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Returning to Carriageworks, Sydney on 24–25 August 2024. Presented by The Ethics Centre 🔥
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Apparently we’re at about 73 democracies now (down from 120 countries at the peak). A fascinating conversation - some people talk about ideas, some events, and others about people. Today it’s mostly about ideas. Festival of Dangerous Ideas Past Present Future Podcast Carriageworks @unsw


Is the price of democracy too steep? m. gessen, Paul Ham, David Runciman of Past Present Future Podcast and journalist Geraldine Doogue examine our current era of political turmoil at #FODI 🔥 Catch up with on demand tickets, now streaming at festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/democr…



Has the West been asleep at the wheel? US-based academic saree makdisi سريّ المقدسي argues that Europe and America, in particular, are complicit in a historic wrong. Catch up with on demand tickets, now at festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/tolera… #FODI


In a world where public shaming often dominates the conversation, comedian and writer David Baddiel roxane gay Andy Mills Megan Phelps-Roper and @ockhamsbeard unpack what public forgiveness looks like. Catch up with on demand tickets at festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/uncanc… #FODI


Are we too focused on race? Author and public intellectual Coleman Hughes joins host 𝕁𝕠𝕤𝕙 𝕊𝕫𝕖𝕡𝕤 for a live #FODI edition of Uncomfortable Conversations 🔥


It was great to be back at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas Ideas taking about the realities of inequality and the hope for equality with Gwilym David Blunt , A/Prof Myra Hamilton and Purplepingers ☭.


UK author David Baddiel is joined in conversation by The Ethics Centre's Simon Longstaff to present the inaugural John Caldon Provocation at Carriageworks Sydney for #FODI 2024🔥 Missed out on The God Desire in person? Catch up with on demand tickets at festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/the-go…


Multitudes of moral dilemmas, bodacious beats and uncancelled culture 🔥 #FODI closes our weekend takeover of Carriageworks Sydney with a BANG! 📷 Anna Kucera




Got room for more danger? Join Jean Twenge (author of GENERATIONS, iGEN) Stephanie Ward Sam Koslowski + Bridie Jabour as we stare down the generational gap at UNSW Roundhouse this week🔥 TUE 27 AUG // 6.30PM // THE GENERATION GULF Co-presented by UNSW Sydney and #FODI Book now at festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/the-ge…


What a pleasure to talk Counterfeit People at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney this weekend. The audience was wonderful - spontaneous applause for Lizzie O'Shea's work on defending digital rights against big platforms! Thanks for a great conversation Festival of Dangerous Ideas #FODI


Catch up with select sessions from this year's Fest, now streaming on demand 🔥 ROXANE GAY // DAVID BADDIEL // JEAN TWENGE // MASHA GESSEN // DAVID RUNCIMAN // MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER // ANDY MILLS // SAREE MAKDISI + MORE Digital tickets available at festivalofdangerousideas.com/program #FODI

Very grateful to have spoken at Festival of Dangerous Ideas #FODI My talk (avail via podcast soon) highlighted the predicament Australia's #carbon market is in (nature.com/articles/s4324…) and questioned whether "better than nothing" is sufficient. We can and must do better. #ACCUs #climate




Russian American journalist m. gessen reasons that dissidents are more useful alive than dead, even if that means exile from the very country one is seeking to liberate. Catch up on Democracy is Not Worth Dying For, streaming on demand til 8 Sept 🔥 festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/democr…

Former member of the Westboro Baptist Church Megan Phelps-Roper says that when faced with difficult conversations, empathy is a powerful tool for persuasion. Watch The Witch Trials from #FODI 2024, now streaming on demand until 8 Sept 🔥 Tickets available at festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/the-wi…