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Cormac McCarthy reading & response from Aris Roussinos
- Title
- Cormac McCarthy reading & response from Aris Roussinos
- Runtime
- 31:33
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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The Sunset Limited, a rare play by writer Cormac McCarthy, tells the story of two men in crisis whose lives collide at a New York train station. A clash of cultures, race and religion ensues, unfurling in a dialogue of such philosophical intensity that McCarthy referred to it as a ‘novel in dramatic form’. Join UnHerd for a live rehearsed reading of this vital play and an open discussion of its themes, led by columnist Aris Roussinos.
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- Why Europe can’t break free from the US - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 48:05
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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This week, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau take aim at two prevailing myths: the widespread belief that Greece’s recovery is a heartwarming success story—a model for debt-laden nations like Germany and the UK—and the soft center-left idea that the EU can “go it alone” and challenge the United States politically and economically. Is Greece’s success real, or just a financial illusion? And is a meaningful decoupling from a tariff-wielding America possible, or is the dream of a strategically independent Europe dead?
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- Steve Gallant: "The brotherhood has control"
- Runtime
- 39:09
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Steve Gallant.
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Watch Steve’s new podcast, The Gallantry Podcast, here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheGallantryPodcast
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks with Steve Gallant, a convicted murderer who served 16 years in prison and became known as a hero during the 2019 London Bridge terror attack, where he famously helped subdue the attacker, Usman Khan, with a narwhal tusk on his first-ever day release.
Gallant recounts the dramatic events of that day, which led to a royal pardon and an early re...
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- The AI myth and the truth about Trump’s Venezuela attacks - Varoufakis & Munchau | The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 41:37
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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If you have a question for Yanis and Wolfgang then now is your chance. Send us your Econoclastic questions and they’ll answer them on a future episode of the show. Email your questions to us at econoclasts@unherd.com
This week, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau take aim at two prevailing orthodoxies. Is the explosive AI boom really a bubble, or is the technology itself forcing a non-reversible shift away from capitalism and toward a new age of Techno-Feudalism? And are Trump's orders to sink Venezuelan boats and kill sailors really about a "War on Drugs," or is that just a cynical cover story when what the administration really want from Venezuela is oil? And if the term "war crime" is wrong, should these acts be called something far more chilling: extrajudicial murder?
Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/the-ai-bubble-myth/
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- Title
- The slop-ification of literature
- Runtime
- 24:54
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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With the rise of accessible AI and the total ubiquity of smartphones, could the West be entering a post-literate age? And what role might old-school books have in this brave new world? Substack’s Ed West, The Times’ James Marriott and UnHerd’s Kathleen Stock come together to discuss the twilight of literary culture and the dark dawn of scrolling culture. Stick around for an audience Q&A after the conversation and pose your questions to our panelists.
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- The sham of European ‘values’ - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 39:55
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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This week, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau take aim at Europe’s core illusions. Are Europe’s ‘values’ anything more than a slogan when its leaders fail to defend a French ICC judge sanctioned by the Trump administration? And why is Europe fixated on rapidly increasing defence spending to 3.5% of GDP – is this target a genuine strategy to counter Russia and achieve independence, or is it a doomed exercise that will only funnel money inefficiently and increase Europe’s reliance on American arms suppliers?
The Econoclasts is the podcast from UnHerd in which Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau each week pick pillars of the economic orthodoxy – so-called ‘settled facts’ – and shatter them. Why? Because, while they don’t always agree politically, they’re united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten and the establishment’s model is failing.
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- Is Net Zero immigration coming?
- Runtime
- 32:05
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Madeleine Sumption.
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks with migration expert Dr. Madeleine Sumption to dissect the latest ONS figures which reveal a dramatic crash in UK net migration. Is this truly caused by an alarming "exodus of fed-up Brits," as some headlines suggest, or is the surge in people leaving the country, in fact, the long-overdue re-migration of earlier non-EU and EU immigrants—a data-driven truth that fundamentally upends how the media and public understand the entire politics of immigration?
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- DEBATE: Should Britain divorce America?
