The Munk Debates Podcast

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What's The Munk Debates Podcast about?

The Munk Debates podcast is an extension of the main stage events - in subject, speaker selection, tone and format. It will introduce the iconic brand - and its engaging debates about significant issues of our time. Audiences will hear strong and passionate arguments from both sides of an issue so they will have enough information to make up their own minds about where they stand.

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Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and ...

The Munk Debates Podcast episodes:

07.01.2022 Happy Canada Day! Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and ...
06.29.2022 Joseph Nye Dialogue Episode summary Joseph Nye has been listed as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy and is widely thought of as one of the leading global thinkers of our time. Extremely well-versed in nuclear weapons and nonproliferation, Nye, a ...
06.24.2022 Donbas Falls? - Biden Presidency Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and ...
06.21.2022 Be it Resolved: A Society that Allows Billionaires to Exist is Immoral Should billionaires exist? On this episode of the Munk Debates Podcast, the editor of Jacobin Magazine, Bhaskar Sunkara, debates American Enterprise Institute's James Pethokoukis on the motion Be it resolved, a society that allows billionaires to exist is immoral. SOURCES: ...
06.17.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 26 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
06.16.2022 Ian Morris Dialogue - Geography is Destiny In 2016, the UK stunned the rest of Europe by voting to leave the European Union. The split was close, 48 per cent of people voted to stay but 52 per cent voted to leave the geopolitical and trade alliance. ...
06.10.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 25 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
06.07.2022 Be it Resolved: Cut Public Spending for Universities. It's a Waste of Time and Money. Is university a waste of time and money? On this episode of the Munk Debates Podcast, Bryan Caplan, author of The Case Against Education, debates Professor Nicholas Dirks, the former Chancellor of UC Berkeley, on the motion Be it resolved, ...
06.03.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 24 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
05.31.2022 Be it Resolved, it’s time to return to the office While many people are now happily returning to restaurants and concert halls after two years of COVID isolation, most workers are not as eager to return to the office. Office occupancy rates in the US are only at 40%, with ...
05.27.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 23 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
05.26.2022 Be it Resolved, ending the world’s worst geopolitical crisis in a generation starts with acknowledging Russia’s security interests By any measure, the Russian invasion of Ukraine represents a profound security risk for the world. It raises fundamental issues about the basic principles that underwrite the current international order and it threatens the specter of an entrenched, high-risk Great ...
05.20.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 22 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
05.17.2022 Be it Resolved, workers of the world, unite! Unions are making a comeback. Frustrated with pay, benefits, job security, and working conditions, Amazon workers in Staten Island and Starbucks employees across New York have opted to join unions and initiate collective bargaining with their employers, inspiring a wave ...
05.13.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 21 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
05.11.2022 Be it Resolved, the Ukraine War has accelerated the rollback of globalization The end of the Cold War marked the beginning of a new, interdependent world. Growing global consensus around trade rules, technology transfers, mass migration and investment ushered in a wave of globalization that was championed as the most effective means ...
05.06.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 20 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
05.05.2022 Ayaan Hirsi Ali Dialogue Ayaan Hirsi Ali joins us for an enlightening discussion on how many of our longstanding beliefs about reasoning and rationality are coming under attack at a time when they are needed most. “Feelings and sentiments have been elevated to a ...
04.29.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 19 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
04.28.2022 Be it Resolved: what you call censorship, I call power struggle “You can have Rogan or Young. Not both” So threatened Neil Young to Spotify in protest to the vaccine and COVID misinformation being spread on Joe Rogan’s incredibly popular and lucrative podcast. As more artists began to pull out from ...
04.22.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 18 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
04.19.2022 Be it Resolved: it's time we cancelled Winston Churchill In 2002, Winston Churchill was voted the greatest Briton who ever lived, beating Darwin, Shakespeare and Elizabeth I to take the top spot. Just 18 years later, a statue of the former British Prime Minister was defaced in London, spray ...
04.15.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 17 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
04.12.2022 Julia Galef Dialogue Acclaimed author and popular podcaster Julia Galef joins us for a fascinating discussion about how embracing a scout’s mindset, one that champions curiosity and truth-seeking over knee jerk reactions, will give us the tools we need to make smarter decisions. ...
