Rudyard Griffiths

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3,754 appearances 38 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

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The Munk Debates Podcast · Be it resolved, religion is a force for good in the world · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

So let me go to uh Emily Padden, a Trudeau scholar at Oxford University, who has a question for you, Mr.

Blair.

Great question.

Hitchens, let's have you come back on that because not just not just Northern Ireland, but Iraq, a war that you supported.

Religion played a w uh an important role, arguably, in the success of uh putting together post-invasion Iraq.

Tony, just briefly come back on that because you were intimately involved in the search for for peace in Northern Ireland and I assume you had a very different perspective of the role that faith played

in the resolution of that conflict?

Okay, let's um

Question.

We like the applauding, so please continue that throughout the debate.

Let's take a written question.

My producers are telling me that we have uh a written question.

We'll get that on the screen.

And Christopher, this is for you to start with.

Um interesting one.

America is both

one of the most religious countries in the world and also one of the most democratic and pluralistic, both now and arguably through much of its history.

How do you explain that that seeming paradox?

Well Tony, let me come to you with that same question.

Is is it just a case of American exceptionalism or is this balance between pluralism and faith that's been achieved in America something that you're either seeing in other parts of the world or a model that could be exported globally?

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