podcast

30 January 2020

The Looking Forward Podcast welcomes the new year with the first show of 2020! In the Books and Culture segment the panel discusses the legacy of the late great British Conservative Philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton, who addressed a symposium of the IPA’s Foundations of Western Civilisation Program in 2014. Your hosts Scott Hargreaves and Dr Chris Berg are joined by

16 November 2018

Theresa May has finally united the Leave and Remain camps…against her. The government announces Robert French will lead an inquiry into freedom of speech at universities and we’re hoping it ends in a better place than the Israel embassy move. the Journal of Controversial Ideas makes us lose faith in the state of academic freedom but Dan Crenshaw gives us

14 September 2018

This week James and Pete discuss the Serena Williams controversy, the nine year old who won’t stand for the national anthem and why this shouldn’t be a story, South Yorkshire police asking people to report non-crime hate incidents and Google capitulating to Russia. IPA Research Fellow Gideon Rozner sits down with Nigel Farage to discuss his tour of Australia and

12 September 2018

Wuthering Heights centres around the doomed relationship of its two main characters – Heathcliff, the adopted son of wealthy landowner Mr Earnshaw, and Earnshaw’s daughter Catherine. It is a tale of love and obsession – and it is often violent. Emily Bronte presents a picture of a series of relationships all destined to end in destruction. In this episode, John and

29 August 2018

The Leopard is set in Sicily in the 1860s at the time of the unification of the Italian states and in the midst of sweeping political and social upheaval. The book centres on a Sicilian nobleman, Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, and his family. A central theme of the novel is how individuals and societies respond to change and it

24 August 2018

 This week James and Pete talk leadership challenges, last week’s podcast breaking the IPA website, the latest on corporate tax cuts and all the papers in the US making a ‘brave stand’ against Trump. We talk to IPA Executive Director John Roskam about the launch and success of the IPA’s latest podcast The Great Books of Literature and why it doesn’t

5 April 2018

In 2009 Dennis Prager launched PragerU which creates concise 5 minute videos on complex political, economic, social and cultural issues. PragerU stands by its claim that viewing all of its videos is a better preparation for life today than attending an American university. The aim of PragerU is the produce videos that provide a better education than that is offered

14 November 2017

The Australian columnist and IPA Board Member Janet Albrechtsen joined the Young IPA Podcast to discuss a range of issues. Here are some highlights. On Milo Yiannopoulos “Boy, do we need Milo.” “He sees himself very much as the cultural disruptor. If Trump is the political disruptor, then he’s the cultural one. He takes the view of [Andrew] Breitbart that