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Hello, I'm Farah Gisat, host of the Intelligence Squared podcast.

This week we ask, what do X-Men, zombie films and Game of Thrones have to do with the rise of Donald

Trump?

To be honest, I'm not sure either.

Daniel is the producer of this week's podcast and can tell us more about it.

Daniel what do they have to do with Donald Trump? Well I guess the idea behind this

podcast I should first say was the fact that we don't really explore much contemporary popular culture on the

Intelligence Squared podcast and what a better way to do it than to kind of tie it into the themes that we

always explore at Intelligence Squared and as you know we are very kind of political in the in the topics that we look at.

And so we got the renowned American cultural critic Peter Biskin to talk to Helen Lewis

who is an associate editor at the New Statesman about how the rise of extremes in popular culture

has led to the polarization of our politics.

Hello, I'm Helen Lewis, Associate Editor of the New Statesman, and welcome to this week's Intelligence

Squared Podcast. You can sign up for regular updates about podcast and other events at Intelligence Squared.com.

I'm here with Peter Biskin, cultural critic and author of The Sky Is Falling how Vampire zombies, Androids and

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