The Joseph Szeps podcast (released August 22^nd) is now on YouTube.

Can Comedy Save Democracy? Jimmy Carr Thinks So

Recommended in this Podcast:

Documentary – Fog Of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

George Mack essays – here

Books

• Stephen Fry – Making History
• William Strauss – The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny
• Iain McGilchrist – The Master and His Emissary – The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
• David Deutsch – The Beginning of Infinity – Explanations that Transform the World
• David Deutsch – The Fabric of Reality: Towards a Theory of Everything
• Toby Ord – The Precipice – Existential Risk and The Future of Humanity
• Derek Parfit – Reasons and Persons

See full list of recommended books on Booklist.

Sir John Betjeman – Slough (poem)