Is there any Room left for moderates? With Jeff Maurer
Is there any room left for the political centre, or has it been swallowed by two competing extremes with nothing but contempt for the middle? Josh chats with comedy writer and author of I Might Be Wr...
14 Sep 1h 16min
JUST JOSH: The Unlearned Lesson of 9/11
It's a quarter-century since 9/11. What do we need to understand about its legacy, so as to handle the next quarter-century better? Josh was a college student visiting the World Trade Towers the summe...
10 Sep 2h 39min
Jewish Comedy at the Bondi Attack
Has a secret in your ancestry ever changed who you are? Imagine being a non-Jewish comedian who suddenly finds out he's Jewish. What do you do? You put on a comedy show on the site of the worst antise...
7 Sep 1h 20min
Are Men Toxic?
A sex scandal involving star players for the Sydney Swans has rocked Australia. Coinciding with a spate of violence against women, the country is revisiting its all-too-familiar conversation about how...
3 Sep 26min
What is Elon Up To?: An Idiot’s Guide to Space and Why You Need to Pay Attention
You may not realise it, but humankind is on the cusp of an extraordinary space race. Are we about to become a multi-planetary civilisation? Do we really need a super-fuel-tanker floating in space? Jus...
31 Aug 1h 53min
Glenn Loury: Are we censoring ourselves to death?
In this recording of a live event at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Josh hosts a one-on-one conversation with the legendary American intellectual, Glenn Loury. Loury is one of America's most infl...
27 Aug 26min
Jason Arday, Suey Park & the Identity Hunger Games
Josh has been reflecting on what the tragedy of Cambridge University's youngest-ever Black professor reveals about the high-stakes identity game we've all been enlisted into. In this solo episode, he ...
24 Aug 30min
How the Public Shaming Machine was Built with Jon Ronson
What should we make of the public shaming machine we have built? Following the death of the Cambridge academic Jason Arday, Josh checks in with the godfather of public shaming, Jon Ronson. His 2015 bo...
20 Aug 22min
