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The Munk Debates Podcast

The Munk Debates podcast is an extension of the main stage events - in subject, speaker selection, tone and format. It will introduce the iconic brand - and its engaging debates about significant issues of our time. Audiences will hear strong and passionate arguments from both sides of an issue so they will have enough information to make up their own minds about where they stand.

Munk Dialogue with Mohamed El-Erian: A plan to fix a fractured world

46 mins; November 09, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Leon Cooperman: anti-semitism on college campuses

33 mins; November 02, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Munk Dialogue with George Will, Ash Sarkar, Jacob Rees Mogg, and Sohrab Ahmari

70 hours 3 mins; October 30, 2023

Be it Resolved, the US should call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

64 hours 7 mins; October 27, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Robert D. Kaplan: the challenge of urban warfare in Gaza

46 mins; October 17, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Bret Stephens: Israel under attack

41 mins; October 11, 2023

Be it Resolved, DEI workplace programs do more harm than good

41 mins; October 04, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Fredrik DeBoer: How the Elites at the Social Justice Movement

45 mins; September 26, 2023

Friday Focus: Canada-India Bust-up

17 mins; September 22, 2023

Be it Resolved, traditional gender roles make for a happier marriage

50 mins; September 20, 2023

Big Israel / Big Iran – Progressivism

20 mins; September 15, 2023

Munk Dialogue with David Brooks: How to Know a Person

38 mins; September 12, 2023

Friday Focus: G20 or G-zero?

17 mins; September 08, 2023

Be it Resolved, Gen Z is unemployable

38 mins; September 05, 2023

Housing: The Theory of Everything

18 mins; September 01, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Graham Allison: the deteriorating relationship between the US and China

52 mins; August 29, 2023

Friday Focus: Prigozhin - Trump

22 mins; August 25, 2023

Be it Resolved, the British Empire did more harm than good

36 mins; August 22, 2023

Friday Focus: Taliban @ 2 – Asia Summit

24 mins; August 18, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Stephen Walt: Surprising developments in the war between Russia and Ukraine

44 mins; August 17, 2023

Friday Focus: Climate Anxiety – Niger Coup – LLMs

14 mins; August 11, 2023

Be it Resolved, let’s engineer a better human being

43 mins; August 08, 2023

Friday Focus: Deterrence on a Dog Day in Summer

22 mins; August 04, 2023

Be it Resolved, pornography is exploitative, harmful, and too easy to access. It’s time to ban porn.

40 mins; August 01, 2023

Friday Focus: Israel in Crisis – Summer Reads

26 mins; July 28, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Yossi Klein Halevi: Israel on the brink of civil war?

44 mins; July 27, 2023

Friday Focus: It's Getting Hot – Trump’s Trials

17 mins; July 21, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Jean Twenge: a clash of generations

43 mins; July 18, 2023

Friday Focus: NATO Fallout – Google Thuggery

21 mins; July 14, 2023

Be it Resolved, affirmative action should be based on class, not race

54 mins; July 11, 2023

Friday Focus: Wither Europe? – Big Tech vs. Trudeau

19 mins; July 07, 2023

Munk Dialogue with AI Debaters Yann Lecun, Max Tegmark, Melanie Mitchell and Yoshua Bengio

67 hours 29 mins; July 04, 2023

Friday Focus: Borat Coup – Affirmative Action

21 mins; June 30, 2023

Be it Resolved, AI research and development poses an existential threat

93 hours 22 mins; June 29, 2023

Friday Focus: AI Debate Recap – Titanic Mistake

24 mins; June 23, 2023

Munk Dialogue with James Bessen: how AI will transform the labour market

39 mins; June 19, 2023

Friday Focus: Dr K @ 100 – AI Debate Preview

22 mins; June 16, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Bruce Schneier: AI and democracy

37 mins; June 14, 2023

Friday Focus: Wild Fires – Ukraine Offensive

21 mins; June 09, 2023

Be it Resolved, cats, not dogs, make better human companions

39 mins; June 06, 2023

Friday Focus: David Johnston – Inflation Risks

19 mins; June 02, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Matt Taibbi: mainstream media, the twitter files, and online censorshi

50 mins; May 30, 2023

Friday Focus: No Public Inquiry

18 mins; May 26, 2023

Be it Resolved, the United States should publicly pledge to defend Taiwan against Chinese aggression

53 mins; May 23, 2023

Friday Focus: Industrial Policy – Peace Pageant

25 mins; May 19, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Francis Fukuyama: Liberalism in a state of crisis

46 mins; May 16, 2023

Friday Focus: Debating Artificial Intelligence

22 mins; May 12, 2023

Be it Resolved, teaching gender identity has no place in the k-5 school curriculum

51 mins; May 10, 2023

Friday Focus: China & Canada’s Parliament

18 mins; May 05, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Nadine Strossen: Academic Freedom in Higher Education

