Thinking Class

Dr Carl Trueman is a Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. Carl is Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has written many books including, 'The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution.' He contributes to First Things), blogs regularly at Refo...

Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham. He is the author of Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities (Penguin, 2018; Abrams, 2019), Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth (Profile, 2010), Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution (Forum, 2024) and numerous academic books and papers. He is an editor of the journal Nations...

Sebastian Milbank is the Executive Editor of The Critic magazine, and a journalist, writer and academic with a special interest in political theology. In this episode, Sebastian and I talk about why the changing media landscape is due to dissident energy, why liberalism has a dark side, why the concept of freedom itself is about more than just free choice, how the liberty won in the French Revolut...

Helen Pluckrose is a political and cultural writer and commentator, addressing current affairs from a liberal humanist perspective. Her particular focus is Critical Social Justice (woke) scholarship and activism. Helen took part in the Grievance Studies Affair (along with Peter Bogossian and James Lindsay) which submitted shoddy, ridiculous and ideologically biased papers to academic journals know...

Dr. Paul Morland is an author and broadcaster who writes and speaks about population and the big demographic trends across the world, both contemporary and historic. Described as the 'UK's leading demographer' and 'one of the world's pre-eminent demographers', Paul has written three books: ‘Tomorrow’s People’, ‘The Human Tide’ and ‘Demographic Engineering’ and his wor...

Elisabeth Braw is a columnist at Foreign Policy, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and the author of "Goodbye Globalization.  In this episode, Elisabeth and I talk about what globalisation is and why we are saying goodbye to it as we know it, why we should trade with countries similar in values, the different approaches taken across the West in dealing with the end of globalisation, wh...

Momus Najmi is writer, commentator, and podcaster. Host of The World of Momus podcast and author of the Substack 'The World of Momus'. Momus has made appearances on broadcast media such as GB News and on podcasts such as New Culture, British Thought Leaders, and many more. In this episode, Momus and I talk about his experience of leaving Islam, why he chose to England and Britain as the...

Ian Williams is an author and award-winning journalist who has reported from across the world. He covered business and technology for the Sunday Times before moving to television. He was a foreign correspondent, first for Channel 4 News in Moscow and Asia, and then for NBC news, based in Bangkok and Beijing. Ian has travelled and reported from across China and has also covered conflicts across the...

Lionel Shriver is an author of 8 books, including, 'We Need To Talk About Kevin', which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005 and a journalist, with a fortnightly column in The Spectator and a contributor to The Times. In this episode, Lionel and I talk about mass immigration to Britain and the subsequent demographic transformation, why populism is thriving even without political repr...

Paul Embery is a firefighter, trade union activist, writer and broadcaster. Paul has been a member of the Labour party since 1994 and active in the wider labour movement for most of his adult life. He has served on the executive council of the Fire Brigades Union and as the national organiser of Trade Unionists Against the EU. Paul has written extensively about working-class politics and culture,...

Tom Jones is a writer and Councillor for Scotton and Lower Wensleydale, in North Yorkshire, England. Tom is the author of Substack 'The Potemkin Village Idiot' and he writes, for The Critic, Con Home, Cap X, Unherd, and The Guardian. Tom is concerned with winning back a conservative Britain fit for the 21st Century and engages is a commentator and critic of social policy, culture, and th...

Martina Macpherson has been recognised as a one of the ‘Top 50 Women in Finance’ (World Finance Forum 2022), and as a strategic engager and influencer (Commetric ESG Influencer Index, 2020, 2021; Modern Slavery Influencer Index, 2018) and by various organisations and bodies for her sustainable investing track record and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) work across industry and academia....

Ed West is a columnist and author of the popular 'Wrong Side of History' Substack. Ed's work has appeared in many of Britain's biggest publications. He is also the author of many books, including Saxons versus Vikings: Alfred The Great, 1215 and all that, 1066 and before all that, and What We Got Wrong About Immigration and How To Set It Right. We talk about why why cultural el...

