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Daniel Ben-Ami has worked as a writer for over 25 years, during which time he has contributed to numerous national, specialist and international publications. Ferraris For All, his book defending economic progress, was published in 2010. A paperback edition, including an additional chapter on the inequality debate in the West, was published in 2012. His book on global finance, Cowardly…

Georgi Medarov is a Bulgarian sociologist. He teaches critical sociology at the University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria and is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology in Sofia University, Bulgaria. His research lies in the fields of critical historical sociology, political economy and political ecology. Georgi is also the scientific secretary of the Institute for Critical Theories of Supermodernity, based…

Hendrik Hagedorn lectures in economics at Berlin’s BiTS University. Before leaving to work at BiTS, he used to be a research assistant at the German Institute for Economic Research [DIW], where he was primarily responsible for macroeconomic business cycle analyses. As well as being a doctor of economics, Hendrik Hagedorn is a certified physicist, possesses a Master‘s degree in the economics…

Ralf Fücks has written widely on environmental policy and political economy and is currently a co-president of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, an influential public policy organisation advancing green visions and projects. He has served as a leader of Germany’s Green Party and as a senator for environmental and urban development in the state of Bremen. Ralf Fücks latest publication is Green…

On Wednesday evening, we live streamed the Free Word and Rethinking Economics debate, Is there an alternative to the growth imperative?. This debate was moderated by Victoria Waldersee and featured Nick Hunt, Johanna Nyman, Kate Raworth, Stewart Wallis, Antosh Wojcik and Yuan Yang. This debate has now finished, but you can still see the unedited full length recording of the discussion here and video highlights of the evening will also be being compiled and made available on…

From this page, you can access the raw, unedited recordings of all the debates from Krytyka Polityczna‘s conference The next reset? The West and Russia between the Crimea and ISIS. Click on the links below to proceed to the debates of your choice. Does Russia have a master plan? Putin’s PR and geopolitics The Balkans and Visegrád – migrants, nationalists and…

Antosh Wojcik is a resident artist at the Roundhouse and a member of the Kid Glove and Burn After Reading collectives. He was a joint champion of the Roundhouse Poetry Slam 2013 and has performed at many events around the UK, including TEDx East End 2015 and festivals such as Poetry&Words at Glastonbury, Latitude and Bestival, as well as internationally…

Roger Griffin is a professor of modern history at Oxford Brookes University. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the world’s foremost experts on the socio-historical and ideological dynamics of fascism as well as the relationship of various forms of political or religious fanaticism. His publications include The Nature of Fascism (Pinter, 1991), Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of…

Abdelkader Benali is one of the most highly awarded Dutch authors of his generation. He was born in Morocco and his family moved to the Netherlands when he was four years old. During his childhood, the family lived in Rotterdam, where his father worked as a butcher, and, when Abdelkader was 21 years old, he wrote the novel Wedding by…

Elisabeth Åsbrink is a Swedish writer and journalist, who is based in Stockholm and Copenhagen. She is the president of the Swedish Centre of PEN International and currently also a producer at SVT [the Swedish public television provider]. She has produced more than 30 popular radio shows within the SOMMAR in P1 (Summer at P1) series and has been nominated…

This is an unedited, full-length recording of the Krytyka Polityczna debate, Ukraine abandoned? Is the West going to trade offUkraine for Russia’s support in the Middle East?. This debate was moderated by Lesia Kulchynska and featured Aleksandra Hnatiuk, Yaroslav Hrytsak and Andrew Wilson. This debate was part of Krytyka Polityczna‘s conference, The next reset? The West and Russia between the Crimea and ISIS. For more information about the conference,…

This is an unedited, full-length recording of the Krytyka Polityczna debate, The lesser evil or the doctor worse than the disease – can Assad be seen as a source of hope for Syria and the West?. This debate was moderated by Igor Stokfiszewski and featured Konstanty Gebert, Ivan Krastev and Patrycja Sasnal. This debate occurred as part of the Krytyka Polityczna conference, The next reset? The West and Russia between the…