Season 5
Appeasement Isn't Working
Reactionary centrism has both failed & cannot learn from it's mistakes.
Should we compromise with the right on immigration?
with Thomas Prosser
Tom & I debate if the current Labour Government is on the right track - Should they give ground on cultural issues?
Bioethics & Race
with Yolonda Wilson
What is bioethics? Why do Black and white Americans experience such differential healthcare outcomes? And what are the drawbacks to social justice concepts from academia becoming mainstream?
Fighting Britain's Bathroom Ban
with Joylon Maugham
I'm joined by the founder and director of The Good Law Project - the organisation fighting the UK's anti-trans bathroom ban in court. We cover rights and freedoms in the UK, the complex legal mess we find ourselves in, and how the rest of us should respond.
Do Cars Make us Free?
with Henrietta Moore & Arthur Kay
Originally a symbol of mobility, of escape and adventure, we have now built much of our world around the car. Has doing so liberated us? Moore & Kay argue that it has not.
Left Abstention & Message Discipline
with Liam Bright
Does my argument that the left should not threaten abstention survive Liam's case that we can't impose message discipline on online communities? An open free-form chat.
White Psychodrama Revisited
with Liam Bright
Liam Bright discusses his influential White Psychodrama paper & we give our takes on the various cultural products arising from white guilt. Is the era of 'high woke' over, and is there anything to be learnt from it?
Can Deliberation Save Democracy?
with James S. Fishkin
James S. Fishkin, the Pioneer of deliberative polling joins the podcast. We discuss the nature of public opinion, how it can be changed, the positivities of consensus, 'activist disfunction' and can deliberation help cure our current democratic death spiral.
Should Liberalism Fight, or Retreat & Retrench?
with Alec Crisman
I recently wrote that liberalism must reject neutrality and instead embrace a comprehensive vision of what is good for people, one that takes the fight to fascism. I defend that view against concerns from Alec Crisman and we debate our very different visions about what liberals can - or should - try to achieve in the age of Trump.
Precolonial Africana Philosophy
with Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers
From Ancient Egypt, to Ethiopia, to the Islamic tradition, Africa had a rich - & truly ancient - tradition of philosophy prior to European Colonization.
Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers join the podcast to discuss.
Do Elections Define Democracy?
with Natasha Piano
What is democracy and why is it failing? Natasha Piano joins the show to discuss her recent book, Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science.