Episodes

  • Globalization - The Revolt: Populism, Pandemic, and the Fracturing Order

    Globalization - The Revolt: Populism, Pandemic, and the Fracturing Order
    Apr 16 2026
    Host Leo Finch examines how Brexit, Trump's election, and pandemic protectionism challenged free-trade globalization. The episode covers economic inequality's geographic patterns, populism's rise, US-China decoupling, and weakening institutions. Finch analyzes whether the post-WWII order survives nationalist backlash while exploring how unaddressed trade losses fueled political earthquakes reshaping the global economy.

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    29 mins
  • Globalization - Sushi Burritos and Lost Languages: The Culture Wars of an Open World

    Globalization - Sushi Burritos and Lost Languages: The Culture Wars of an Open World
    Apr 16 2026
    Leo Finch explores how globalization creates cultural fusion like sushi burritos while simultaneously accelerating language extinction and cultural homogenization. Examining algorithmic bias and Korean pop's global success, this episode reveals why market-driven cultural exchange isn't "exchange" when the playing field is uneven.

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    30 mins
  • Globalization - The Prosperity Paradox: Who Really Got Rich?

    Globalization - The Prosperity Paradox: Who Really Got Rich?
    Apr 16 2026
    Host Leo Finch examines globalization's contradictory outcomes: extreme poverty cut in half while manufacturing workers in wealthy nations suffered wage losses. Using IMF data, Leo explains how technology and financial globalization drove inequality, and why advanced democracies' failure to redistribute gains created political backlash against the global system.

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    22 mins