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Cory Doctorow
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I know a lot of people who love technology, which has left them vulnerable to being seduced by the exaggerated claims about AI. The level of hyperbole has been immense...
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Jason Hickel
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How to overcome capitalism is a bit of a clickbait title, but I guess it worked on me. Jason Hickel is a leading figure in the degrowth movement, but his...
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Naomi Klein
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Naomi Klein has long been one of the clearest and most insightful forces on the left. Her insight into the current political milieu is informed by the coincidence that she...
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Yascha Mounk
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Mounk outlines a worrying trend in this talk, one which has seen populations in many countries losing their investment in democracy. I think there is much to the idea that...
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Ian McDonald
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This series of podcasts is a wonderful deep dive into the history of Vegetarianism and Veganism. The idea that it is wrong to eat animals was not invented in San...
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Melanie Joy
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Who brings their opinions and ideas to the dinner table? Is it the person who does or doesn't eat meat? The way our society answers this is a function of...
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This is an older documentary that is now an incredible historical document of the changes that brought our present into being. From media ownership centralisation, billionaire funded right wing think...
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Vali Nasr
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Iran is one of the main political players globally because of its influence in the Middle East. It therefore weilds tremendous power for good or bad, and unfortunately, in recent...
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Noam Chomsky
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Multiple people told me I should listen to Chomsky, yet it took me years to finally stumble across this CD in a record store in 1998. The time I wasted...
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The Art of Selling Lies
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A fast-paced, fairly light PBS documentary looking at the history of propaganda. Propaganda was once a word that was used by people to happily refer to themselves. Edward Bernays, who...
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Rutger Bregman
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The Reith Lectures are a yearly lecture series in Britain by important public intellectuals. The first recommendation would be to go back and check out many of the past series...
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Quinn Slobodian
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Neoliberalism has been the guiding force of economics since at least the mid 1970s. If you seek to understand the economic ideas behind many of the changes in politics over...
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Walter Scheidel
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There are theoretical and practical arguments for inequality. The theoretical arguments often go something like this: Does it matter if some people have mansions, if everyone else has decent houses...
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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Ben-Ghiat's work has given me a deeper way to see our current political times. The cast of deplorables that have been voted in as part of the wave of demagoguery...
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Cory Doctorow
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I was an adult when the Internet started happening. I first used it in 1996. I was amazed by it, and I thought here was the next step in human...
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Frank McDonough
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The Weimar Republic, the government of Germany in the period between the First World War and the usurpation by the Nazis, is one of the most important periods of history...
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Peter Turchin
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Firstly, this podcast is actually titled " on Cliodynamics and End Times on Cliodynamics and End Times on Cliodynamics and End Times on Cliodynamics and End TimesOn Cliodynamics and End...
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George Monbiot
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As a journalist, George Monbiot has been speaking his truth fearlessly for decades. In his book Regenesis, Monbiot details how the modern global food system is not only creating the...
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Vincent Bevins
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Vincent Bevins talks about his remarkable book "If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution" with Chris Hedges here. One thing that we can notice in discussing...
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A century of nonviolent conflict
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The idea of non-violent struggle is perhaps not a new one, but for many people it remains counterintuitive. At its basis is the idea that many bad actors don't see...
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Anarchism is a political philosophy that fell out of favour in the early twentieth century. This, I believe, is partly due to the advocates of anarchism who decided that violence...
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Daniel Schmachtenberger
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Perhaps as a consequence of being so clever, Schmachtenberger is prone to a lot of jargon. He uses the term "Third Attractor" quite a lot, so it's worth getting its...
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The Vegan Society
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This documentary was made by the Vegan Society while I was living in London in the early 2000s. Not only was I living in London but I was working for...
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Catherine Laurence
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Here is my wife giving a talk to a Compassion Symposium, about the topic of compassion to animals. Powerful talk that I hope you enjoy.
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Sean Kelly
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I am a big fan of existentialist philosophy, in its ongoing discussion about what it is to be human and what this life is all about. I also used to...
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Richard Evans
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As someone who was once prone to belief in conspiracy theories, I am perhaps oversensitive to their presence in the world. Now when I look at things like the First...
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Adam Curtis
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Watching this documentary gives you a deep window into the modern world. The word Hypernormalisation was used to describe Soviet society in the 70s and 80s, how everyone knew a...
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Daniel Schmachtenberger
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Daniel Schmachtenberger again with another insightful talk, this one focusing on what is progress for human civilisation?
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Yuval Noah Harari
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Yuval is always worth listening to. Here he talks about his book Nexus, a discussion about how information networks work. Yuval's main insight here is that more information doesn't lead...
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Albert Camus
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Albert Camus was a French Philosopher adjacent to the Existentialists, but called himself an Absurdist. He lived through the Second World War, and part of the incredible texture of this...
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Daniel Schmachtenberger
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Daniel Schmachtenberger is one of the great thinkers of our time. He perhaps gives better introductions to the metacrisis, certainly longer ones, but this one is important because of how...
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Johan Rockström
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J ohan Rockström is one of the people trying to save humanity and the rest of nature from ourselves. He did pioneering work on the Planetary Boundaries Framework. If you...
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Nate Hagens
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Nate Hagens is an energy specialist with a vast range of knowledge. He has an amazing podcast that is linked here. Here Nate gets straight into it with a dense...
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Daniel Schmachtenberger
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Daniel Schmachtenberger is one of my favourite thinkers. I just wish he would write the book I keep meaning to write, because he would do a much better job of...
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80000 hours was an amazing podcast, full of interesting thinkers and ideas. This wrap up episode for their 2024 series is perhaps my favourite episode they ever did. Even though...
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Adam Curtis
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Adam Curtis is one of my favourite documentary film makers. I think the thesis at the centre of The Century of the Self is amongst the most important confronting modern...
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Horkheimer & Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment
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Critical Theory is the sort of thing 1% of people on the Internet argue with a different 1% about. The thinkers who created it as part of the Frankfurt School...
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Jason Hickel
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Jason Hickel's book "Less is More" is a call to halt the collective civilisational vehicle we are in as it heads towards an environmental brick wall. Here Jason outlines the...
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Quinn Slobodian
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When Margaret Thatcher was asked what her party believed, legend has it that she slammed a copy of Friedrich von Hayek's "The Constitution of Liberty" down on the table and...
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Luke Kemp
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Goliath's Curse is a book by Luke Kemp that takes its name from what Luke calls large societies - Goliaths. After an exhaustive study of human societies spanning years, Luke...
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Scott Alexander
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Blending Allen Ginsberg's searing poem Moloch, with a discussion of how systems can come to resemble evil gods, Meditations on Moloch is simply a must listen/read.
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