Taking down the cultural elite | Catherine Liu
What is managerialism? Why is the meritocracy sliding into technocracy? Does suffering make us seem more pure?We tend to think that today’s progressive politics advances equality through moral awarene...
8 Sep 37min
The chains of freedom | Daniel Markovits, Elizabeth Anderson, Yaron Brook
Is freedom always an absolute good? For freedom to be beneficial and practical, does it need constraining? Are attacks on freedom really the first step to tyranny?From freedom from tyranny and poverty...
1 Sep 47min
The secret history of cool | Joel Dinerstein
Who was the first person to be cool? What connects the civil rights movement and Albert Camus' 'The Rebel'? How has the coopting of black terminology impacted American society more broadly?From James ...
25 Aug 29min
Rebalancing the global order | Kishore Mahbubani
Is it truly the beginning of the end of Western dominance? Where did it all go wrong? And is this more than just an upheaval of the status quo?For centuries, Western powers dominated the global order ...
18 Aug 33min
The future of the right | Sohrab Ahmari, Gawain Towler, Rachel Maclean, Mark Littlewood
Is the populist right opposed to liberalism and the free market? Does this mark a change in what it is to be right-wing, or was it a mistake to see populism as far right in the first place? Or is ther...
11 Aug 44min
Love is more than magic | Alain de Botton
What do voyeurs want? What can the Greeks teach us about love? Why do we pursue those who we now are going to hurt us?Despite our longing for lasting connection, love often falters on the rocks of mis...
4 Aug 35min
In the name of reason | Steve Fuller, Miriam Schoenfield, Dan Sperber
Is the future one where we accept tribalism and conflict as inherent in the human condition, where moral and scientific beliefs based on reason are badges, shaped by class, nation, ethnicity and cultu...
28 Jul 40min
The mind is not a machine | Iain McGilchrist
For most scientists, the mind is little more than a machine. With the rise of AI, some now claim that computers may themselves become conscious. For acclaimed neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and philoso...
21 Jul 21min
