Changed My Mind

The Depolarization Project

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Changed My Mind is The Depolarization Project’s podcast, hosted by Alex Chesterfield, Laura Osborne and Ali Goldsworthy. We ask guests to tell us a substantive issue they have changed their mind on, why and what they have learned from it. We work with global media outlet Open Democracy to bring this podcast to you.

2021/11/09

Accepting American democracy was in mortal danger, with Cass Sunstein

World-renowned behavioural economist Cass Sunstein on why dismissing his friends' fears about democracy being at risk in the US was wrong.

52 分钟
2021/09/06

Changing your mind on the Iraq War with Ed Owen

Former advisor to the Foreign Secretary at the time of the Iraq War, Ed Owen, on why he now feels differently about the decision to go to war in Iraq.

42 分钟
2020/08/18

Realising America's Criminal Justice System Was Broken with Jordan Blashek and Chris Haugh

The Authors of Union: a Search for Common Ground on how an American road trip woke them up to the failings in the criminal justice system and the limitations of beloved media outlets.

49 分钟
2020/08/06

Danny Finkelstein on Changing Political Allies

Danny Finkelstein, associate editor of the Times and Conservative peer, talks to us about why being able to clearly see both sides of an argument is important but can also feel debilitating in a world that craves certainty. He shares his lessons from switching parties and why it is critical to reduce the cost of people changing their minds.

43 分钟
2020/07/30

Peter Geoghegan on Unaccountability and Returning Home

Peter Geoghegan, author of Democracy for Sale and investigative journalist, left Ireland as a young man desperate to get away but has returned in lockdown to find a country much changed. He tells us why, from his childhood bedroom, and explains the need to dig deeper into unaccountable money in politics, in the UK as well as the US.

46 分钟
2020/07/23

Getting Less Liberal About Prostitution with Helen Lewis

Helen Lewis, a journalist at the Atlantic and author of Difficult Women: the History of Feminism in 11 Fights, talks about how she came to question her previous liberal beliefs on prostitution, a former Labour MP who cried after receiving an apology for being deselected when she came out in the 70s, the limits of unconscious bias training, and more.

50 分钟
2020/07/09

Deciding That People Should Have a Platform with Kajal Odedra

The Director of Change.org in the UK Kajal Odedra talks about realising no platforming tended to backfire, her changing relationship with her own identity and how Change.org's supporters come from a much broader base than most people imagine.

35 分钟
2020/06/18

Conflicting Identities with Jamie Susskind

Author of Future Politics, Jamie Susskind, left the Labour Party after 10 years of activism due to antisemitism. He tells us what happened, why he is on the cusp of going back and what politicians need to think about now to prepare for the tech of the future.

50 分钟

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Refreshing, fun and enlightening

2018/11/23

London Ruth

Really enjoy this and always learn something new

Changed My Mind is The Depolarization Project’s podcast, hosted by Alex Chesterfield, Laura Osborne and Ali Goldsworthy. We ask guests to tell us a substantive issue they have changed their mind on, why and what they have learned from it. We work with global media outlet Open Democracy to bring this podcast to you.

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The Depolarization Project
活跃年份

2018年 - 2021年
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28
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Changed My Mind

Changed My Mind

Accepting American democracy was in mortal danger, with Cass Sunstein

Changing your mind on the Iraq War with Ed Owen

Realising America's Criminal Justice System Was Broken with Jordan Blashek and Chris Haugh

Danny Finkelstein on Changing Political Allies

Peter Geoghegan on Unaccountability and Returning Home

Getting Less Liberal About Prostitution with Helen Lewis

Deciding That People Should Have a Platform with Kajal Odedra

Conflicting Identities with Jamie Susskind

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Changed My Mind

单集

Accepting American democracy was in mortal danger, with Cass Sunstein

Changing your mind on the Iraq War with Ed Owen

Realising America's Criminal Justice System Was Broken with Jordan Blashek and Chris Haugh

Danny Finkelstein on Changing Political Allies

Peter Geoghegan on Unaccountability and Returning Home

Getting Less Liberal About Prostitution with Helen Lewis

Deciding That People Should Have a Platform with Kajal Odedra

Conflicting Identities with Jamie Susskind

评分及评论

Refreshing, fun and enlightening

关于

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