{"podcast":{"title":"The Econoclasts","slug":"the-econoclasts-6347002","podcast_index_feed_id":6347002,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/644d3eb26d7c8a0011cf2a0b","website_url":"https://unherd.com/these-times","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/644d3eb26d7c8a0011cf2a0b/1761322833913-f149aced-c084-4770-9326-165ad0f06dcb.jpeg","author":"UnHerd Limited","episode_count":172,"summary":"The Econoclasts is a new podcast from UnHerd hosted by economist Yanis Varoufakis and journalist Wolfgang Munchau. While they don't always agree politically, they are united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten. Mainstream economics has consistently failed to predict the events that shape our world, yet this broken orthodoxy still dominates policy and media. Each week, they choose two pillars of the established orthodoxy — the \"settled facts\" — and shatter them, cutting through the spin to connect the dots between money, geopolitics, and the real forces shaping our future. Don't forget to rate, like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T10:18:03.462666+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002"},"episode":{"title":"Trump’s Iran strikes and the new forever war","slug":"trump-s-iran-strikes-and-the-new-forever-war","published_at":"2026-03-02T17:05:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002/trump-s-iran-strikes-and-the-new-forever-war","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002","url":"https://shows.acast.com/these-times/episodes/trumps-iran-strikes-and-the-new-forever-war","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/644d3eb26d7c8a0011cf2a0b/e/69a5c36ac8a5f10081e094b5/media.mp3","summary":"🔗 Click the following link to get tickets to 'The Econoclasts LIVE: Is Russia really a threat to Europe?' in London on March 23rd: https://unherd.com/econoclastslive In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the geopolitical fallout of the U.S. bombing campaign against Iran, arguing that the strikes signal a definitive shift toward a \"permanent war doctrine\" and expose how Donald Trump has abandoned his non-interventionist promises to embrace a neocon agenda of regional destabilisation. From the erosion of European sovereignty to the strategic victories handed to China and Russia, Yanis and Wolfgang challenge the \"weapons of mass destruction\" pretexts of the past and analyse the high economic and human cost of a conflict that seems designed to have no end. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"🔗 Click the following link to get tickets to 'The Econoclasts LIVE: Is Russia really a threat to Europe?' in London on March 23rd: https://unherd.com/econ…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1606,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-econoclasts-6347002/episodes/trump-s-iran-strikes-and-the-new-forever-war/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002/trump-s-iran-strikes-and-the-new-forever-war.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}