Curious Worldview

Mar 03 2025 198 ep. 87 mins 101
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A collection of the world's most adventurous authors, best investigative journalists and curious life stories.

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Kerry Brown | It's Taiwan All The Way Down... 'The Greatest Geopolitical Question Of The 21st Century'

Mar 03 2025 81 mins  
Youtube - https://youtu.be/4MWFzPXQPY8 Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Taiwan is the greatest geopolitical question of the 21st century says Kerry Brown, sinologist, and former Diplomat to the British Embassy in Beijing. He is, I am thrilled to say the guest on todays podcast. A sinologist is a scholar and expert of China, its language,

Robert Kaplan | Veteran Geopolitical Analyst On A World In Permanent Crisis

Feb 25 2025 32 mins  
Youtube - https://youtu.be/G6EIYURdSOA Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Robert Kaplan has been sighted as one of the most influential geopolitical thinkers of the modern era. The Revenge Of Geography, Surrender or Starve, Balkan Ghosts, Asias Cauldron, The Tragic Mind, and so on, I counted 18 books so far with his most recent being - Was

Marcel Dirsus | Slipping Into Authoritarianism & How Tyrant's Fall

Feb 18 2025 70 mins  
Youtube - https://youtu.be/MntDK3kWRek Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe The following is with german political scientist, former beer brewer in the Congo, and author of How Tyrants Fall - Marcel Dirsus Marcel interviewed coup leaders, dissidents and soldiers to write about the workings and malfunctions of tyrants. Because while the indiv

Gregory Zuckerman | The Curious Case Of Jim Simons, The Medallion Fund & The Man Who Solved The Market

Feb 10 2025 75 mins  
Youtube - https://youtu.be/uPU6hJsvMcM Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Gregory Zuckerman is one of the Wall Street Journal GOATS and as well has authored plenty of wonderful books. He pulls back many of the hidden curtains of wall st. The big egos, the big enigmatic personalities, and naturally as well, the big brilliance behind these m

Bradley Hope | Blood & Oil... The Story of Mohammed bin Salman

Dec 27 2024 81 mins  
Youtube - https://youtu.be/EF-yONBmGa8 Bradley's #51 Curious Worldview Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/4cHyTyId6UbBrBM1nbDt9q?si=faZKIDlQRGCH8iQW4k2uwQ Bradley's #51 Curious Worldview Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/51-bradley-hope-billion-dollar-whale-blood-oil-project/id1540424160?i=1000539362238&l=en-GB Whale Hunting Podcast (Highly Recommend) - http

Christopher Marquis | Negative Externalities... How Corporations Privatise Their Upside By Socialising The Downside

Dec 23 2024 79 mins  
Youtube - https://youtu.be/TQVWUdFibC8 The Profiteers - https://www.amazon.com/Profiteers-Business-Privatizes-Profits-Socializes/dp/1541703529 Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Christopher Marquis spent 10 years as a professor at the Harvard Business School, he’s also worked as a professor at Cornell, the Harvard Kennedy School and is currently a profess

Zhala Bayramova | Azerbaijan Human Rights Lawyer Fighting To Free Her Father

Dec 22 2024 75 mins  
https://freegubad.com/ Zhala X - https://x.com/BayramovaZhala Zhala Bayramova is a human rights lawyer and child of political prisoner and human rights defender Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu. I met Zhala recently at Bill Browders, Magnitsky Awards, where Zhala won youth activist of the year. Her legal status is that of a political refugee in Sweden, having been horrifically beaten during pro

James Robinson | 'Why Nations Fail' - 2024 Nobel Prize Winner In Economics

Dec 05 2024 64 mins  
James Robinson is winning the Nobel Prize for Economics this year alongside his co-author Daron Acemoglu and fellow economist, Simon Johnson. This is obviously extremely exciting for him, but as well selfishly, rather exciting for me… because in episode 24, James Robinson was one of the first people I ever interviewed for this podcast. James co-wrote an outrageously successful bo

Jack Weatherford | How Genghis Khan's Grandson (Kublai Khan) Further Expanded The Mongol Empire

Dec 01 2024 115 mins  
Jack Weatherford returns to the pod which marks a pretty sentimental moment for me (links are at the bottom of this email, before the transcript snippet). Jack’s first appearance was #19 of the podcast. To this day, it’s my favourite podcast I’ve ever recorded. These are links to the first appearance. Jack Weatherford #19 on Spotify Jack Weatherford #19 on Apple Jack Weatherf

Nat Eliason | From Crypto To Copy: Exit Liquidity, Crypto Confidential & Writing Worthy Of Posterity

Nov 19 2024 78 mins  
Nat Eliason is an absolute legend. I’ve been subscribed to his newsletter, following his tweets, and listening to his interviews for what feels like years now. He’s a prolific online writer who recently published his debut book, a memoir of a crypto side quest he spiralled deep down into which is serves as revelatory for the sheer insanity that is crypto. It’s meme coins, mak