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Politics on the Couch

En podcast av: Larchmont Productions

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Moving the needle - Tom Gray of Gomez on swapping the recording studio for the campaign trail, and what being in a band teaches you about politics.
Publicerades 2023-12-05

Politics on the Couch looks at the way our minds respond to politics and the way politicians mess with our minds. In each episode award-winning political columnist Rafael Behr is joined by a distinguished expert drawn from the world of politics, psychology or philosophy. The show will appeal to any listener interested in taking a deep dive into how psychology drives everyone's political thought and behaviour.For more information about host Rafael Behr - www.rafaelbehr.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Politics on the Couch

40 Avsnitt

Moving the needle - Tom Gray of Gomez on swapping the recording studio for the campaign trail, and what being in a band teaches you about politics.

'Bonus Couch Chat'

'Beyond the Red Wall'

'Beyond parody' - a conversation with Rob Hutton about political journalism and its complex relationship with power

Trapped! Democracy's struggle to cope with modern life and what we can do to help – a conversation with Professor Ben Ansell.

Kindness - a conversation about political empathy, its power and its limits, with Claudia Hammond

Contrarianism, social media and the future of culture wars - a conversation with Atlantic writer Helen Lewis

Populism, democracy and the parliamentary battle over Brexit

Party People - a stroll around the grassroots of democracy

The French Connection - myth and misunderstanding across the Channel

'The world's a stage' - politics and storytelling with James Graham

Procrastination - the politics of putting off hard choices and why it's so bad for democracy

'Putinophilia' - how America's radical right fell for a Kremlin strongman, a conversation with Anne Applebaum

'Bregret' - how is Britain coping with a Brexit that nobody loves?

Consciousness - a deep dive into the politics of brain science with Anil Seth

The authoritarian personality - why some voters feel drawn to populism and how to lure them away

The authenticity gap - can Labour seize the post-Boris moment? (recorded the day he resigned)

The Megacrisis - how the world's problems piled up - a conversation with Helen Thompson

Is Democracy Rational? A conversation with Steven Pinker

Order and chaos - why the left keeps losing