Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDownstream: Do We Really Need to Tax the Rich? w/ Stephanie Kelton
Stephanie Kelton is an author and economist, and subject of the new film ‘Finding The Money’. Her work as a proponent of Modern Monetary Theory and a…
1 year, 6 months ago
Downstream: Everything You Need to Know About China & Xi Jinping w/ Olivia Cheung
Xi Jinping is possibly the most powerful person in the world, but what do we know about his origins, ways of thinking and goals for China and the hum…
1 year, 6 months ago
Downstream: India Was the Epicentre of the Ancient World w/ William Dalrymple
The Silk Road has dominated the way we imagine the trading relationship between Europe and Asia to have worked in antiquity.
In his new book, The Gol…
1 year, 6 months ago
Downstream: The UK’s Landowning Elite Are Destroying the Countryside w/ Guy Shrubsole
Guy Shrubsole is an author and campaigner whose new book The Lie of the Land seeks to expose the history of the British elite’s relationship to the l…
1 year, 7 months ago
Downstream: This Is the Reality for Palestinian Christians w/ Dr. Munther Isaac
Dr. Munther Isaac is the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, serving a community of Christians that dates back to the time of Jes…
1 year, 7 months ago
Downstream: We Have Enabled Putin w/ Anne Appelbaum
Political scientists agree that we are now living in a “multipolar” world, with power contested by multiple states and blocs. But how we arrived at t…
1 year, 7 months ago
Downstream: Is Humanity Really Heading for Population Collapse?! w/ Paul Morland
During 1960s, fears of planetary ‘overpopulation’ became widespread. And yet, in more recent years, an altogether different worry has emerged: futu…
1 year, 8 months ago
Downstream: Can The Green Party Keep Winning? w/ Carla Denyer
The Green Party of England and Wales now has four MPs in Parliament, and even more impressively has doubled its vote share to 7%, coming second in 39…
1 year, 8 months ago
Downstream: Arab Jews, The Hidden History w/ Avi Shlaim
A foundational principle of the state of Israel is that it keeps Jews safe. This principle has been profoundly challenged in the last nine or so mont…
1 year, 9 months ago
Downstream: Party Politics is Broken w/ Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn was a Labour MP for almost four decades – and led the party at two general elections. This year however, and despite still being a part…
1 year, 9 months ago