Recent Episodes
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Is a “digital duty of care” enough to protect young people from social media’s harms?
Nov 21, 2024 – 0:54:23 -
How much control should corporations have over the speech of their employees?
Nov 14, 2024 – 0:53:58 -
The return of Donald Trump — do we know what it means?
Nov 7, 2024 – 0:54:09 -
Is the concept of “evil” worth retaining?
Oct 31, 2024 – 0:54:10 -
Should revenge have any place in our politics?
Oct 24, 2024 – 0:54:19 -
Can democracy survive the perfect storm of disinformation?
Oct 17, 2024 – 0:53:22 -
What is “populism” – and what kind of problem does it pose?
Oct 10, 2024 – 0:54:08 -
What is it that makes “negative gearing” such a divisive tax policy?
Oct 4, 2024 – 0:53:30 -
“Truths that lie too deep for taint”: Wilfred Owen’s war poetry in our blood-soaked present
Sep 26, 2024 – 0:53:18 -
Can modern politics avoid propaganda?
Sep 19, 2024 – 0:53:38 -
Will Australia’s proposed cap on international students do more harm than good?
Sep 12, 2024 – 0:54:12 -
Festival of Dangerous Ideas: Is Australia breaking?
Sep 5, 2024 – 0:54:05 -
“Freedom!”: Why can’t US politics agree on the meaning of its most basic principle?
Aug 29, 2024 – 0:53:57 -
Coleman Hughes, “colourblindness”, and the contentious politics of race
Aug 22, 2024 – 0:53:24 -
“We live in a society!”: Seinfeld’s “Bizarro” comedy of morals
Aug 15, 2024 – 0:53:48 -
“I don’t want to join any club that would have me as a member”: How funny is irony meant to be?
Aug 8, 2024 – 0:53:21 -
“Time now for just a bit of fun”: Shaun Micallef on the importance of being silly
Aug 1, 2024 – 0:54:01 -
“And now for something completely different”: Why do surprises provoke laughter?
Jul 25, 2024 – 0:53:34 -
Political violence — why is it so corrosive to democratic life?
Jul 18, 2024 – 0:53:49 -
“There’s a crack in everything”: Richard Fidler on the art of absurdity
Jul 11, 2024 – 0:53:21 -
In a bespoke and individualistic age, are we losing a sense of “the common”?
Jul 4, 2024 – 0:53:35 -
Beatlemania at 60: Why was the band so popular before they were even great?
Jun 27, 2024 – 0:54:01 -
Right verdict, wrong case? The political dangers of Trump’s felony conviction
Jun 20, 2024 – 0:53:59 -
Is the rise of the far right in Europe inevitable? It’s complicated
Jun 13, 2024 – 0:54:30 -
Is it wrong to "rank" works of art?
Jun 6, 2024 – 0:54:30 -
Is international law powerless in the face of conflicts like Gaza?
May 30, 2024 – 0:53:50 -
If chatbots are polluting the commons of human communication, what are the moral consequences?
May 23, 2024 – 0:53:45 -
What are the ethical, and legal, limits of protests at Australian universities?
May 16, 2024 – 0:53:42 -
The decency of everyday life — are unwritten rules enough to sustain a good society?
May 9, 2024 – 0:54:07 -
What will endure? The ethics of “Groundhog Day”
May 2, 2024 – 0:55:15 -
After the stabbings in Sydney — Grief? Anger? Revenge?
Apr 25, 2024 – 0:53:13 -
What’s fueling the tension between the courts and the media?
Apr 18, 2024 – 0:53:56 -
What would the moral obligation to avoid civilian deaths look like in Gaza?
Apr 11, 2024 – 0:53:13 -
Ramadan — the rediscovery of society
Apr 4, 2024 – 0:53:54 -
Ramadan — the importance of friendship
Mar 28, 2024 – 0:53:25 -
Ramadan — the discipline of solitude
Mar 21, 2024 – 0:53:27 -
Ramadan — the necessity of withdrawing
Mar 14, 2024 – 0:54:01 -
Q+A on “the wisdom of crowds”
Mar 7, 2024 – 0:53:19 -
How much credence should we give to “the wisdom of crowds”?
Feb 29, 2024 – 0:52:47 -
When is it right to call some act – or someone – “evil”?
Feb 22, 2024 – 0:53:34 -
From Beyoncé to Taylor Swift — what’s behind the mass appeal of live music events?
Feb 15, 2024 – 0:54:21 -
What is the harm in “deepfakes” — and what are they doing to democracy?
Feb 8, 2024 – 0:53:31 -
How can trust be cultivated in a time of pervasive suspicion?
Feb 1, 2024 – 0:53:48 -
What do we lose by succumbing to conspiracy-mindedness?
Jan 25, 2024 – 0:53:28 -
In a screen saturated age, is literacy under threat?
Jan 18, 2024 – 0:53:30 -
What do we lose when we lose the capacity for boredom?
Jan 11, 2024 – 0:53:54 -
Goya’s “Saturn” and its moral challenge
Jan 4, 2024 – 0:53:32 -
Politics, farce ... and Fawlty Towers
Dec 28, 2023 – 0:53:25 -
What are playlists doing to our ability to listen to music?
Dec 21, 2023 – 0:53:20 -
Dickens’s philosophy of generosity: Revisiting “A Christmas Carol”, 180 years on
Dec 14, 2023 – 0:53:54
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