Downstream: We Have Enabled Putin w/ Anne Appelbaum
Political scientists agree that we are now living in a “multipolar” world, with power contested by multiple states and blocs. But how we arrived at this formation, and whether the newly powerful actor...
10 Sep 202459min
Novara FM: Motherhood In and Against the State w/ Helen Charman
Motherhood was once at the centre of the feminist movement’s demands, from campaigns for reproductive rights to the mobilisation of anti-nuclear mums at Greenham Common. But in the 21st century, the p...
29 Aug 20241h 18min
ACFM Trip 45: Holidays
Everybody hates a tourist, as Jarvis Cocker once pointed out, and the ACFM gang are no exception in this ACFM Trip exploring the allure of holidays. Keir, Jem and Nadia consider all the different way...
25 Aug 20241h 48min
Novara FM: Clean Energy Is Already Terraforming the Earth w/ Thea Riofrancos
In 2019, mines expelled 100 billion tonnes of solid waste. Vast and destructive almost beyond imagination, mining is nevertheless essential to the green transition: without the minerals that we pull f...
22 Aug 20241h 34min
Downstream: Is Humanity Really Heading for Population Collapse?! w/ Paul Morland
During 1960s, fears of planetary ‘overpopulation’ became widespread. And yet, in more recent years, an altogether different worry has emerged: future population decline. Fertility rates have fallen fo...
20 Aug 20241h 52min
Novara FM: Fear and Loathing in Silicon Valley w/ Malcolm Harris
People walk around San Francisco in Make America Great Again hats. Major CEOs endorse Trump. JD Vance is a hit among the crypto whales. So what? It’s part, perhaps, of a cultural change in Silicon Val...
15 Aug 202457min
Downstream: Can The Green Party Keep Winning? w/ Carla Denyer
The Green Party of England and Wales now has four MPs in Parliament, and even more impressively has doubled its vote share to 7%, coming second in 39 other seats. So what happens now? How will the Gre...
5 Aug 20241h 11min
ACFM Trip 44: Humility
What happens when you lose? In this Trip, the ACFM crew explore the role of humility – and humiliation – in politics. Should we cultivate humility to cope with political weakness? Is fear of humiliati...
4 Aug 20241h 16min
