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Thinking Class
Thinking Class is a weekly long-form interview podcast and documentary series exploring the cultural, historical, and civilisational forces shaping Britain, the Anglosphere, and the wider West. 20,000 subscribers and 2 million plays across all platforms.
Hosted by John Gillam, founder of the Albion Institute (Lord Nigel Biggar CBE serves as Advisory Board Chair) and creator of The Call of England and the forthcoming Call of America documentary series.
Each episode brings together historians…
Episodes
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#030 - Connor Tomlinson - 'The Right Of Gen-Z Will Make Sure We Have A Healthy Civilisation Again'
Connor Tomlinson is a writer and presenter at LotusEaters.com and Co-host of the Deprogrammed podcast by NewCultureForum. Connor has also frequently…
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#029 - Lorenzo Warby - Forget The War Of The Sexes: Men And Women Were Made To Complement Each Other
Lorenzo Warby writes for one of Substack's featured publications for 2024, Helen Dale's Not On Your Team, But Always Fair, as well as for his own Substack…
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#028 - David Goodhart - Post-Brexit & Trump: The Anywhere Class Still Doesn't Understand
David Goodhart is a journalist, writer and thinktanker. He worked for the Financial Times for 12 years before setting up Prospect magazine in 1995. He has been…
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#027 - Emma Wells - Building Beautiful To Save Our Souls
Emma Wells is an English church historian, academic, consultant author, and broadcaster, specialising in the ecclesiastical and architectural history of the…
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#026 - Carl Trueman - These Ideas Have Been Terrible For Our Humanity And Our Culture
Dr Carl Trueman is a Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. Carl is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College in Grove…
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#025 - Eric Kaufmann - The Taboos That Produced A Woke Cultural Revolution
Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham. He is the author of Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White…
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#024 - Sebastian Milbank - We Think We Know What Freedom Is But We Don't
Sebastian Milbank is the Executive Editor of The Critic magazine, and a journalist, writer and academic with a special interest in political theology. In this…
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#023 - Helen Pluckrose - How To Keep Liberal Principles Alive In An Illiberal World
Helen Pluckrose is a political and cultural writer and commentator, addressing current affairs from a liberal humanist perspective. Her particular focus is…
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#022 - Dr. Paul Morland - Demography Is Destiny: What Future Have We Chosen?
Dr. Paul Morland is an author and broadcaster who writes and speaks about population and the big demographic trends across the world, both contemporary and…
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#021 - Elisabeth Braw - Goodbye Globalisation, Hello Divided World
Elisabeth Braw is a columnist at Foreign Policy, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and the author of "Goodbye Globalization. In this episode, Elisabeth…
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#020 - Momus Najmi - Britain Is Suffering A Clash Of Civilisations
Momus Najmi is writer, commentator, and podcaster. Host of The World of Momus podcast and author of the Substack 'The World of Momus'. Momus has made…
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#019 - Ian Williams: China's Influence Is Everywhere But It's Future Is Not Golden
Ian Williams is an author and award-winning journalist who has reported from across the world. He covered business and technology for the Sunday Times before…
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#018 - Lionel Shriver: Why I Left Britain (And Feel Guilty About It)
Lionel Shriver is an author of 8 books, including, 'We Need To Talk About Kevin', which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005 and a journalist, with a…
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#017 - Paul Embery - Why British Politicians Are Treating Citizens With Contempt
Paul Embery is a firefighter, trade union activist, writer and broadcaster. Paul has been a member of the Labour party since 1994 and active in the wider…
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#016 - Tom Jones - Betraying Britain's Future: "The Conservatives' Governing Strategy Is Bankrupt"
Tom Jones is a writer and Councillor for Scotton and Lower Wensleydale, in North Yorkshire, England. Tom is the author of Substack 'The Potemkin Village Idiot'…
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#015 - Martina Macpherson - What ESG Is And Why There Is A Backlash
Martina Macpherson has been recognised as a one of the ‘Top 50 Women in Finance’ (World Finance Forum 2022), and as a strategic engager and influencer…
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#014 - Ed West - Lessons From History: Elites, Populists, and Cultural Amnesia
Ed West is a columnist and author of the popular 'Wrong Side of History' Substack. Ed's work has appeared in many of Britain's biggest publications. He is also…
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#013 - Tomiwa Owolade: Why America's Culture War Should Not Be Britain's
Tomiwa Owolade is a writer and critic and is the author of the book This Is Not America. Tom has written for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Spectator, The…
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#012 - Dr. Rakib Ehsan: Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies Do More Harm Than Good
Dr. Rakib Ehsan is a research analyst and writer, specialising in matters of social cohesion, race relations, and public security and it's safe to say he has…
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#011 - Esmé Partridge: Why King Charles Could Improve Social Cohesion In Modern Britain
Esmé Partridge is an MPhil student at the University of Cambridge and writer for publications including UnHerd, The Critic, and First Things. Esmé previously…
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#010 - Frank Furedi: The Elite Won't Reform Itself. We Have To Replace It.
Dr. Frank Furedi is an author, social commentator and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent. Author of more than 26 books, Furedi’s studies…
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#009 - Tom Morris - Discover Ancient Wisdom And Take Control Of Your Life
Dr. Tom Morris is a native of North Carolina in the United States, a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar, and was the recipient…
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#008 - Iancu Daramus - Can Corporations Really Be Environmentalists?
Iancu Daramus is the Head of Sustainability for Fulcrum Asset Management and has been working in the field of Sustainable Finance for a decade. Through…
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#007 - Andreas Svanlund - The Civilisational Risk To The West In The Energy Transition
Andreas Svanlund is a board member of XBED, a Norwegian deep sea mining company that provides offshore companies with geo data to help them design, build, and…
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#006 - Matthew Davis: Why Business School Students Need To Know The Limits Of Their Knowledge
Matthew Davis is the Business School Director of Culture and Values at the University of Leeds, England, and is a psychologist, researcher, educator, and…
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#005 - Bridget Ryder - The Dark Side Of Green Energy
Bridget Ryder is a freelance writer based in Spain. She writes on a wide variety of topics from European Union and Spanish politics to environmental issues and…
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#004 - Ryan Hopkins - Why Is Wellbeing At Work So Low?
Ryan Hopkins is Chief Impact Officer at JAAQ, author of '52 weeks of wellbeing: a no nonsense guide to a fulfilling work life' - published 03/01/24. Before…
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#003 - Katrin Gülden Le Maire - Why Business Leaders Need To Understand Theology
Hello everybody Joining me in Thinking Class today is Katrin Gülden Le Maire. Katrin is a trained theologian, a strategic advisor, and an independent…
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#002 - Kahlil Corazo - The Nature Of Human Desire And Solving The Problem Of Meaningless Work
Kahlil Corazo is the author of How to Turn Ideas Into Reality: Project Management for Entrepreneurship and Creative Work and the founder of Advenient.co, a…
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#001 - The Foundation Of Ethics And The Limits Of Liberalism And Technocracy
Tom Hancocks is an ethics and compliance and ESG consultant, currently working professional services. An academic ethicist by background, Tom has lectured and…