Festival of Dangerous Ideas
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Listen to over 10 years of talks presented at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas – Australia's original disruptive ideas festival. FODI brings to light important conversations that push the boundaries of conventional thought, challenging thinking on some of the most persevering and difficult issues of our time. Hear from our festival alumni – the world's best experts, innovative thinkers and mischief makers – as they share provocative ideas and conversations that encourage debate and critical thinking.
It's time to get uncomfortable…
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Roxane Gay (2024) - How to Have Dangerous Ideas
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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The Anatomy of Evil (2024) - Stan Grant & Simon Longstaff
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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John N. Friedman (2024) - The Fading Dream
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Todd Fernando (2024) - The Next Frontier
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Saree Makdisi (2024) - Tolerance is a Wasteland
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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David Baddiel (2024) - The God Desire
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Coleman Hughes & Josh Szeps (2024) - A Colourblind Society
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Jen Gunter (2024) - Lifting the Curse
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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The Pitchforks are Coming (2024) - Myra Hamilton, Carl Rhodes & Jordan van den Berg
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May 15, 2025 |
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Speaking Bluntly (2024) - Antoinette Lattouf, Andy Mills & Josh Szeps
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May 15, 2025 |
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David Runciman (2024) - Votes for 6 year olds
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May 15, 2025 |
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Counterfeit People (2024) - Lizzie O'Shea, Patrick Stokes & Emily van der Nagel
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May 15, 2025 |
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Ending the 'Tyranny' of Pregnancy (2024) - Luara Ferracioli, Brigitte Gerstl, Mianna Lotz & Kathryn MacKay
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Uncancelled Culture (2024) - David Baddiel, Roxane Gay, Andy Mills, Megan Phelps-Roper & Tim Dean
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Democracy is Not Worth Dying for (2024) - Geraldine Doogue, Masha Gessen, Paul Ham & David Runciman
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Jem Bendell (2024) - Breaking Together
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Contagious Realities (2024) - Alice Dawkins, Natasha Mitchell, Sandersan Onie, Jean Twenge & Sonny Jane Wise
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Positive Masculinity (2024) - Monty Badami, Tarang Chawla, Michael Flood & Anna Krien
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Masha Gessen (2024) - The War of the Narratives
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Art is Always Political (2024) - Louise Adler, Brook Garru Andrew, Violette Ayad, Gil Beckwith, Simon Longstaff & Emile Sherman
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Wrecking the World Order (2024) - Matt Bevan, Avani Dias, Cheng Lei, Hamish Macdonald & Johanna Weaver
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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FODI 2024 program out now
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Step into a sanctuary at FODI 2024
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May 20, 2024 |
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Tariq Ali (2015) | The Twilight of Democracy
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Dennis Glover (2015) | Winners and Losers
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Molly Crabapple (2016) | From the frontline
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Expendable Australians (2022) | Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Peter Greste, Ian Kemish & Sangeetha Pillai
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Drawing Truth to Power (2022) | Badiucao, Dan Ilic & Cathy Wilcox
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Steven Pinker (2022) | Enlightenment or Dark Age?
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Harmful Thoughts (2022) | Jayne Crossling, Emma A. Jane, Georgia Naldrett & Michael Salter
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Donate to make FODI happen in 2024
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Stealing Culture (2022) | Daniel Browning, Corrie Chen, Coby Edgar & Luara Ferracioli
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Claire G. Coleman (2022) | Words are Weapons
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Just Be Evil (2022) | Frances Haugen, Scott Hargreaves, Sam Mostyn & Carl Rhodes
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Joanna Bourke (2022) | The Last Taboo
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May 31, 2023 |
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Frances Haugen (2022) | Unmasking Facebook
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May 07, 2023 |
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Join the Rebellion (2022) | Jane Caro, Osher Günsberg, Yasmin Poole, Kevin Roose & Alok Vaid-Menon
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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World Without Rape (2022) | Joanna Bourke, Jess Hill, Sisonke Msimang, Saxon Mullins & Bronwyn Penrith
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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The Crime Paradox (2022) | Wenlei Ma, Kate McClymont, Ann Mossop & Don Weatherburn
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Sisonke Msimang (2022) | Precious White Lives
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Kevin Roose (2022) | Caught in a web
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat (2022) | Return of the Strongman
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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American Decadence (2022) | Nick Bryant, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Geraldine Doogue & Adam Tooze
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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Adam Tooze (2022) | F=Fail
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Jacqui Lambie (2022) | On Blowing Things Up
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Masha Gessen & Tom Switzer (2014) | Putin
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May 27, 2022 |
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Jesse Bering (2012) | We Are All Sexual Perverts
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 08.5 | Endtropy | B-Side
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 08 | Waleed Aly & Naomi Klein | Our entanglements have been exposed
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 07.5 | Revivification | B-Side
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 07 | S. Matthew Liao & John Rasko | Immortality, fraud and the future of the human species
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 06.5 | Tongues | B-Side
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 06 | Roxane Gay & Kate Manne | The mild terror of publishing feminist cultural criticism
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 05.5 | Semi-Autonomous | B-Side
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 05 | Joanna Bourke & Toby Walsh | Killer robots and the human construction of war
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 04.5 | The Dancer | B-Side
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 04 | Eleanor Gordon-Smith and Slavoj Žižek | The age of doubt, reason and conspiracy
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 03.5 | Within Salt | B-Side
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 03 | Lee Vinsel & Tyson Yunkaporta | A gradual decline into disorder
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 02.5 | Anthropocene | B-Side
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 02 | Sam Mostyn & Peter Singer | We have failed to protect those who don't yet exist
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 01.5 | Light Shines | B-Side
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | 01 | Joya Chatterji & Stephen Fry | There is no beginning
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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FODI: The In-Between | Trailer
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Pisani (2014) | Corruption Makes the World Go Round
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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A.C. Grayling (2015) | Bad Education
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Don't Trust the Scientists (2016) | Tim Flannery, Alok Jha, Natasha Mitchell & Lee Vinsel
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Chris Berg (2015) | Nanny State
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Erwin James (2013) | A Killer Can Be a Good Neighbour
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Gender Doesn't Matter (2016) | Jesse Bering, Raewyn Connell Cordelia Fine & Elizabeth Anne Riley
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Satyajit Das (2016) | The Bill Is Due
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May 17, 2021 |
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Lionel Shriver (2016) | Break A Rule A Day
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Little Bad Thing Trailer
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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The End Of The World As We Know It (2014) | Tim Flannery, Elizabeth Kolbert, Steven Pinker & Jaan Tallinn
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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Helen Joyce (2015) | The Right To Die
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Edward Snowden (2020) | Surveillance States
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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Marcia Langton (2020) | Dangerous Fictions
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Eric Schlosser (2015) | Nuclear Delusions
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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Lydia Cacho (2014) | Slavery Is Big Business
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Lee Vinsel (2016) | Innovation Fetish
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Sarai Walker (2015) | Radical Fat Acceptance
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Daisy Jeffrey, Audrey Mason-Hyde & Dylan Storer (2020) | Stolen Inheritance
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Claire Wardle & Ariel Bogle (2020) | Misinformation is Infectious
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Matt Beard, Eleanor Gordon-Smith, Bryan Mukandi (2020) | The Ethics of the Pandemic
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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David Sinclair and Norman Swan (2020) | Ageing Is A Disease
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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Alicia Garza & Stan Grant (2016) | Why Black Lives Matter
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Jennifer Rayner (2016) | Generation Less
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Michael Wesley (2015) | Feudal World
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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S. Matthew Liao (2013) | Engineer Humans to Stop Climate Change
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Mona Eltahawy (2011) | Hypocrisy Rhymes With Democracy
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May 25, 2020 |
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Alok Jha (2016) | Water Wars
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May 10, 2020 |
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Slavoj Žižek (2011) | Let Us Be Realists and Demand the Impossible
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May 03, 2020 |
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Helen Razer (2015) | Against Compassion
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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David Simon (2014) | Some People Are More Equal Than Others
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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Tim Harford (2012) | Make More Mistakes
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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Anne Manne (2014) | The Narcissism Epidemic
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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A. C. Grayling (2016) | Closing The Modern Mind
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Christopher Hitchens (2009) | Religion Poisons Everything
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Dee Madigan (2016) | The Propaganda Machine
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Evgeny Morozov (2013) | The Dark Side of the Internet
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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Philippe Legrain (2016) | Open the Borders
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Jan 25, 2020 |
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Vandana Shiva (2013) | Growth = Poverty
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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Jon Ronson (2011 / 2015) | Psychopaths & Shame Culture
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Hanna Rosin (2013) | The End of Men
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2014) | Surrogacy is Child Trafficking
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Sam Harris (2012) | The Delusion of Free Will
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Naomi Klein (2014) | Capitalism and the Climate
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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Ayelet Waldman (2018) | LSD: Forbidden Medicine
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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Rehearsal for Fascism (2018) | Pankaj Mishra, Angela Nagle & Tim Soutphommasane
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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Niall Ferguson (2018) | Post Populism
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Sex Robots Have No Taboos (2018) | Rob Brooks, Dr Nikki Goldstein & Xanthe Mallett
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Fight the Fear (2018) | Haris Aziz, Khandis Blake, Lee Rollins & Martina Stenzel
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (2018) | Everybody Lies (Except the Internet)
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Pankaj Mishra (2018) | Age of Anger
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Privacy is Selfish (2018) | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz & Zeynep Tufekci
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Angela Nagle (2018) | Kill All Normies
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Cancer on Democracy (2018) | John Hewson, Rebecca Huntley & Dee Madigan
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Choose China (2018) | Zhao Hai, Linda Jakobson & Adam Ni
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Zeynep Tufekci (2018) | Our Attention Has Been Stolen
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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Too Dangerous (2018) | Germaine Greer, Megan Phelps-Roper & Ayelet Waldman
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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Toby Walsh (2018) | The End of the World (As We Know It)
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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Stephen Fry (2018) | The Hitch
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Chuck Klosterman (2018) | What If We're Wrong?
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Nov 25, 2018 |