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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook China Special, with Keyu Jin
Intelligence Squared - May 26, 2024 23:10 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratingsChina’s economic power has been growing for decades. The capitalist reforms of Deng Xiaoping quickly transformed China into the world’s fastest-growing major economy, with growth rates averaging 10% annually. But in recent years the so-called China miracle has begun to slow down. The Covid-19 pan...
Archive: Debate – The Left has right on its side
Intelligence Squared - May 26, 2024 13:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 690 ratingsFollowing the recent announcement of a general election in the UK, we revisit our debate from 2018 in which key politicians debated the merits of Left vs Right politics. The political Left often purports that it has society’s best interests at heart and that it works for the good of all. Yet acco...
Episode 245- The Future of Western Unity Amidst Global Political Changes. With Robert Greenfield
Richard Helppie's Common Bridge - May 26, 2024 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 439 ratingsEmbark on a riveting exploration of the multifaceted relationship between the US and Europe as we're joined by Robert Greenfield, a seasoned world traveler with an expansive grasp of global affairs. Together, we traverse the landscape of Europe's defense autonomy, societal shifts stemming from i...
Archive: Western Intervention and the Rise of Guerrilla Warfare, with David Kilcullen
Intelligence Squared - May 24, 2024 22:40 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratingsIn this archive discussion from 2020, David Kilcullen, former soldier, diplomat, and senior counterinsurgency adviser for the US during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, explains the nature of past Western interventions and the guerrilla warfare resistance that has followed. He joined Carl Miller, R...
Miranda July Wrestles with the Female Midlife Crisis in ‘All Fours’
KQED's Forum - May 24, 2024 18:49 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsIn Miranda July’s new novel, “All Fours,” a 45-year-old artist embarks on a solo roadtrip to New York from her Los Angeles home. She makes it as far as Monrovia, a small town a half-hour from L.A., and waits out the rest of her trip in a motel room while pursuing an infatuation with a Hertz renta...
Rachel Khong’s Novel ‘Real Americans’ Questions the Limits of Identity
KQED's Forum - May 24, 2024 18:26 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsWhat it means to be American and who gets to claim that identity are questions that animate Rachel Khong’s newest novel “Real Americans.” The book follows three generations of a Chinese American family, and grapples with not just race, but class and genetic identity. Khong is a former editor of t...
Using your vote for the European Elections
Ibec Podcasts - May 24, 2024 15:00 - 16 minutesWith polling day fast approaching on June 7th, Pat Ivory, Ibec’s Director of EU and International Affairs meets with Fionnuala Croker, the Acting Head of Office at the European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland. Together, they take a retrospective look at previous elections, analysing voter...
‘My Octopus Teacher’ Filmmaker on Connecting to Our Wild Selves
KQED's Forum - May 23, 2024 20:11 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsCraig Foster may be best known for “My Octopus Teacher,” the Oscar-winning documentary about his tender relationship with a wild female octopus who inhabited the kelp forests off the coast of South Africa. He’s now written a new book called “Amphibious Soul,” which invites us along on his underwa...
State Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Prop. 22 … and the Gig Economy
KQED's Forum - May 23, 2024 18:35 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsThe gig economy, as it has been known, was built around a controversial idea — that an Uber driver, for instance, did not work for Uber. These apps, instead, were merely making a market for workers, which a user could access to hire someone. Many labor leaders rejected this idea, and it has led t...
An interest rate bludgeoning
When the Facts Change - May 23, 2024 17:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe Reserve Bank warned this week of high interest rates and high inflation for even longer, with sticky rental, rates and insurance inflation all partly to blame. Kiwibank chief economist Jarrod Kerr joins Bernard Hickey to discuss the how blunt our central bank's main monetary policy tool can b...
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Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff - May 23, 2024 07:01 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 559 ratingsAnother Memorial Day is upon us. A reminder of all those we’ve lost. And, a reminder that no matter how high the stakes, no matter how challenging the odds, as the allied forces showed us on D-Day and throughout WW2, and as generations of American service members throughout other points in histor...
Shefali Luthra on the ‘Undue Burden’ of Post-Roe Reproductive Care
KQED's Forum - May 22, 2024 19:22 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings“It’s difficult to think of a public health crisis more inevitable than the impending end of Roe v. Wade,” writes journalist Shefali Luthra, “and yet, on June 24, 2022, the country was profoundly unprepared.” Luthra argues that we’re now in the midst of that public health crisis, as millions of A...
All You Can Eat: Yes, the Bay Area Does Have a Late Night Dining Scene
KQED's Forum - May 22, 2024 19:05 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsIf you’re looking for a great meal after midnight, you’re unlikely to find a wealth of options in downtown San Francisco. But expand your search to the Bay Area’s suburban communities, and you’ll find a late-night dining scene that’s brimming with hot pot restaurants, noodle shops, taco carts, an...
The Garden as a Personal Paradise, with Olivia Laing
Intelligence Squared - May 22, 2024 14:30 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratingsThe acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing is the author of seven books distilling challenging topics that should be difficult to wrap beautiful words around. Their latest book is The Garden Against Time, a work that initially began through documenting the restoration of a walled garden in Suff...
Nicholas Kristof On Finding Hope Through Journalism
KQED's Forum - May 21, 2024 19:01 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsLongtime New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has reported from war zones and humanitarian crises and has examined our own nation’s struggles with poverty, addiction and homelessness. And yet, in his new memoir, “Chasing Hope,” Kristof calls himself an optimist. Journalism, he says, is an ac...
