Podcast Episodes

Munk Dialogue with Yossi Klein Halevi: for Israel, this is a war of necessity

It’s been two months since Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel that killed 1200 people, took 240 hostage, and shook the country to its core. October 7th was a day that not only altered the course of Is…

Published on 2 years ago

Be it Resolved, the western media has an anti-Israel bias

Within one week of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, the BBC received more than 1,500 complaints relating to its coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict. Criticisms were split almost evenly betw…

Published on 2 years ago

Munk Dialogue with John Spencer: how to dismantle Hamas terror tunnels

On this episode of the Munk Debate podcast we’re talking about one of the biggest challenges facing the Israeli army in Gaza: Hamas tunnels. These tunnels, some of which stretch for miles and reach d…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Be it Resolved, liberalism gets the big questions right

This is the podcast version of our public debate on the Crisis of Liberalism that took place in front of an audience of 3,000 people in Toronto on November 3rd, 2023.

For the better part of three cen…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Munk Dialogue with Mohamed El-Erian: A plan to fix a fractured world

The last two decades have seen the world economy cascade from crisis to crisis: from the global financial crisis of 2008, to increasing economic inequality and the devastating effects of climate chan…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Munk Dialogue with Leon Cooperman: anti-semitism on college campuses

On this Munk Dialogue we’re speaking to American billionaire investor Leon Cooperman. Leon is as famous for his candid conversations as his success on the stock market, and in this dialogue he doesn’…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Munk Dialogue with Munk Dialogue with George Will, Ash Sarkar, Jacob Rees Mogg, and Sohrab Ahmari

On November 3rd four debaters will take to the stage at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall to debate the crisis of liberalism.

The motion is Be it Resolved, liberalism gets the big questions right. 

On this …

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

Be it Resolved, the US should call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Israel has launched intense strikes on Gaza and shut off water and electricity to the territory as they prepare for a ground invasion in response to Hamas’s terror attacks on October 7th. Thousands o…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Munk Dialogue with Robert D. Kaplan: the challenge of urban warfare in Gaza

Israel is facing a wartime challenge unlike anything we have witnessed in modern history. The IDF is planning to invade Gaza in order to - in the words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - …

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Munk Dialogue with Bret Stephens: Israel under attack

On Saturday morning, Israelis woke up to their world forever changed. The numbers are staggering: over 1000 civilians killed by Hamas and 150 taken hostage, including children and the elderly. The br…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago