Worldly

We live in a confusing time, bombarded every day with news from around the world that can be hard to follow, or fully understand. Let Worldly be your guide. Every Thursday, senior writer Zack Beauchamp, senior foreign editor Jennifer Williams, and staff defense writer Alex Ward give you the history and context you need to make sense of the moment and navigate the world around you. Produced by Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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Happy Birthday Jenn
2020-07-09
Worldly is always interesting.
Hints of sinophobia in their discourse on China
2021-01-02
They should really have guest host come on when they discuss China as the are unable to discuss this issue in a fulsome manner without expounding sinophobic narratives.
Beijing’s Bad Tweet - a deplorable episode
2020-12-08
To think I listened to this to get informed. The justification of Australian special forces war crimes was OFF the charts, swept under a rug. The first 10 minutes of this episode is completely devoted to “yeah but China is worse” and “look at what China does” and “don’t believe anything that China tweets” kinds of talk. It’s a total disaster. Do these hosts actually not care when democracies engage in foreign wars in poor countries and kill and abuse their citizens? This is a massive story that deserved attention but instead these hosts piled onto China because of a tweet. Why couldn’t the hosts at least acknowledge that Australia took FOUR years to investigate the murders committed by their soldiers they sent to Afghanistan to ally with the USA, there has been no justice, but at least Australia investigated this and publicly released their report. THAT is the story. The war that we fund as taxpayers goes towards killing innocent poor people. If you can’t face reporting and discussing that as hosts, that message will not get out and ultimately it will keep happening. These hosts inadvertently became a part of the problem with war propaganda because of their internal hegemony and ingrained blind spots. Kirby was the biggest culprit of this commentary, she actually laughed at “Afghan lives matter”, she literally laughed, then said “they do, but...” and continues to miss the most important point. I’m so disappointed. My advice is to put this podcast on hold, examine your beliefs and values, consider if you’re missing the point, consider if an apology or retraction is necessary.
My favourite podcast
2020-06-25
I’m a huge political nerd and I love this podcast And a very Happy Birthday Jen
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