45 mins; May 02, 2023

Friday Focus: Debt Ceiling – Netflix Gets CanCon

18 mins; April 28, 2023

Be it Resolved, Central Banks have not adequately represented the public interest

43 mins; April 26, 2023

Friday Focus: Govt Strikes – Stephen Kotkin

24 mins; April 21, 2023

Be it Resolved, Trump’s prosecution is bad for American democracy

48 mins; April 17, 2023

Friday Focus: U.S. Intel Leaks – Macron Blowback

19 mins; April 14, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Mark Zandi: avoiding a recession with smart policy decisions

53 mins; April 11, 2023

Friday Focus: Holy Land – De-Dollarization

19 mins; April 07, 2023

Be it Resolved, Net Zero by 2050 is impossible

44 mins; April 05, 2023

Friday Focus: AI Anxiety – Trump Indictment

25 mins; March 31, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Michael Oren: is Israel on the brink of civil war?

46 mins; March 27, 2023

Friday Focus: Putin-Xi Summit – Paris is Burning

21 mins; March 24, 2023

Be it Resolved, Chat GPT will cause more harm than good.

39 mins; March 22, 2023

Friday Focus: Banking Blowup – Iran & Saudi – Eminent Canadians

17 mins; March 17, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Vivian Bercovici: Israel in crisis

46 mins; March 13, 2023

Friday Focus: Israel in Crisis – Chinese Warnings

18 mins; March 10, 2023

Be it Resolved, Ron DeSantis, not Donald Trump, will be the GOP nominee in 2024.

39 mins; March 07, 2023

Friday Focus: Election Interference – Nigeria & Israel

23 mins; March 03, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Bjorn Lomborg: how to actually meet Sustainable Development Goals

44 mins; February 28, 2023

Friday Focus: Ukraine War Anniversary - Nigeria Election - Israel's Democracy

13 mins; February 24, 2023

Be it Resolved, it’s time to abolish the British Monarchy

38 mins; February 22, 2023

Friday Focus: Balloons, UFOs and Jets – Musk Misogyny

19 mins; February 17, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Gideon Rachman: The Age of the Strongman

43 mins; February 14, 2023

Friday Focus: Germany – Japan

15 mins; February 10, 2023

Be it Resolved, Hybrid Work is here to stay

39 mins; February 07, 2023

Friday Focus: Inflation Fight – Israel

14 mins; February 03, 2023

Be it Resolved, Davos is back and more relevant than ever

49 mins; February 02, 2023

Friday Focus: Tanks to Ukraine – Kids Today

18 mins; January 27, 2023

Be it Resolved, Biden is Democrats best hope in 2024

38 mins; January 25, 2023

Friday Focus: Leopard Tanks – Healthcare – Davos Man

15 mins; January 20, 2023

Munk Dialogue: Toby Muse on the golden age of cocaine

39 mins; January 18, 2023

Friday Focus: Rising Sun

10 mins; January 13, 2023

Munk Dialogue: Mark Cuban on disrupting the American healthcare industry

43 mins; January 10, 2023

Friday Focus: Ask Me Anything

51 mins; January 06, 2023

Munk Dialogue with Matti Friedman: Israel’s new political coalition and the return of Benjamin Netanyahu

40 mins; January 03, 2023

Friday Focus: 2023 Predictions

14 mins; December 30, 2022

Munk Dialogue with Graham Allison: the deteriorating relationship between the US and China

52 mins; December 27, 2022

Friday Focus: Year in Review

19 mins; December 23, 2022

Munk Dialogue: Why did FTX collapse?

43 mins; December 21, 2022

Friday Focus: Patriots vs. Putin – Effective Altruism

14 mins; December 16, 2022

Be it Resolved, The risk of a recession in 2023 is overblown

37 mins; December 13, 2022

Friday Focus: ChatGPT

17 mins; December 09, 2022

Be it Resolved, don’t trust mainstream media

91 hours 49 mins; December 05, 2022

Friday Focus: China Protests – Federal Funk

21 mins; December 02, 2022

Be it Resolved, Elon Musk’s Twitter is a real threat to democracy

38 mins; December 01, 2022

Friday Focus: Ukraine Attack – Emergencies Act

19 mins; November 25, 2022

Munk Dialogue with Kyle Bass: Financial consequences of the conflict between the US and China over Taiwan

48 mins; November 21, 2022

Friday Focus: China Snub – Inflation Immiseration

19 mins; November 18, 2022

Be it Resolved, Putin deserves a dead end, not an off ramp, in Ukraine

39 mins; November 17, 2022

Friday Focus: Chief Twit – Crypto Carnage

26 mins; November 11, 2022

Be it Resolved it's time we cancelled Winston Churchill

45 mins; November 10, 2022

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