Podcast Episodes

Filtered urine and sauna suits: the strange world of biohacking

Emboldened by US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr's libertarian "Make America Healthy Again" agenda, the pseudoscience of 'biohacking' is having a moment. Proponents spruik a range of expensive h…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Ian Dunt's UK: a year of Keir and Labour revolts over welfare cuts

UK Labour is facing an internal revolt after attempts to cut the welfare budget by more than £5 billion. And, a year on from Keir Starmer's resounding victory, Ian Dunt says he appears to have lost t…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Are progressive elites hypocrites?

American sociologist Musa al-Gharbi, argues that progressive elites perform their activism with symbolic gestures that don't make a real difference to the material reality of the causes they care abo…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Yoorrook Justice Commission finds genocide occurred in Victoria

ABC's Bridget Brennan has been following the work of Victoria's Yoorrook Justice Commission for several years. She surveys the processes that lead to last week's final truth-telling report, which fou…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

AI. Don't believe the hype

AI, we’re told, has the potential to free us from mundane tasks, revolutionise industries, and solve global problems. Linguistics Professor Emily Bender, warns that the big tech companies who promote…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Tracing the trajectory of the Christchurch terrorist

In 2019 an Australian white supremacist lifestreamed his shooting rampage through Christchurch mosques. He killed 51 people and injured more than 80 during Friday prayers.  

He's been treated as a lon…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Embracing autarky - the ancient politics of isolation

Right now, the world is experiencing a profound break from the orthodoxy of globalisation. The US has gradually made moves to withdraw itself from the global trading system, China’s President Xi Jinp…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

A missing Chinese twin

A toddler twin girl was stolen by Chinese officials. She was adopted by a family in Texas. Two decades later, a journalist who traced both girls would then reunite them.

Guest: Barbara Demick, former …

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Why don't more countries play cricket?

Nobody knows precisely where the game of cricket was born, but test cricket as we know it has been played for nearly 150 years. The so-called gentleman's game has not always been accessible to all - …

Published on 6 months ago

The looming struggle over the Dalai Lama's succession

The Dalai Lama turns 90 on Sunday. Machinations have been underway for some time to anoint the Dalai Lama who will replace him. The Chinese Government wants to choose one who will serve their geopoli…

Published on 6 months ago