Fate of the West
Where Western civilization is headed. History, demography, culture and power, with serious attention to both decline and renewal.
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Dr. Iain McGilchrist: The Faustian bargain of AI
📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/4cfaeH0 🔗 Thank you to our sponsor Trading212 - Invest one hundred pounds in an investment of your liking and get fractional shares worth fifty pounds with the code UnHerd. Download Trading 212. https://bit.ly/4h9AFBA Dr Iain McGilchrist has dedicated decades of neuroscience research to unravelling the inner workings of the human mind. But now, a new form of ‘consciousness’ has come to compete with the very idea of being a person. Could artificial intelligence overtake its creators? Join the psychiatrist, philosopher and author of the bestselling book The Master and His Emissary, for a live on-stage conversation with UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/ai-versus-the-human-soul/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv #UnHerd #IainMcGilchrist #AI
The US-China Summit wasn’t what you’ve been told - Varoufakis & Munchau | The Econoclasts
📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/4cfaeH0 🔗 Thank you to our sponsor Trading212 - Invest one hundred pounds in an investment of your liking and get fractional shares worth fifty pounds with the code UnHerd. Download Trading 212. https://bit.ly/4h9AFBA In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the escalating geopolitical tensions between Western powers, Russia, and China, expose the dangerous anti-diplomacy bias within mainstream media and centrist political establishments that pushes Europe toward a pre-war posture, and debunk the political myth that military Keynesianism and factory-focused reindustrialisation can restore high-paying blue-collar jobs in an automated age. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/the-pre-war-era-has-begun/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv #UnHerd #China #Reindustrialisation
Kamloops Unmarked Graves, Explained
The text that follows is adapted from a September 23 speech delivered by the author in Laramie, WY, at an event hosted by the University of Wyoming chapter of Heterodox Academy.
Prof. Nick Bostrom: The truth about the AI panic
📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/4cfaeH0 🔗 Thank you to our sponsor Trading212 - Invest one hundred pounds in an investment of your liking and get fractional shares worth fifty pounds with the code UnHerd. Download Trading 212. https://bit.ly/4h9AFBA 🔗Go to unherd.com/youtube and try a month of digital access for free! UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers talks to Oxford philosopher Professor Nick Bostrom about the escalating concerns over artificial intelligence, weighing whether catastrophic warnings from industry insiders reflect genuine existential fears or commercial strategy, while analysing technical threats like deceptive alignment and autonomous AI coordination alongside the broader economic, geopolitical, and societal risks of managing superintelligence. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/the-truth-about-the-ai-panic/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv #UnHerd #AI #NickBostrom
Germany can't recover from this - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/4cfaeH0 🔗 Thank you to our sponsor Trading212 - Invest one hundred pounds in an investment of your liking and get fractional shares worth fifty pounds with the code UnHerd. Download Trading 212. https://bit.ly/4h9AFBA In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the systemic breakdown of German centrist politics, reveal the uncomfortable truth about Europe’s total lack of defence sovereignty under US hegemony, and debunk the conventional political narrative by exposing how the centre-Left bears primary responsibility for the continent’s long-term deindustrialisation and geopolitical decline. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/the-centre-lefts-betrayal-destroyed-europe/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv #UnHerd #Germany #Europe
Piddington & the revolt against Britain's migrant camps
📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/4cfaeH0 On Tuesday, the people of Piddington voted to secede from the UK, in protest at an asylum centre opening near their Oxfordshire village. The referendum is wholly symbolic. But symbolism matters — this is revolution in England’s prosperous heartland. With anti-migrant protests in Portsmouth evoking a similar malaise, albeit in a more militant fashion, Westminster is scrambling to respond. To understand England’s rage, Aris Roussinos visits picturesque Piddington and asks: can Andy Burnham quell the unrest? Watch it on the UnHerd website: unherd.com/piddington Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv #UnHerd #Immigration #AndyBurnham
The Econoclasts Live: The world after capitalism
Watch this subscriber only event in full at https://www.unherd.com/econoclastslive What comes after the era of capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau continue their mission to dismantle economic orthodoxy – and this time, they’re tackling the ultimate settled fact: the permanence of capitalism. Can Europe adapt to the 21st century digital economy? As free markets give way to economic nationalism and escalating trade wars between the US, China, and Europe, who wins in the new fragmented global order? And as power shifts from physical capital to algorithmic ‘cloud capital,’ will AI drive a genuine wave of productivity or a deeply extractive new economic dystopia? Join Varoufakis and Munchau as they challenge the orthodox consensus and ask: is free-market capitalism already dead, and if so, what will replace it? Hosted in the exclusive, intimate setting of the UnHerd Club, this live recording gives ticket holders an unmissable opportunity to get up close and personal with two of the most unapologetic minds in global economics. Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv #UnHerd #Capitalism #YanisVaroufakis
The real AI threat isn't what you think - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau | The Econoclasts
📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/4cfaeH0 🔗Get your tickets for The Econoclasts Live: The world after capitalism, here: http://unherd.com/econoclastslive In this AI focussed episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the recent apocalyptic warnings from tech bosses as tricks for regulatory capture, reveal how weaponised AI and China’s robotic lead threaten stability, and dissect Europe’s failure to retain sovereignty in an era of cloud capital. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/the-ai-extinction-myth-is-a-scam/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv #UnHerd #AI #China
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