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In a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life.

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    • Society & Culture
    • 4.7 • 1K Ratings

In a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life.

    After the stabbings in Sydney — Grief? Anger? Revenge?

    After the stabbings in Sydney — Grief? Anger? Revenge?

    Residents of Sydney have found themselves understandably overwhelmed by the compound traumas of two stabbing attacks in three days. How are we to make sense of the cycling-through of emotions in response to shocking public violence?

    • 53 min
    What’s fueling the tension between the courts and the media?

    What’s fueling the tension between the courts and the media?

    There has been an odd confluence of events over the past couple weeks that has managed to intensify the sense of a conflict between two of our most important democratic institutions: the law and the media.

    • 53 min
    What would the moral obligation to avoid civilian deaths look like in Gaza?

    What would the moral obligation to avoid civilian deaths look like in Gaza?

    Does the failure on the part of Israel to enable the provision of humanitarian aid or to do everything in its power to prevent civilian casualties suggest “a blameworthy indifference to Palestinian lives”?

    • 53 min
    Ramadan — the rediscovery of society

    Ramadan — the rediscovery of society

    It is important to remember that Thoreau’s motivation for withdrawing was neither escapism nor apolitical quietism. The fact that he departed on 4 July signals an invitation to discover a different way of living together.

    • 53 min
    Ramadan — the importance of friendship

    Ramadan — the importance of friendship

    If Thoreau regards withdrawal and solitude as means by which we learn to escape self-deception, then they may well be little more than preparation for the moral demands friends make of one another.

    • 53 min
    Ramadan — the discipline of solitude

    Ramadan — the discipline of solitude

    Solitude is neither alone-ness nor idleness. It is strenuous and takes practice. Solitude does not simply happen in the way that isolation or loneliness does — it must be inhabited.

    • 53 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
1K Ratings

1K Ratings

Claire Fischer ,

Keeps me thinking hard

Seeing one or two controversial reviews here .. seems Aussies still have this anti-intellectualism attitude in Australia .. I love that I don’t always get it at first but this podcast makes me think HARD and contemplate .. great brain food for the mind ! How can you not love Waleed’s soothing voice ..?

SimonAlfref ,

Funny and wise

A huge fan. Need an episode on the virtues of Prog rock. Really enjoying the “Not quite a book club” specials. Great fun.

Piisdoft ,

Ideas bank fest.

If you like listening to the self-appointed smartest men in the room, you’ll love this intelligentsia banker festival between two blokes who are so high on their own supply, they need a parachute from their superior intellectual altitude. It’s precocious, pretentiousness all the way to 11.

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