https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wpwsf-cac164 On the 30 years since 1989. For our 100th episode, we invited our favourite guests to reflect on the question: “What one event, personal or political, most captures for you the past thirty years, since 1989?” Are we still…
Read More /100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gud7e-c0ec36 On the Hong Kong rebellion. Four months of protests is forcing a confrontation with the Hong Kong authorities and the Chinese state. The demands are for civil liberties and some more democracy - but what are the social conditions…
Read More /89/ On the Lam: Hong Kong Rebels ft. Toby Carroll
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-8wqay-9e8a75 In which we learn of Duterte's promises of blood and how he's lived up to those promises. Is massacring drug user, dealers and anyone caught in the crossfire actually popular? How does violence fit in with his development model?…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t3y3v-948e65 In which we survey Turkey's election results in light of five years of tumult - Gezi, economic downturn, terrorist attacks, Syrian war, coup, repression. Are cracks beginning to show for Erdogan? He teamed up with ultranationalists, while opposition secularists and Islamists…
