//podcastplus.net/feed/beaconsfield~5a023ef7 Join Jack Jacobs in conversation with the world’s leading thinkers and writers as he tries to uncover what it means to remain human in an age of violence, conformity, and identity. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:09:42 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/w45pyf8bfstibvzh/Counterrevolutionary_Subordination_MP38r0gu.mp3 A reading of "Counterrevolutionary Subordination in Trump's America" originally published April 10 on Substack!  Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:15:23 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/w45pyf8bfstibvzh/Counterrevolutionary_Subordination_MP38r0gu.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/w45pyf8bfstibvzh/Counterrevolutionary_Subordination_MP38r0gu.mp3 A reading of "Counterrevolutionary Subordination in Trump's America" originally published April 10 on Substack!  Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:15:23 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/w45pyf8bfstibvzh/Counterrevolutionary_Subordination_MP38r0gu.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/x63rdb5bcd2yn4xj/Jeff_Wasserstrom_MP3_2axmd6.mp3 In this conversation I speak with Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom about his upcoming book The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing (June, 2025). We discuss his current work on Orwell and Asia, Orwell's essay on Gandhi, the new democratic solidarity movements arising across Asia in resistance to authoritarianism in Thailand, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and the philosophy and outlook of Thai activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal. We also discuss the relationship between solidarity and music. Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:03:50 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/x63rdb5bcd2yn4xj/Jeff_Wasserstrom_MP3_2axmd6.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/x63rdb5bcd2yn4xj/Jeff_Wasserstrom_MP3_2axmd6.mp3 In this conversation I speak with Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom about his upcoming book The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing (June, 2025). We discuss his current work on Orwell and Asia, Orwell's essay on Gandhi, the new democratic solidarity movements arising across Asia in resistance to authoritarianism in Thailand, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and the philosophy and outlook of Thai activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal. We also discuss the relationship between solidarity and music. Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:03:50 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/x63rdb5bcd2yn4xj/Jeff_Wasserstrom_MP3_2axmd6.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7ju67wxnyw3ktt86/John_Dunn_MP386jel.mp3 John Dunn is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge and one of three founders of the Cambridge School of intellectual history. It was an honour for me to speak with John about the globalisation of political thinking. We must develop, Dunn argues, a global history of political thought that in face of globalisation can 'tell the history of the interactive fates of humans themselves.' Dunn reflects on his early experiences in post-war Germany, Iran, India, and Britain, as well as his experiences later in Ghana and with Japanese thinkers, and how they all made the global a stage for his thinking about politics. We discuss the relationship between history and future-oriented political theory and reflect on what it would mean to begin the daunting work of constructing a global history of political thought. Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:52:26 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7ju67wxnyw3ktt86/John_Dunn_MP386jel.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7ju67wxnyw3ktt86/John_Dunn_MP386jel.mp3 John Dunn is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge and one of three founders of the Cambridge School of intellectual history. It was an honour for me to speak with John about the globalisation of political thinking. We must develop, Dunn argues, a global history of political thought that in face of globalisation can 'tell the history of the interactive fates of humans themselves.' Dunn reflects on his early experiences in post-war Germany, Iran, India, and Britain, as well as his experiences later in Ghana and with Japanese thinkers, and how they all made the global a stage for his thinking about politics. We discuss the relationship between history and future-oriented political theory and reflect on what it would mean to begin the daunting work of constructing a global history of political thought. Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:52:26 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7ju67wxnyw3ktt86/John_Dunn_MP386jel.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i258st/Podcast_Audio_Dr_McGilchrist9xvve.mp3 In this podcast, Dr Iain McGilchrist and I speak about themes from his book The Matter with Things. We discuss the collapse of Western civilisation’s spiritual life, the hemisphere hypothesis as Dr McGilchrist presents it in his neuroscientific research and his philosophical investigations, his sense of the Sacred, the unknown of the All, and how we might find a space for silence, metaphor, and love in our modern lives. Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:46:31 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i258st/Podcast_Audio_Dr_McGilchrist9xvve.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i258st/Podcast_Audio_Dr_McGilchrist9xvve.mp3 In this podcast, Dr Iain McGilchrist and I speak about themes from his book The Matter with Things. We discuss the collapse of Western civilisation’s spiritual life, the hemisphere hypothesis as Dr McGilchrist presents it in his neuroscientific research and his philosophical investigations, his sense of the Sacred, the unknown of the All, and how we might find a space for silence, metaphor, and love in our modern lives. Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:46:31 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i258st/Podcast_Audio_Dr_McGilchrist9xvve.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ycyhyv/Faisal_Devji_MP36pib0.mp3 In this podcast, I speak with Professor Faisal Devji from St Antony’s College, Oxford, about Mahatma Gandhi’s complex relationship with violence, revolution, and reform. Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:37:47 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ycyhyv/Faisal_Devji_MP36pib0.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ycyhyv/Faisal_Devji_MP36pib0.mp3 In this podcast, I speak with Professor Faisal Devji from St Antony’s College, Oxford, about Mahatma Gandhi’s complex relationship with violence, revolution, and reform. Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:37:47 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/ycyhyv/Faisal_Devji_MP36pib0.mp3