Reading Our Times
By Theos
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Mar 19, 2025
Description
Reading Our Times is the podcast that explores the books and the ideas that are shaping us today. It is hosted by Nick Spencer, Senior Fellow at the think tank, Theos.
We’re going to be talking to some of the world’s leading authors about issues like meritocracy, justice, populism, human rights, the brain, liberalism, and religion.
Above all, we'll be exploring what these books have to say about the times we live in and about the people we are.
So listen with us, and we’ll introduce you to authors, books and ideas that illuminate ourselves and our world today.
For more information about the people and ideas behind the podcast, visit https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/about/who-we-are or follow us on Twitter @theosthinktank and @theosnick.
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Trailer: Series 11 of Reading Our Times
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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What are children for? In conversation with Anastasia Berg
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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How have we come to deify choice? In conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Would it matter if Christianity were eclipsed? In conversation with Rupert Shortt
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Are there limits to economic growth? In conversation with Richard McNeill Douglas
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Why is the Orthodox church so supportive of Putin's war? In conversation with Lucy Ash
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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What is the future for democracy? In conversation with Jonathan Sumption
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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What has religion to do with sex? In conversation with Diarmaid MacCulloch
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Is it all over for the West? In conversation with Samir Puri
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May 27, 2025 |
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Trailer: Series 10 of Reading Our Times
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May 20, 2025 |
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Trailer: Motherhood vs The Machine
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Bookends: Unpacking Series 9 of Reading Our Times
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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How has our evolutionary past shaped us? In conversation with Harvey Whitehouse
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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What is (The) Enlightenment? In conversation with Jonathan Clark
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Should Britain pay reparations for slavery? In conversation with Michael Banner
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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What is "woke"? In conversation with Susan Neiman
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Assisted Dying: What's really at stake? In conversation with Ilora Finlay and Julian Hughes
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Can poetry save us? In conversation with Charles Taylor
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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How Did the World Make the West? In conversation with Josephine Quinn
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Books and the Future of Civilisation live from How The Light Gets In
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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The History of Science and Religion with Tom Holland
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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How Can You Truly Know A Person? In conversation with David Brooks
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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What is a Life Worth? In conversation with Jenny Kleeman
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May 21, 2024 |
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Why is Mental Health so Bad Among the Young? In conversation with Abigail Shrier
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May 21, 2024 |
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Can Animals be Persons? In conversation with Mark Rowlands
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May 14, 2024 |
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Should You Choose to Live Forever? In conversation with Stephen Cave
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May 07, 2024 |
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When will AI evolve a soul? In conversation with Eve Poole
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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What would it mean to discover alien life (or them us)? In conversation with Andrew Davison
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Should we really be playing God? In conversation with Nick Spencer
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Will technology liberate or enslave us? Live in conversation with Robert Skidelsky
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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How have we changed the world - and how has it changed us? In conversation with Peter Frankopan
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Who are the new elites? In conversation with Matt Goodwin
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Who is responsible for feeding us (well)? In conversation with Pen Vogler
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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What does the end of the world look like? In conversation with Cal Flyn
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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What makes a philosophical mind? In conversation with Dan Dennett
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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When is the next big crash? In conversation with Linda Yueh
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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What is a mind? In conversation with Philip Ball
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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What do we even mean by 'God'? In conversation with David Bentley Hart
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Why are Pentecostals taking over the world? In conversation with Elle Hardy
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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How much does Britain cost? In conversation with Paul Johnson
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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What are the risks of going green? In conversation with Henry Sanderson
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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What's happening to journalism? In conversation with Alan Rusbridger
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Can science make sense of life? In conversation with Prof. Sheila Jasanoff
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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What is the future of money? In conversation with Eswar Prasad
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May 30, 2023 |
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Whatever happened to the human mind? In conversation with Marilynne Robinson
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May 23, 2023 |
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Science and religion: what's the story? In conversation with Nick Spencer
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May 16, 2023 |
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Why tax is fun: In conversation with Michael Keen
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Do Prime Ministers do God? In conversation with Mark Vickers
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Whatever happened to civility? In conversation with Ann Hartle
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Does development aid actually work? In conversation with Stefan Dercon
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Have we got evolution wrong? In conversation with Simon Conway Morris
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Does terrorism work? In conversation with Richard English
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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How is the digital world changing our brain? In conversation with Maryanne Wolf
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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What happened to the sexual revolution? In conversation with Louise Perry
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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What will the world look like in 2050? In conversation with Hamish McRae
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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What is the soul? In conversation with John Cottingham
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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What do men want? In conversation with Nina Power
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Where does science end and pseudoscience begin? In conversation with Michael Gordin
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May 31, 2022 |
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How did we get into this mess? In conversation with Helen Thompson
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May 24, 2022 |
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Where did religion come from (and where is it going)? In conversation with Robin Dunbar
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May 17, 2022 |
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Can spying ever be ethical? In conversation with Cécile Fabre
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May 10, 2022 |
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Why trust science? In conversation with Naomi Oreskes
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May 03, 2022 |
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How do pandemics shape history? In conversation with Kyle Harper
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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What actually is the Common Good? In conversation with Anna Rowlands
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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How on earth should we talk about God? In conversation with Janet Soskice
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Why is secularism failing? In conversation with Sumantra Bose
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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What’s underneath the trans debate? In conversation with Helen Joyce
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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What is “the matter with things”? In conversation with Iain McGilchrist
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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What can animals teach us about ourselves? In conversation with Frans de Waal
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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What comes after liberalism? In conversation with Adrian Pabst
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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What does “being spiritual” actually mean? In conversation with Rowan Williams
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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What do we owe each other? In conversation with Minouche Shafik
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Where does language come from (and where is it going)? In conversation with Alexandra Aikhenvald
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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What can cats tell us about the meaning of life? In conversation with John Gray
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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What does science tell us about race? In conversation with Angela Saini
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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What is the future for humanity? In conversation with Martin Rees
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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How has war shaped us? In conversation with Margaret Macmillan
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May 25, 2021 |
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Series two trailer
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May 17, 2021 |
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Can liberalism ever ‘get’ religion? In conversation with Cécile Laborde
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Is the law damaging our politics? In conversation with Jonathan Sumption
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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How has the divided brain shaped the modern world? In conversation with Iain McGilchrist
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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What's wrong with rights? In conversation with Nigel Biggar
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Why is the West becoming so unequal and what can we do about it? In conversation with Thomas Piketty
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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What can dementia teach us about being human? In conversation with Nicci Gerrard
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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What does it mean to live in a secular age? In conversation with Charles Taylor
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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What’s wrong with meritocracy? In conversation with Michael Sandel
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Introducing Reading Our Times
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Sep 08, 2020 |