- Runtime
- 31:55
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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Is Britain truly an independent power, or has it become a vassal state of the United States? From the "America tax" levied by Silicon Valley giants to a critical reliance on US energy and the Federal Reserve, the UK's sovereignty is increasingly called into question. While arguments for a radical "divorce" to reclaim technological and military autonomy clash with the hard economic realities of a middle power, the cultural absorption of British politics into American online discourse suggests the transformation may already be complete.
To debate whether the UK can ever escape Washington's orbit, Professor Helen Thompson, UnHerd columnist Mary Harrington and Novara Media’s Aaron Bastani join UnHerd's Freddie Sayers to chart the US-ification of our everyday lives, and what happens next.
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- Trump’s $6 trillion crypto plot - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 37:48
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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This week on The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau challenge two global orthodoxies: Europe's cynical strategy in the Ukraine war and the alleged freedom of the cryptocurrency world. Are European leaders actively frustrating any Ukraine peace plan to buy time for re-armament? And did last week’s crypto winter confirm that the digital currency universe has been taken over by an unholy alliance of Big Government and Big Finance that will guarantee future global financial chaos? Prepare to see the world's strategic priorities—from Kyiv to Bitcoin—in a new and alarming light.
The Econoclasts is the podcast from UnHerd in which Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau each week pick pillars of the economic orthodoxy – so-called ‘settled facts’ – and shatter them. Why? Because, while they don’t always agree politically, they’re united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten ...
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- Rod Dreher: MAGA's Groyper problem
- Runtime
- 30:21
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- 🔗Click this link to learn more about PMI’s Q3 results: http://bit.ly/4nEnM2k
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Rod Dreher.
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Writer Rod Dreher — conservative heavyweight, friend of JD Vance, and supporter of Viktor Orbán — joins UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers with a stark warning: the American Right is facing a "Weimar moment", fracturing under the weight of a radical, ultra-online Gen-Z faction known as the "Groypers." In this must-see conversation, he reveals why he cut ties with Tucker Carlson, what JD Vance really thinks of Nick Fuentes, and asks the terrifying question: is the movement he he...
- Title
- The battle for the Right with Rod Dreher
- Runtime
- 30:22
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
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The split between Gen-Z, Nick Fuentes-loving, ultra-online activists and large swathes of Trump supporters is tearing the American Right apart. On subjects from Israel to national identity, a new faction has formed that is unsettling even core MAGA supporters. An equivalent schism is now in evidence in the UK and across Europe. Will the so-called ‘groypers’ fade away as fast as they appeared, or become the new mainstream? Rod Dreher, friend of J D Vance and supporter of Viktor Orbán, finds himself at the juncture of the two sides — and has decided to draw a line. In this special emergency event, he joins UnHerd Editor-in-Chief Freddie Sayers for a must-see conversation about the battle for the soul of the political Right.
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- Prof. Sunetra Gupta: The arrogance of the Covid models
- Runtime
- 35:46
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with Professor Sunetra Gupta to discuss the inadequacy of the UK's Covid inquiry.
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks with Oxford epidemiologist Professor Sunetra Gupta - one of the three primary authors of the Great Barrington Declaration - to uncover why the UK’s massive £200 million COVID inquiry has produced a conclusion she calls an "insult" to the public intelligence. With the report claiming that locking down just one week earlier would have saved 23,000 lives, Gupta dismantles the modelling behind the headline and ask the questions the inquiry refused to: Why was the clear counter-evidence of Sweden ignored? And did the scientific establi...
- Title
- Freddie Sayers: The Covid inquiry is a disgrace
- Runtime
- 42:28
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers reacts to the UK Covid Inquiry's latest 800-page report on Britain's pandemic response.
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers gives his reaction to the UK’s £200 million COVID inquiry and the official narrative. After 800 pages, the report reaches the conclusion that Britain’s only mistake was not locking down sooner - but at what cost? From the missing chapter on Sweden’s success to the ignored collateral damage inflicted on a generation of children, was the lockdown experiment actually a civilisational error that the state is now too afraid to admit? And is the inquiry an establishment whitewash that sets the stage for future authoritarianism?
