min
