The New Society | culture from the New Statesman

Hosted by Tanjil Rashid · The New Statesman

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Episodes: 31
Ratings: Weekly
Cadence: 2025
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About The New Society | culture from the New Statesman

Your weekly review of culture, life and society from the New Statesman, hosted by Tanjil Rashid. Featuring interviews with literary and artistic greats, reviews of the latest cultural moments, and in-depth discussion to help you understand how culture shapes society – and our place in it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher: The New Statesman
Category: arts · society & culture · tv & film
Language: en
Explicit: No
First episode: 9 Dec 2025
Latest episode: 17 Oct 2026

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17 Oct 2026
Carlo Rovelli: Can we know how it feels to be someone else?
Carlo Rovelli is a physicist. But he’s also so much more than that. Perennially on lists of the world’s top thinkers, Rovelli likes to think and think hard, about the big questions, where physics meets philosophy and art and literature. Can we ever truly know what it feels like to be someone, or something, else? Is the mind separate from the body? What even is life? Where could it possibly come from? Where could the universe come from? These are the questions Rovelli has a stab at answering in his new book On the Equality of All Things: Physics and Philosophy. In particular he draws on quantum mechanics and ancient Eastern thought to argue that the world is not made of separate categories but is one interconnected web of relations, where things are defined by how they interact with everything else. Tanjil Rashid is joined by Carlo Rovelli. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
10 Oct 2026
Steven Pinker: Common knowledge can start revolutions
You know what you know, and I know what I know, but only when we know what the other knows do we have common knowledge. That’s the crux of cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker’s latest work, focusing on the shift from private to public knowledge, and how this can suddenly change behaviours or even start revolutions. Steven Pinker joins Tanjil Rashid to discuss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
3 Oct 2026
How to write when everything’s in flux
Tanjil Rashid interviews novelist Amit Chaudhuri about writing compelling narratives amidst societal flux and the movement of life.

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Amit Chaudhuri
Katherine Rundell
James Marriott
Salman Rushdie
RF Kuang

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Carlo Rovelli: Can we know how it feels to be someone else?

Steven Pinker: Common knowledge can start revolutions

How to write when everything’s in flux

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