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...
Friday Focus: Wither Europe? – Big Tech vs. Trudeau
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with AI Debaters Yann Lecun, Max Tegmark, Melanie Mitchell and Yoshua Bengio
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On June 22nd we gathered at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall for a live, sold out debate on Artificial I...
Friday Focus: Borat Coup – Affirmative Action
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, AI research and development poses an existential threat
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the debut of ChatGPT, the AI once promised in some distant future seems to have suddenly arrive...
Friday Focus: AI Debate Recap – Titanic Mistake
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with James Bessen: how AI will transform the labour market
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Some experts believe that over 300 million jobs worldwide will be automated by AI, with white collar...
Friday Focus: Dr K @ 100 – AI Debate Preview
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Bruce Schneier: AI and democracy
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past few months we’ve heard many warnings about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence. B...
Friday Focus: Wild Fires – Ukraine Offensive
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, cats, not dogs, make better human companions
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a debate as old as time: when it comes to a household pet, which four legged furball makes th...
Friday Focus: David Johnston – Inflation Risks
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Matt Taibbi: mainstream media, the twitter files, and online censorshi
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In November 2022, substack journalist Matt Taibbi joined us on stage for our Munk Debate on Mainstre...
Friday Focus: No Public Inquiry
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, the United States should publicly pledge to defend Taiwan against Chinese aggression
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s no secret that both China and the US are preparing for war. Some American military experts th...
Friday Focus: Industrial Policy – Peace Pageant
19 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Francis Fukuyama: Liberalism in a state of crisis
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the Cold War marked a new era in world politics. ...
Friday Focus: Debating Artificial Intelligence
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, teaching gender identity has no place in the k-5 school curriculum
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a debate being argued across school boards, politics, and family dinner tables: whether educa...
Friday Focus: China & Canada’s Parliament
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Nadine Strossen: Academic Freedom in Higher Education
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
60 years ago, university students were leading the protest in defense of free speech. The 1960’s F...
Friday Focus: Debt Ceiling – Netflix Gets CanCon
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Central Banks have not adequately represented the public interest
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just when inflation seemed to finally be cooling, high interest rates claimed their first major vict...
Friday Focus: Govt Strikes – Stephen Kotkin
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Trump’s prosecution is bad for American democracy
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The indictment of Donald Trump is an historic event. The 45th president of the United States now hol...
Friday Focus: U.S. Intel Leaks – Macron Blowback
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Mark Zandi: avoiding a recession with smart policy decisions
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With inflation remaining high despite rising interest rates, many economists are looking for new sol...
Friday Focus: Holy Land – De-Dollarization
07 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Net Zero by 2050 is impossible
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st century, there is no doubt that governments and busines...
Friday Focus: AI Anxiety – Trump Indictment
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Michael Oren: is Israel on the brink of civil war?
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over half a million people have taken to the streets in the biggest protest movement the country has...
Friday Focus: Putin-Xi Summit – Paris is Burning
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Chat GPT will cause more harm than good.
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Seemingly overnight, Chat GPT has exploded out of the deepest corners of the emerging tech space and...
Friday Focus: Banking Blowup – Iran & Saudi – Eminent Canadians
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Vivian Bercovici: Israel in crisis
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel is facing its biggest internal confrontation since its founding in 1948. Army reservists are ...
Friday Focus: Israel in Crisis – Chinese Warnings
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Ron DeSantis, not Donald Trump, will be the GOP nominee in 2024.
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Nikki Haley entering the fray, The GOP primary contest has officially begun. Many more candid...
Friday Focus: Election Interference – Nigeria & Israel
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Bjorn Lomborg: how to actually meet Sustainable Development Goals
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, the world’s leaders attempted to address the major problems facing mankind by setting the...
Friday Focus: Ukraine War Anniversary - Nigeria Election - Israel's Democracy
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, it’s time to abolish the British Monarchy
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With the death of Queen Elizabeth, one of the longest serving monarchs in world history, the commonw...
Friday Focus: Balloons, UFOs and Jets – Musk Misogyny
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Gideon Rachman: The Age of the Strongman
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2022 was not a great year for the world’s so-called “strong men”. The defeat of Bolsonaro in B...
Friday Focus: Germany – Japan
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Hybrid Work is here to stay
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time in almost three years, most white collar professionals are back in the office, at...
Friday Focus: Inflation Fight – Israel
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Davos is back and more relevant than ever
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the annual event that no major businessman or policy-maker dares to miss. Among the famous at...
Friday Focus: Tanks to Ukraine – Kids Today
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Biden is Democrats best hope in 2024
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2023 is here, and with it come new year's resolutions, a new congress, and the unofficial start date...
Friday Focus: Leopard Tanks – Healthcare – Davos Man
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue: Toby Muse on the golden age of cocaine
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One might assume, based on the film depictions of famous drug lords like Pablo Escobar and El Chapo,...
