Savage Minds Podcast

Paul Embery is a firefighter, trade unionist, journalist, national organiser of Trade Unionists Against the EU, supporter of Blue Labour and the author of  Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class . In this episode, Embery talks with Julian Vigo about the chasm between the working class communities and the wider left to include the abandon of class considerations by the left in favo...

In this episode, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University who holds an MD and PhD in economics, discusses his work during the COVID-19 epidemic to include the first seroprevalence study and some of the humanist ideals behind the Great Barrington Declaration which urges a change in COVID-19 infection control policies away from lockdowns and in favour of focused protectio...

Marcus Evans is a former governor of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation where he also served as Consultant Psychotherapist and Associate Clinical Director of Adult and Adolescent Service at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. In this episode Evans discusses the 400 percent  rise in referrals to the  Tavistock Centre  in north London, the only National Health Service (NHS) clinic in Britain...

Martin Kulldorff, PhD, a biostatistician, epidemiologist and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, is one of the three creators of the   Great Barrington Declaration   (GBD) co-authored with fellow scientists Sunetra Gupta (Oxford University) and  Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University). In his discussion with Julian Vigo, Kulldorff analyses current WHO and media discourses surrounding C...

Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, the esteemed Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, joins Julian Vigo to discuss this current global pandemic through the analysis he and Dr. Karina Reiss provide in Corona, False Alarm Facts And Figures (2020). An award-winning researcher, Bhakdi sheds a light on the current era of COVID-19 and offers an analysis of whether radi...

Women's rights campaigner and founder of Standing For Women, Kellie-Jay Keen, discusses the rift among feminists seeking to denigrate right-wing women, free speech and the myth of left-wing compassion with Julian Vigo. Also known by the name Posie Parker, Keen covers her political actions to include the posting of billboards and stickers with the definition of the word “woman” and her recent arres...

In this episode, Glenn Loury addresses Black Lives Matter, our cultural fixation on slavery, the current debate over police brutality and the uses and abuses of social media with Julian Vigo. Examining the “Karen” incident of Central Park this summer, Loury queries the “counterweight to the unspoken—but much more overpoweringly, empirically resonant reality” of a narrative which plays heavily in t...

Heather Brunskell-Evans discusses John Stuart Mill, Michel Foucault, identity politics, the current philosophical and legal discourses on sexual violence, and the politics of “kindness” with Julian Vigo. Focussing upon many of the misrepresentations of Foucault’s work in recent years, Brunskell-Evans offers ways in which we might better understand liberalism and how Foucault asks us to consider bo...

Savage Minds presents its launch podcast with Noam Chomsky who speaks with Julian Vigo about the international mitigation efforts for dealing with COVID-19, US politics, ecological catastrophe, internationalism, feminism and identity politics. Chomsky lays bare the situation of politics within and outside the United States and why the left needs to focus on working class issues, public health, and...