Friday Focus: Ukraine's dangerous escalation against Russia and the ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Friday Focus: Trump takes a wrecking ball to America's governing institutions
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of JFK
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s America’s greatest unsolved murder: who shot JFK? On the 60th anniversary of the Warren Com...
Munk Dialogue with Jeff Weaver: a sober wake-up call for the Democrats
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Democrats are left wondering how their candidate could lose so badly, so decisively, to a man who...
Friday Focus: Democrats point fingers and Iran threats another strike on Israel
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Friday Focus: special US election episode
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this special edition of the Friday Focus podcast, Rudyard and Janice react to the election of Don...
Friday Focus: the US election enters the final stretch and North Korean troops join the war in Ukraine
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, don’t stop now. The U.S. should join Israel and take out Iran’s nuclear program
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Israel’s retaliatory air strikes against Iran last week targeted strategic military locations, inc...
Friday Focus: A consequential election and serious warnings about Donald Trump
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, cultural appropriation is part of the American experience.
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The release of the country album “Cowboy Carter” by Beyoncé this spring caused some surprising ...
Friday Focus: the death of Yahya Sinwar and Trump's worrying economic plans
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Friday Focus: How will Israel respond to Iran?
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Dan Senor: a defining moment for Israel
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For those who have been following the chaos unfolding in the Middle East since October 7th, Dan Seno...
Be it Resolved, the UK needs migration for its future prosperity
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The fatal stabbing of three young girls at a dance class in Southport, England set off one of the wo...
Friday Focus: A Shape-Shifting Moment in the Middle East
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Yossi Klein Halevi: Israel's next move
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Israelis are reeling from a massive Iranian ballistic missile attack which forced over 10 million pe...
Friday Focus: Israel pushes forward in Lebanon and Putin changes Russia's nuclear doctrine
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Adam Kirsch: the dangerous ideology behind settler colonialism
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this Munk Dialogue we are talking about an academic theory that has become ubiquitous with critic...
Friday Focus: Israel's pager attacks have changed the rules of war
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Baby Boomers have knee-capped the prospects of future generations
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to their sheer numbers, Baby Boomers have always had an outsize effect on politics and policy...
Friday Focus: Staring Down the Barrel of a NATO-Russia War
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Israel must agree to a hostage deal
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Following the execution of six Israeli hostages in Gaza, Israeli protesters are demanding Prime Mini...
Friday Focus: Judicial reforms in Mexico and Putin changes his nuclear doctrine
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Ayaan Hirsi Ali: why the UK is facing a clash of civilizations
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Western societies have never been more divided. As the election race heats up in the US, both partie...
Friday Focus: Israel on the Offensive and Kamala Harris's Foreign Policy
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Dmitri Trenin: when nuclear war becomes inevitable
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While the war between Russia and Ukraine drags into its third year and out of the front pages of new...
Friday Focus: Kamala's "vibes" and a final push for a ceasefire deal
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Bibi is the best Prime Minister for an Israel at war
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Israel is facing an existential crisis on all fronts. A devastating war in Gaza. Nonstop rocket atta...
Friday Focus: The Middle East on tenterhooks and Putin's military blunder
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Kamala Harris is the Democrats' best hope to defeat Donald Trump
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Within hours of Joe Biden’s announcement that he was bowing out of the presidential race Kamala Ha...
Friday Focus: Israel waits for Iran's response and Ukraine's surprising offensive into Russia
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved, the gentle parenting ethos raises happier children
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you're a new parent, you've probably heard the term 'gentle parenting'. It's the latest trend tha...
Be it Resolved, Ukraine should be admitted to NATO
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“We will continue to support Ukraine on its irreversible path to NATO membership”. It was this s...
Munk Dialogue with Jeff Weaver: a new race for the White House
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race sent shockwaves across the US - and inde...
Be it Resolved, journalism schools are bad for journalism
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We have never been more polarized. Echo chambers promote information that confirms people’s precon...
Be it Resolved, Joe Biden must step down
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
**Munk Debate members can vote on who they think won the debate at www.munkdebates.com** Joe Bide...
Munk Dialogue with John Mackey: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this Munk Dialogue we are speaking with one of the most successful and well known entrepreneurs o...
