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EPISODE · May 1, 2025 · 34 MIN

Slowing Down in an Age of Acceleration with Elif Shafak

from The David McWilliams Podcast

This week, we take a breath. In a world spinning faster than a speedcubing final, we step away from bond yields and geopolitics and lean into something more human: imagination. We swap global crises for quiet joys, from a Rubik’s cube competition in Wicklow to the power of storytelling in uncertain times. As we always say, economics is about life and today we are joined by bestselling novelist Elif Shafak, to explore how fiction helps us make sense of chaos, how literature bridges the political and the personal, and why sometimes the most radical act in a crisis-ridden world is to imagine differently. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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