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- Labour’s Keir Starmer problem - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 21:19
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- 🔗Click this link to learn more about PMI’s Q3 results: http://bit.ly/4nEnM2k
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Today on The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau break the orthodoxy that replacing a failing leader mid-term is effective, asking if the rumoured "palace coup" against Keir Starmer is the most suicidal political move Labour could make. Is the UK's tradition of backstabbing Prime Ministers (from Thatcher to Truss) an empirical failure, and will the political instability only pave the way for Nigel Farage as the unchallenged winner?
The Econoclasts is the podcast from UnHerd in which Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau each week pick pillars of the economic orthodoxy - so-called 'settled facts' - and shatter them. Why? Because, while they don't always agree politically, they’re united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten and the establishment's model is failing.
Watch it on...
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- Matthew Crawford: The dark future of 'Smart Cities'
- Runtime
- 40:16
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with Matthew Crawford to discuss the dehumanising vision of 'Smart Cities'.
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks with writer and philosopher Matthew Crawford about the creeping tyranny of the "Smart City"—a vision of the future where urban life is optimised by data, and human unpredictability is treated as a "bug" to be fixed. But what is the spiritual cost of a "frictionless" existence? As tech giants begin to govern like nation-states and cars become subscription services that can be throttled from afar, Crawford asks the question: are we building paradise, or a "glorious, collisionless" prison? From the defiance of skateboarders to the ULEZ "Blad...
- Title
- Time for Britain to divorce America?
- Runtime
- 31:06
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Watch this subscriber exclusive event in full at https://www.unherd.com/live
From Farage’s flirtations with Trump to Palantir’s takeover of the NHS, has Britain already become the 51st state of America? As industry, services and politics all cede control to forces across the pond, the question of British cultural independence is more vexed than ever. Professor Helen Thompson, UnHerd columnist Mary Harrington and Novara Media’s Aaron Bastani come together to chart the US-ification of our everyday lives, and what happens next.
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- Rachel Reeves’ fatal mistake - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 20:58
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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Today on The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau shatter the myth that the Chancellor must always defer to the "experts" at the Bank of England, and expose the billions in controversial payments the Treasury makes to commercial banks. From debunking the "sausage machine" of economic models to debating whether a National Investment Bank or libertarian deregulation is the cure for Britain's stagnation, Yanis and Wolfgang reveal why Rachel Reeves is paralysed by a crisis of her own choosing.
The Econoclasts is the podcast from UnHerd in which Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau each week pick pillars of the economic orthodoxy - so-called 'settled facts' - and shatter them. Why? Because, while they don't always agree politically, they’re united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten and the establishment's model is failing.
Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.c...
- Title
- Will Trump destroy the BBC?
- Runtime
- 37:42
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with Professor Burt Neuborne, Joshua Rozenberg, and Seth Stern, to discuss President Trump's potential BBC lawsuit and the broader implications for press freedom.
Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/will-trump-destroy-the-bbc/
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers dives into the legal and political firestorm surrounding President Trump's threatened lawsuit against the BBC. He is joined by three expert guests to unpack the case from every angle: Professor Burt Neuborne, founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, analyses the US legal arguments and whether Trump can actually win; Joshua Rozenberg, legal journalist and the BBC's former legal correspondent, discusses the internal crisis at ...
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- China is winning the AI war - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 25:38
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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Today on The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau shatter the foundational myth that capitalism is synonymous with free markets, exploring the cozy relationship between big business and the state, and questioning whether the 'free market' is just an ideological smokescreen. Is the system secretly designed to secure monopoly power, and will AI be a force for true competition, or will it be the ultimate weapon for existing tech giants to solidify their control forever?
The Econoclasts is the podcast from UnHerd in which Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau each week pick pillars of the economic orthodoxy - so-called 'settled facts' - and shatter them. Why? Because, while they don't always agree politically, they’re united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten and the establishment's model is failing.
Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/the-fak...
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- Will the Euro collapse? - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 23:41
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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Today on The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau challenge the widespread belief that the Euro is a safe and permanent currency and investigate whether a new political shock in a major country like France could be the trigger that finally unravels the entire project.
