Rana Mitter
Presenter, writer, professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at Oxford.
Regular presenter of Night Waves and writer for the Financial Times, History Today, and the London Review of Books, Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at Oxford.
Regular presenter of Night Waves and writer for the Financial Times, History Today, and the London Review of Books, Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at Oxford.
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The Known, The Strange and the New
Why does the world remain puzzling and strange?
After Post-Truth
How do we navigate a world where truth is tribal?
The End of the West
Should we worry about the fall of Western power?
Beyond Men and Women
Should we fight prejudice or gender?
The New Politics
Is the market the most important thing?
The Will of the People
Is populism to be celebrated or feared?
Mirror, Mirror
Can plastic surgery make you more authentic?
Life's Secret
Purpose and the Pursuit of Happiness
Who We Are: Beyond Black and White
Can we have a world where race does not matter?
Empire Strikes Back
Will the nation state survive?
Taking Over the Asylum
The Politics of Terrorism
Is terrorism another tool of war?
Heresy, Truth and the Future
Challenging the status quo
The Old Lady's Crisis
The age of anxiety
COVID-19 legacy will be psychiatric
Eradicating gender
Unraveling the path to equality
Arc of life: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Interviewing the unflinching human rights defender
The final wave
Free speech and feminism
Democracy: freedom or tyranny?
Do we live under the tyranny of the majority?
The power of the present
Does mindfulness improve our lives?
The new right
What does modern conservatism stand for?
Inheriting inequality
How should we tackle embedded privilege?
A material world
Does consumption genuinely make us more satisfied?
The knowledge delusion
Should we give up on the idea of certainty?
Truth and prejudice
Does the modern university undermine free thought?
Virtue, hypocrisy and the natural world
Environmental ideals and every day lies
The lessons of failure
Did the failure in Afghanistan lead to Ukraine?
The weaker sex?
Should we abandon the idea that men need to protect women?
The happiness delusion
In search of the aim of life
The equality myth
Is the pursuit of absolute equality a mistake?
Forbidden Fruit
Sex and taboo in the modern age
Virtue ethics and the mob
Can morality matter and be private?
Race, identity and justice
The relevance of race in the modern world
China: ally or threat?
Rising tensions on the world stage
The limits of sexuality
Should we eradicate sexuality from our public live
Dissent, division and democracy
The end of the left and right
The inflation crisis
Are we on the brink of economic disaster?