04.08.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 16 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
04.05.2022 Be it resolved: We are living in a simulation The Matrix, The Truman Show, and now more recently Westworld. Popular culture has long been captivated by the notion that our lives and the world we inhabit in are nothing more than an advanced computer simulation. But it’s also an ...
04.01.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 15 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
03.29.2022 Be it resolved: The Federal Reserve needs to fight inflation aggressively or risk its own credibility Pandemic government spending, labour shortages, rising gas prices, and supply chain bottlenecks have led to a surge in inflation and some of the fastest price gains for a broad range of goods and services in the last 40 years. In ...
03.25.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 14 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
03.22.2022 Daniel Dennett Dialogue World-renowned philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett joins us for a special Munk Dialogue on the origin of human consciousness, and how our minds have been shaped by natural selection and generations of cultural evolution. QUOTES: DANIEL DENNETT “We have ...
03.18.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 13 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
03.16.2022 Be it resolved: NATO is partly responsible for Russian aggression in Ukraine Prior to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, talks between Vladimir Putin and Western leaders largely centered around NATO’s eastward expansion: The Russian leader demanded that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization deny membership to Ukraine and Georgia and roll back troop ...
03.11.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 12 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
03.08.2022 Be it resolved: Prince Charles is unfit to be King of England He’s been heir to the throne for 70 years, waiting to take over as King of Great Britain from the country’s longest serving monarch, his mother, Queen Elizabeth. But as the Queen’s advanced age and fragile health becomes ever more ...
03.04.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 11 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
03.01.2022 Munk Members Pod, Ukraine Invasion Special Edition: Season 2, Episode 10 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
03.01.2022 Gad Saad Dialogue Gad Saad joins us for an in-depth discussion on how lazy thinking and intellectual tribalism is killing common sense and rational debate. QUOTES: GAD SAAD "When you have a collectivist society, you have cohesive norms, and you have rituals of ...
02.25.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 9 This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of ...
02.23.2022 Be it resolved: COVID-19 is everywhere, it’s time to lift all restrictions for good It’s been almost two years since COVID-19 was first declared a pandemic, and yet every few months a new variant emerges, sweeping through entire populations and thwarting any plans for a return to pre-covid normal life. While many governments are ...
02.22.2022 Munk Members Pod, Ukraine Crisis Special Edition: Season 2, Episode 8 This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, ...
02.21.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 7 This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of ...
02.15.2022 Be it resolved: Modern universities are a threat to democratic freedoms By now we’ve all heard of ‘cancellations’ across North American campuses – professors who face reputational and professional damage due to deviating opinions – or students who are forced to recant for behaviour deemed problematic by contemporary culture. A new ...
02.11.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 6 This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of ...
02.08.2022 Lisa Feldman Barrett Dialogue Lisa Feldman Barrett joins us for a far-reaching discussion on the science of emotions: in the battle between thoughts and feelings, which determines human behaviour? QUOTES: LISA FELDMAN BARRETT “People love novelty when it comes to food and clothes etc, ...
02.04.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 5 This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of ...
02.01.2022 Be it resolved: America is on the brink of civil war The United States has long been admired as the world’s most stable and enduring democracy. However, many experts now believe there is a growing and real risk the country could plunge into civil war. Deep political divisions, weakened institutions, racial ...
01.28.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 4 This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of ...
01.25.2022 Be it resolved: Animals don't belong on our plates Vegetarianism, Veganism, Pescetarianism, Flexitarianism. Never before have there been so many ways to define how and what we eat. But are these choices simply a matter of personal taste, or do they reflect a broader ethical conundrum about what we ...
01.21.2022 Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 3 This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of ...
01.18.2022 Steven Pinker Dialogue Steven Pinker joins us for a thought-provoking, members-only discussion on how sectarian solidarity and our pursuit of self-interest has led to the demise of objectivity, truth, and collective rationality. QUOTES: STEVEN PINKER “The most pervasive and robust cognitive bias is ...

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