103. World Crisis, Polycrisis, or Another Day at the Office?

Some leaders say the world is in a crisis it has not seen in 100 years. Adam Tooze (historian) says the world is in a polycrisis, and that we all struggle to cope with the shock of the many. Some cynics might say, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Who is right? Or are they all right? How do we make sense of the cascading crises of war, diplomacy, pandemic, politics, economy, society, environment and culture that we have all experienced in recent years?

On this podcast , I cover

- what is true or false about the claims that we are seeing changes we have not seen for 100 years and are in a polycrisis?

- how does today's crisis compare to the world crisis of 1910-1920, when the world slept walk to World War One? and

- in the fragment of the Burning Archive, who is afraid of what Virginia Woolf said about how the world changed in 1910?

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