How can we keep our institutions alive and healthy in times of cultural change? In conversation with a range of leaders, academics, writers and artists I’m going to consider how we might renew our cultural life through ideas and imagination.
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How can we keep our institutions alive and healthy in times of cultural change? In conversation with a range of leaders, academics, writers and artists I’m going to consider how we might renew our cultural life through ideas and imagination.
#20 The Milk Tea Alliance Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy with Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom
In Conversation with Jack Jacobs
54 minutes
7 months ago
#20 The Milk Tea Alliance Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy with Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom
In this conversation I speak with Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom about his upcoming book The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing (June, 2025). We discuss his current work on Orwell and Asia, Orwell's essay on Gandhi, the new democratic solidarity movements arising across Asia in resistance to authoritarianism in Thailand, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and the philosophy and outlook of Thai activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal. We also discuss the relationship between solidarity and music.
In Conversation with Jack Jacobs
How can we keep our institutions alive and healthy in times of cultural change? In conversation with a range of leaders, academics, writers and artists I’m going to consider how we might renew our cultural life through ideas and imagination.