As Home Insurers Exit the State, Officials Promise Faster Action
KQED's Forum - May 21, 2024 18:30 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsGovernor Gavin Newsom is calling for swifter reforms to California’s beleaguered home insurance market as homeowners across the state continue to lose coverage or face rate hikes. A growing number of insurance companies have stopped writing new policies in the state, citing increased climate-rela...
Unpacking America’s Housing Affordability Crisis (with Whitney Airgood-Obrycki)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - May 21, 2024 07:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsThis week, Nick and Goldy are joined by Whitney Airgood-Obrycki from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University to discuss the urgent issue of housing affordability in the United States. Despite its status as the wealthiest country in the world, America is grappling with a housing...
Dutch Research Team Recounts the Long-Term Effects of Starvation
KQED's Forum - May 20, 2024 19:48 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsHumanitarian aid groups are reporting “unprecedented” levels of starvation for over 2 million people in Gaza, after nearly eight months of Israeli military bombardment and blockades. Another 5 million people are estimated to face “acute” food shortage in Haiti between March and June, and accordin...
The Long Troubled History of US Immigration Detention and the Case for Ending It
KQED's Forum - May 20, 2024 19:41 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsDuring the Trump Administration, scenes of children separated from parents and placed in chain link cells that looked like cages caused a national outcry. But the policy of immigration detention in the U.S. is far from new. With historical roots in slavery and the treatment of indigenous people, ...
S05E5: Under the Dome on the Final Day of Session
Missouri Capitol Chat - May 20, 2024 19:00 - 23 minutesGo under the dome on the final day of the 2024 legislative session. In this special edition of Missouri Capitol Chat, Phillip Arnzen, Kara Corches and Heidi Geisbuhler Sutherland join us from the Capitol Rotunda to look back on a chaotic session. What pro-business legislation made it to the go...
Preparing for the European elections
Ibec Podcasts - May 20, 2024 09:00 - 18 minutesWith the European Parliament elections fast approaching on 7 June 2024, the context in which they are taking place is a critical period for Ireland and Europe. The EU is central to Ireland’s future success, and the elections are an opportunity for citizens to help shape that future. It is an opp...
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall & ZOE’s Dr Federica Amati on Eating 30 Plants A Week, Part Two
Intelligence Squared - May 19, 2024 23:10 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratingsThis is the second instalment of a two-part conversation. In recent years the benefits of eating a diet rich in plants have increasingly been at the forefront of our conversations about food. You may have heard scientists like Tim Spector, the founder of ZOE, argue that a healthy diet should cons...
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall & ZOE’s Dr Federica Amati on Eating 30 Plants A Week, Part One
Intelligence Squared - May 18, 2024 23:10 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratingsIn recent years the benefits of eating a diet rich in plants have increasingly been at the forefront of our conversations about food. You may have heard scientists like Tim Spector, the founder of ZOE, argue that a healthy diet should consist of 30 plants a week. This recommendation comes from a ...
'A Chance to Harmonize' Tells the Story of the U.S. Music Unit
KQED's Forum - May 17, 2024 19:39 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsA generation of American folk singers – including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Woody Guthrie – owe their inspiration to a little-known New Deal project known as the U.S. Music Unit. Over the course of two years, federal workers recorded amateur musicians at government-owned homesteads as a way to “ra...
Here’s What to Do in the Bay Area This Summer
KQED's Forum - May 17, 2024 19:25 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsWhether you’re looking for an outdoor excursion, a quiet art gallery to wander through or a rousing show for an evening’s entertainment, KQED’s Arts & Culture team has got you covered. From festival dates to soccer schedules, the 2024 Summer Guide has recommendations in the Bay Area covering ever...
Zeinab Badawi on an African History of Africa, Part Two
Intelligence Squared - May 16, 2024 23:10 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratingsThis is the second instalment of a three-part conversation. Too often historians have told the history of Africa through the prism of colonialism. But what picture of the continent emerges when we do away with making the story of Africa so anchored in European colonialism? Award-winning broadcast...
California’s Budget Deficit is $45 Billion. What's Newsom's Plan to Fix It?
KQED's Forum - May 16, 2024 20:31 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsGov. Gavin Newsom last week proposed a series of deep cuts to close the state’s $45 billion budget deficit. The proposals, which include no new taxes, include a nearly 8% cut to state operations and the elimination of 10,000 unfilled jobs and will affect some education, public health and affordab...
Doing Democracy: Trump’s Rhetoric Raises Fears of an Authoritarian Second Term
KQED's Forum - May 16, 2024 20:05 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsDonald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid “is the most openly authoritarian campaign I’ve seen [from] any candidate anywhere in the world since World War II”. That’s according to Harvard political scientist Steven Levitsky, co-author of the book “How Democracies Die”. Trump’s stated plans include seek...
Floods knocked out Redclyffe, so why rebuild on the same flood-prone site?
When the Facts Change - May 16, 2024 17:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe Redclyffe substation near Napier flooded during Cyclone Gabrielle and turning it off turned off the power for much of Hawkes Bay and Tairāwhiti. Transpower has fixed it for now, but has faced a big decision: should it rebuild it where it is now, next to a stream? Or start again on higher grou...
Interest Rate Fluctuations Driven By Persistent Uncertainty
Ibec Podcasts - May 16, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutesIn this episode of Ibec Responds, we delve into the dynamic world of global economics, where interest rates reign supreme. From influencing spending habits to shaping investment decisions, interest rates play a pivotal role in driving economic activity. Join Executive Director, Ibec Global, Ja...
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