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Hosted by John Gillam · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 139 episodes
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Thinking Class is a weekly long-form interview podcast exploring the cultural, historical, and civilisational forces shaping England, Britain, and the Western world. Hosted by John Gillam, the show brings together historians, philosophers, theologians, economists, and public intellectuals for conversations that go beyond the news cycle by examining the deep roots of the West's present predicament and asking what genuine recovery might require. Guests have included David Starkey, Lord Jonathan Sumption, Lord Nigel Biggar, Robert Tombs, Peter Hitchens, Lionel Shriver, Roy Baumeister, Kathleen Stock, Carl Trueman, and many others. If you value serious conversation about Britain, the West, and the forces shaping our future, then this is the show for you. New episodes every week.
John Gillam hosts Thinking Class, a society show with 139 episodes published.
Stephen Blackwood is President and Founder of Ralston College in Savannah, Georgia . The Chancellor is Dr Iain McGilchrist . He co-founded Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) with Jordan Peterson, John Anderson an
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Max Klinger is a lawyer and political analyst. He writes at Max Klinger's Newsletter on Substack and his work has appeared in The Spectator . Britain's progressive establishment spent a decade re-racialising public life.
Professor Andrew Hussey OBE is Dean of the University of London Institute in Paris and Director of the Centre for Post-Colonial Studies at the University of London's School of Advanced Study . Born in Liverpool, educated
Professor Gregory Clark is a British-born economic historian at the University of California, Davis and holds a DNRF Chair at the Danish National Research Foundation and a professor at the Historical Economics and Develo
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Lord Tony Sewell CBE is a British educational consultant, author, and life peer. Born in Brixton to Jamaican parents, he trained as a teacher and worked in some of London's most challenging schools, during which time he
Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University in New Jersey. He edits the journal Book History and was founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Gary Gerstle is Paul Mellon Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and the author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order — one of the most clarifying accounts written of how a set of
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Michael Lind is a political theorist, historian, and one of America's most rigorous independent analysts of class, democracy, and political economy. He is a Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at
Dr. Carl R. Trueman is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania and currently a visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. His most recent books are
Richard IV is a writer, cultural commentator and men's mentor whose work has helped thousands of men in Britain and across the West understand what has gone wrong and what can still be recovered. In this episode of Think
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Jonathan Rose
author of The Well-Tempered City · His Glory Crypto
1 appearance on this show
Gary Gerstle
Professor
1 appearance on this show
Rob Henderson
psychologist and author · BioTalent Canada
1 appearance on this show
Carl Trueman
historian and theologian
3 appearances on this show
Kathleen Stock
author of Do Not Go Gentle · The Lesbian Project
1 appearance on this show
John Waters
Pastor
1 appearance on this show
Nigel Biggar
Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology, University of Oxford · British House of Lords
2 appearances on this show
Lionel Shriver
Author of "A Better Life"
2 appearances on this show
Jonathan Sumption
former UK Supreme Court Justice and medieval historian
1 appearance on this show
Carrie Gress
Catholic philosopher, mother and author · Catholic University of America
1 appearance on this show
Eric Kaufmann
political scientist and professor · University of Buckingham
2 appearances on this show
Dr Paul Morland
Dr
3 appearances on this show
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