Best Andrew Hsu Podcasts (2025)

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Multipolarity Dialogues: Steve Hsu on China's Tech Frontiers 56:53

6h ago56:53

56:53

Steve Hsu is a physicist, a tech founder, the hub of a network of cutting edge thinkers, and the host of the excellent Manifold Podcast. After a record-breaking first appearance, this week, he returns to Multipolarity for his second turn. This time, we want to ask him about the big picture on China’s tech frontiers. Six months on from the Deep Seek…

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Special Edition: Global Cakeism 45:52

8d ago45:52

45:52

Philip Pilkington is away in Belgrade on a foreign assignment, which means we’re serving up a Sleepless In Seattle-style double header, on tariffs. First off: what is the end game for trade and the dollar? With Liberation Day now a distant memory and the passing of The Big Beautiful Bill, Philip has crunched the numbers, and figured out that all is…

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Milei Down and Die, Tears of a Clown, Very Stable Genius Coins 54:24

15d ago54:24

54:24

In a viral video clip, tantric sex expert Javier Milei once said that he only makes love once every three months. Let’s see if he goes to the IMF any more regularly. In the wake of an enormous bailout, we’ll be busting some myths on the grand schemes of Captain Ancap. Meanwhile, in Britain, the finance minister is crying in Parliament, and the Prim…

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The Twelve Day War, 5 Percent? Get Bent, Dead Dollar Bounce 48:53

22d ago48:53

48:53

Nothing Ever Happens. Or does it? A week on from a one act play of a war, we pick through the charred remains of the Fordow Nuclear Site. We’re looking for clues. A smouldering nothingburger here; or a flambéd Middle Eastern order there? Meanwhile, Daddy got his five percent — NATO members have signed up to splash the cash on the next generation of…

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Premium Edition Teaser: Iran Special 12:01

1M ago12:01

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Was it real? As we record this on the morning of the 23 June, we are a little over 24 hours removed from Operation Midnight Hammer, in which USAF assets, including B2 Spirit stealth heavy bombers, attacked the Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. US President Donald Trump says that Iran's nuclear programme has been destroyed f…

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Special Edition: Malcom Kyeyune on Military Parades and Hypersonics Over Tel Aviv 1:13:25

1M ago1:13:25

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Malcom Kyeyune is one of the oldest friends of Multipolarity. In his first 2025 appearance, he catches up with Andrew about the state of the world. Trump’s ‘military parade’. The breakup of the MAGA coalition. Violence on America’s streets. The advent of hypersonic missiles above the skies of Tel Aviv. This is a wide-ranging, theory-of-everything o…

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Musk Rat Love, Remember the LA mo’, Promising The Rare Earth 50:34

1M ago50:34

50:34

The Big Divorce has finally hit. Like a country rock record written by the WWE, the Trump Musk split has been its own kind of kino. But beyond two hotheaded men who secretly still love each other very much, could it be that this marks the schism between tech and MAGA? Meanwhile… that escalated quickly. As LA smouldered over the weekend, Trump punch…

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Special Edition: Pilkington Launches "The Collapse Of Global Liberalism" 1:14:28

2M ago1:14:28

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This week, we’re going as big picture as imaginable. Philip Pilkington has a thesis about liberalism itself: 1. That it is bad. 2. That it is ending. That’s the nub of his new book, released this week. He argues that the modern world order is based on a doctrinaire and unrealistic form of liberalism and has given rise to hollowed-out financialised …

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Premium Edition Teaser: Xi Blinded Me with Science, Every Ottoman for Himself, Poison Ivy 14:40

2M ago14:40

14:40

China is planning a new version of its Made In China 2025 industrial strategy. Just as America is punching holes in its own science funding budget, we'll be reporting from the output gap. Meanwhile, the new US ambassador to Ankara has declared that he's against carving up Syria in a modern Sykes-Picot, the treaty that drew up the Middle East modern…

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Special Edition: A Tale of Two Great Walls? 52:03

2M ago52:03

52:03

Two audio essays, half a world apart. Nixon went to China first. Now, Philip Pilkington is there; to see what fifty years of openness to the West has done for the place. Turns out, quite a bit. He’ll be sharing his impressions: North Korea-style police state, or Singapore-style authoritarian wonderland? While Philip is playing tourist, our very own…

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The Abraham Discords, Bloody Vicious Rocket, The Grand Old Duke Of Tariffs 46:42

2M ago46:42

46:42

More ordnance in the Middle East. Rumours are that Trump is agreeing to a two state solution; Israel is out in the cold; Netanyahu is not having his calls returned, and a trillion dollar deal is incoming with the Saudis. We’ve had shuttle diplomacy… but this is Challenger Space Shuttle diplomacy? Meanwhile, Pakistan has apparently shot down as many…

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Romanian Light, Rocket From The Crypt, Authoritarians For Democracy 57:00

3M ago57:00

57:00

No one imagined that Romanian elections would become a big spectator sport, but they’ve really proved us wrong. Remember the TikTok Secret Police Election? Well now Romania is back with a sequel: Ethno-Nationalist Hooligan for President. The question smart observers are asking is: why can the powers that be live with one, not the other? The smartes…

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Premium Edition Teaser: 51st State of Mind, You Bloody Bastard, Wanging On 13:56

3M ago13:56

13:56

Three months ago, Pierre Poilievre was going to take 50 per cent of the total vote, a historic generational landslide. Now, he’s a pub trivia question. What happened in Canada? Did it warp beneath the enormous trade gravity of the Trump Presidency? And why did Canadians think that turning to a milquetoast former central banker would turn off the US…

