Roger Berkowitz — Political Theorist — Why friendship, truth, and common sense may be the only way to resist political polarization before it turns into something far darker.

In this uncut conversation we discuss:
• Why real friendship requires talk, trust, time, and mutual respect
• The moral line between political disagreement and what Roger calls evil
• How Hannah Arendt helps explain truth, lies, and power in modern politics
• Why Trump’s rhetoric exposes both the failures and dangers of the liberal order
• How common sense can be rebuilt in an age of cynicism, propaganda, and polarization

00:00 - The limits of respect in politics
01:00 - Roger Berkowitz on travel, lectures, and his new book
02:06 - Truth in politics: Nietzsche, Arendt, and why lies work
05:15 - Writing, Hannah Arendt, and tribalism vs cosmopolitanism
08:17 - The origin story behind The World We Share
12:00 - Inviting ideological opponents and the backlash that followed
15:14 - What friendship really means: talk, time, and respect
20:26 - Civic friendship and whether democracy can survive polarization
24:03 - Hannah Arendt, Heidegger, and the problem of reconciliation
32:23 - Trump, political support, and where Roger draws the moral line
46:16 - Federal power, ICE, and the danger of militarized politics
1:00:01 - Can Trump’s arguments be understood from the inside?
1:08:37 - Real cases, deportation, and when politics becomes inhuman
1:16:51 - Why Trump’s words don’t bind him and how contradictions hold power together
1:26:20 - The one lesson world leaders should learn from Hannah Arendt
1:32:08 - Common sense, science, expertise, and rebuilding a shared world

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Adriana Crovetto — Entrepreneur & Investor — From door-to-door jacket sales in Uzbekistan to angel investing and AI creator commerce, Adriana reveals why resilience matters—but luck and relationships matter more than most founders admit.

In this uncut conversation we discuss:
• How elite swimming forged Adriana’s “excellence + discipline” founder mindset
• The scrappy playbook: importing jackets from Uzbekistan and selling door-to-door across Europe
• Why sustainable fashion marketplaces are brutally hard (cash flow, borders, returns, CAC)
• What Adriana really looks for in a pitch deck (and why “no deck” can be better)
• Angel’s House: how she screens deals, runs DD, and builds an operator-led investor community

00:00 - “They started at zero… I start at ten” (the ambition mindset)
00:49 - Adriana’s background: Swiss roots, international upbringing, early career moves
02:14 - From competitive swimming to entrepreneurship: resilience, discipline, maturity
06:07 - Swiss National Team & early international competitions (pressure + growth)
10:30 - Parents who built from nothing—and the “duty first” mentality
14:57 - 3 values that shaped her: excellence, discipline, resourcefulness
20:24 - First business: sustainable jackets, Uzbekistan production, learning passion vs. challenge
24:11 - $3k, a suitcase, and sales: door-to-door hustle + registering the company
26:58 - Fashion Week wins, scaling a “family business,” and the reality of brand-building
27:56 - Building a sustainable marketplace: dropshipping vs. wholesale, logistics, returns, CAC
31:02 - “We thought fashion… ended up in a warehouse”: the operational truth of e-commerce
41:29 - Exiting the marketplace & joining Partners Group: entering the investing world
42:13 - Angel’s House: deal screening, due diligence, skin-in-the-game investing
45:21 - The deal she passed on that later crushed it (and what it taught her)
48:54 - How Adriana evaluates founders + decks: team first, sector fit, price matters
51:43 - Deck length vs. speed: email/video/website as the new pitch—and tailoring to investors
56:58 - AI fundraising workflows vs. relationship building: where scale helps (and where it doesn’t)
62:32 - New venture: a creator commerce platform + chat interface (Shopify meets knowledge)
65:49 - Building software in the AI era: MVP traps, Cursor middle-ground, product taste
71:08 - Female founder realities: “bro zone,” sector differences, and why age can be bigger bias
89:00 - The controversial truth: effort ≠ outcomes, luck matters more than we want to admit
91:09 - Adriana’s planning system: yearly/quarterly/weekly + daily handwritten priorities
95:36 - Billboard advice: “You always have time for what you really want to do.”

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Ulrike Guérot — European political scientist — Why “left vs. right” is the wrong map for today’s conflict: the real split is up vs. down, analogue vs. digital—and it’s pushing the West toward civil-war dynamics.

In this uncut conversation we discuss:
• Why polarization in the West isn’t ideological anymore—it’s urban vs. rural, young vs. old, migrants vs. natives
• How identity politics can erode humanism (equal dignity & rights) by turning difference into special rights
• The “bourgeois block”: how upper-left and upper-right merged while the lower strata get abandoned
• How the digital world rewires society—loss of real-life (analogue) skills, judgment, and dialogue
• Republic, commonwealth, and a practical middle path between capitalism and socialism (without nostalgia)

00:00 - “Civil war criteria” in Western countries?
01:01 - Why left vs. right no longer explains polarization
04:47 - The real fractures: urban/rural, young/old, migrants/natives
06:49 - The “bourgeois block” and the shift from left/right to up/down
10:28 - When the left dropped class politics for identity politics
14:02 - Humanism vs. identity: equal dignity & rights vs. special rights
21:13 - Cancel culture, legislation, and the collapse of free speech norms
27:01 - Digital vs. analogue worlds: how the internet breaks human interaction
33:06 - Haptics, handwriting, and why the internet weakens memory & learning
36:25 - Should we “shut down” the internet—or radically regulate how we use it?
54:45 - Digital money, control, and what happens when power can “switch you off”
1:15:23 - Religion, community, and why societies don’t function without belief systems
1:24:11 - Republic & commonwealth: a system where capital can’t buy legislation

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