The Minefield

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In a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life.

Recent Episodes
  • Is a “digital duty of care” enough to protect young people from social media’s harms?
    Nov 21, 2024 – 0:54:23
  • How much control should corporations have over the speech of their employees?
    Nov 14, 2024 – 0:53:58
  • The return of Donald Trump — do we know what it means?
    Nov 7, 2024 – 0:54:09
  • Is the concept of “evil” worth retaining?
    Oct 31, 2024 – 0:54:10
  • Should revenge have any place in our politics?
    Oct 24, 2024 – 0:54:19
  • Can democracy survive the perfect storm of disinformation?
    Oct 17, 2024 – 0:53:22
  • What is “populism” – and what kind of problem does it pose?
    Oct 10, 2024 – 0:54:08
  • What is it that makes “negative gearing” such a divisive tax policy?
    Oct 4, 2024 – 0:53:30
  • “Truths that lie too deep for taint”: Wilfred Owen’s war poetry in our blood-soaked present
    Sep 26, 2024 – 0:53:18
  • Can modern politics avoid propaganda?
    Sep 19, 2024 – 0:53:38
  • Will Australia’s proposed cap on international students do more harm than good?
    Sep 12, 2024 – 0:54:12
  • Festival of Dangerous Ideas: Is Australia breaking?
    Sep 5, 2024 – 0:54:05
  • “Freedom!”: Why can’t US politics agree on the meaning of its most basic principle?
    Aug 29, 2024 – 0:53:57
  • Coleman Hughes, “colourblindness”, and the contentious politics of race
    Aug 22, 2024 – 0:53:24
  • “We live in a society!”: Seinfeld’s “Bizarro” comedy of morals
    Aug 15, 2024 – 0:53:48
  • “I don’t want to join any club that would have me as a member”: How funny is irony meant to be?
    Aug 8, 2024 – 0:53:21
  • “Time now for just a bit of fun”: Shaun Micallef on the importance of being silly
    Aug 1, 2024 – 0:54:01
  • “And now for something completely different”: Why do surprises provoke laughter?
    Jul 25, 2024 – 0:53:34
  • Political violence — why is it so corrosive to democratic life?
    Jul 18, 2024 – 0:53:49
  • “There’s a crack in everything”: Richard Fidler on the art of absurdity
    Jul 11, 2024 – 0:53:21
  • In a bespoke and individualistic age, are we losing a sense of “the common”?
    Jul 4, 2024 – 0:53:35
  • Beatlemania at 60: Why was the band so popular before they were even great?
    Jun 27, 2024 – 0:54:01
  • Right verdict, wrong case? The political dangers of Trump’s felony conviction
    Jun 20, 2024 – 0:53:59
  • Is the rise of the far right in Europe inevitable? It’s complicated
    Jun 13, 2024 – 0:54:30
  • Is it wrong to "rank" works of art?
    Jun 6, 2024 – 0:54:30
  • Is international law powerless in the face of conflicts like Gaza?
    May 30, 2024 – 0:53:50
  • If chatbots are polluting the commons of human communication, what are the moral consequences?
    May 23, 2024 – 0:53:45
  • What are the ethical, and legal, limits of protests at Australian universities?
    May 16, 2024 – 0:53:42
  • The decency of everyday life — are unwritten rules enough to sustain a good society?
    May 9, 2024 – 0:54:07
  • What will endure? The ethics of “Groundhog Day”
    May 2, 2024 – 0:55:15
  • After the stabbings in Sydney — Grief? Anger? Revenge?
    Apr 25, 2024 – 0:53:13
  • What’s fueling the tension between the courts and the media?
    Apr 18, 2024 – 0:53:56
  • What would the moral obligation to avoid civilian deaths look like in Gaza?
    Apr 11, 2024 – 0:53:13
  • Ramadan — the rediscovery of society
    Apr 4, 2024 – 0:53:54
  • Ramadan — the importance of friendship
    Mar 28, 2024 – 0:53:25
  • Ramadan — the discipline of solitude
    Mar 21, 2024 – 0:53:27
  • Ramadan — the necessity of withdrawing
    Mar 14, 2024 – 0:54:01
  • Q+A on “the wisdom of crowds”
    Mar 7, 2024 – 0:53:19
  • How much credence should we give to “the wisdom of crowds”?
    Feb 29, 2024 – 0:52:47
  • When is it right to call some act – or someone – “evil”?
    Feb 22, 2024 – 0:53:34
  • From Beyoncé to Taylor Swift — what’s behind the mass appeal of live music events?
    Feb 15, 2024 – 0:54:21
  • What is the harm in “deepfakes” — and what are they doing to democracy?
    Feb 8, 2024 – 0:53:31
  • How can trust be cultivated in a time of pervasive suspicion?
    Feb 1, 2024 – 0:53:48
  • What do we lose by succumbing to conspiracy-mindedness?
    Jan 25, 2024 – 0:53:28
  • In a screen saturated age, is literacy under threat?
    Jan 18, 2024 – 0:53:30
  • What do we lose when we lose the capacity for boredom?
    Jan 11, 2024 – 0:53:54
  • Goya’s “Saturn” and its moral challenge
    Jan 4, 2024 – 0:53:32
  • Politics, farce ... and Fawlty Towers
    Dec 28, 2023 – 0:53:25
  • What are playlists doing to our ability to listen to music?
    Dec 21, 2023 – 0:53:20
  • Dickens’s philosophy of generosity: Revisiting “A Christmas Carol”, 180 years on
    Dec 14, 2023 – 0:53:54
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