EP 14 Patrick Cockburn: on Syria and Ukraine
"The Christians are frightened, the Alawites are frightened"
It has been one year since Cassandra Voices forayed into podcasting. The guest for our podcast's first-ever episode — the extraordinary journalist Patrick Cockburn — returns to talk with Luke Sheehan through Syria, Ukraine and Gaza, and …
EP 15 The Ghosts of Monto: Terry Fagan on 1950s Dublin
Terry Fagan is a renowned Irish local historian and storyteller from Dublin's North Inner City. Born in the 1950s and raised in the historic heart of what was once Europe's largest red-light district, the Monto, Fagan witnessed firsthand the rapid transformation, and often erasure, of the surroundi…
EP 16 "He Bought Plato" a conversation with John Dillon
John Dillon, Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin, is an Irish classicist and philosopher considered a world authority in ancient philosophy and Platonism. Born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1939, he returned to Ireland as a child and studied Classics at Oxford before earning a…
EP17 Fatma Akman Lehmann - Turkey's Phrase of the Year: Gözaltina aliniyorum
Fatma Akman Lehmann was born and raised in Ankara.
From a young age, she was drawn to writing—a passion that later shaped her path toward journalism, politics, and civic activism.
Now resident in Germany, she is the author of the Turkey: Lost in Translation Substack.
Intended to cover politics a…
EP 18 Podcast: Why I joined the revolution in Rojava
For this episode we have asked our friend and contributor, Greek journalist and filmmaker, Alexis Daloumis, to sit in for an interview with Luke Sheehan about his newly released Documentary Belki Sibe.
Back in 2015 Alexis travelled in northern Syria to Rojava, to join the Kurdish Syrian Democratic…
Law and Literature episode 5; literature and the contemporary breakdown of the rule of law
Barrister David Langwallner , in conversation with Luke Sheehan,argues that the rule of law is collapsing globally, and that literature provides powerful insights into how such breakdowns occur. Drawing on legal theory and a wide range of novels, plays, and historical examples, he outlines the core…
EP19 Ward Bosses and Alligator Bishops: Irish Americans and Tammany Hall with Terry Golway
For this Saint Patrick's Day episode, Luke Sheehan asked Irish-American historian and New York history expert Terry Golway to help create an overview of the Irish American experience, with a focus on post-famine migration and the infamous Tammany Hall.
Episode Credits:
Host: Luke Sheehan
Music:…
EP 22 On Europe, gender and sh*tposting with Róisín Michaux
In this episode, Luke Sheehan engages with Róisín Michaux, the self-described "unemployed Twitter TERF" who lost her European Commission role after co-founding a gender-critical staff network. Hired on a special contract which was not renewed, the Commission, in her account, used this grey-area emp…
"I’ll tell you my solution to this problem"
There’s no weekly newsletter this week because I’ve been travelling to Belfast and Amsterdam for TERF-related activities (see below), so here’s an interview I did with one of Germany's fiercest warriors against the forces of gender irrationality, Rona Duwe.
Rona was sued by a psychotherapist calle…
EP 23 The Friday Men and the End of Empire: Jihad and Globalisation
Dr Philip Cunliffe is an Associate Professor in International Relations at University College London. A scholar of sovereignty, military intervention and international order, he's also the author of The National Interest: Politics after Globalization, published in 2025 by Polity. In this episode, h…
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