The Munk Debates Podcast
Episodes
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 trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
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 Ukrainians. Yet despite heavy losses on both sides, the con...
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 trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
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 12. This booster is different from previous COVID ...
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 trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
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 led to a surge in inflation and some of the faste...
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 trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
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 functioning of our mitochondria with NAD. Stem cell rej...
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 trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
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, and holidays. We are fascinated with the pyramid...
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 trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
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, many experts now believe there is a growing and ...
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 trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
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 trends driving the news and current events. The sh...
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 less, not more, technology is almost unimaginable. As...
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, events and trends driving the news and current events...
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 the political relationship between China and the ...
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, events and trends driving the news and current events...
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 democracies as inflation, economic stagnation and elite dis...
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 visit to Taiwan in her capacity as Speaker of the U....
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, events and trends driving the news and current events...
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 caused a major reassessment of the trajectory of COV...
Angry Dragon
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events...
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 mandated vaccines to Ottawa, which quickly grew into ...
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, events and trends driving the news and current events...
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 democracy is in trouble. But do many understand wh...
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, events and trends driving the news and current events...
Be It Resolved: We Need More Nuclear Energy Now
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The demand for electricity in the world is increasing rapidly and nuclear power is seen by many as a great option to meet those needs sustainably and ...
Rogers Blackout – Biden Trip
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events...
Kathryn Judge Dialogue
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The economic powerhouses in today’s economy are middlemen like Amazon and Walmart, a reality that has been exacerbated in the pandemic. So argues ...
Summer Reads
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events...
Be it resolved: Humans have free will
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Life is full of decisions, big and small. What to eat for breakfast, what to wear to work, who to ask for advice, where to send your kids to school....
Happy Canada Day!
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events...
Joseph Nye Dialogue
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode summary Joseph Nye has been listed as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy and is widely thought of as one of the leading g...
Donbas Falls? - Biden Presidency
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Munk Members Podcast provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events...
Be it Resolved: A Society that Allows Billionaires to Exist is Immoral
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Should billionaires exist? On this episode of the Munk Debates Podcast, the editor of Jacobin Magazine, Bhaskar Sunkara, debates American Enterprise I...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 26
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Ian Morris Dialogue - Geography is Destiny
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, the UK stunned the rest of Europe by voting to leave the European Union. The split was close, 48 per cent of people voted to stay but 52 per ...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 25
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Be it Resolved: Cut Public Spending for Universities. It's a Waste of Time and Money.
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is university a waste of time and money? On this episode of the Munk Debates Podcast, Bryan Caplan, author of The Case Against Education, debates Prof...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 24
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Be it Resolved, it’s time to return to the office
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While many people are now happily returning to restaurants and concert halls after two years of COVID isolation, most workers are not as eager to retu...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 23
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Be it Resolved, ending the world’s worst geopolitical crisis in a generation starts with acknowledging Russia’s security interests
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By any measure, the Russian invasion of Ukraine represents a profound security risk for the world. It raises fundamental issues about the basic princi...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 22
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Be it Resolved, workers of the world, unite!