Be it Resolved, anti-Zionism is antisemitism
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this special edition of the Munk Debates podcast we are sharing the opening statements from the M...
Munk Dialogue with David Ignatius: Space as the future of warfare
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One could be forgiven for thinking reality, these days, is stranger than fiction. Fears of civil w...
Munk Dialogue with Douglas Murray, Natasha Hausdorff, Mehdi Hasan and Gideon Levy: Looking ahead to the Munk Debate on Anti-Zionism
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On June 17th four debaters will take to the stage at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall for a sold out deb...
Munk Dialogue with David E. Sanger: New Cold Wars
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
About thirty years ago, the world seemed to be entering what President George H.W. Bush called “a ...
Be it Resolved, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The world “genocide” was first coined in the 1940s to describe the Nazi slaughter of millions of...
Be it Resolved, the elites have betrayed America
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Long-held notions of the role of government, trade and economic policy, foreign policy and immigrati...
Be it Resolved, campus protesters are on the right side of history.
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For the protesters and their supporters, the pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations across the globe ...
Munk Dialogue with Charles Asher Small: Qatar's influence on campus protests
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
University students across North America have set up encampments to protest Israel's war in Gaza. Th...
Be it Resolved, Israel should take out Iran’s nuclear facilities.
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Iran’s missile and drone barrage at Israel earlier this month was the most brazen attack the Islam...
Munk Dialogue with Ambassador Dennis Ross: a new Middle East strategy
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most volatile regions in the world seems to be sitting on a tinder box. How can the inter...
Munk Dialogue with Gregg Carlstrom: Israel and Iran's shadow war explodes into the open
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Middle East, a region already mired in conflict due to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas,...
Munk Dialogue with Richard Haass: a crumbling world order
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are in the midst of one of the most dangerous and unstable geopolitical moments in recent history...
Be it Resolved, TikTok is a national security threat and should be sold or banned.
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok is one of the most popular social media sites on the planet. But concerns have been growing o...
Be it Resolved, American workers have never had it so good
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US economy is booming. Public investments in infrastructure, education, clean energy, and more i...
Be it Resolved, Donald Trump is a weak general election candidate.
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If recent polls are to be believed, Donald Trump is poised to become the President, for the second t...
Munk Dialogue with Rose Gottemoeller: assessing Russia’s nuclear threats
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Following the Cold War, the US and Russia entered into a series of arms control treaties that gave t...
Munk Dialogue with Gilead Sher: why a two-state solution is the only viable path to peace
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, the two-state solution has been held up as the best chance for peace between Israelis a...
Be it Resolved, the Democrats need a new nominee
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“An elderly man with a poor memory”. That is how a special counsel report described Joe Biden, p...
Munk Dialogue with Sarah Paine: the rise of the Russia-China axis
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most geopolitical experts agree that we have entered into a new cold war. The rise of the China-Russ...
Be it Resolved, western governments must resume funding to UNRWA
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
14 countries, including Canada and the US, suspended funding to the U.N.’s Palestinian Refugee Age...
Munk Dialogue with John Mearsheimer: why Ukraine needs to break ties with the West
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2022, just a few months into the war between Russia and Ukraine, we convened a public debate ...
Munk Dialogue with David Horovitz: is it possible to defeat Hamas?
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite international pressure and the threat of a wider regional conflict, Israel has made clear th...
Munk Dialogue with Michael Knights: Houthi attacks in the Red Sea
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
US airstrikes don’t appear to be deterring Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. The Yemen-based militant ...
Munk Dialogue with Lenore Skenazy: the importance of raising free-range kids
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Teenagers are facing a mental health epidemic. The numbers are staggering: 30% of teenage girls and ...
Munk Dialogue with Greg Lukianoff: how to fix higher education
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Claudine Gay, the first black female president of Harvard, faced intense scrutiny since her widely c...
Munk Dialogue with Zhou Bo: Why China sees Taiwan as its biggest national security concern
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this Munk Dialogue we are speaking to one of China’s leading experts on military strategy and s...
The best debates of 2023
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this special edition of the Munk Debates podcast, host Rudyard Griffiths is joined by senior cont...
Munk Dialogue with Michael Geist: Why the Online News Act is a policy disaster
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amid years of decline in news ad revenue and a rapidly changing media landscape, the Canadian govern...
