Tag: podcasts
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Eh57Z2V Theories that inaccurately observe the present will inevitably fall short in predicting the future. Yet, our dominant frameworks for understanding international relations remain anchored in assumptions about power… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/3f1o9NF Marion Maneker joins Peter to discuss the art market’s resurgence after years in the doldrums, driven by a wave of significant collections hitting the auction block. Marion explains… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/kwSgeK5 We’re being told that automation can free us. Machines will do the drudge work, and we will reclaim our time. But that’s not how things are going. Instead,… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/ovMYGsX Abandon Ship! Topics: midterm elections, Spring thaw in US economic data, Strait of Hormuz oil rationing timeline, AI and data center update, Gulf State pipe dream, Congressional redistricting… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/pxcuXBv What happened to the Caribs, the indigenous people of the Caribbean? Why did indentured labour become so prominent? What is the current Dutch monarchy's approach to slavery? Did… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/6YKiP0E In the month since Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by a coalition of rebel forces, thousands of political prisoners have been released while many more remain missing,… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/aCPMid6 Freedom is one of the few ideas everyone agrees on. Surely more choice and autonomy is a good thing, right? But what if our endless pursuit of freedom… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/JIECfhz That’s what the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang wanted to learn. So he turned Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations into an oratorio. We tag along as Lang’s… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/fts06gV What comes after the human? We’re living through multiple crises — ecological, technological, political. But beneath all of that is something even deeper: a crisis of the self.… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/H4WdyTN This year marks the centenary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s novel, The Trial – a seminal work that continues to captivate and unsettle its readers. EI’s Alastair… more ›