The Econoclasts is the new podcast from UnHerd in which Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau each week pick pillars of the economic orthodoxy - so-called 'settled facts' - and shatter them. Why? Because, while they don't always agree politically, they’re united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten and the establishment's model is failing.
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- Title
- Alasdair MacIntyre philosophy masterclass
- Runtime
- 40:13
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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Alasdair MacIntyre, who died this year, was a Scottish-American philosopher and moral theorist, known best for his seminal book After Virtue (1981). MacIntyre was one of the earliest critics of the fragmented nature of contemporary morality and argued for a return to virtue-based ethics. In this exclusive masterclass, writer Nina Power unpacks MacIntyre’s foundational philosophies and suggests how they might inform a new era of radical politics.
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- Prof. Dieter Helm: The Net Zero lie
- Runtime
- 47:54
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets professor Dieter Helm.
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks with Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford, Sir Dieter Helm, about the great climate "self-delusion." As global leaders, royals, and celebrities jet into Rio for the 30th UN Climate Summit (COP 30), Helm - one of the world's most respected climate economists - argues the entire Net Zero project, championed by the very elites at the summit, is built on smoke and mirrors, and reveals: why 30 years of COPs have been ineffective; the core deceit politicians have been telling the public for decades; how the West's green policies are actually helping China while leading to our own self-sabotage; and why the UK's "clean energy" dream ...
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- China's REAL plan for the dollar - Yanis Varoufakis #Shorts
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the idea that China is aiming to replace the American dollar as the global currency with its own Yuan.
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#UnHerd #China #Dollar
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- Europe can’t contain the far-Right - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 22:17
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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In this episode of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang Munchau debunks the “cordon sanitaire” or "firewall" orthodoxy that European centrist parties must never form coalitions with the far-Right, arguing that this failed tactic is a disaster that only guarantees the eventual rise of parties such as the AfD in Germany.
The Econoclasts is the new podcast from UnHerd in which Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau each week pick pillars of the economic orthodoxy - so-called 'settled facts' - and shatter them. Why? Because, while they don't always agree politically, they’re united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten and the establishment's model is failing.
Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/europe-cant-contain-the-far-right/
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- Title
- China's real plan for the dollar - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 23:16
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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In this episode of The Econoclasts Yanis Varoufakis debunks the widespread belief that China is actively trying to dethrone the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, first by turning the yuan into the common currency of BRICS+ before later using it as a bulwark to end dollar’s reign. Does Beijing indeed want the burden of the reserve currency, and if not, what methods will it deploy to bypass US sanctions and escalating Western pressure?
The Econoclasts is the new podcast from UnHerd in which Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau each week pick pillars of the economic orthodoxy - so-called 'settled facts' - and shatter them. Why? Because, while they don't always agree politically, they’re united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten and the establishment's model is failing.
Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/chinas-real-plan-for-the-dollar/
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- Title
- Fraser Nelson: The truth about migrant crime
- Runtime
- 50:54
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Click this link to learn more about PMI’s Q3 results: http://bit.ly/4nEnM2k
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Fraser Nelson.
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In the wake of the Huntingdon train stabbing and ensuing online reaction, UnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with journalist for The Times Fraser Nelson to analyse the growing perception of a violent, migrant-driven crimewave in the UK. Responding to disputed data from the Ministry of Justice that foreigners are convicted of up to 23% of sex crimes, as well the rise in low-level crime and isolated atrocities, Nelson argues against the narrative and details how violent crime, including knife attacks and murder, has actually been in a steep decline, reaching multi-decade lows even as immigration has do...
- Title
- Pascal vs Descartes: Where did the Enlightenment go wrong?
- Runtime
- 1:41:31
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Watch this subscriber only event in full at https://www.unherd.com/live
Rene Descartes and Blaise Pascal, both 17th century French philosophers, tussled between truth-seeking rationalism and the role of faith and emotion in human experience. This tug of war continues today and to bring some light to its contemporary relevance, join theologian James Orr and former Bishop of Kensington Graham Tomlin for this exclusive live conversation at the UnHerd Club.
