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Grant Robertson and South American dictators
Jun 19, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/19/26 | ![]() Grant Robertson and South American dictators | In their latest dialogue, Michael and James discuss whether an email sent by Grant Robertson in his capacity as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago breached the institutional neutrality provision introduced into the Education and Training Act just last year. Michael also asks James about the second rounds of the Peruvian and Colombian presidential elections, as well as both countries' troubled political pasts. Mario Vargas Llosa: Una Vida en Palabras: https://youtu.be/WiHzTF4W_SY?si=5E... | 36m 23s | ||||||
| 5/18/26 | ![]() Frederick Attenborough✨ | academic freedomlegal ruling+3 | Fred Attenborough | UK Committee for Academic FreedomUniversity of Sussex+1 | — | academic freedomUniversity of Sussex+5 | — | 34m 48s | |
| 5/16/26 | ![]() Mitchell Palmer✨ | economicsstudent loans+3 | Mitchell Palmer | Adam Smith InstituteACT Party+1 | AucklandLondon+2 | economiststudent loans+3 | — | 1h 04m 26s | |
| 5/10/26 | ![]() Sarah McLaughlin✨ | free speechcensorship+3 | Sarah McLaughlin | Foundation for Individual Rights and ExpressionNZ Free Speech Union+2 | New Zealand | free speechcensorship+5 | — | 1h 11m 09s | |
| 4/21/26 | ![]() Ilana Redstone✨ | sociologyideological extremism+3 | Ilana Redstone | University of Illinois Urbana-ChampagneThe Certainty Trap | — | sociologyideological extremism+4 | — | 35m 17s | |
| 4/9/26 | ![]() Michael Ben-Gad✨ | economicsstudent campaigns+4 | Michael Ben-Gad | City St. George's UniversityOn the Political Economy of Deficit Bias and Immigration | — | economicsstudent campaigns+4 | — | 1h 12m 28s | |
| 2/15/26 | ![]() Abhishek Saha on the University of Sussex vs the Office for Students✨ | academic freedomfree speech+3 | Abhishek Saha | Queen Mary University of LondonUniversity of Sussex+1 | UK | academic freedomfree speech+3 | — | 38m 25s | |
| 1/31/26 | ![]() The Wizard of New Zealand✨ | wizardryanarchism+4 | Wizard of New Zealand | AnglicanismErewhon | New Zealand | wizardryNew Zealand+5 | — | 1h 27m 32s | |
| 11/14/25 | ![]() Helen Joyce✨ | sex-based rightstrans rights+4 | Helen Joyce | Sex MattersThe Economist | — | Helen JoyceSex Matters+5 | — | 1h 07m 59s | |
| 11/13/25 | ![]() Dialogue on the shooting of Charlie Kirk✨ | shootingaftermath+3 | — | — | — | Charlie Kirkshooting+3 | — | 1h 04m 13s | |
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| 9/22/25 | ![]() Nathan Seuili✨ | free speechChristianity+4 | Nathan Seuili | NZ Free Speech UnionPILLAR | — | free speechPILLAR+5 | — | 1h 09m 09s | |
| 9/19/25 | ![]() David Webb | David Webb is a lawyer and a spokesperson for The Opportunities Party on their Citizens' Voice policy. We talked to him about the party's plan for citizens' assemblies, the benefits and drawbacks of referenda, and how we could improve MMP. TOP's citizens' voice page: https://www.top.org.nz/citizens-voice James' article with Geoff Neal: Politicians are disconnected from the people they represent - Newsroom | 1h 01m 04s | ||||||
| 7/20/25 | ![]() Musa al-Gharbi | Musa al-Gharbi is an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. He was the Communications Director at Heterodox Academy from 2016 to 2020. I talked to Musa about growing up in a military family, being cancelled by Fox News, who 'symbolic capitalists' are, the extent to which Donald Trump is comparable to an alligator, and what the future holds for universities. Musa's book: https://www.thenile.co.nz/books/musa-al-gharbi/we-have-never-been-... | 59m 12s | ||||||
| 6/2/25 | ![]() Doug Elliffe | Doug Elliffe is a professor of psychology at the University of Auckland. We talked to him about whether crows know what's good for them, the Listener letter and its fallout, and how to foster a culture of free inquiry at New Zealand universities. | 1h 05m 51s | ||||||
| 5/29/25 | ![]() Institutional neutrality and the academic freedom legislation, with Steph Martin | In this episode we are once again joined by our regular correspondent from the Free Speech Union (and the New Zealand Initiative), Steph Martin. We debrief about the FSU's panel events in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch on institutional neutrality and the draft academic freedom legislation. We also talk about that legislation (part of the Education and Training Amendment Bill No. 2), and more particularly about the response to it in Parliament by two opposition politicians. | 1h 05m 05s | ||||||
| 5/15/25 | ![]() Henare Parata | Henare Parata is a teacher of te reo and mātauranga Māori. He has also been involved with The Opportunities Party (TOP), and is a well-known presence on X as @TeHenare. We talked to him about mātauranga Māori and science, what pre-colonial Māori society was really like, and where his favourite marae is. | 59m 51s | ||||||
