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Ideas Matter Podcast is home to talks from leading contemporary thinkers on the most important political and cultural issues and intellectual trends of our times. Many were recorded at or reflect the topics discussed at Ideas Matter events, including Living Freedom summer school, The Academy residential weekend and Debating Matters schools debating competition.
Unknown Host hosts Ideas Matter, a education show with 73 episodes published.
What comes after liberal democracy? In this bold, idea-rich lecture, Kolja Zydatis explores the global political topography of our time – a murky, volatile “interregnum” where the old order is collapsing but the new has
Is the postwar liberal order finally coming undone? And if so – what comes next? The liberal order is dying – not liberalism as an idea, but the postwar regime of managed decline, elite control, and fake freedom. This ta
This lecture explores the emergence of the American New Right – a diffuse and provocative intellectual tendency gaining visibility in the wake of the populist revolts of 2016. Focusing on figures like Patrick Deneen and
What if the most radical act today is remembering who we are? In this brilliant, rousing address, political strategist and historian-in-spirit Gawain Towler argues that British history is not a relic – it’s a shield, a c
Is populism enough? Or is the real crisis deeper – moral, spiritual, civilisational? In this sweeping and provocative lecture, theologian and political philosopher John Milbank argues that post-liberalism is not a reacti
Can a generation obsessed with authenticity even recognise what’s real anymore? This wide-ranging and incisive talk explores Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection, a haunting millennial rewrite of Georges Perec’s Things: A Sto
What does it mean to belong – to a country, a culture, a civilisation? In this provocative and wide-ranging talk, we explore the deep tensions between citizenship and belonging in modern Britain and the West. From the st
What happens when everything becomes public – our thoughts, our feelings, even our intimacy? In this sweeping and brilliant talk, we trace the collapse of the boundary between public and private life, showing how an idea
Alienation. Estrangement. A loss of voice. Across the West, millions feel like strangers in the very places they once called home – but are told they're not allowed to say it. Frank Furedi cuts through the noise and expo
The concept of high culture has come under sustained attack. Once understood as a repository of human achievement, high culture is now dismissed as elitist, exclusionary, or worse—merely the expression of dead white Euro
Words are civilisation’s golden-thread: the durable link from Homer to Orwell that turns tribes into free peoples. Yet our own elites now treat language as toxic waste to be inspected, licensed or burned. This lecture st
Modern universities have become bureaucratic engines of conformity, hostile to the very civilisation they owe everything to. In this eye-opening lecture, Professor Simon Haines, founding director of the Ramsay Centre for
As Vicky Richardson argues in this talk, cultural institutions today stand at a crossroads. Once dedicated to excellence, artistic achievement, and the preservation of tradition, they are now paralysed by fear. Leadershi
The Industrial Revolution was supposed to set humanity free. It promised progress—mastery over nature, freedom from suffering, and a future shaped by human reason. It gave us the means to solve problems that once seemed
In this talk, Ann Furedi argues that Human civilization is built on the distinctiveness of our species—the awareness that we exist in time, with a past, present, and future, and that we are unique in our capacity for rat
The Industrial Revolution was the single greatest leap forward in human history. As Nikos Sotirakopoulos argues in this talk, it didn’t just give us more—more wealth, more technology, more life expectancy—it gave us a di
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 was supposed to be a triumphant moment for the West. But, as Tim Black argues in this lecture, instead of securing a lasting victory for liberal democracy, it created an existential c
In this important lecture, Professor Bill Durodie argues that the real threat to Western civilisation isn’t external—it’s internal. We are not in a clash of civilisations but a crisis of culture. 🔹 Loss of Shared Cultur
Lord Frost, the former chief negotiator for the UK's Brexit negotiations, argues in this talk that Western Civilization, the most creative and dynamic force in human history, now stands at a crossroads. The defining elem
Western civilisation faces a two-pronged assault – but are both attackers closer than they appear? In this uncompromising lecture, Professor Frank Furedi exposes the internal collapse of civilisational confidence in the
Curtis Yarvin
software engineer and blogger
1 appearance on this show
Patrick Deneen
professor of political theory at Notre Dame · Notre Dame
1 appearance on this show
Gawain Towler
political strategist and historian-in-spirit · Reform UK
1 appearance on this show
Tiffany Jenkins
Author of A Clean Mess and High Achiever
1 appearance on this show
Simon Haines
Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation
1 appearance on this show
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