The Prospect Podcast
1) Yanis Varoufakis on Mamdani, hope and resistance
How should the left resist fascism?This week, Prospect’s Ben Clark speaks to Yanis Varoufakis, economist and Greece’s former finance minister, whose most recent book is Raise Your Soul: A Pe...Show More
2) The Future of Aid
In this episode of Policy Insights, sponsored by ASI and produced by Prospect Publishing, Prospect deputy editor Ellen Halliday talks to Annalisa Prizzon from ODI Global, Daniel Pimlott from ASI,...Show More
3) Halloween special: AI and modern monsters
Zombies, werewolves and...ChatGPT?In this week’s spooky special, Ellen and Alona are joined by historian and “monster consultant” Surekha Davies, who argues that humans have always created monsters to...Show More
4) ‘Petty rules make no sense in an authoritarian takeover!’
Does Washington need a shake up?As the Democratic party faces its lowest favourability ratings on record, one man wants to completely change its brand. This week, Prospect’s Ben Clark speaks to S...Show More
5) Trump, texting and taking a stand
This month our writers are reflective: Alice Goodman asks how to be a priest in divided times, while Gen Z-er Alice Garnett questions the assumptions that underpin modern texting etiquette. Mindful li...Show More
6) Robert Jenrick and the rise of British ethnonationalism
This week, political columnist Ben Ansell joins Prospect’s Alona and Imaan to discuss the rise of ethnonationalism in British politics, and the popularisation of the term “white British”. Ben explains...Show More
7) Israeli genocide scholar: ‘My country is in denial’
This week, Alona is joined by Omer Bartov, the Israeli-American historian and professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Two years after the Hamas-led attack in southern Isr...Show More
8) Does Labour have a “culture problem”? With Lucy Powell and Stella Creasy
The Labour government is struggling and the party is divided. Meanwhile, Reform is on the rise, and the Tories are collapsing. What kind of change does Labour need, if it is to get back on track? This...Show More
9) Cass Sunstein: How corporations are manipulating us
Are we all being manipulated? This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Cass Sunstein–one of the scholars behind “nudge” theory–who explains how companies exploit our cognitive biases for their own pro...Show More
10) What is antisemitic?
The question of what is antisemitic and what is legitimate criticism of the state of Israel has long been a difficult question—but it has become even more fraught since 7th October 2023 and the contin...Show More