This week James and Pete talk about the leadership of the ABC and why it shows the need for privatisation, the World Bank’s latest statistics on extreme poverty, Trump’s speech to the UN and a number of Australian authors standing up for artistic freedom against accusations of cultural appropriation. We talk to IPA Communications Gideon Rozner about his new Parliamentary Research Brief on the five myths of state ownership of the ABC (12:15-26:33). We also talk to our high school correspondent Bo Sergeant about the state of intellectual debate and the attraction of the intellectual dark web (26:42-41:29)