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Your weekly review of culture, life and society from the New Statesman, hosted by Tanjil Rashid.

Featuring interviews with literary and artistic greats, reviews of the latest cultural moments, and in-depth discussion to help you understand how culture shapes society – and our place in it.

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It's almost impossible to separate how we think about modern life from the phenomenon that is capitalism, and to think, what would life look like without it?

Tanjil Rashid is joined by Sven Beckert, Professor of History at Harvard University and aut... more

Michael Pollan, a writer best known for his work on the effect of psychedelics, has taken a journey into the inner mind.

For much of modern history, we’ve understood the mind in comparison to our most advanced machines. Once it was clockwork, then l... more

In 2025, Elon Musk took on an extraordinary role inside Washington, leading something called the Department of Government Efficiency - or Doge.

What followed was a radical experiment: an attempt to remake the machinery of the state using the logic o... more

Despite KPop Demon Hunters becoming Netflix’s most-watched film in history and dominating music charts for months, it’s also the kind of cultural phenomenon many people might never have encountered.

The animated musical feature has been cleaning up ... more

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Sven Beckert
Professor of History at Harvard University, author of Capitalism, A Global History
Harvard University
Episode: What was life like before capitalism?
Michael Pollan
Author and journalist known for writing about food, drugs, and consciousness
New Statesman; author
Episode: What do mushrooms have to do with consciousness? with Michael Pollan
Ben Tarnoff
Author of Muskism, a Guide for the Perplexed
Author, Muskism
Episode: How Elon Musk redefined power
Quinn Slobodian
Author of Muskism, a Guide for the Perplexed
Author, Muskism
Episode: How Elon Musk redefined power
C. Thi Nguyen
Philosopher at the University of Utah
University of Utah
Episode: Metrics now control our lives
Helen Macdonald
Author and falconer, known for her memoir 'H is for Hawk'
Episode: What it’s like to be played by Claire Foy
Dominic Sandbrook
Co-host of The Rest is History and best-selling historian
Episode: Does reading make you a better person? with Dominic Sandbrook
Lucasta Miller
Author of The Brontë Myth
New Statesman
Episode: Wuthering Heights is a disgusting film, but is it a love story?
James Muldoon
Sociologist and author of Love Machines
Episode: People around the world are falling in love with AI

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What do mushrooms have to do with consciousness? with Michael Pollan
Q: How empirical are these experiences you describe?
Pollan acknowledges it is first-person evidence but argues that such subjective experience is essential to understanding consciousness, even if it cannot be fully captured by third-person measurements.
What do mushrooms have to do with consciousness? with Michael Pollan
Q: Tell me more about that transition point between the material world and the mind through psychedelics.
Pollan explains that psychedelics defamiliarize consciousness, making it visible and prompting deep philosophical questions about the self, which guided his broader exploration into how mind arises from embodied processes.
Why are we so obsessed with Japan?
Q: Can you explain why Japan remains a very low immigration society?
There's a strong social anxiety about maintaining cultural harmony and expectations, making immigration a sensitive issue.
Why are we so obsessed with Japan?
Q: How did Japan get to where it is today?
It has a strong central government that shaped entrepreneurship and industrialization, leading to its current stability.
Why are we so obsessed with Japan?
Q: Is Japan a Western society?
Culturally, it seems liberal, but it's defined by its own historical and cultural context, which predates Western liberalism.

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