Hosted by Lukas Seifert and Oliver Walsh · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 66 episodes
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Critical Edge stands for pushing ideas to the limit, and pushing our guests to those limits too. We feel that too many platforms host brilliant individuals, but don’t end up asking the questions that really matter. This is a platform for debate, a disruptive media channel, which discusses perspectives too often unexplored. Get ready for a new communal project. Ideas are sharper at the edge.
Lukas Seifert and Oliver Walsh hosts Critical Edge, a news show with 66 episodes published.
Ollie and Lukas sat down again with Cenk Uygur to discuss being banned from the UK for anti-semitism, Israel’s influence in the UK, and Palestine.Critical Edge is a multi-media community started by two friends seeking to
Critical Edge hosts and best mates Ollie and Lukas sit down with Philip Pullman, renowned author of His Dark Materials.We drew on everything from Milton's Paradise Lost to Superman to William Blake. This episode was abou
Critical Edge hosts and best mates Ollie and Lukas sit down with rockstar panpyschist Philip Goff.Ollie, Lukas and Philip talked about it all. We started with a discussion about the fundamental nature of consciousness, a
Critical Edge hosts and best mates Ollie and Lukas sit down with veteran of the philosophy game Jeff McMahan, an ethicist who lives and breathes his work. We really got into it this episode. We discussed whether war can
Critical Edge hosts and best mates sit down with Robin Carhart-Harris, leading psychedelic researcher and all round good bloke. We discussed the ethical and philosophical questions attached to psychedelics: such as how a
Critical Edge hosts and best mates Ollie and Lukas sit down with rockstar philosopher Nigel Warburton, co-host of Philosophy Bites.Ollie, Lukas and Nigel had a great chat about whether art is subjective, how cultural bea
Critical Edge hosts and best mates Ollie and Lukas sit down with Canadian-American astronomer Wendy Freedman, one of Times 2025 Top 100 most influential people in the world.Hardly experts on the topic, Ollie and Lukas ha
Critical Edge hosts Ollie and Lukas sit down with philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah to explore what classic thought experiments reveal about identity, morality, power, and the future of human connection. Across these puzz
Critical Edge hosts Ollie and Lukas sit down with philosopher David Edmonds to explore how discrimination, identity, and group psychology shape the way we see ourselves - and each other. Hosted by two passionate Oxford g
Critical Edge hosts Ollie and Lukas sit down with Professor John Curtice, the UK's leading authority on public opinion and electoral behaviour, to examine how Britain's political landscape has been transformed over the p
Critical Edge hosts Ollie and Lukas sit down with Professor Mark Blyth, an expert in political economy, to unpack how economic ideas shape the world we live in. We explore why being wrong is essential to learning, drawin
Critical Edge hosts Ollie and Lukas sit down with Frank Turek, an American Christian apologist. We had some interesting and nuanced discussion about the interrelation of faith and doubt, the problem of evil, and the reli
Ollie and Lukas sit down with Anthony Scaramucci for a fast, candid conversation about power, populism, and political renewal. Anthony is former White House Communications Director, and co-host of The Rest Is Politics US
Ollie and Lukas sit down with historian, author, and co-host of The Rest is History, Dominic Sandbrook — one of Britain’s most influential public historians. Can pride in one’s country ever be “healthy"? How should we te
Critical Edge hosts Ollie and Lukas sit down with the youngest ever country council leader, George Finch. 19 year old George, from Warwickshire, defect from the Tories to Reform UK last year. George and our hosts found s
In this episode, we sat down with economist Julian Jessop to discuss the future of taxation, free markets, and the role of the state. From whether VAT should be extended to food and children’s clothing, to how corporate
Oxford academic Danny Dorling discusses the state of inequality in the UK - from the rise of right-wing populism and the hollowing out of the middle class to the state of race relations across the island. How large are t
In this episode, we sat down with Anand Menon, the director of UK in a changing Europe, and Professor of Political Science and King's College London. We discuss the long-term impact of Brexit on trade and on the UK's sof
Sir Ben Okri OBE is a Booker Prize-winning British-Nigerian writer and a powerful voice in post-colonial literature. In this exclusive interview, Okri reflects on how our ways of seeing — as readers, viewers, and thinker
Parag Khanna is a strategy advisor and bestselling author. He is an expert in geopolitics and global strategy and how we can apply AI to better navigate economic disruptions in our volatile world. Listen in.
John Curtice
senior research fellow at the National Centre for Social Research · University of Strathclyde
1 appearance on this show
Mark Blyth
professor of international economics · Brown University
1 appearance on this show
Frank Turek
Christian apologist · CrossExamined.org
1 appearance on this show
Anthony Scaramucci
Wall Street financier, broadcaster, former Director of Communications for Donald Trump · SkyBridge Capital
1 appearance on this show
Dominic Sandbrook
co-host of The Rest is History · The Rest Is History
1 appearance on this show
Danny Dorling
Professor · Oxford University
1 appearance on this show
Anand Menon
Professor of Political Science at King's College London · UK in a changing Europe
1 appearance on this show
Parag Khanna
Founder & CEO, Climate Alpha; Founder & Managing Partner, FutureMap · Climate Alpha
1 appearance on this show
Dave Rubin
American conservative political commentator, host of ‘The Rubin Report’
1 appearance on this show
Cenk Uygur
The Young Turks
1 appearance on this show
Philip Goff
academic philosopher and panpsychist · Durham University
1 appearance on this show
Sir Vince Cable
former Leader of the Liberal Democrats, former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
1 appearance on this show
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