| 4/8/25 | ![]() Brandon McMurtrie | Brandon McMurtrie is a PhD student in psychology at Massey University, where he studies political polarization. He is also a keen Substacker, X-user, and hunter. We talked to him about polarization; whether the way we're currently talking about mental health might have some downsides; psychological research on left- (and right-) wing authoritarianism; and why he goes hunting. Pew Research on polarization in the US: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/... Costello et al. on the traditional ... | 1h 10m 44s | ||||||
| 3/17/25 | ![]() James Lindsay | Dr James Lindsay was one of the perpetrators of the 'Sokal Squared' hoax, and is the co-author of Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody and of How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide. We asked him who his favourite post-modern thinker is, whether he went crazy on Twitter, and what he means by terms like 'groomer' and 'the woke right.' Cynical Theories: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1634312... | 1h 04m 14s | ||||||
| 3/6/25 | ![]() Damien Grant | Damien Grant is a Stuff columnist and the Principal of Waterstone Insolvency. We talked to him about occupational licensing, free speech, Trump's likely impact on the Anglosphere, and New Zealand's COVID response. Damien's column about Janet Dickson: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360573233/damien-grant-how-real-estate-agent-lost-her-career-over-90-minute-course about COVID: https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360513485/damien-grant-new-zealand-ashamed-about-what-happened-covid-years and about... | 59m 43s | ||||||
| 2/27/25 | ![]() Frances Widdowson | Frances Widdowson was a professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary until 2021, when the university fired her. Frances gives us her account of the circumstances of her dismissal. She also talks to us about ideas such as 'land-based knowledge' (which she has long criticized) and about the controversy over Canada's residential schools. Frances' website: https://wokeacademy.info/ Frances' paper on 'land-based knowledge': https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781802208542/book-part-9781... | 1h 02m 49s | ||||||
| 2/17/25 | ![]() 'Hate crime' and VUW's new academic freedom policy, with Steph Martin | The Law Commission recently put out a consultation paper on whether the law relating to 'hate crime' should be changed, and if so how. The Commission considers whether the current 'sentence aggravation' model (in which hatred may be factored into sentencing as an aggravating factor) should be replaced by a new, specific offence of 'hate crime.' But how should 'hate' (of various sorts) factor into how we think about different offences? How broad should our scope be when considering whether a p... | 1h 18m 40s | ||||||
| 2/10/25 | ![]() Cody Ellingham | Cody Ellingham is a Kiwi writer, photographer, and Bitcoin enthusiast who's currently based in Kamakura, Japan. We asked him to explain Bitcoin to us and tell us about the Bitcoin scene in New Zealand. Lyn Alden, Broken Money: https://www.amazon.com.au/Broken-Money-Financial-System-Failing/dp/B0CG8985FR Angela Redish, Bimetallism: https://www.cambridge.org/nz/universitypress/subjects/economics/macroeconomics-and-monetary-economics/bimetallism-economic-and-historical-analysis?format=PB&i... | 50m 20s | ||||||
| 2/8/25 | ![]() Alan Davison | Alan Davison is Academic Lead at the Governance and Public Affairs Centre at the Australian Catholic University, and was until recently Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. He co-founded the Permission to Think series on Josh Szeps' Uncomfortable Conversations podcast. He is also President of the Australian Free Speech Union. We talked to Alan about post-modernism, the evolution of (bad) ideas, and what to do about our universities. Alan's paper 'A Darwinia... | 1h 06m 35s | ||||||
| 12/20/24 | ![]() Peter Boghossian | Dr Peter Boghossian is a freelance philosopher and former academic. He was jointly responsible for the 'Sokal squared' hoax, as a result of which he was investigated by his then-employer, Portland State University, for research misconduct. He later left the university and now travels the world engaging bystanders in 'street epistemology' - open, reasonable conversations on a range of topics. We talked to him about whether there are moral facts, what people think about in prison, whethe... | 56m 37s | ||||||
| 11/18/24 | ![]() Nigel Biggar | Nigel Biggar is an emeritus professor at Oxford University, where he was Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology. He is also an Anglican priest. His most recent book is Colonialism. A Moral Reckoning (2023). We talked to Prof. Biggar about the how to assess the British Empire and about the roots of our universities' ongoing travails. Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Colonialism-Moral-Reckoning-Nigel-Biggar/dp/0008511632 | 57m 46s | ||||||
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