- Title
- Should NYC fear Mayor Mamdani?
- Runtime
- 1:13:52
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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If the polls are to be believed, Zohran Mamdani—a self-described democratic socialist—is poised to become the next mayor of New York City. His history as a police abolitionist, calls for wealth redistribution, and fierce criticisms of Israel have rankled the Big Apple’s old guard, while galvanizing many young Gothamites, including a majority of young Jews.
So: should we fear Mayor Mamdani?
Join UnHerd for an exclusive in-person debate at our Manhattan headquarters, featuring our columnist Ross Barkan and progressive activist and whistleblower Lindsey Boylan (in support of Mamdani) versus the New York Post’s Miranda Devine and National Review’s Caroline Downey (in opposition).
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- Title
- Europe has no strategic thinking - The Econoclasts #Shorts
- Runtime
- 1:09
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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In this first episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau discuss Europe’s lack of strategic thinking and reliance on the US. From the Dutch nationalising a Chinese microchip company, to the war in Ukraine, Europe is beset by short-sighted decisions, dependence on process and procedure, and a lack of long-term planning.
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#Econoclasts #UkraineWar #Europe
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- Big Finance has usurped #crypto! - The Econoclasts #Shorts
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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In this first episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau discuss the power of crypto, and whether stablecoins have been co-opted by Big Finance.
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- Title
- This house fears Mayor Mamdani
- Runtime
- 1:12:29
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Watch this subscriber only event in full at https://www.unherd.com/live
If the polls are to be believed, Zohran Mamdani—a self-described democratic socialist—is poised to become the next mayor of New York City. His history as a police abolitionist, calls for wealth redistribution, and fierce criticisms of Israel have rankled the Big Apple’s old guard, while galvanizing many young Gothamites, including a majority of young Jews.
So: should we fear Mayor Mamdani?
Join UnHerd for an exclusive in-person debate at our Manhattan headquarters, featuring our columnist Ross Barkan and progressive activist and whistleblower Lindsey Boylan (in support of Mamdani) versus the New York Post’s Miranda Devine and National Review’s Caroline Downey (in opposition)
- Title
- Crypto’s financial time bomb - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 24:20
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the establishment consensus of the “battle” between the central banking establishment and the anti-establishment crypto rebels. They explore the fallacy of crypto and explain how its original democratic promise has been turned on its head and usurped by big finance to become its latest weapon for extracting rents. Are stablecoins just a new form of "subprime" bubble, and if so, does a financial crisis loom?
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- Title
- Should Europe seize Russian assets? Is a crypto crisis looming? | The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 47:56
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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In this first episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk two failed economic orthodoxies shaping our world. First, they dismantle the narrative that Europe is helping Ukraine - and striking a powerful blow against Russia - by raiding Russia’s frozen assets. More than this being legally questionable, is it also economically and geopolitically self-defeating? Next, they expose the "battle" between central banks and anti-establishment crypto rebels as a false choice, revealing it as a dangerous illusion that serves the powerful. Far from being revolutionary, are stablecoins turbo-charging financial instability for the next global crash?
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- Title
- Introducing The Econoclasts #Shorts
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
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The Econoclasts is a new podcast from UnHerd hosted by economist Yanis Varoufakis and journalist Wolfgang Munchau. While they don't always agree politically, they are united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten. Mainstream economics has consistently failed to predict the events that shape our world, yet this broken orthodoxy still dominates policy and media. Each week, they choose two pillars of the established orthodoxy — the "settled facts" — and shatter them, cutting through the spin to connect the dots between money, geopolitics, and the real forces shaping our future.
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- Title
- What now for British Jews?
- Runtime
- 1:57:36
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Watch this subscriber only livestream in full over at https://www.unherd.com/live
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Dave Rich, Nicole Lampert and Jake Wallis-Simons
After October 7th 2023, the British Jewish community seemed united in solidarity with the Israeli victims of Hamas. But an increasingly brutal response by the IDF in the months and years following the attack has driven a wedge between the supporters and condemners of Israel’s actions.