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Moon Age Daydream, Iran So Far Away, The Empire Strikes Back 56:23

3M ago56:23

56:23

Gold is going to the moooooooon. Fantastic news for gold bugs. Until someone works out that this is a short against America, and the Wall Street types celebrating are effectively blowing the kazoo for the end of their own industry. After all, if gold remains on the moon, they’ll have to figure out whether they still need financial services consulta…

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Special Edition: Bretton Woods 3 1:07:24

3M ago1:07:24

1:07:24

This week, in a special experiment, we've gone live on Twitter Spaces. As Trump's tariffs bite, and the current account deficit zooms to the front of modern political economy, we're revisiting the idea of a new Bancor, a complete resetting of the global monetary system.By Multipolarity

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Special Edition: Tariffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 57:22

4M ago57:22

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This week we scrubbed the decks and sounded the five bell alarm. Donald Trump had only gone and done it. Tariffs. Thousands of them. What could the greatest regression from the norms of globalisation since 1945 mean for a show called Multipolarity? Even better: what would it mean for the world? With the MAGA base both boisterous and uneasy in the f…

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Special Edition: The Coming Bear Market and Fortress Europe 54:18

4M ago54:18

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Coming up this week: an audio essays special edition. Philip and Andrew, going head to head, a half hour each, on two big stories that have a more medium-term feel than the usual weekly news pegs. In the red corner, Mr Pilkington takes on the bear market. Is an icy wind coming for global stocks? How it could play out? From the bottoming out of NVID…

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Besties: We just did the Hoffman Process. What "10 years of therapy in one week" was like. 36:56

4M ago36:56

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Andrew Hsu and Will Chang each did the Hoffman Process individually. Here's our discussion sharing our experiences with each other.By Will Chang, Lee Chang, Andrew Hsu

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Premium Edition Teaser: Jeffrey Has Entered the Chat Man-Who-Kuo?, Fight for Your Reich to Party 10:40

4M ago10:40

10:40

Was the editor of the Atlantic actually accidentally included in some rangy groupchat among bros that included a denunciation of European defence policy? Are you stupid? Have you recently had an aneurysm? Leaving aside this obvious straw dog, what is Washington actually signalling here? Meanwhile, the Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans are getting…

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Punching Right, School of Hardware Knocks, The Trump Put 49:19

4M ago49:19

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The British right is starting to fracture on the Ukraine issue. Where once they would reliably be called upon to paint themselves blue and yellow and raise a whip-round down the dog & duck for more MANPADS – now, as the endgame approaches, a group of the plugged-in are leaving the big tent. The civil war that follows may be its own Donbas. Meanwhil…

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Nasty NASDAQ, Of Euro-Bondage, Syria Seems to Be The Hardest Word 53:35

4M ago53:35

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Tesla is tanking. On the NASDAQ, the Magnificent 7 have become merely the 7. The talk is all of quarterly earnings in Musk towers. But is this just a smokescreen for the fact that DeepSeek has DeepFound Silicon Valley in DeepDooDoo? Meanwhile, in Europe, the dream of rearmament is still alive and well. Two weeks in, we’ll have a report, direct from…

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Special Edition: Zelensky Takes A Direct Strike, The Steel Porcupine, RIP Collingwood 1:09:31

5M ago1:09:31

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As the world blows up, again, Andrew Collingwood has a dread cold. Gavin Haynes fills in as best he can, with a soft Newcastle brogue. We cover everything - from the rumble in the White House to the cultural amnesia coming up the pike. *** You can get paywalled episodes of Multipolarity on Patreon. https://www.Patreon.com/multipolarity It's cheap a…

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Premium Edition: Kaiser Friedrich IV and Trumpian Grand Strategy 14:57

5M ago14:57

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In Germany, there’s been an election. And The Reichstag is on fire - with a new cohort of AfD members . Will Keiser Merz see this as his opportunity to seize total control? After all, on Saturday, the incoming Chancellor decided that Germany can quote go it alone. Whatever that means. Is the real threat to European democracy about to come from besi…

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Steve Hsu - AI Arms Race: China & US 1:07:12

5M ago1:07:12

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If you like my work and would like access to bonus episodes, early access to episodes, all my writing, and the Subversive Community, please consider signing up on my Substack or Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.alexkaschuta.com/⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive⁠ The story about AI in the West is escalating —breakthrough after breakthrough, each more …

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Special Edition: Munich! 55:15

5M ago55:15

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A piece of our time: a special edition covering the Vance speech, the Ukraine peace plan, and the EU response.By Multipolarity

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Prester John Andrews - Between Bugmen and Theorycels 1:13:20

5M ago1:13:20

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If you like my work and would like access to bonus episodes, early access to episodes, all my writing and the Subversive Community, please consider signing up on my Substack or Patreon: ⁠https://www.alexkaschuta.com/⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive⁠ In today's conversation, I sit down with Prester John Andrews, whose journey from professiona…

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Save The Aid, The UK Art of The Deal, If I Speak I Am In Trouble 54:46

5M ago54:46

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They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. But what if you’re a germ? As the USA.I.D demolition continues, we’re beginning to see the outlines of what might be a network of real corruption - and it's not just the tinfoil hats saying it. How will the US public deal with having the wool pulled from their eyes? And will the Beltway liberals ever reco…

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