Luka Jagor | The Deep Dive Podcast

Institutionalized political persecution is the systematic use of courts, police, and regulators to punish people for political opinion, affiliation, or identity. This episode explains how selective enforcement, vague laws, and unfair process turn those institutions into instruments of punishment, from travel bans and asset freezes to politicized trials. The cases run from Georgia, Turkey, Russia,...

Sidewalks are critical urban infrastructure. A usable footpath links homes to shops, transit, schools, and public life, and it can turn a short errand into daily movement. The essay explains what a walkable street has to get right, and the trade-offs cities face when walking space comes from parking and traffic lanes.

Rock and roll treats rebellion as part of the music, but an arrest or an anti-establishment image does not turn a band into a criminal gang. A band is organized to make art. A criminal gang, in the legal sense, is organized around recurring crime. The essay follows Goran Bare and Majke, the regional bands S.A.R.S. and M.O.R.T., and the 2026 protest arrests of Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja.

A truck that misjudges its height can pull down overhead tram wires and stop a city. Railway campaigns such as Vlak je uvijek brži teach the danger, while LiDAR and intelligent infrastructure can catch the mistake before contact. A Safe System city measures success by the incidents that never happen.

World Space Week runs from 4 to 10 October. The dates mark Sputnik 1 in 1957 and the Outer Space Treaty in 1967. Most of the week is about Earth: weather, navigation, climate, and disaster response from orbit. The 2026 theme is still Rocket Revolution, and this is the first World Space Week after the Artemis II crew flew past the Moon and came home.

The A1 motorway hides Velebit inside the Sveti Rok tunnel. The Lika railway climbs the inland karst from Gračac through Malovan and down to Knin, and the Majstorska cesta crosses the range at Mali Alan. The same mountains look different depending on which piece of infrastructure you use.

A debate over patriarchy, feminism and political agency challenges assumptions about women on the right. Can women genuinely embrace conservative politics as an expression of their own beliefs, or do traditional power structures inevitably shape those choices? This episode explores the tension between political ideology, female autonomy and competing definitions of empowerment.

A multi-decade strategy for dismantling organized crime by disrupting recruitment pathways, fragmenting illicit networks, recovering criminal assets, and strengthening institutions. The episode explains why arrests alone can trigger violent succession and why financial investigation, community opportunity, and anti-corruption measures must work together.

Hydrogen releases no carbon when it is used, but making it can carry a large carbon footprint. This Deep Dive follows that paradox through blue hydrogen and methane leakage, the electricity and iridium cost of green electrolysis, and Oregon State University's sunlight-driven metal-organic framework, BVR-19.

A heavier rocket reaches Neptune sooner because it can carry the propellant for a shorter cruise and the capture stage that stops the craft from flying past. Used as an Earth-orbit truck, it delivers stages, fuel, and instruments so a specialized explorer leaves already able to slow down on arrival. This Deep Dive follows that logistics argument from Ceres ice through Europa and Titan, including t...

The most important kind of toxic waste in Croatia may not be the waste you can see. About 10 million tonnes of documented and estimated waste sit at various sites, including 8.5 million tonnes of non-hazardous phosphogypsum at Kutina and 40,000 tonnes of liquid waste at Sovjak near Rijeka. This Deep Dive traces how unresolved industrial waste feeds civic frustration and passive aggression, a socia...

Explore Croatia’s empty homes and hidden Cold War bunkers, then follow concrete back to ancient Roman engineers and self-healing concrete. This episode connects property, infrastructure, and the long environmental legacy of built materials.

A journey to the physical limits of matter, from rare minerals and superheavy elements to nuclear instability and the speculative idea that decay might mark a boundary between realities.

What if pessimism could become a source of prosperity? This episode explores how anticipating failure, uncertainty, and risk can be transformed into foresight, preparation, resilience, innovation, and purposeful action. Instead of treating pessimism as simply negative thinking, we examine how recognizing what could go wrong can help us build better strategies, identify opportunities, and create va...

A field journey to Korlat in northern Dalmatia explores Croatia’s first hybrid renewable energy park, where a 58 MW wind farm and a 99 MWp solar plant share land and grid infrastructure.

Public libraries are replacing diesel bookmobiles with electric, solar-powered outreach as cities add zero-emission zones and fuel costs rise. In Gothenburg, custom Volvo Electric Buses run as silent indoor mobile libraries, while smaller units such as the Grandview Heights PopUp Library in Ohio bring books to parks and festivals. This Deep Dive traces onboard solar and battery storage, lower oper...

Should a cheap bunch of bananas carry a visible Not Made by Slaves or No Forced Labour label? This Deep Dive unpacks documented forced-labour risks in banana supply chains — including U.S. Department of State reporting on plantations in Ecuador — and why a credible tag needs independent audits, worker interviews, traceability and real consequences, not a marketing slogan.

Why is the European Union increasingly moving new municipal waste incinerators out of the green-finance pipeline? This Deep Dive unpacks Do No Significant Harm, lock-in, and the 2018–2024 policy shift that took new waste-to-energy plants out of EU green funding — while Ljubljana redirected money into recycling and Celje built anyway with national loans.

Could the euro and US dollar ever become one currency? In this episode, we explore the hypothetical “EUSDRO” — a proposed fusion of the euro and US dollar — and examine what such an Atlantic currency union would actually require. From constitutional and EU treaty constraints to monetary policy, fiscal transfers, banking regulation, sovereignty, global reserves and a possible multi-decade transitio...

On 16 September 2026, Ursula von der Leyen floated making Canada the EU's first "associate member," while Mark Carney is pushing a unique alliance rather than full membership. This Deep Dive unpacks Luka Jagor's essay on how Canada could stay North American, keep the United States as its largest trading partner, and still build a European strategic pillar — closer than ordinary trade, but not EU m...

The numbers are staggering. Some of the world's largest oil and gas companies continue to generate tens of billions of dollars in annual profits, with Saudi Aramco standing far above most of its competitors. This Deep Dive unpacks Luka Jagor's essay on whether extraordinary fossil-fuel profits should remain concentrated while the costs of a warming planet are shared by everyone.

There is an important distinction between using the Trojan horse as a metaphor for migration and claiming that migrants themselves are a Trojan horse. This Deep Dive unpacks Luka Jagor's essay on why the ancient story still resonates in cybersecurity, migration debates, and the anxiety of open societies: the real question is whether a society can distinguish an open gate from an exploited one.

A democratic response to terrorism should rely on intelligence, evidence, targeted policing, international cooperation and prevention — while protecting civil liberties, due process, privacy and the rule of law. This Deep Dive unpacks Luka Jagor's essay on fighting terrorism without turning a free society into a permanent security state.

September 11, 2026 marks 25 years since the 9/11 attacks. A Deep Dive into Luka Jagor's essay on terrorism, human loss, institutional failure, the War on Terror, and the long shadow of fear — and what a generation with no personal memory of that morning should remember.

Humanity is not an engineering problem: medicine should heal, not upgrade people into products. A Deep Dive into Luka Jagor's humanist critique of transhumanism — dignity, embodiment, natural limits, and ethical caution.