Tomiwa Owolade is a writer and critic and is the author of the book This Is Not America. Tom has written for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Spectator, The Financial Times, The Evening Standard, and the Literary Review. He is also a contributing writer at The New Statesman and has made appearances on GB News and BBC Radio 4. In this episode we talk about why Britain should not import America&apos...

Dr. Rakib Ehsan is a research analyst and writer, specialising in matters of social cohesion, race relations, and public security and it's safe to say he has established himself as a prominent British authority on matters of racial identity and social integration. He is the author of the 'Beyond Grievance: What The Left Gets Wrong About Ethnic Minorities'. Rakib holds a PhD in Polit...

Esmé Partridge is an MPhil student at the University of Cambridge and writer for publications including UnHerd, The Critic, and First Things. Esmé previously worked for a consultancy at the intersection of religion and politics where she was involved in several projects relating to religious freedom and interfaith relations. Today we talk about the shift in contemporary religion and spirituality w...

Dr. Frank Furedi is an author, social commentator and emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent. Author of more than 26 books, Furedi’s studies have been devoted to an exploration of the cultural developments in western societies. In recent years he has published several studies on the impact of the Culture Wars on family life, socialisation, education and public life. His most rec...

Dr. Tom Morris is a native of North Carolina in the United States, a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead-Cain Scholar, and was the recipient of a double PhD from Yale University. He has gone from being the most popular professor at The University of Notre Dame, where he taught for 15 years, to now serving as one of the world's most active public philosophers, authoring over 3...

Iancu Daramus is the Head of Sustainability for Fulcrum Asset Management and has been working in the field of Sustainable Finance for a decade. Through shareholder engagements, Iancu has helped shaped the strategies of the world's largest companies. Iancu writes and publishes regularly on investment portfolio alignment, energy and investment stewardship, including as one of the lead authors i...

Andreas Svanlund is a board member of XBED, a Norwegian deep sea mining company that provides offshore companies with geo data to help them design, build, and operate offshore assets. Formerly an officer in the Norwegian Armed Forces, Andreas joined the defence industry as business developer with a special focus towards the special forces elements within NATO and Europol. Andreas was a proprietor...

Matthew Davis is the Business School Director of Culture and Values at the University of Leeds, England, and is a psychologist, researcher, educator, and consultant. Matt works with public and private sector organisations to develop strategies to support hybrid working, workplace design, and sustainability.  Matt has worked with partners including Rolls Royce, Marks & Spencer,  Arup Consulting...

Bridget Ryder is a freelance writer based in Spain. She writes on a wide variety of topics from  European Union  and Spanish politics to environmental issues and religion. Her work has appeared in The European Conservative and America Magazine. An American, she grew up in the American heartland and has spent stints traveling and working in Latin America and Europe. She cut her teeth on journalism...

Ryan Hopkins is Chief Impact Officer at JAAQ,  author of '52 weeks of wellbeing: a no nonsense guide to a fulfilling work life' - published 03/01/24. Before joining Jaaq, Ryan led the Future of Wellbeing at Deloitte. He's a LinkedIn Top Voice for Work Life Balance, host of the Audacious Goals Club and Creator of Toilet Break Wellbeing. Ryan is also a TEDx Speaker - Shoreditch. Expec...

Hello everybody Joining me in Thinking Class today is Katrin Gülden Le Maire. Katrin is a trained theologian, a strategic advisor, and an independent scientific researcher with more than 20 years experience in various European markets. She works across all industries and sectors, with special expertise in finance. She has been nominated as board member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on ESG i...

Kahlil Corazo is the author of How to Turn Ideas Into Reality: Project Management for Entrepreneurship and Creative Work and the founder of Advenient.co, a Philippine-based outsourced partner of digital agencies handling the technical side of internet marketing. His current writing project is Explorations.ph, where he explores the applications of the ideas of thinkers such as René Girard and Venka...