Now, UnHerd brings together speakers from very different sides of this debate to ask the question: does the Gaza war mark a turning point for Judaism in the West?
- Title
- Introducing The Econoclasts
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- 📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/3Qdkd5y
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The Econoclasts is a new podcast from UnHerd hosted by economist Yanis Varoufakis and journalist Wolfgang Munchau. While they don't always agree politically, they are united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten. Mainstream economics has consistently failed to predict the events that shape our world, yet this broken orthodoxy still dominates policy and media. Each week, they choose two pillars of the established orthodoxy — the "settled facts" — and shatter them, cutting through the spin to connect the dots between money, geopolitics, and the real forces shaping our future.
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- Title
- Helen Andrews: Are women to blame for wokeness?
- Runtime
- 35:36
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Helen Andrews.
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks with Helen Andrews, former senior editor at The American Conservative and author of Boomers, to discuss her provocative and widely-debated article in Compact Magazine "The Great Feminization". They discuss: why female group dynamics (consensus-seeking, covert undermining, social ostracism) are the engine behind cancel culture; the threat a "feminised" legal system poses to the objective "rule of law," replacing evidence with emotional sympathy; and why this shift wasn't a meritocratic victory, but the result of "social engineering" that makes it "illegal for women to lose." Is this the unspoken truth behind our institutional collapse? Watch the full, explosive con...
- Title
- Can science prove that God exists?
- Runtime
- 44:55
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Michel-Yves Bollore and Olivier Bonnassies.
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In the age of reason and rationality, what room is there for the transcendent? Authors of the bestselling book God, the Science, the Evidence, Michel-Yves Bollore and Olivier Bonnassies, challenge the materialist consensus and argue that the origins of the universe could still be the work of a creator. They join UnHerd's Freddie Sayers to discuss their research and what it might reveal...
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- Title
- DEBATE: Was Margaret Thatcher good for Britain?
- Runtime
- 1:06:28
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
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Peter Hitchens, Suzanne Moore, Michael Gove and Reem Ibrahim join UnHerd to debate the legacy of Margaret Thatcher.
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On what would have been her 100th birthday, Freddie Sayers chairs a spirited debate on Thatcherism and the Iron Lady’s place in Britain’s story. How should we understand her legacy in 2025? Did she transform the country for the better — or does she bear responsibility for many of today’s problems? In this all-star debate, journalists Peter Hitchens and Suzanne Moore go head-to-head with former Conservative politician and Spectator editor Michael Gove, and political analyst Reem Ibrahim, in a lively clash over the most divisive figure in modern British history.
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- Title
- Prof. Eric Kaufmann: Is this the end of trans?
- Runtime
- 37:50
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
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UnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with professor Eric Kaufmann.
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Freddie Sayers sits down with Professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham, Eric Kaufmann, to discuss his latest report on “The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans”, which reveals a significant and surprising shift in the landscape of gender and sexual identity among Generation Z. Professor Kaufmann explains his findings, which show a sharp drop in both trans and queer identification since 2023. Drawing on data from large-scale surveys of US undergraduates, he details how the share of trans-identified students has nearly halved in just two years. Their discussion explores the data, including trends in elite institutions, and delves into th...
- Title
- LIVE: This house believes Thatcherism was good for Britain
- Runtime
- 42:14
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Watch the subscriber only livestream in full at https://www.unherd.com/live
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On her 100th birthday, UnHerd asks what legacy the Iron Lady still has in the Britain of 2025. Join us for what promises to be a lively debate on Thatcherism, with an all-star cast of speakers from both sides of the divide. Journalists Peter Hitchens & Suzanne Moore face off against political analysts Tim Montgomerie & Reem Ibrahim. Get your ticket before it’s too late! Subscribers will get access to the livestream on the night of the event.
- Title
- Putin is not the new Hitler - Yanis Varoufakis #Shorts
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
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Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Münchau sit down to discuss Europe’s approach to Russia’s war in Ukraine, and why it’s not true to describe Vladimir Putin as a new Hitler.
