1984 Today!

By Mike Freedman

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An exploration of dystopian trends in society, featuring a range of guests, hosted by Mike Freedman.

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Episode Date
Dystopian By Default: The Architecture of Surveillance
May 03, 2026
Iran’s Global Intimidation Machine: Journalism, Exile, and Keeping Dissent Alive
Apr 19, 2026
Survival Is Resistance: Prison, Protest, and The Price of Freedom
Apr 05, 2026
Lawyering Against the Machine: The Human Cost of AI and the Fight for Tech Justice
Mar 22, 2026
Slowly, Then Suddenly: Surveillance, Social Rupture and Citizens’ Consent
Feb 15, 2026
Making The Machine That Makes Us: AI, Consciousness, and Human Creativity
Feb 01, 2026
Democracy In An Age Of Permanent Crisis
Jan 18, 2026
The World Turned Upside Down: England's Puritan Dystopia
Jan 04, 2026
Episode 154: Michael W. Green on Why $140k Is The Real Poverty Line
Dec 21, 2025
Episode 153: Robert Joseph Greene on Censorship and the Hidden History of Gay Romance
Dec 07, 2025
Episode 152: John R. Carlos on Globalism, Technology, and Humanity's Future
Nov 23, 2025
Episode 151: Daniele Bolelli on How A Society Eats Itself
Nov 09, 2025
Episode 150: Graham Linehan on Comedy, Cancellation, and Being Gender-Critical
Oct 26, 2025
Episode 149: Kara Dansky on The Abolition of Sex
Oct 12, 2025
Episode 148: Dr Leslie Gruis on Privacy and Surveillance
Sep 28, 2025
Episode 147: A Tale of Two Protests
Sep 14, 2025
Episode 146: Michael Box and Patrick Hague on Punk Rock Dystopia
Aug 31, 2025
Episode 145: Joe Raiola on Satire, Censorship, and MAD Magazine
Aug 17, 2025
Episode 144: Frank Sanazi on Being A Comedy Dictator
Aug 03, 2025
Episode 143: Shady El Damaty on Reclaiming Digital Privacy
Jul 20, 2025
Episode 142: BeLikeWater on Forecasting and Understanding Probability
Jul 06, 2025
Episode 141: Matthew Feeney on Big Brother in Britain
Jun 22, 2025
Episode 140: Blasphemy in the UK
Jun 08, 2025
Episode 139: Professor Garret Merriam on Ethics and AI in Higher Education
May 25, 2025
Episode 138: Julia Boyd on Travellers in the Third Reich
May 11, 2025
Episode 137: Leni von Mayn on Voicing Sex Dolls and Sexploration
Apr 27, 2025
Episode 136: Dr Chris Day on His Decade-Long Legal Battle With The NHS
Apr 13, 2025
Episode 135: Velina Tchakarova on Cold War 2.0 and the DragonBear
Mar 30, 2025
Episode 134: Raja Miah MBE on Britain's Grooming Gangs
Mar 16, 2025
Episode 133: Helen Freeman on Britain's Farmer Protests
Mar 02, 2025
Episode 132: Marika Mikiashvili on Resisting Georgia's Burgeoning Authoritarianism
Feb 16, 2025
Episode 131: Jeremy Duffy on Working For The National Security Agency
Feb 02, 2025
Episode 130: Philipp Fussenegger on Creating The World's First AI Brothel
Jan 19, 2025
Episode 129: Richard Sanderson on Getting Cancelled
Jan 05, 2025
Episode 128: Dr Christopher Ferguson on Why Social Media Isn't Bad For Your Kids
Dec 22, 2024
Episode 127: Falak Enayat on Escaping the Taliban
Dec 08, 2024
Episode 126: Nikhil Suresh on the AI Lie and Humanising The Machine
Nov 24, 2024
Episode 125: Victor Miller on Letting AI Take Over The US Government
Nov 10, 2024
US Election Special: Temperature Check
Nov 04, 2024
Episode 124: Tim Schwab on Bill Gates, Dark Money, and Toxic Philanthropy
Oct 27, 2024
Episode 123: Hatun Tash on Free Speech, Two-Tier Policing, and Getting Stabbed For Jesus
Oct 13, 2024
Episode 122: CJ Hopkins and Friedemann Däblitz on Justice, Thought Crime, and State Power
Sep 29, 2024
Episode 121: Sanne Van Oosten on the Surprising Lack of Racist and Sexist Voters
Sep 15, 2024
Summer Special: Exotic Thoughts at Parliament Square
Sep 01, 2024
Episode 120: Emmanuel Goldstein on Surviving Communism, A Gnostic Cult, and A War On His Mind
Aug 18, 2024
Episode 119: Jerry Barnett on Moral Panic, Loss of Reason, and Baiting the Majority
Aug 04, 2024
Episode 118: Christina Dalcher on Writing Dystopian Fiction and Imagining the Worst
Jul 21, 2024
Episode 117: Kashmir Hill on Why Your Face Belongs To Them
Jul 07, 2024
Episode 116: The 'Real' Steve Endacott on Running As The UK's First AI Parliamentary Candidate
Jun 23, 2024
Episode 115: Bjørn Karmann on The Moment That Never Was
Jun 09, 2024
Episode 114: Dr Ashley Frawley on 'Constant Crisis' and Why You're Probably Fine
May 26, 2024
Episode 113: Carol Cohn on Life Under Communism and Escaping to the West
May 12, 2024
Episode 112: Mark Johnson on Watching Big Brother
Apr 28, 2024
Episode 111: Professor George Church on Genetics and DNA Technology
Apr 14, 2024
Episode 110: Andy Agathangelou on Fixing the Financial System
Mar 31, 2024
Episode 109: Emily Finley on Undemocratic Democracy and the Seeds of Modern Tyranny
Mar 17, 2024
Episode 108: Beatriz Busaniche on Digital Rights and Surveillance in Argentina
Mar 03, 2024
Episode 107: Sergei Loznitsa on Totalitarianism and Truth
Feb 18, 2024
This Is How We Do It: AI Found Me A Wife (Valentine's Day Special)
Feb 14, 2024
Episode 106: Jonathan M. Katz on Substack's 'Nazi Problem', Free Speech, and Modern Journalism
Feb 04, 2024
Episode 105: Tim Boucher on the Fever Dream of the AI Mind
Jan 21, 2024
Episode 104: Elle Griffin on Faith, Hope, and Clarity
Jan 07, 2024
Episode 103: CJ Hopkins on Thought Crime
Dec 24, 2023
Episode 102 - Ken Silva and the Fed Files
Dec 10, 2023
1984 Today! Episode #101 - Dorian Lynskey
Nov 26, 2023