Chris Miller: Get ready for the chip wars
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Chris Miller, economic historian and author of Chip War. Read the article Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 13, 2023•31 min
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers
Freddie Sayers from online magazine UnHerd seeks out top scientists, writers, politicians and thinkers for in-depth interviews to try and help us work out what’s really going on. What started as an inquiry into the pandemic has broadened into a fascinating look at free speech, science, meaning and the ideas shaping our world.
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Episodes
David Sacks: Is the Silicon Valley Bank deal another bailout?
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers is joined by PayPal co-founder David Sacks to examine the fallout from the collapse of SVB Bank. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 13, 2023•46 min
Mary Harrington: Feminism against progress
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers sits down with UnHerd contributor Mary Harrington to discuss her new book, Feminism Against Progress. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Isabel Oakeshott: The lesson of the Lockdown Files
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who wrote the minute by minute lockdown discussions. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 08, 2023•32 min
Marianne Williamson: America needs a philosopher king
Marianne Williamson, the bestselling self-help author and former Democratic primary candidate, is back in the race to become US President. She is due to announce officially tomorrow, which will make her the first Democrat to put their name in the ring for 2024, before even Joe Biden. In 2020, Williamson (a total political unknown at the time) vied for the progressive vote, but lost out to the better-known Senator Bernie Sanders. Yet since then she has grown a loyal following of young voters who ...
Mar 03, 2023•39 min
Fiona Hill: Absolute victory over Russia is not possible
Fiona Hill has been closely involved in matters to do with Russia and Ukraine advising American administrations for many years. We discuss NATO's "open door", negotiation with Putin, what would be different if Trump was still in office and much more. Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 21, 2023•49 min
Jeffrey Sachs: Who really blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Jeffrey Sachs to debate who really blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 15, 2023•44 min
Louis-Vincent Gave: China cancels lockdowns... where's the disaster?
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Louis-Vincent Gave discuss the current COVID situation in China. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 13, 2023•33 min
Military analyst: Is the Ukraine war headed for stalemate?
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Michael Kofman. Michael Kofman is the Director of the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses and a Fellow of the Center for a New American Security. He joined UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers to give an update on the situation on the ground in Ukraine and debate the risks and benefits of pursuing an ‘all-out’ victory against Russia. The military analyst on the risks and rewards of Western intervention Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...
Feb 02, 2023•37 min
Peter Hitchens: The Covid censors are moving on to Ukraine
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers speaks to journalist Peter Hitchens about a disturbing new Big Brother Watch report into UK government spying and censorship. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 30, 2023•23 min
Matthew B. Crawford: The perpetual state of emergency
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers chats with American philosopher Matthew B. Crawford in the UnHerd studio. Check out Matthew's Substack here Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 17, 2023•31 min
The scientific case against facemasks
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Dr. Margery Smelkinson and Dr. Leslie Bienen to discuss the efficacy of facemasks. Read the full Post article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 13, 2023•28 min
David Sacks: The tech reset has only just begun
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets PayPal co-founder David Sacks. Read the full post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 06, 2023•43 min
Brett Scott: Beware a cashless society
UnHerd's Flo Read mets Brett Scott, author of Cloud Money. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 03, 2023•37 min
UnHerd Christmas Special: Christmas is a time for chaos
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 23, 2022•41 min
Jay Bhattacharya: What I discovered at Twitter HQ
Freddie Sayers catches up with Dr Jay Bhattacharya about his recent meeting with Elon Musk at Twitter HQ, and what he discovered about the Twitter Files. Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 16, 2022•40 min
Freddie deBoer: We should forgive Kanye West
UnHerd's Florence Read meets American author Freddie deBoer to discuss the curious case of Kanye West. In the space of a few months Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, has gone from world-famous rapper to appearing on Alex Jones’s InfoWars praising Hitler. It’s not clear if he will ever recover reputationally from the stigma of this episode. What lessons can we take from the public's treatment of the rapper? Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 09, 2022•47 min
Vivek Ramaswamy: Elon Musk won't save us
Freddie Sayers meets Vivek Ramaswamy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 05, 2022•29 min
John Mearsheimer: The West is playing Russian roulette
Freddie Sayers meets political scientist John Mearsheimer, the world-famous proponent of realism in international relations. Read the full article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Ex-Ambassador speaks out: How Qatar funds extremism in the West
Qatar, a previously small and little-known country in the Middle East, has come to much wider public attention as the host of this year's World Cup. Its critics have focused on human rights abuses and the treatment of migrant workers in the construction of tournament stadiums. Less talked about, but something much closer to home, is Qatar’s hand in promoting Islamist ideas in Western countries. A new report by think tank Policy Exchange investigates this very issue, and has come to some quite ex...
