Antoinette Lattouf is a journalist, author and diversity advocate. She co-founded Media Diversity Australia. Her new book is How To Lose Friends and Influence White People.

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Stephen Marche is a Canadian author and political commentator. He writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic and Esquire among others. His new book The Next Civil War is a bracing look at what Stephen believes is a likely culmination of US division.

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Tyler Cowen is a celebrated American economist, blogger, author and podcaster. He currently sits as the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University. He's also an optimist about how the division we face today might end. His new book is Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Winners, and Creatives Around the World.

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David Plotz was the editor of Slate magazine during its glory days. In fact, he was Josh's first guest after the election of Donald Trump in 2016. The two reconnect about how to have difficult conversations in the 21st century.

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Douglas is a gay English conservative, columnist, and the best-selling author of the new book The War on the West. He and Josh debate the collapse of faith in western liberal democracy, and the threat posed by Trump and illiberal leaders like Viktor Orbán, and woke culture in general.

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From Nike supporting Colin Kaepernick to Qantas supporting same-sex marriage, corporations are going woke. Carl Rhodes is the Dean of the Business School at the University of Technology, Sydney... and, perhaps surprisingly, a leftist. He decries "woke capitalism" so much that he's written a book about it. He and Josh wrestle with the threat of wokeness and ask: Should companies keep their noses out of cultural questions, or is a corporate social conscience better than none? 

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As part of Acast's audio pride parade, Josh shares his thoughts on growing up gay in Sydney, and what pride means to him.

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How should we communicate science to the public? Celebrated scientist and popular Irish science communicator Professor Luke O’Neill joins Josh to plead for better scientific understanding in the general population. 

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Peter founded the animal liberation movement in the 1970s and is a driver behind the Effective Altruism movement around the world. This is a recording of "An Evening with Peter Singer", a live Q&A which Josh moderated at Sydney's Enmore Theatre on March 27th, 2022.

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An argument between Josh and veteran progressive muckraker Ana Marie Cox about whether wokeness is a real problem or a phantom of the right. Ana Marie founded Wonkette, was the senior political correspondent for MTV News and wrote for the New York Times magazine, among much, much else.

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