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RSA Podcasts

The latest thinking from the world’s leading voices on topics ranging from education, design and creativity, to politics, philosophy and economics. Fresh ideas for better futures from the RSA.

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Rutger Bregman

Rutger Bregman

Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses. As drastic measures are taken across the world to... Read more

12 May 2020

30mins

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Big tech and the future of democracy

Big tech and the future of democracy

The tide of public opinion has turned against the big tech firms. How serious of a threat are these companies to democra... Read more

28 Nov 2019

35mins

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Is the centre ground dead?

Is the centre ground dead?

Commentators say the financial crisis and its aftermath sounded the death knell for centrist parties. Is the centre grou... Read more

12 Mar 2019

34mins

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Denialism, with Caroline Lucas MP & Keith Kahn-Harris

Denialism, with Caroline Lucas MP & Keith Kahn-Harris

From climate change to vaccines, there’s a worrying tendency in our culture to bury our heads in the sand, and for a gro... Read more

21 Mar 2019

41mins

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Good Economics for Hard Times

Good Economics for Hard Times

RSA chief executive Matthew Taylor and journalist Ian Leslie are joined by this year's winner of the Nobel prize for eco... Read more

19 Nov 2019

44mins

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Have we reached peak populism or is this just the start of it?

Have we reached peak populism or is this just the start of it?

The British people have spoken.  In the first December election since 1923, it’s turned out to be Christmas with all the... Read more

19 Dec 2019

37mins

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How Change Happens

How Change Happens

Insights from three of the world's leading thinkers on how political and societal change happens: presidential historian... Read more

20 Apr 2019

37mins

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Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan

Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses. As drastic measures are taken across the world to... Read more

1 May 2020

31mins

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Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd

Global crises cause big changes and reveal deep structural weaknesses. As drastic measures are taken across the world to... Read more

21 Apr 2020

29mins

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Talking to the Enemy, with Michael Sandel & Maria Exner

Talking to the Enemy, with Michael Sandel & Maria Exner

This week Ian Leslie and Matthew Taylor are asking: what's the best way to talk to people we disagree with? If we want t... Read more

13 Feb 2019

38mins

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The psychology of tribalism, with Jonathan Haidt

The psychology of tribalism, with Jonathan Haidt

Is tribalism an indelible part of human nature? And if it is, can we overcome it? Matthew Taylor speaks to moral psychol... Read more

6 Dec 2018

33mins

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Elections, Fatalism, and Twitter Storms

Elections, Fatalism, and Twitter Storms

Matthew Taylor speaks to French political journalist Marie Le Conte about the European elections, French politics and be... Read more

31 May 2019

44mins

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Nervous States, with Will Davies

Nervous States, with Will Davies

Have feelings taken over the world? Have we lost our collective grip on rationality? And what can a panic about nothing ... Read more

18 Oct 2018

35mins

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How Internet Culture Poisoned Politics, with Whitney Phillips

How Internet Culture Poisoned Politics, with Whitney Phillips

Is it inevitable that the internet and social media drive us to the extremes? Or do they just hold up a mirror to an alr... Read more

20 Jun 2018

28mins

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Are our broadcasters fit for purpose?

Are our broadcasters fit for purpose?

More than ever our broadcasters are accused of bias and spin, and the subject of wild conspiracy theories. Have they bro... Read more

5 Dec 2019

44mins

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Identity, with Francis Fukuyama

Identity, with Francis Fukuyama

The phrase ‘identity politics’ has come to be used as a sort of political insult. It’s a short way of accusing someone o... Read more

24 Dec 2018

36mins

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Do you understand public opinion as well as you think you do?

Do you understand public opinion as well as you think you do?

Matthew Taylor and Ian Leslie dissect new (and sometimes controversial) research on the divide between 'anarchists' and ... Read more

10 Oct 2019

37mins

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Anger, with Claire Fox

Anger, with Claire Fox

Anger is all the rage, but is anger itself the problem? Some people say we need to push back against anger in our politi... Read more

24 Aug 2018

30mins

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Stories, Myths and Belonging

Stories, Myths and Belonging

It's been a turbulent week in UK politics. What could possibly happen next? Matthew Taylor and Ian Leslie talk Brexit pr... Read more

21 Nov 2018

31mins

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Could a citizens' jury help break the Brexit deadlock?

Could a citizens' jury help break the Brexit deadlock?

Two days after the biggest government defeat in the history of the British parliament, Matthew Taylor makes the case for... Read more

17 Jan 2019

30mins

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