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Unions are making a comeback. Frustrated with pay, benefits, job security, and working conditions, Amazon workers in Staten Island and Starbucks emplo...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 21
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Be it Resolved, the Ukraine War has accelerated the rollback of globalization
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The end of the Cold War marked the beginning of a new, interdependent world. Growing global consensus around trade rules, technology transfers, mass m...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 20
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Dialogue
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ayaan Hirsi Ali joins us for an enlightening discussion on how many of our longstanding beliefs about reasoning and rationality are coming under attac...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 19
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Be it Resolved: what you call censorship, I call power struggle
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“You can have Rogan or Young. Not both” So threatened Neil Young to Spotify in protest to the vaccine and COVID misinformation being sprea...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 18
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Be it Resolved: it's time we cancelled Winston Churchill
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2002, Winston Churchill was voted the greatest Briton who ever lived, beating Darwin, Shakespeare and Elizabeth I to take the top spot. Just 18 yea...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 17
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Julia Galef Dialogue
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed author and popular podcaster Julia Galef joins us for a fascinating discussion about how embracing a scout’s mindset, one that champio...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 16
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Be it resolved: We are living in a simulation
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Matrix, The Truman Show, and now more recently Westworld. Popular culture has long been captivated by the notion that our lives and the world we i...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 15
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Be it resolved: The Federal Reserve needs to fight inflation aggressively or risk its own credibility
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pandemic government spending, labour shortages, rising gas prices, and supply chain bottlenecks have led to a surge in inflation and some of the faste...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 14
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Daniel Dennett Dialogue
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
World-renowned philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett joins us for a special Munk Dialogue on the origin of human consciousness, and how o...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 13
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Be it resolved: NATO is partly responsible for Russian aggression in Ukraine
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prior to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, talks between Vladimir Putin and Western leaders largely centered around NATO’s eastward e...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 12
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Be it resolved: Prince Charles is unfit to be King of England
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
He’s been heir to the throne for 70 years, waiting to take over as King of Great Britain from the country’s longest serving monarch, his m...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 11
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Munk Members Pod, Ukraine Invasion Special Edition: Season 2, Episode 10
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Gad Saad Dialogue
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gad Saad joins us for an in-depth discussion on how lazy thinking and intellectual tribalism is killing common sense and rational debate. QUOTES: GAD ...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 9
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: COVID-19 is everywhere, it’s time to lift all restrictions for good
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been almost two years since COVID-19 was first declared a pandemic, and yet every few months a new variant emerges, sweeping through entire...
Munk Members Pod, Ukraine Crisis Special Edition: Season 2, Episode 8
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving news and current events. The show f...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 7
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: Modern universities are a threat to democratic freedoms
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By now we’ve all heard of ‘cancellations’ across North American campuses – professors who face reputational and professional d...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 6
11 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Lisa Feldman Barrett Dialogue
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Feldman Barrett joins us for a far-reaching discussion on the science of emotions: in the battle between thoughts and feelings, which determines ...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 5
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program 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
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has long been admired as the world’s most stable and enduring democracy. However, many experts now believe there is a growing ...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 4
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: Animals don't belong on our plates
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vegetarianism, Veganism, Pescetarianism, Flexitarianism. Never before have there been so many ways to define how and what we eat. But are these ...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 3
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Steven Pinker Dialogue
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Pinker joins us for a thought-provoking, members-only discussion on how sectarian solidarity and our pursuit of self-interest has led to the de...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 2
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: Legalize all drugs
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
2020 was a deadly year for North America’s substance abusers. Over 6,000 Canadians and 93,000 Americans died from opioid related deaths, a signi...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Season 2, Episode 1
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: Humans have free will
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Life is full of decisions, big and small. What to eat for breakfast, what to wear to work, who to ask for advice, where to send your kids to sch...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 52
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it Resolved: The #MeToo movement has gone too far
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Has #MeToo gone too far? On this episode of the Munk Debates Podcast recorded in June 2020, Harvey Weinstein’s attorney, Donna Rotunno, and Jane...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 51
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: The west should intervene militarily to defend Ukraine from Russia
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Russia has moved more than 100,000 troops close to disputed areas in Ukraine, setting up fears of a new Russian military intervention following their ...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 50
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: Don't fear declining birth rates
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Gone are the days of the post-war baby boom and nation-wide one-child policies. Fertility rates around the world – From the US to China to South...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 49
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: Autonomous weapons will make warfare more humane
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Trillions of dollars each year are poured into developing new technologies that redefine the art of war. And the next frontier of military techn...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 48
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: Let’s engineer a better human being
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve come a long way since DNA was first discovered in the mid 19th century. Today’s scientists are using powerful engineering techn...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 47
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: People have the right to choose how and when to die
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone who enters the medical field does so altruistically, standing steadfast against the ever present threat of death and disease. But as an...
Munk Members-Only Pod: Episode 46
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a sample of the Munk Members-Only Podcast. The program provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and ...
Be it resolved: Progressives are leading the Democratic party to defeat
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Recent gubernatorial losses have left the Democratic Party shaken, concerned about how these disappointing election results will predict how the count...