Friday Focus: Rising Sun
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue: Mark Cuban on disrupting the American healthcare industry
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Cuban, one of America’s most famous and successful entrepreneurs, recently launched a new dru...
Friday Focus: Ask Me Anything
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Matti Friedman: Israel’s new political coalition and the return of Benjamin Netanyahu
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel - a country founded on secular, European principles - just voted into power the most right wi...
Friday Focus: 2023 Predictions
30 Dec 2022
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
27 Dec 2022
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: Year in Review
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue: Why did FTX collapse?
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The bankruptcy of FTX upended the entire crypto industry and cast doubts over the stability and futu...
Friday Focus: Patriots vs. Putin – Effective Altruism
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, The risk of a recession in 2023 is overblown
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The holiday season is just around the corner, which brings with it cheer, merriment, and a sense of ...
Friday Focus: ChatGPT
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, don’t trust mainstream media
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special edition of the Munk Debates Podcast. On this episode, we feature the best moments ...
Friday Focus: China Protests – Federal Funk
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Elon Musk’s Twitter is a real threat to democracy
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Few people engender public debate like Elon Musk. When the world’s richest man purchased Twitter f...
Friday Focus: Ukraine Attack – Emergencies Act
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Kyle Bass: Financial consequences of the conflict between the US and China over Taiwan
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Xi Jinping enters an unprecedented third term as general secretary of China's Communist Party, ma...
Friday Focus: China Snub – Inflation Immiseration
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved, Putin deserves a dead end, not an off ramp, in Ukraine
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Putin invaded Ukraine in the Spring of 2022, the western world reacted in understandable horror...
Friday Focus: Chief Twit – Crypto Carnage
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved it's time we cancelled Winston Churchill
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2002, Winston Churchill was voted the greatest Briton who ever lived, beating Darwin, Shakespeare...
Friday Focus: Autumn of Discontent – Rocket Man
04 Nov 2022
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
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve come a long way since DNA was first discovered in the mid 19th century. Today’s scientist...
Friday Focus: Round The World – Cuban Missile Crisis
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue with Dmitri Trenin: the threat of nuclear war
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The war between Russia and Ukraine has killed thousands of people and displaced 13 million Ukrainian...
Friday Focus: Bond Vigilantes – Dr. K
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue on the bivalent COVID-19 booster: do the benefits outweigh the risks?
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Health Canada, the FDA, and the CDC have approved COVID bivalent vaccines to anyone over the age of ...
Friday Focus: Truss Tumble – Xi Ascendant
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: The Federal Reserve needs to fight inflation aggressively or risk its own credibility
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pandemic government spending, labour shortages, rising gas prices, and supply chain bottlenecks have...
Friday Focus: OPEC Surprise – Xi Ascends
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: Ageing is a reversible disease
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Oxygen therapy to lengthen our telomeres and prolong the life of our chromosomes. Boosting the funct...
Friday Focus: Financial Turmoil – Robert Kaplan
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue: What do we owe the future?
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most societies commemorate and revere distant ancestors, with portraits, statues, streets, buildings...
Friday Focus: Double Down
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: America is on the brink of civil war
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has long been admired as the world’s most stable and enduring democracy. However...
Friday Focus: Democracy Debate
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Friday Focus: Its Official. The Munk Member’s Podcast Has A New Name!
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Munk Dialogue - Professor Rob Reich - Do We Need To Reboot Our Relationship With Technology?
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary Technology has quietly taken over our everyday lives and the idea of living with les...
Munk-Members Only Pod: Returning To Work - The Liberal International Order
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, eve...
Munk Dialogue: Understanding The Great State of China
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
China is one of the oldest states in the world, with a complicated history and rich culture. Now, as...
Munk Members-Only Pod: End of Abundance – Antisemitism
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, eve...
David Broder Dialogue - Is The Future Of Western Democracy Fascism?
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some are worried that far right parties are poised to make big political gains in advanced democraci...
Victor Gao Munk Dialogue - The "One China" Policy is Under Attack
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tensions between China and America are at a new, dangerous high following Nancy Pelosi’s recent vi...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Mar-a-Lago Raid – Fall Politics
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, eve...
Dr. Eric Topol Dialogue - Variants And The Future of Covid-19
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The future course of the pandemic seems anything but resolved. The emergence of new variants have ca...
Angry Dragon
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, eve...
Be it resolved: Populism is the Future of Conservatism
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the beginning of the year, a group of Canadian truckers took their frustrations of government man...
Sack of Rome – Harper’s Endorsement
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, eve...
Jan-Werner Mueller Dialogue
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The January 6 commission is a reminder that a peaceful transfer of power is not guaranteed and that ...
Turbine Politics – News Sources
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, eve...