Choices for a Better Now, with Ece Temelkuran and Matthew Taylor

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🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Many of us felt it before but 2020 was the year it became undeniable: the status quo is not working. Political discontent is widespread – and for good reason. So what can we do now to change course? In this week's episode award-winning political commentator Ece Temelkuran spoke to Matthew Taylor about her new political manifesto for the post-pandemic world. Drawing from her new book Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now, she explained why we must choose fear over comfort and political activism over social media outrage. And she will encourage us to embrace the radical idea that humanity can come together to solve its collective problems. To find out more about the book click here: https://www.primrosehillbooks.com/product/together-10-choices-for-a-better-now-ece-temelkuran/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Rory Stewart, and I'd like to tell you about an intelligent squared event
0:04.8	I'm doing with the classicist author and broadcaster Mary Beard. Together we'll be discussing
0:10.1	politics and power from the Caesars to Sunack, who gets to Winpar, who is excluded,
0:16.0	does power always corrupt, or other examples of leaders who've maintained their integrity while
0:21.1	an authority. And how does the nature of power vary across different times and cultures?
0:26.0	These are just some of the questions that Mary and I will be trying to answer.
0:29.6	In person tickets are now sold out, but you can still watch online on the 13th of November
0:34.6	at 7pm BST. Put your questions first live as we discuss power and politics down the edges.
0:41.0	Hello podcast listeners, I'm Connor and welcome to this week's episode of Intelligent Squared.
0:45.7	Today we're joined by Ej A. Temmel Karen, author of the new book Together.
0:50.0	Ten choices for a better now. And in conversation with Matthew Taylor,
0:54.1	they discuss how we can move beyond our current crisis and create a more enjoyable and fulfilling
0:59.2	world by making some tough choices right now. It's a fascinating conversation, and if you do
1:04.1	enjoy it, you can find a link for Ej A's book in the podcast description. But now let's go to the
1:08.9	episode. Well, I've been looking forward to this event for quite a while. Ej A is one of Turkey's
1:15.4	best known novelists, some political commentators, her journalism has appeared in the
1:19.0	Guardian New York Times, New State Spender, Spiegel, and more. She won the Penn Translate Award for
1:24.5	her novel, Women Who Blow On Nots, which I'm currently halfway through reading. It's fantastic,
1:28.8	and it's the author of How to Lose Country, The Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship.
1:33.6	Her new book, here it is, Together. Ten choices for a better now. It's published today, literally
1:40.4	today. So hot off the press. Okay, Ej A. So how are you? I'm fine. How are you, Matthew? It's so
1:47.1	nice to be with you today for this lounge event. Yeah, I'm fine. My first question I chose this,
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