Content, Culture & the Bottom Line: How Finance is Killing the Avant-Garde
Are we living through the death of innovation? We’re back in HQ asking a tough question: has culture stagnated, and if so, is economics to blame? We explore the twin juggernauts of our age: financiali...
1 Juli 202531min
Has the Balance of Global Power Just Shifted to Israel?
Has Israel just become the undisputed power in the Middle East? After a lightning-fast 12-day conflict, oil prices fell instead of spiking, Iran backed off with symbolic missile strikes (after giving ...
26 Juni 202532min
The Dollar, the Ape & the End of an Empire
Live from a packed GAA hall at the Dalkey Book Festival, this episode tackles one of the wildest questions in economics: how did humans, flimsy, anxious apes, end up running the world, and why did we ...
24 Juni 202540min
Memoirs of an Arab Jew
In this powerful episode recorded at the Dalkey Book Festival, we sit down with Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, whose memoir The Memoirs of an Arab Jew weaves together the personal and political. Born i...
19 Juni 202549min
The Islamic Enlightenment
Tensions in the Middle East are escalating, following Israel’s surprise attack on targets across Iran on Friday, and ensuing strikes between the two powers continued over the weekend. The Muslim world...
17 Juni 202547min
The Hanseatic League: Europe’s First Free Trade Zone
Forget Brussels, the first European Union was built by medieval merchants, not politicians. This week, we dive into the Hanseatic League: a loose alliance of 200 city-states that dominated trade acros...
12 Juni 202536min
Will America’s Debt Crash the Global Economy?
When Jamie Dimon warns that the U.S. bond market could "crack," it’s time to listen. This week, we dive into America’s mounting debt crisis, with U.S. debt now surpassing $34 trillion, deficits runnin...
10 Juni 202536min
From Bolsheviks to Bolt: The Tallinnovation Nation
We’re on the road again, this time reporting from Vilnius, Lithuania, in the heart of Europe’s Bloodlands. Don’t be fooled by the history of war and trauma, this episode is all about how the Baltics a...
5 Juni 202535min
