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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Faith, Hope & Carnage: Join legendary musician and bestselling writer Nick Cave as he discusses his new book and beyond with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is disinformation a little more than a buzzword? Is it part of a far bigger movement? Freddie Sayers is joined by Jacob Siegel to discuss disinformation and America's new censorship complex. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Elbridge Colby, former advisor to President Trump and author of the 2018 National Defense Strategy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets historian Quinn Slobodian to discuss capitalist extremism, states run by corporations and a future without democracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
UnHerd's Flo Read meets Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb. Read the article here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
UnHerd's Flo Read meets philosopher Susan Neiman to discuss the meaning of the word 'woke' and why we use it. Read the article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
If offence is against the rules, what hope is there for radical writing? Join world-famous author Lionel Shriver to discuss the decline of in-your-face fiction and the sinister rise of sensitivity readers. Read the article here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Matt Stoller to discuss the case against the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Read the Post here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
Freddie Sayers meets Vivek Ramaswamy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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.
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...
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...
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.
