‘The Iran Conversation No One Is Having’ with David Frum
David Frum had a front-row seat the last time America went to war against a Middle Eastern adversary. He was in the George W. Bush administration in the lead-up to the Iraq War. In fact, as one of Bus...
5 Mar 49min
A.I., Iran, & Automated War with Prof. Toby Walsh
Among the first responses by Iranian state media to the US-Israeli war on Iran was a propaganda video. It flaunted row upon row of gleaming Iranian drones, safely lined up in an underground weapons ca...
2 Mar 1h 30min
How Big Tech Destroys Learning
How do you learn things? Does it come easily or is it hard? Are you drawn to e-readers, or books? Typing, or handwriting? Duolingo, or moving to a Tuscan villa for six months to drink wine and debate ...
26 Feb 50min
What's China Up To?
Military purges. DeepSeek AI. Social credit scores. Taiwan. Why has the Chinese leader purged five of the seven members of the military's top decision-making body (one of the remaining two members ...
23 Feb 1h 38min
Our Spectacular Future of Solar-Generated "Fossil Fuels"
Imagine a world where vast solar arrays produced cheap, abundant energy for everybody... while also powering hyper-scaled superintelligent A.I. data centres, as well as factories that suck carbon from...
19 Feb 59min
The Ultimate A.I Survival Guide (for Humans)
How much will A.I. change your life in the next few years? In what ways? How will you navigate the upheavals? How will the society around you do so? "Normies" are finally waking up, it seems, to the...
16 Feb 1h 28min
Violent Clashes at Israeli President's Bondi Visit
Violence erupted this week as police in downtown Sydney clashed with thousands of activists protesting a visit to Australia by the Israeli President, Isaac Herzog. He was invited to Australia in the w...
12 Feb 53min
Fmr John Oliver Writer on Bias, Blackface & Making Sense of the News
Has our culture had a grown-up conversation yet about race and gender? Or did the media flip from the casual bigotry of the 20th century to the censorious hysteria of the 2010s in a way that empowered...
9 Feb 1h 56min
