What If We Fired All the Politicians?
In this live taping — a partnership between Wisdom of Crowds, Aspen Philosophy and Society, and Yale’s new Center for Civic Thought — Samuel...
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We’re Damir Marusic and Shadi Hamid. We live in Washington DC and have been friends for a while. One of us works at a magazine, another thinks in a tank. The idea behind the podcast is to tr...
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Church and Empire
The Iran war has produced an unlikely main character: the Pope. This week, our dear friend and former colleague Santiago Ramos returns to th...
Did We Get Hungary Wrong?
This week, Damir and Shadi are joined by Julian Waller, Professorial Lecturer in Political Science at George Washington University and co-au...
Anti-Politics and the Counter-Revolution
Samuel Kimbriel was in Italy the other week, where he sat down with Rome-based political theorist Giovanni Orsina to talk about European pop...
Peter Beinart on Why the "Right to Exist" is the Wrong Question
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Last week, Shadi wrote a controversial essay over at Wisdo...
What Ails the Left?
This week, Shadi and Sam sat down with Jonny Thakkar, an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Swarthmore College and one of the found...
Cameron Kasky on How Israel Lost America
This week, Shadi and Damir hosted Cameron Kasky — a rising young activist in the Democratic Party and former congressional candidate for New...
Are We All Clavicular Now?
Damir, Shadi and Christine discuss the latest wave of worrying data about young adults’ retreat from dating, sex, marriage and parenthood. S...
Just How Worried Should We Be About AI?
Damir and Sam are joined by Cambridge philosopher Henry Shevlin of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence for a raucous and ra...
American Exceptionalism on Trial
This episode features a full-length debate between Shadi Hamid and Trita Parsi —two thinkers who fundamentally disagree about the role of Am...
What the New Right Actually Believes
This week Christine Emba and Sam Kimbriel are joined by Laura K. Field, a political theorist and the author of the new book Furious Minds: T...
Venezuela and Its Consequences
Against the backdrop of Trump’s breathtaking snatch-and-grab operation against Venezuela’s nasty dictator Nicolás Maduro, Shadi and Damir de...
How Democracies Can Get Their Mojo Back
As the year winds down, Shadi and Damir hosted Michael McFaul , a professor at Stanford University and former special assistant to President...
Holiday Special: The Case for a New American Founding
This week, we have a special live episode for you. Wisdom of Crowds, in cooperation with Aspen’s Philosophy and Society program, threw a hol...
Why are Charismatic Demagogues So Attractive?
This week, the great Nils Gilman joined Damir Marusic and Samuel Kimbriel on the pod to unpack the complexities of American foreign policy a...
Do We Crave Intensity in Our Lives?
Damir’s back from Ukraine, still buzzing — and feeling weird about it. He and Christine talk about the thrill and guilt associated with repo...
Lea Ypi on Dignity, History and Internet Trolls
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live A few years ago, Lea Ypi was scrolling through Facebook wh...
Who Is Zohran Mamdani, Really?
After Friday’s meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani , everyone is asking: who is Zohran Mamdani really? What motivates him: is it...
Shadi Hamid on the Case for America
This week’s episode is a live recording of Wisdom of Crowds , where we celebrated a very special occasion: the publication of Shadi Hamid ’s...
Will the Right Sideline Nick Fuentes? Can it?
With Shadi out promoting his new book, Damir sat down with WoC friend Jamie Kirchick to debate the influence of media figures like Tucker Ca...