In Conversation with Jack Jacobs
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Reflections Read Aloud: "Counterrevolutionary Subordination in Trump's America"
A reading of "Counterrevolutionary Subordination in Trump's America" originally published April 10 on Substack!
#20 The Milk Tea Alliance Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy with Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom
In this conversation I speak with Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom about his upcoming book The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing (June, 2025). We discuss his current…
S1E19 #19 Intellectual History in Face of the Global Future with John Dunn
John Dunn is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge and one of three founders of the Cambridge School of intellectual…
S1E19 #18 The Call to Repair with Dr Iain McGilchrist
In this podcast, Dr Iain McGilchrist and I speak about themes from his book The Matter with Things. We discuss the collapse of Western civilisation’s spiritual life, the hemisphere hypothesis as Dr…
S1E18 #17 The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence with Professor Faisal Devji
In this podcast, I speak with Professor Faisal Devji from St Antony’s College, Oxford, about Mahatma Gandhi’s complex relationship with violence, revolution, and reform.
S1E17 #16 The Untold Stories of Leonard Cohen with Michael Posner
Taking a (well-earned!) pause on politics and reform, in this episode of Beaconsfield podcast I speak with Michael Posner, author of a three-part oral history of Leonard Cohen: the songwriter and…
S1E16 #15 Re-discovering the ”Empirical” Burke: Commerce and Manners with Gregory Collins
It was a joy to speak with Yale's Gregory Collins about his book, Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy. The Burke that emerges is one not immediately familiar to us: a principled…
S1E15 #14 The Gun, The Ship and The Pen: On Written Constitutions with Professor Linda Colley
Linda Colley is one of the world's most eminent scholars of global and imperial history. Professor of History at Princeton, she is a highly respected contributor to public debates around…
S1E14 #13 Our Human Tradition: On Consolation with Professor Michael Ignatieff
What do failure, loss, and tragedy have to teach us about being human? How might we live in hope and truth despite our wounds? Why must we venture beyond ourselves to console others? In this podcast,…
S1E13 #12 Lessons in Reform Leadership with Professor the Hon Bob Carr
In the first podcast of the year, Professor the Hon Bob Carr and I reflect on the lessons for reform leadership that emerge from his time as former Premier of NSW (1995-2005) and as Australian…
S1E12 #11 In Conversation with Professor Akeel Bilgrami: Gandhi, Modernity, and the Cultural Commons
What is the Cultural Commons? Is there a tradition that links Burke with Nietzsche? What about Burke and Gandhi? What was Gandhi's critique of modernity? And what was Burke's, too, of Capital? Is…
S1E11 #10 A New Idea of Woman, but Also of Man: Wollstonecraft and Burke with Dr Sylvana Tomaselli
Who are we to each other, and to ourselves? In this conversation, Sylvana Tomaselli and I explore Wollstonecraft’s visceral critique of Burke in A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790). We explore…
S1E10 #9 Undoing Hate with Love: India’s Daughter and the founding of Think Equal with Leslee Udwin
In this conversation, I speak with Leslee Udwin about her quest to end discrimination around the world – particularly violence against women and girls. We discuss: the relationship between her acting…
S1E9 #8 The Project of Self-Knowledge: Burke, Gandhi, and the quest for moral integrity
Edmund Burke and Mahatma Gandhi – two thinkers separated in time and place – both come to political theory with an idea of moral integrity always in view. In this conversation, Uday Mehta and I…
S1E8 #7 The writer of Catharsis: history, identity and thinking oneself free with Stan Grant
“Is our liberal democracy up to the task of meeting the ethical claims and challenges of [historical] truth? Are we up to it? Because if we are not, liberal democracy will fall. It won’t fall because…
S1E7 #6 Women, men and the whole damn thing with David Leser
“It’s up to us, it’s up to men, we need to step up.” In this podcast, I speak with David Leser, multi-award-winning journalist and author of ‘Women, men and the whole damn thing,’ about Australia’s…
S1E6 #5 Persuasion and Reform with Professor David Bromwich
“The most difficult task in politics,” writes David Bromwich, “the reason for something called statesmanship to exist – is to awaken public sentiments against an entrenched abuse and convince…
S1E5 #4 The role of the scholar in democracy with Professor Tarunabh Khaitan
What is the role of the scholar in democracy? It is my pleasure to speak with Professor Tarunabh Khaitan, Vice Dean of Oxford’s Faculty of Law, about the part scholarship has to play in institutional…
S1E4 #3 Reflections on Reform with Ambassador Bob Rae
“We’re in history,” Bob Rae reminds us. In this podcast it is my privilege to speak with the Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations about his life as a reformer in politics. Former interim leader…
S1E3 #2 Edmund Burke as Philosopher in Action with Professor Richard Bourke
What did it mean for Edmund Burke – the great philosopher-statesman of the 18th century – to wield principles in the thick of politics? How did his historical method inform his political theory and…
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In Conversation with Jack Jacobs has published 22 episodes since June 2020, covering topics in Philosophy, Society & Culture.
In Conversation with Jack Jacobs is currently dormant with new episodes every few days. Average episode length is 56m.
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