Ep.130: Live Behind the News on Disinfo, Deportations, Corruption
Straight talk on what's behind the news, recorded live at the Full Circle in Brussels. Estelle Nilsson-Julien, a reporter with Euronews, describes the killings of two very different young men, Quenti...
30 Jun 1h 1min
Ep.129: Sovereignty and Software
A handful of American technology companies provide the backbone for much of the world's digital activity, including in public services. But with the current US administration signaling a shift to auto...
22 Jun 57min
Political Communication in the New Age of Spectacle
Sedate and unflashy international institutions are in a struggle for attention in this new age of spectacle. In a step change aimed at addressing the challenge, the European Commission, the EU's execu...
16 Mai 56min
Ep.127: One Energy Shock After Another
Energy prices have exploded as a result of the Trump Administration's war on Iran. It's another opportunity for Europe to shield itself against the kind of fossil fuel shock that hit four years ago wh...
19 Apr 1h 2min
Ep.126: Freedom in the Age of the Algorithm
Tech bros like to blabber about AI and the end of the world. But the more plausible catastrophe they'll unleash is severe inequality and economic distress. As anger and panic grows over the automation...
8 Mar 1h 29min
Ep.125: The Geopolitics of Whiteness
European leaders are failing to pushback against racist messaging from the Trump Administration, signaling their acceptance of a new geopolitics of whiteness. Among the most recent examples is a stand...
24 Feb 47min
Ep.124: Machiavellian Moment in the Arctic
Germany and Sweden are among states deploying troops to Greenland. Yet Trump's power play for the island in the wake of his Venezuela raid has left much of Europe bewildered. As author and historian L...
15 Jan 46min
Ep.123: Owned, Extorted, and Gaslit
Since returning to the White House on Jan. 20, Donald Trump has imposed one-sided tariffs on the European Union, forced the bloc to commit to buying vast quantities of American natural gas, and effect...
17 Des 20251h 12min
