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Your intellectual euro-trip in podcast form, with co-hosts Jorge González-Gallarza, François Valentin and Julian Graham. Through interviews and analysis, Uncommon Decency will seek to engage with the freshest thinking on European issues. Get in touch at @UnDecencyPod or undecencypod@gmail.com, and consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/undecencypod.
Jorge González-Gallarza & François Valentin hosts Uncommon Decency, a news show with 100 episodes published.
Timothy Garton Ash, the British historian and columnist, wrote in The Guardian 's op-ed page three days after America's 2016 election secured Donald Trump the White House that the phrase "leader of the free world" is usu
"The Treaty includes no provisions for the economic rehabilitation of Europe, nothing to make the defeated Central Empires into good neighbours, nothing to stabilise the new States of Europe." This damning critique of on
What France has just lived through can only be described by the words of Vladimir Lenin: "there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen". In just a month, the country's political lands
Welcome to another Decency Deep Dive. This week we tackle the forthcoming European Parliament (EP) elections on June 9, widely expected to deliver a significantly more right-wing supranational legislature. Russia's ongoi
"I think it is obvious that NATO's expansion does not have any relation with the modernisation of the alliance itself, or with ensuring security in Europe. On the contrary, it represents a serious provocation that reduce
"Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their
"You didn't pay? You're delinquent? No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them—Russia—to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay!" In February, former—and possibly future—US President Donald J. Tr
China might be the world's factory, but America remains the earth's cultural hegemon. And perhaps its greatest export of the last decade has been "wokeism" or "wokeness". Once inhabiting the fringiest recesses of America
Welcome to another Decency Deep Dive. This week we tackle various topics on the heels of the Munich Security Conference, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged the world to re-anchor security at the hear
"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia." Former German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's advice seems to have resonated with an entire generation of German leaders in the 21st century, from the Social-Democ
In 1789, members of the newly-created National Assembly in Paris split between those for whom the king should retain an absolute veto, sitting to the Assembly President's right, and those who thought he shouldn't, sittin
Every new year seems to heighten the impression that History is accelerating, and this may well not be new. The novelty lies in the fact that with every passing year, that impression seems to root itself in firmer ground
In a daring move, we kicked off March 2021 quoting none other than Francis Fukuyama, titling our episode "Getting to Holland" as a twist on Fukuyama's famous cliché of "Getting to Denmark". The episode came in the heels
Dive into the conundrums and riddles of Spanish politics with our latest riveting episode. Picture this: a high-stakes election, an unexpected coalition, and a political landscape teetering on the edge of ungovernability
On October 15, Poles were called to the polls—no pun intended. The ruling Law & Justice party—or PiS in its Polish acronym—came first with a plurality of ballots and parliamentary seats, but fell short of a majority. As
"As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Romans, I seem to see "the Tiber foaming with blood". That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror across the Atlantic but which is interwoven
Welcome to another Decency Deep Dive. This week we tackle three thorny topics. Non-subscribers will hear us lay out the ongoing coalitional dynamics on the Spanish right in the wake of last month's regional and local rac
We are extremely lucky this week to host Ben Judah, Director of the Atlantic Council's Transform Europe Initiative, but most importantly for our purposes, the author of the recently published This is Europe (2023), a tra
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was re-elected as President of Turkey in a run-off on May 14th this year, all but assuring him a spot as one of the world's longest-serving leaders (he will have served 25 years altogether after this
It's debating season again at Uncommon Decency. This week we are chatting about Zelensky's rock star world tour, unpacking the Greek center-right's triumph and weighing the Conservatives' (low) chances for a similar perf
Margaret MacMillan
Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Toronto
1 appearance on this show
Anu Bradford
Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization · Columbia Law School
1 appearance on this show
Ian Bremmer
President and Founder · Eurasia Group
1 appearance on this show
Shashank Joshi
Defence Editor at The Economist · The Economist
1 appearance on this show
Yascha Mounk
Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs · Johns Hopkins University
1 appearance on this show
Rob Ford
professor of political science · University of Manchester
1 appearance on this show
Michael Reid
journalist, author and former Latin America editor for The Economist · Megaport
2 appearances on this show
Timothy Garton Ash
Professor
1 appearance on this show
Nigel Biggar
Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology, University of Oxford · British House of Lords
1 appearance on this show
Frank Furedi
Professor
1 appearance on this show
Adam Zamoyski
3 appearances on this show
Dr. Mark Galeotti
1 appearance on this show
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