Downstream: How Protest Movements Fall Apart w/ Vincent Bevins
The 2010s were a time of mass protest, from the Arab Spring uprisings to Occupy Wall Street, Euromaidan and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. Many of these movements shared a ‘horizontalist’ or leaderles...
30 Okt 20231h 20min
Novara FM: Emergency Brake! On The Road With Just Stop Oil
Just Stop Oil is a group focused on climate change. So what were they doing blocking the path of a coachload of migrants last week? It all has to do with the effects of a warming world and predictions...
25 Okt 202355min
Downstream: Philosophy’s Biggest Pessimist w/ John Gray
John Gray’s writing on political philosophy is not easily pigeonholed. Over the last half century he has explored ideas that span the whole political spectrum, and pissed off just about everybody with...
23 Okt 20231h 29min
Novara FM: Truth That Only Fiction Reveals w/ Pankaj Mishra
After 9/11, the writer and essayist Pankaj Mishra found himself losing faith in journalism’s ability to convey the complexity and nuance of the situation. Much of what he knew of the world, he realise...
19 Okt 202353min