Nov 23, 2022•48 min
David Sacks: Ukraine is turning into Woke War III
Freddie Sayers meets David Sacks. When Elon Musk unveiled his notorious Ukraine peace proposal on Twitter last month, it caused quite the stir. For simply outlining the potential contours of a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia, the new Twitter CEO was derided as a dangerous Putin apologist (despite his company Starlink providing internet to Ukraine at a cost of $20 million a month). It happens that Musk is not the only Silicon Valley mogul who has come under fire for taking a real...
Nov 01, 2022•31 min
John Gray Part II: Welcome to the era of tragic realism
Freddie Sayers meets John Gray in part two of a two-part interview. Watch Part I: https://youtu.be/BvWczz1q0jU Read the accompanying Part I article Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 28, 2022•1 hr 18 min
John Gray Part I: Revenge of the technocrats
Freddie Sayers meets philosopher John Gray. John Gray was the prophet of the postliberal age, describing global capitalism as a false utopia as early as 1998. In his most recent writing, he has returned to geopolitics, and has described the populist moment, the pandemic, and the growing threat of superpower conflict as existential threats to the liberal, technocratic order. Amid this chaos, Rishi Sunak — former Goldman Sachs banker — has become Britain’s new prime minister. Has the technocratic ...
Oct 26, 2022•43 min
Ivar Arpi: Why did Sweden turn Right-wing?
Freddie Sayers meets Ivar Arpi. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 22, 2022•46 min
Canada's euthanasia laws killed my brother
UnHerd's Flo Read meets Gary Nichols, whose brother, Alan Nichols, requested euthanasia and died by lethal injection in Canada in June 2019. Read the article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 17, 2022•41 min
Investigating the Florida vaccine study
Freddie Sayers meets Anders Hviid and Tracy Høeg. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 12, 2022•49 min
Michael Gove: Do Conservatives have a philosophy?
Freddie Sayers live in Birmingham with Michael Gove. Freddie Sayers sat down with Michael Gove in Birmingham during the Conservative Party Conference for a special UnHerd Live event, asking: What’s the big idea? …do Conservatives have a philosophy? Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Jay Bhattacharya: The legal case against Anthony Fauci
Freddie Sayers discusses Jay Bhattacharya and Jenin Younes' lawsuit against the US federal government. In October 2020, the Great Barrington Declaration was published by three academics - Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff - who appeared on UnHerd to break the story. It marked a watershed moment in the pandemic, but the authors found their criticisms of COVID policy were increasingly censored on social media. Now, Bhattacharya is taking his case to the courts to prove collusion...
Sep 30, 2022•31 min
Will the hard Right sweep Europe?
Freddie Sayers meets Ralph Schoellhammer. The rise of the Christian, ultra-conservative candidate Giorgia Meloni in Italy marks a strange split in European politics. Post-Brexit Britain is now in the minority of countries that have not seen a recent Rightward populist uprising. UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers sat down with Ralph Schoellhammer, Assistant Professor of Economics at Webster University, Vienna. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 26, 2022•49 min
Cancelled for pro-peace street art
Florence Read meets cancelled street artist, Peter Seaton. Earlier this month, a mural of two soldiers embracing, one Ukrainian and one Russian, appeared on the side of a building in Melbourne. It was the work of Peter Seaton, an Australian street artist known for large-scale graffiti. The title he gave the work was ‘Peace before Pieces’. He describes it as a ‘meditation on the dehumanisation of war’. He joined UnHerd in the studio to answer the question: is pro-peace art the next victim of trib...
Sep 22, 2022•23 min
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