“Conspiracies, Echo Chambers & Culture Wars” with Sacha Judd
The internet is a dumpster fire. Are you a firefighter? Or an arsonist? This episode is a cracker. Sacha Judd is an expert on internet subcultures. A former lawyer, she has become something like “the ...
5 Maj 20251h 44min
PREVIEW: Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dave Sweeney
Do nuclear weapons protect Western civilisation? Or are they an insane error that humanity should undo? Is nuclear power worth the cost and risk? Dave Sweeney co-founded the International Campaign to ...
2 Maj 202550min
BONUS: "Indigenous Land Acknowledgement Furore" with Tyson Yunkaporta
Have indigenous Welcomes-to-Country gone too far? On Friday, far-right hecklers disrupted the Welcome to Country (i.e. the land acknowledgment, in North American parlance) of a profound Australian nat...
1 Maj 20251h 11min
"Facebook Whistleblower" Frances Haugen
What’s social media doing to us, and how would you fix it? Mark Zuckerberg has been a busy boy on the witness stand in Washington DC lately. In one of the most consequential antitrust cases in tech hi...
28 Apr 20251h 13min
"American Authoritarianism" with Matt Welch
What do you make of a U.S. government that snatches people off the street and disappears them into Central American prisons, forever, with no trial, and no way to appeal? Matt Welch is a libertarian j...
24 Apr 20251h 24min
“Reimagining Schooling” with Finnish education icon Prof. Pasi Sahlberg
What's the purpose of school? Why do we run schools the way we do? How might we reinvent education in an era of artificial intelligence and ADHD? Professor Pasi Sahlberg is one of the world's leading ...
21 Apr 20251h 48min
PREVIEW: "What Can Democrats Do?" with David Pakman
The Democratic Party is paralysed. It can't merely offer resistance to Trump. It also needs to offer an alternative to him. But how? Should they oppose his every move, as the likes of Representative A...
17 Apr 202520min
“Decoding the Gurus” with Chris Kavanagh and Matt Browne
When are independent shows like Uncomfortable Conversations serving a useful purpose... and when are they just preaching to the choir? "Decoding the Gurus" is a podcast that dissects how new-media per...
14 Apr 20251h 18min
