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Who Killed the Living City?
Season 2025 Episode 55
After travelling through Montreal, Bilbao, and Vilnius, cities alive with colour, sound, and soul, I returned home and felt the contrast sharply. Dublin, like many cities across the developed world, …
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Content, Culture & the Bottom Line: How Finance is Killing the Avant-Garde
Season 2025 Episode 54
Are we living through the death of innovation? We’re back in HQ asking a tough question: has culture stagnated, and if so, is economics to blame? We explore the twin juggernauts of our age: financial…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Has the Balance of Global Power Just Shifted to Israel?
Season 2025 Episode 53
Has Israel just become the undisputed power in the Middle East? After a lightning-fast 12-day conflict, oil prices fell instead of spiking, Iran backed off with symbolic missile strikes (after giving…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Dollar, the Ape & the End of an Empire
Season 2025 Episode 52
Live from a packed GAA hall at the Dalkey Book Festival, this episode tackles one of the wildest questions in economics: how did humans, flimsy, anxious apes, end up running the world, and why did w…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Memoirs of an Arab Jew
Season 2025 Episode 51
In this powerful episode recorded at the Dalkey Book Festival, we sit down with Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, whose memoir The Memoirs of an Arab Jew weaves together the personal and political. Born …
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Islamic Enlightenment
Season 2025 Episode 50
Tensions in the Middle East are escalating, following Israel’s surprise attack on targets across Iran on Friday, and ensuing strikes between the two powers continued over the weekend. The Muslim worl…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Hanseatic League: Europe’s First Free Trade Zone
Season 2025 Episode 49
Forget Brussels, the first European Union was built by medieval merchants, not politicians. This week, we dive into the Hanseatic League: a loose alliance of 200 city-states that dominated trade acro…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Will America’s Debt Crash the Global Economy?
Season 2025 Episode 48
When Jamie Dimon warns that the U.S. bond market could "crack," it’s time to listen. This week, we dive into America’s mounting debt crisis, with U.S. debt now surpassing $34 trillion, deficits runni…
Published on 3 months ago
From Bolsheviks to Bolt: The Tallinnovation Nation
Season 2025 Episode 47
We’re on the road again, this time reporting from Vilnius, Lithuania, in the heart of Europe’s Bloodlands. Don’t be fooled by the history of war and trauma, this episode is all about how the Baltics …
Published on 3 months ago
Creativity in the Cul-de-Sac: Why the Suburbs Won
Season 2025 Episode 46
Back home at HQ, we stretch our legs and dive into something huge hiding in plain sight: Ireland is now the most educated country in the world. But what does that really mean? From the Inhaler gig in…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago