2 Crickets In A Thorn Tree

By SA Institute of Race Relations

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Nicholas Lorimer and Gabriel Crouse provide their unique take on everything and anything going on in South Africa and the world at large, with a focus on history, philosophy and current affairs. Getting away with murder in South Africa, Russian oligarchs, American elections and geopolitical strategy all feature in this unconventional podcast.

Episode Date
What is journalism ?
Jan 20, 2023
Year of the Rabbit
Jan 13, 2023
The wrong impeachment!
Dec 06, 2022
The tribe, the child, parole and the rule of law
Nov 26, 2022
The affirmative vote
Nov 11, 2022
The terror of gerrymandering
Oct 28, 2022
The Puritanical impulse
Oct 22, 2022
Frames of reference, Truss and Prince
Oct 14, 2022
A bad week for South Africa
Sep 30, 2022
Rounding out two big weeks
Sep 18, 2022
What is incitement anyway?
Aug 28, 2022
The power of theater
Aug 19, 2022
The Conservative Iceberg: SA Edition
Aug 05, 2022
Zuma's 2 steps to freedom
Jul 26, 2022
What even is the Middle East?
Jul 15, 2022
The passing of a PM and the resignation of a PM
Jul 09, 2022
Maybe we should try convincing people?
Jul 02, 2022
Talking about difficult things
Jun 25, 2022
There is a disturbance in the force
Jun 18, 2022
Just deserts
Jun 10, 2022
Changes are in the air
Jun 06, 2022
Pox, defamation and drinking
May 28, 2022
The Centre Folds, Black Stars & Leaky Robes
May 16, 2022
All things French
Apr 26, 2022
The Elon-Twitter affair
Apr 14, 2022
The problem with childhood
Apr 08, 2022
Comedy, courts and war
Mar 23, 2022
Celebrating a step on the road to peace in South Africa.
Mar 18, 2022
How can we escape the nightmare of war?
Mar 01, 2022
Hate speech laws
Feb 21, 2022
What's in a word?
Feb 13, 2022
Should bloodlines be borderlines?
Jan 28, 2022
Thought inflation
Jan 21, 2022
Good news, Zondo and the inscrutable East
Jan 17, 2022
Slaves, mandates and devolutionary holidays
Dec 03, 2021
Omicron, SA2 electric Boogaloo
Nov 28, 2021
Modern war: war has changed or have we?
Nov 20, 2021
3 Crickets: Discussing de Klerk with Rian Malan
Nov 15, 2021
The Liberal Slideback
Nov 09, 2021
Frans Cronje joins the Crickets
Oct 30, 2021
Don't walk the dog with an upset stomach
Oct 25, 2021
Princeton Nobel gongs
Oct 12, 2021
Smoothing it over with hypocrisy
Oct 04, 2021
Seeing things from a French perspective
Sep 21, 2021
The curious case of Larry Elder and the Egg
Sep 12, 2021
The end of the war in Afghanistan
Sep 01, 2021
The battle for the soul of South Africa's democracy
Aug 24, 2021
The Ramaführer hypothesis
Jul 31, 2021
3 Crickets in a Thorn Tree with Rian Malan
Jul 23, 2021
It was the best of riots it was the worst of riots
Jul 19, 2021
Could Zuma have been a good president?
Jul 13, 2021
Why apples should get a vote
Jul 06, 2021
Waves of Covid and Wokeness
Jun 28, 2021
The nature of nature
Jun 18, 2021
Revising history
Jun 07, 2021
Racism RIP
Jun 02, 2021
Trouble in the Middle East Again
May 14, 2021
Did Covid come from a lab?
May 11, 2021
The fuel of life
May 04, 2021
Helen Zille on Wokeness
Apr 17, 2021
Don't take the justice system for granted
Apr 10, 2021
St George the "dragon slayer"
Apr 03, 2021
How racism keeps creeping back in
Mar 21, 2021
Art and the Taliban
Mar 15, 2021
Racist Maths and a Pope in the Middle East
Mar 07, 2021
How to judge dictators
Mar 03, 2021
Some of our favourite things
Feb 20, 2021
The damp president, Socialism for the rich and when to censure
Feb 15, 2021
Strikes, blood and lawlessness
Feb 08, 2021
How did China go communist?
Jan 31, 2021
What even is herd immunity?
Jan 22, 2021
What is a mutant virus?
Jan 17, 2021
A decade of dangers and delights
Dec 08, 2020
Is there a paradox of tolerance?
Dec 02, 2020
Matric dances and the lumpen EFF
Nov 21, 2020
Why did the DA lose by-elections last week?
Nov 16, 2020
What Just Happened? The "BULLSH*T" Election
Nov 09, 2020
Is Trump the gateway drug to non-racialism?
Nov 03, 2020
The great dislocation
Oct 26, 2020
What went down in Senekal
Oct 19, 2020
Fanatics PPEWC
Oct 13, 2020
An immodest proposal and will Trump or the US die first
Oct 05, 2020
Hot takes and the great South African Sishebo
Sep 27, 2020
Titans die, and Will SA become Iran?
Sep 20, 2020
Race Pride
Sep 13, 2020
Bad Data, Bad Science and the BBC's (naughty) report on Covid will destroy Us All
Sep 04, 2020
Zuma's spicy letter
Aug 30, 2020
Rogue agents at work around the world
Aug 23, 2020
"The deal of the Century"
Aug 17, 2020
Trouble in the Catholic church and why we need freedom of religion
Aug 12, 2020
The indispensable man, update on America and we welcome the future
Aug 03, 2020
The source of all our woe: treating adults like children
Jul 28, 2020
All the craziness getting you down ? Why not try Mars?
Jul 17, 2020
2 Crickets and a cricketer in a thorn tree
Jul 13, 2020
Judges who judge too much and the untouched saint of race nationalism
Jul 11, 2020
Has Fallism hit Princeton & what is going on between India and China
Jun 30, 2020
"The White Man's Burden" - Victorian norms live on in "Everything is Racist" 2020
Jun 22, 2020
Playing at revolution and shoot to kill
Jun 13, 2020
Crime, shame and reintegration and how the world stopped making sense
Jun 09, 2020
Covid-19: WW1 of the 21st Century?
May 30, 2020
Models to the left of me, models to the right of me
May 23, 2020
Holding our breath for Covid wave
May 16, 2020
The cupboards in our minds are bare
May 08, 2020
False Awakening: Life and Politics at Level 4 Lockdown, Covid-19
May 04, 2020
COVID does not make you smart, never trust students and the wild south.
Apr 25, 2020
How to Loot a Pandemic, Intellectually and Materially
Apr 18, 2020
Tiger King, The WHO sells out and keeping the Covid-19 debate open
Apr 12, 2020
Gabriel gets detained at a roadblock and some lockdown fun
Apr 06, 2020
Covid-19 will make madmen of us all
Mar 29, 2020
How bad is Covid-19 data?
Mar 21, 2020
Unpacking 2500 years of Patronage and When Communism is Awesome
Mar 13, 2020
Covid-19 101: Don't over/under react, how to talk about difficult topics and is Bloomberg a hero?
Mar 06, 2020
Steenhuisen is Buttigieg and Russia fights Turkey
Feb 28, 2020
Is South Africa a soap opera?
Feb 21, 2020
Is Mandela the new Hindenberg? Is Bernie the new losing winner? And pyramids
Feb 14, 2020
Are we doomed? And the seige of Nkandla
Feb 07, 2020
Brexit Day, Decolonisation and Greek Art
Jan 31, 2020
Esteem teams, Love and the printing press
Jan 24, 2020
Qasem Soleimani killed, Putin reforms Russia and Esteem investments
Jan 17, 2020
Elections in the UK
Dec 13, 2019
Rounding up the year: Things that got rekt
Nov 29, 2019
Is the liberal world order over and which box do we put Trump in.
Nov 22, 2019
Respectful heresy, left-right recalibration and Bloomberg makes a move
Nov 08, 2019
American presidential race, minimum wage and South Africa's Media Space
Oct 25, 2019
Helen Z, Greta T and Peachy Impeachment
Oct 04, 2019
Epstein, Kimba and the root of mass shootings
Aug 12, 2019
Riots, Rees-Mogg and the power of love, "Radical"
Aug 02, 2019
2 Crickets in a thorn tree, Democrats and corrections.
Jul 07, 2019
2 Crickets in a thorn tree on the treaty of Versailles and the failure of race nationalism
Jul 02, 2019
2 Crickets in thorn tree talk Iran and geopoltical stratergy
Jun 24, 2019