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Freddie Sayers from online magazine UnHerd seeks out top scientists, writers, politicians and thinkers for in-depth interviews to try and help us work out what’s really going on. What started as an inquiry into the pandemic has broadened into a fascinating look at free speech, science, meaning and the ideas shaping our world.
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Freddie Sayers on the 'disinformation movement'
Following an explosive investigation into the Global Disinformation Index, viewed 8 million times on X/Twitter, UnHerd has been contacted by dozens of lawmakers and activists raising concerns about rating agencies like the GDI. In this update podcast, Freddie Sayers addresses government officials on the chilling effect of censorship and makes a case to defund the 'disinformation industry'.
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Jonathan Haidt: PornHub and Instagram are killing childhood
UnHerd's Flo Read meets Jonathan Haidt to discuss the dangers of modern technology for younger generations.
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Since 2012, youth mental health across the West has steadily declined. Jonathan Haidt is an American social psychologist, co-author of bestseller The Coddling of the American Mind and author of the new book The Anxious Generation. His theory is simple: the introduction of smartphones to children around 2011 accelerated the crisis of social media addiction. He joins UnHerd's Florence Read to discuss parenting, porn and the age of anxiety.
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Inside the 'disinformation' industry
The verdicts of “ratings agencies” such as the GDI, within the complex machinery that serves online ads, are a little-understood mechanism for controlling the media conversation. In UnHerd’s case, the GDI verdict means that we only received between 2% and 6% of the ad revenue normally expected for an audience of our size. Meanwhile, neatly demonstrating the arbitrariness and subjectivity of these judgements, Newsguard, a rival ratings agency, gives UnHerd a 92.5% trust rating, just ahead of the New York Times at 87.5%.
So, what are these “ratings agencies” that could be the difference between life and death for a media company? How does their influence work? And who funds them? The answers are concerning and raise serious questions about the freedom of the press and the viability of a functioning democracy in the internet age.
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Sohrab Ahmari: How Israel divided the Right
Since October 7th, old divides between Right and Left on support for Israel were predictably resurfaced. Less expected, however, was a new civil war on the online Right. Compact founder and key figure in the so-called ‘New Right’ Sohrab Ahmari joined UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers to discuss it.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks to Sohrab Ahmari
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Prof. Randall Kennedy: Stop forcing academics to support DEI
Law Professor Randall Kennedy has taught at Harvard University for 40 years and written hundreds of thousands of words on race politics and the legal system. He is a vocal defender of affirmative action, so why this week did he write an essay about the 'resentment' caused by compulsory diversity statements? He spoke to UnHerd's Freddie Sayers about DEI, meritocracy and how good intentions so often turn into social coercion.
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Dinosaurs vs. God The Original Culture War
UnHerd's Giles Fraser chats to author and historian Michael Taylor about his new book ‘Impossible Monsters’, and what the war between rationalism and religion have to tell us about our future...
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Customer Reviews
What if not Trump but Biden wins and dies
Interesting discussion about what if Trump wins. But it seems to me that you missed the really big one. What if Biden wins. What if Biden wins and dies on January 1 and his vice president, Kamala Harris? Is now president.
Is the American populace really comfortable with Harris, as president? It seems to me that this point has been totally ignored by both the conservative and liberal Press.
Does Harris have any meaningful experience to be president? Does Harris have the intellectual capacity to be president? would Harris, usher in Woke 2.0?
Love the show
Great voice for podcasting, excellent subject material and interesting guests.
Prof Kennedy
Didn’t Claudine Gay plagiarize her dissertation among other published documents. Dosen’t that mean she doesn’t have a doctorate? Not only that, it was her opinion that calling for the genocide of Jews is okay depending on the context. What the Dickens! She is not qualified to be the line leader for recess. Prof Kennedy came across as being even more incompetent than Claudine Gay. This podcast was shocking. Kennedy’s arguments and solutions on offer for equity were so illogical they suggest he too was over promoted. Heaven help us if they are indicative of an Ivy League education.