Be it Resolved, Henry Kissinger was one of history’s great statesmen
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Kissinger, the former US Secretary of State who helped shape Cold War history, is a man both r...
Munk Dialogue with Yossi Klein Halevi: for Israel, this is a war of necessity
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been two months since Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel that killed 1200 people, took 240 h...
Be it Resolved, the western media has an anti-Israel bias
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Within one week of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, the BBC received more than 1,500 complai...
Munk Dialogue with John Spencer: how to dismantle Hamas terror tunnels
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the Munk Debate podcast we’re talking about one of the biggest challenges facin...
Be it Resolved, liberalism gets the big questions right
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the podcast version of our public debate on the Crisis of Liberalism that took place in fron...
Munk Dialogue with Mohamed El-Erian: A plan to fix a fractured world
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The last two decades have seen the world economy cascade from crisis to crisis: from the global fina...
Munk Dialogue with Leon Cooperman: anti-semitism on college campuses
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this Munk Dialogue we’re speaking to American billionaire investor Leon Cooperman. Leon is as f...
Munk Dialogue with Munk Dialogue with George Will, Ash Sarkar, Jacob Rees Mogg, and Sohrab Ahmari
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On November 3rd four debaters will take to the stage at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall to debate the c...
Be it Resolved, the US should call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel has launched intense strikes on Gaza and shut off water and electricity to the territory as t...
Munk Dialogue with Robert D. Kaplan: the challenge of urban warfare in Gaza
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel is facing a wartime challenge unlike anything we have witnessed in modern history. The IDF is...
Munk Dialogue with Bret Stephens: Israel under attack
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Saturday morning, Israelis woke up to their world forever changed. The numbers are staggering: ov...
Be it Resolved, DEI workplace programs do more harm than good
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the protests that followed in the summer of 2020, offices...
Munk Dialogue with Fredrik DeBoer: How the Elites at the Social Justice Movement
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author, journalist, and popular Substack writer Fredrik DeBoer is a self described marxist with a lo...
Friday Focus: Canada-India Bust-up
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, traditional gender roles make for a happier marriage
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The women’s liberation movement of the 1970's has long been championed as breaking down the barrie...
Big Israel / Big Iran – Progressivism
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with David Brooks: How to Know a Person
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New York Times columnist and bestselling author David Brooks is a cultural commentator and astute ob...
Friday Focus: G20 or G-zero?
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The following is a sample of the Munk Debates’ weekly current affairs podcast, Friday Focus. On...
Be it Resolved, Gen Z is unemployable
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bare-Minimum Mondays. Quiet Quitting. Lazy Girl Job. Ask a Boomer or Gen Xer about their younger emp...
Housing: The Theory of Everything
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Graham Allison: the deteriorating relationship between the US and China
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s no secret that relations between China and the US are at an all time low. And at the centre o...
Friday Focus: Prigozhin - Trump
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, the British Empire did more harm than good
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1933, at the height of the British Empire, a small island off the north east coast of Europe cont...
Friday Focus: Taliban @ 2 – Asia Summit
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Stephen Walt: Surprising developments in the war between Russia and Ukraine
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine is in ruins. Casualties are piling up on both sides. And western sanctions don’t seem to b...
Friday Focus: Climate Anxiety – Niger Coup – LLMs
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, let’s engineer a better human being
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve come a long way since DNA was first discovered in the mid 19th century. Today’s scientist...
Friday Focus: Deterrence on a Dog Day in Summer
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, pornography is exploitative, harmful, and too easy to access. It’s time to ban porn.
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a $97 billion global industry that has made its way into mobile phones, video games and lapto...
Friday Focus: Israel in Crisis – Summer Reads
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Yossi Klein Halevi: Israel on the brink of civil war?
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chaos is unfolding on the streets of Israel as protesters face off against riot police and water can...
Friday Focus: It's Getting Hot – Trump’s Trials
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Jean Twenge: a clash of generations
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this Munk Debate podcast, we're talking about the clash of generations: Boomers, Gen X, Millennia...
Friday Focus: NATO Fallout – Google Thuggery
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, affirmative action should be based on class, not race
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a landmark ruling, The United States Supreme Court rejected affirmative action at US colleges, de...