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The Munk Debates Podcast

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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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45:52

Be it resolved: To fight this pandemic and the next,...

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/03/17

We are into the fourth month of the largest global vaccination programme in history withover 335 million COVID-19 jabs administered in 108 countries. Critics of the vaccine rollout aredeeply concerned about the inequitable distribution of the life saving inoculations. They say thevast majority of vaccinations have taken place in wealthy countries with inoculation ratesdramatically lower in Asia and almost non-existent in Africa. They argue that we are experiencingan artificially created shortage and

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11:19

Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 10

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/03/12

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 the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, in conversation with Rudyard Griffiths, Chair and moderator of the Munk Debates. This week’s Munk Members Podcast focuses on three big issues in the news:America’s massive $1.9

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40:46

Be it resolved: Cancel culture is not a threat to...

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/03/10

Musician Ariel Pink is dropped by his label for attending a Trump rally. A top executive at Boeing loses his job because of an article he wrote decades ago opposing allowing women to serve as fighter pilots. JK Rowling is widely condemned for tweets her critics deem transphobic. All of the above were subject to social media ‘cancellation’ campaigns they experienced as attacks on their free speech rights and personal reputations. For cancel culture’s critics, shouting down a speaker

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13:34

Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 9

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/03/05

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 the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, in conversation with Rudyard Griffiths, Chair and moderator of the Munk Debates. This episode provides insights into three big stories in the news: do Saudi Arabia and Russia care about new

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45:33

Be it resolved: Go Green! Go Nuclear!

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/03/03

Zero emissions by 2050 and at the latest 2060. That has been the rallying cry for many of the world’s largest economies, including the US, UK, Japan, Canada, and most notably, China. But with almost 80% of carbon emissions coming from energy, demand for electricity continuing to grow by leaps and bounds, and storage batteries still in their infancy, it’s not clear how these countries will live up to their promises. The answer, say an increasing number of environmentalists and energy

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11:02

Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 8

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/02/26

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 the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, in conversation with Rudyard Griffiths, Chair and moderator of the Munk Debates. This episode provides insights into three big stories in the news: how should the world respond to Iran’s

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50:17

Be it resolved: The GameStop frenzy is good for...

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/02/24

By now most people are familiar with the GameStop saga: how a small video game retailer worthless than $1 billion, fuelled by day trader investors and Reddit message boards, went on the rideof its life – rocketing its share price from $20 to $400 dollars in the span of a few days. Thecompany’s meteoric rise wiped out billions of dollars from institutional investors who had betagainst GameStop. And then, as quickly as it rose, it began to fall again. The company’s shares lostthree

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13:04

Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 7

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/02/19

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 the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, in conversation with Rudyard Griffiths, Chair and moderator of the Munk Debates. This episode digs into three big stories in the news: COVID case numbers plunge globally; why is this

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36:00

Bari Weiss on speech and open debate

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/02/17

Bari Weiss, journalist and best selling author on the future of speech and open debate in contemporary society, and how we forge common understandings about the things that matter in times of extreme political and ideological polarization. The host of the Munk Debates is Rudyard Griffiths -@rudyardg. To learn more about the episode, head tohttps://munkdebates.com/podcast. Tweet your comments about this episode to@munkdebateor comment on our Facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/munkdebates/ To

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11:55

Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 6

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/02/12

This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. To access the full length episode consider becoming a Munk Member. Membership is free. Simply log on to www.munkdebates.com/membership to register. Under your membership profile page you will find a link to listen to the full length editions of Munk Members Podcast. The Munk Members Podcast provides a focused, half-hour masterclass on current events with Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling

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40:23

Be it resolved: The threat of new COVID-19 variants...

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/02/11

B117, N501Y, P1 - these are the labels for new variants of the COVID-19 virus that have led to new waves of infection in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil and are now spreading around the world. Studies suggest that these variants could be substantially more infectious and possibly more lethal than the early COVID-Sars-2 strains. Most worrying, the mutations that characterize these variants may reduce the effectiveness of the long awaited vaccines leading to new surges in cases, more

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13:59

Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 5

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/02/05

This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. To access the full length episode consider becoming a Munk Member. Membership is free. Simply log on to www.munkdebates.com/membership to register. Under your membership profile page you will find a link to listen to the full length editions of Munk Members Podcast. The Munk Members Podcast provides a focused, half-hour masterclass on current events with Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling

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47:55

Be it resolved: The quest for true AI is one of the...

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/02/03

A novel written by artificial intelligence is shortlisted for a literary prize. Google software beats a human opponent at Go, one of the most complex board games in the world. Self-driving cars recognize images and then make decisions. These are just some of the extraordinary accomplishments based on artificial intelligence that we have witnessed in the past few years. But there are many scientists who are pushing for a more cautious approach to how we move forward on machine intelligence. They say

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13:07

Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 4

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/01/29

This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. To access the full length episode consider becoming a Munk Member. Membership is free. Simply log on to www.munkdebates.com/membership to register. Under your membership profile page you will find a link to listen to the full length editions of Munk Members Podcast. The Munk Members Podcast provides a focused, half-hour masterclass on current events with Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling

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45:33

Be it resolved: Safety and fairness preclude...

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/01/27

For almost a century now the international sporting community has grappled with the question of how to determine who gets to compete in the female sports category. Fifty years ago the question was answered with humiliating physical exams, but in more recent decades most international sporting federations have embraced a science focused approach. The International Olympic Committee, for example, uses testosterone levels considerably above the female range, not gender, as the main determinant of who

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11:37

Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 3

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/01/22

This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. To access the full length episode consider becoming a Munk Member. Membership is free. Simply log on to www.munkdebates.com/membership to register. Under your membership profile page you will find a link to listen to the full length editions of Munk Members Podcast. The Munk Members Podcast provides a focused, half-hour masterclass on current events with Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling

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47:58

Be it resolved: We are living in a simulation

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/01/20

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 argument that is being given more credence by world renowned philosophers and scientists. The leading proponents of the “simulation hypothesis” believe that the mathematical nature of the universe is itself the strongest proof we exist in an artificial

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12:13

Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 2

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/01/15

This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. To access the full length episode consider becoming a Munk Member. Membership is free. Simply log on to www.munkdebates.com/membership to register. Under your membership profile page you will find a link to listen to the full length editions of Munk Members Podcast. The Munk Members Podcast provides a focused, half-hour masterclass on current events with Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling

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45:33

Be it resolved: The survival of the Republican Party...

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/01/14

Refusing to concede his loss to Joe Biden in November’s Presidential election. Pressuring the Secretary of State to invalidate Georgia’s votes. The President’s supporters storming the Capitol during the certification of electoral college votes. You can’t say that he didn’t warn us but the lengths to which President Donald Trump has been prepared to go to prevent a peaceful, post-election handover to the Joe Biden administration has convulsed the final days of his

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12:08

Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 1

The Munk Debates Podcast ·

2021/01/10

This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The Munk Members Pod provides a focused, half-hour masterclass on current events with Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author. Rudyard Griffiths, Chair of the Munk Debates, is the podcast moderator. Janice and Rudyard unpack the big issues in the news and drill down into the people, events and trends that are shaping our lives in this extraordinary moment. The inaugural episode of the

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