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A left-wing route to Remain with Zoe Williams

A left-wing route to Remain with Zoe Williams

This week Zoe Williams speaks to Tom Clark about the left-wing path to a new Europe. But what would that look like and w... Read more

25 Jul 2018

32mins

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How to have better political arguments, with Adam Wagner

How to have better political arguments, with Adam Wagner

This week human rights barrister Adam Wagner talks tribal politics, twitter, and how to achieve a more civilised online ... Read more

6 Feb 2019

41mins

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Brexonomics

Brexonomics

Britain’s business leaders are increasingly jittery about a “cliff edge” Brexit. But is leaving Europe necessarily a thr... Read more

14 Nov 2017

32mins

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Is identity a mirage? With Kwame Anthony Appiah

Is identity a mirage? With Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah’s new book The Lies That Bind confronts the question of how social identities are formed. They are ... Read more

26 Sep 2018

34mins

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Behind the generation wars, with Jennie Bristow

Behind the generation wars, with Jennie Bristow

Our headlines are full of stories about benighted millennials and over-pensioned baby boomers, but what’s behind this ne... Read more

3 Jul 2019

29mins

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Why the world is getting better

Why the world is getting better

Prospect Editor Tom Clark sits down with Steven Pinker, the Harvard scientist, to discuss his new book on the Enlightenm... Read more

27 Feb 2018

35mins

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Why are so many of us tracking our own lives? With Barbara Speed

Why are so many of us tracking our own lives? With Barbara Speed

This week, Prospect gets inside the craze for tracking everything from our steps to our alcohol intake with Barbara Spee... Read more

23 Jan 2019

26mins

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Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy, with Kate Kirkpatrick

Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy, with Kate Kirkpatrick

Known as the philosopher who wrote The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir’s life has been the subject of much attention and ... Read more

30 Aug 2019

23mins

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The experiment that gave us the wrong idea about evil, with Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam

The experiment that gave us the wrong idea about evil, with Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam

In 1961, two things happened that seemed to change our idea about evil forever: Hannah Arendt reported on the trial of A... Read more

27 Mar 2019

41mins

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Robert Shiller’s narrative economics

Robert Shiller’s narrative economics

Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller joins this week’s Prospect podcast to discuss what he calls “narrative econ... Read more

18 Sep 2019

29mins

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Experts on trial

Experts on trial

Alison Wolf, Paul Ormerod and Adam Tooze join Prospect Editor Tom Clark to discuss whether it’s a good thing that so man... Read more

14 Jul 2017

34mins

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Stephen Wall on the coming Brexit battles

Stephen Wall on the coming Brexit battles

Former ambassador to Europe Stephen Wall joins Prospect's Alex Dean to discuss Parliament's Brexit problems, including w... Read more

9 Jan 2019

28mins

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Rock n’ Roll n’ Brexit with DJ Taylor

Rock n’ Roll n’ Brexit with DJ Taylor

Rock music is on the way down, music magazines aren’t what they used to be—but there are still an awful lot of sharp pen... Read more

27 Jun 2018

24mins

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Hay Festival special, with Steven Pinker, Elif Shafak and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective

Hay Festival special, with Steven Pinker, Elif Shafak and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective

Prospect’s editors went up to Hay-on-Wye last week for the annual Hay Festival of Literature & Arts. We joined Steve... Read more

5 Jun 2019

43mins

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Rethinking Israel-Palestine with Donald Macintyre

Rethinking Israel-Palestine with Donald Macintyre

This week we speak to Donald Macintyre, the author and journalist who was Jerusalem correspondent for the Independent. M... Read more

28 Aug 2018

31mins

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The Uninhabitable Earth, with David Wallace-Wells

The Uninhabitable Earth, with David Wallace-Wells

In recent months, the climate change movement reach new heights with global strikes and large-scale marches. Journalist ... Read more

2 Oct 2019

42mins

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The untold story of the financial crisis with Adam Tooze

The untold story of the financial crisis with Adam Tooze

This week it’s economic historian Adam Tooze, whose new book Crashed tells the story of the financial crisis. It is prom... Read more

29 Aug 2018

28mins

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Crowns and Culture Wars

Crowns and Culture Wars

This month Tom Clark and guests chew over three simmering—or potential—culture wars.Immigration is often said to divide ... Read more

15 Aug 2017

34mins

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Understanding the ugly building, with Timothy Hyde

Understanding the ugly building, with Timothy Hyde

From London’s many skyscrapers to the wars over brutalism, many of us know what it’s like to either complain about an un... Read more

26 Jun 2019

25mins

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Game, set and match to the malcontents

Game, set and match to the malcontents

The malconents have, once again, wrought revenge on the know-it-alls, landing Britain with a hung parliament instead of ... Read more

20 Jun 2017

32mins

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