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Thinking Class is a weekly long-form interview podcast and documentary series exploring the cultural, historical, and civilisational forces shaping Britain, the Anglosphere, and the wider West. 20,000 subscribers and 2 million plays across all platforms. Hosted by John Gillam, founder of the Albion Institute (Lord Nigel Biggar CBE serves as Advisory Board Chair) and creator of The Call of England and the forthcoming Call of America documentary series. Each episode brings together historians, philosophers, theologians, economists, and public intellectuals for conversations that go beyond the news cycle. Guests have included David Starkey, Lord Jonathan Sumption, Lord Nigel Biggar, Iain McGilchrist, Peter Hitchens, R.R. Reno, Auron MacIntyre, Patrick Deneen, Lionel Shriver, David Goodhart, Carl Trueman, Eric Kaufmann, Carrie Gress, Katharine Birbalsingh, Kathleen Stock, Frank Furedi, Rob Henderson, Robert Tombs, and many more. <
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Signup to Generate a PitchThinking Class is a weekly long-form interview podcast and documentary series exploring the cultural, historical, and civilisational forces shaping Britain, the Anglosphere, and the wider West. 20,000 subscribers and 2 million plays across all platforms.
Thinking Class is hosted by John Gillam. The show has published 148 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "#150 - Bella d'Abrera - How Australia Became A Warning For Every Western Democracy" (22 October 2026, 61 minutes), "#149, Marie Kawthar Daouda, They Told Her She Was A Victim Of The West. She Became Its Greatest Defender." (15 October 2026, 62 minutes), and "#147 - Father Luke Dysinger OSB - The Last Time Western Civilisation Collapsed One Institution Saved Everything. And It Did It By Accident." (1 October 2026, 64 minutes).
Thinking Class publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 65 minutes across 148 episodes.
Booking probability for Thinking Class is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Thinking Class requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Thinking Class's contact route on record: verified email.
John Gillam hosts Thinking Class, a society podcast with 148 episodes published.
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Bella d'Abrera is the former Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Programme at the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia and the author of Mindless. In this conversation, we think out loud about: • How...
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Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda is a French-Moroccan scholar at the University of Oxford and the author of Not Your Victim. In this conversation we think out loud about: Why a French-Moroccan Oxford scholar wrote a love letter...
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Father Luke Dysinger is a Benedictine monk of Saint Andrew’s Abbey in Valyermo, California. He trained as a physician, practised family medicine, and at the age of 27 walked away from it all because he fell in love with...
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Dr Lola Salem is a musicologist, cultural critic, and Catholic convert. She is the author of the forthcoming Artless (Polity Press) and writes for The Critic and the Catholic Herald. In this conversation we think out...
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Oliver Bennett and Morgan Watkins are the co-founders of The Base and RADA-trained actors with nearly twenty years of experience in British film, television, and theatre. In this conversation, we think out loud about...
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Dr Ben Jones is the Director of Case Management at the Free Speech Union and author of Island of Strangers: Diversity, Decline & Free Speech In Crisis In this conversation, we think out loud about: When saying “it’s a...
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Auron MacIntyre is the host of The Auron MacIntyre Show on Blaze TV and the author of The Total State . Auron previously taught high school before leaving education to build his media platform, writes the Substack The...
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R.R. Reno is the editor of First Things , the most important journal of religion and public life in America. He is the author of Return of the Strong Gods , I n the Ruins of the Church , and a forthcoming rock climbing...
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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...
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Clement Knox is a writer and historian. He is the author of The Scramble for America: How the United States Conquered a Continent (William Collins, 2026), and writes at Past Notes on Substack. Two hundred and fifty...
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Katharine Birbalsingh is the headmistress and founder of Michaela Community School in Wembley, and a former UK Social Mobility Commissioner. She built the most successful school in Britain from nothing — in one of...
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Pierre d’Alancaisez is a writer, curator, and researcher working with the multiple politics of the arts. He is the resident art critic for the English magazine The Critic , and his writing has appeared in outlets such...
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Frank is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent and the author of twenty-eight books on the cultural forces shaping Western societies, including his most recent, In Defence of Populism. Frank is also...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Dr Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford , an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford , a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and...
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William Clouston is the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the United Kingdom and a member of the advisory board for Restore Britain . Firas Modad is an analyst and political economist focused on the Middle...
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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...
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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...
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former Transition Coordinator for the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, Visit Nebraska and National Travel and Tourism Week
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theologian, First Things Magazine
renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar, Ralston College
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