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#UnHerd #Putin #Ukraine
- Title
- Progress has become a religion - Paul Kingsnorth #Shorts
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
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Paul Kingsnorth joins UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers to discuss his new book, ‘Against the Machine’, and the modern theology of progress.
Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/2025/09/paul-kingsnorth-how-to-fight-the-machine/
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- Title
- Steven Pinker: In defence of gatekeepers
- Runtime
- 44:54
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
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Freddie Sayers sits down with renowned cognitive psychologist, author, and Harvard Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker to discuss his latest book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... and explore how common knowledge shapes our social, political, and economic worlds.
Their conversation delves into the power and pitfalls of collective thinking, the dynamics of cancel culture and censorship, and the Trump administration’s clashes with academic institutions like Harvard. They also consider whether democracy is in decline, if society is losing its shared sense of reality, and whether there’s still reason to be optimistic about the future.
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- Title
- Lord Maurice Glasman: Will Reform replace Labour?
- Runtime
- 1:03:31
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
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UnHerd’s Contributing Editor Jonny Ball (aka Despotic Inroad) sits down with Lord Maurice Glasman, the Labour peer and political theorist behind Blue Labour, at Labour party conference 2025 in Liverpool. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under fire and polling as the least popular on record — Glasman argues that the party faces a battle for its very soul.
In this conversation, he traces the history of the movement he founded, Blue Labour, and its critique of the Labour party’s transformation into what he sees as metropolitan and liberal, detached from its working-class roots. Glasman highlights how the working class and young voters are drifting to Nigel Farage’s Reform, why the best predictor of whether you vote Labour is whether you went to private school, and what it would take to reverse Labour’s decline: a renewed focus on industrial strategy, job creation, and working-class empowerment.<...
- Title
- UnHerd Live: Lord Maurice Glasman
- Runtime
- 29:03
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Watch the event live at https://www.unherd.com/live
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As right-wing parties gain ground, immigration, crime and community have become talking points for the British left. Did the man behind Blue Labour see it coming? Lord Glasman joins political journalist Jonny Ball, often known as his X (formerly Twitter) pseudonym Despotic Inroad, for a special live event just outside the secure zone of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
VENUE: This event will be taking place at the Labour Party Conference at Camp & Furnace, 67 Greenland St, Liverpool L1 0BY. START TIME: 4PM.
- Title
- Paul Kingsnorth: How to fight the machine
- Runtime
- 1:23:25
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
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Freddie Sayers interviews author Paul Kingsnorth.
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UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers welcomes Paul Kingsnorth to the UnHerd Club for an exclusive interview about his new book, Against the Machine.
Kingsnorth has spent decades charting the alienation and upheaval brought about by modernity. In this wide-ranging interview he sets out why he sees today’s technological order as inhuman, why AI may be the 'Antichrist', and why he believes the West must be allowed to die.
What does it mean to live as a dissident inside the Machine? And what lines must we draw if we are to remain human?
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- Title
- Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Münchau: Is the world safer with Trump?
- Runtime
- 7:17
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Münchau sit down to examine the latest developments in the war in Ukraine, exploring how serious a threat Russia poses, the risk of NATO troops getting involved, the dangers of seizing Russian assets, and whether the world might be safer with Trump in the White House than under the Democrats.
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- Title
- Paul Kingsnorth: Against the Machine
- Runtime
- 31:20
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Watch the full event at https://www.unherd.com/live
To mark the release of his new book ‘Against the Machine’, Paul Kingsnorth offers his account of the technological-cultural matrix that has overtaken the West. How did the spiritual and economic roots of techno-capitalism become perverted into an all-encompassing regime? Discussing everything from eco-activism to the AI explosion, join UnHerd for this exclusive book launch event.
- Title
- "Absolutely inappropriate!" - James Lindsay on JD Vance #Shorts
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- 📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/3Qdkd5y
In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a wave of firings and online campaigns has many asking if a “woke Right” has finally arrived, adopting the very tactics of cancel culture it used to condemn. UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers sits down with author and commentator James Lindsay for a conversation about this dangerous new chapter in the culture wars.
Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/beware-right-wing-cancel-culture/
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