
Investigative reporting and social commentary on public culture, the arts, science, and politics. www.savageminds.co
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 233 | Founded | 6 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | NewsPoliticsSociety & Culture | |||

Robin Andersen, professor emerita of media studies at Fordham University, examines how US media coverage of Gaza functions less as journalism than as a system of narrative management, transforming military violence into a language of self-defence whi... more
Alex Byrne, Lawrence S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at MIT and author of Trouble with Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions (2023), argues in this conversation that the contemporary backlash against the biological definition of “woman” stems fro... more
Elena Poniatowska, Mexico’s most celebrated journalist and one of the most significant literary voices in the Spanish-speaking world, argues in this conversation that the crisis of contemporary journalism is inseparable from the collapse of critical ... more
Journalist, grassroots organiser, and author Chris Kaspar de Ploeg pulls back the curtain on how Western legacy media operates to manufacture consent for imperialist, neocolonial, and xenophobic narratives. Moving beyond surface-level partisan bicker... more
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I was listening only because I wanted to hear the interview with Catherine Liu Who is a savage mind making a mistake. But the hostess is not. The hostess seems to think she can just rewrite an entire community (LGBTQ+) just because she doesn’t like the last three components of the acronym. That is beyond entitled, and couldn’t be less. Savage, highly conformist. we have too many conformists masquerading as rebels in this culture we don’t need another.
Left - solidly and differently and from all over the place. The best and most savage minds you'll ever hear on a podcast.
as a whole, ideologically incoherent - deeply transphobic, also very pro-Palestine
Thank you for your excellent analysis and guests and thank you for keeping it commercial/corporate-free. Loved the Miriam Grossman conversation especially.
The host has a really cringy style of delivery -she continually turns the discussion of an interesting subject into a personal beef which lessens the impact of the info. She might be good at research and production but she should get someone else to host because she effectively makes the show an unpleasant listening experience on every level.
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This show consistently covers geopolitics, economics, and social issues through interviews and sharp analysis. Across recent episodes, the conversations explore U.S. foreign policy, imperial dynamics, and multipolar power shifts, often pairing historical context with contemporary crises in the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe. Guests range from academics and policy analysts to journalists and activists, offering rigorous critiques of neoliberalism, media narratives, and governance challenges, while centering human impacts such as humanitarian access, democratic resilience, and civil liberties. The format tends to mix theoretical frameworks with practical case studies, producing a provocative, at times contrarian, but deeply sourced pe... more
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