In our regular US update, Bruce Shapiro discusses whether a debt deal is on the horizon, and looks at Ron DeSantis' chances of winning the Republican nomination. Plus a new twist on the tale of Big Tech - the effect it's having, for good and ill, on people in the global south. And a thoughtful discussion about the delusions of the West and why we should return to the great tragic thinkers for fresh policy ideas.

Guests:

Bruce Shapiro - Contributing editor with The Nation magazine; Executive Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University.

Anup Kaphle - editor in chief, Rest of World.

Itika Sharma Punit - Asia editor, Rest of World.

Robert D. Kaplan - author of The Tragic Mind: Fear, fate and the burden of power published by Yale University Press