Ricardo Gómez-Carrera discusses the 2016 World Inequality Report, detailing the increasing wealth disparities of wealth, demonstrated by the top 10% who own three-quarters of global wealth, while bottom half holds only 2%."
Nader Hashemi unpacks the Iranian Revolution, Islam and democracy, and how Western narratives distort the Middle East—linking Iran, Gaza, and global power to a shifting, more skeptical generation.
MIT philosopher Alex Byrne joins Savage Minds to talk sex, gender, academic freedom, and why "truth and reconciliation" on pediatric gender medicine may never come. A frank conversation on the philosophy behind the gender wars.
Wolfgang Streeck discusses Engels’ means of destruction alongside the means of production, pondering if the war in Ukraine might also serve as to test the next generation of war machinery while billionaires are paid to keep these wars going.
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Vladimir Bortun, discusses the politics of right-wing populist parties and the state of leftist parties in Europe today evaluating how capitalism maintains a “repertoire of tactics and all kinds of violent instruments” to defeat democratic institutions.