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Emma Hilton, a developmental biologist at the University of Manchester (UK) and a keen amateur sportswoman, discusses sex-segregation in sport, the impact of physical anatomy on performance and the necessity for a protected category for female athletes. In this episode, Hilton discusses with Julian Vigo her academic review of muscle and strength retention in trans-identified males suppressing the...

In this episode, Caleb Maupin , a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst discusses Muammar Gaddafi’s  Green Book , the implications of US-sponsored regime change operations abroad, the shift of leftist politics and the demonisation of populism within the left. Maupin offers a rich history of the left within the west elaborating how class politics have been eroded by th...

Oliver Traldi is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, a writing fellow at Heterodox Academy, and a columnist at ArcDigital. Recently, Traldi penned “ The Left Has Turned Into a Guild Hall ,” an essay which addresses identity politics on the left. In this episode, Traldi speaks with Julian Vigo about his views on the left’s abandon of class politics, the protest on the...

Dr. Douglas Frank, Ph. D. in Surface Analytical Chemistry, has recently gained notoriety for his modelling work on the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Frank has been making his work available to the public since January of 1990 and his Facebook page “ Follow the Data with Dr Frank ” has over 50,000 members and followers. In this episode, Dr. Frank details the way the COVID-19 data is being used, abused and...

This episode is an in-depth interview with Stephanie Davies-Arai , founder and Director of Transgender Trend , the leading UK organisation advocating for an evidence-based approach to childhood gender non-conformity. Davies-Arai details her entry into the gender debate , her work to expose the medical fraud that is “childhood gender transition” and the problems faced by teachers, clinicians and pa...

En el episodio de lanzamiento para 2021, nuestra invitada especial es Lidia Falcón, abogada, escritora y política, que ha sido investigada por la Fiscalía de Delitos de Odio y Discriminación, junto con la Dirección General de Igualdad de Cataluña, en respuesta a una denuncia de la Federación Plataforma Trans (Trans Platform Federation) de España. Habla con Julián Vigo sobre su lucha contra la iden...

Philosopher, Heather Brunskell-Evans, joins Savage Minds for the our end of year broadcast in her analysis of the current pushback against lockdown to include the recent writings of Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben, who has harshly critiqued current virus mitigation in a series of essays and At What Point are We? this year. Get full access to Savage Minds at www.savageminds.co/subscribe

Stella O’Malley, psychotherapist, bestselling author, and co-host of Gender: A Wider Lens Podcast , speaks with Julian Vigo about her personal and professional experiences in the “gender identity” debate and the way the “born this way” ideology within the gay community was quickly adopted within the “gender identity” camp. Focussing upon the problems of medicalising gender, O’Malley discusses her...

Paul Cockshott , author of How The World Works (2019), discusses the links between capitalism and class politics. Detailing how the ruling class is based upon the exploitation of labour and the interwoven dynamics of the class economy, slavery, feudal tenure, and immigration, Cockshott elaborates the historical issues that affect productivity and labour today. Get full access to Savage Minds at ww...

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...