Interviews


  • Anthony Scaramucci Interview

    Anthony Scaramucci Interview

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    Nicholas Leah, Managing Editor of the Oxford Political Review, speaks with Anthony Scaramucci (“The Mooch”) two days after the US Presidential Election. The Mooch is an American Financier and Founder of investment firm SkyBridge Capital. He served as the White House Communications Director to President Donald Trump for 10 days in July 2017, the shortest-serving…

  • Dominic Grieve Interview

    Dominic Grieve Interview

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    Nicholas Leah, OPR Managing Editor, interviewed Dominic Grieve live on Facebook/YouTube on Friday 30 October at 17:30 GMT. Dominic is the former MP for Beaconsfield (1997 – 2019), Attorney General for England and Wales (2010 – 2014) and Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee (2015 – 2019). They discussed, amongst other things, UK-EU negotiations,…

  • Yanis Varoufakis Interview

    Yanis Varoufakis Interview

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    OPR Editor-in-Chief Brian Wong and Managing Editor Nicholas Leah speak with Professor Yanis Varoufakis – a former Minister of Finance in the Greek Government, a leading economist and philosopher, Member of Parliament in Greece, and the author of several high-acclaimed books. They discuss COVID-19, Brexit, the Eurozone, Austerity, Greek/European politics and Professor Varoufakis’s new book….

  • Biden vs. Trump: OPR’s US Presidential Election Panel

    Biden vs. Trump: OPR’s US Presidential Election Panel

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    On the day of the final presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the Oxford Political Review hosted a panel event on the 2020 election. Chairing the panel was OPR Managing Editor Nicholas Leah, and he was joined by Brian Stelter (CNN’s Chief Media Correspondent), Molly Ball (TIME’s National Political Correspondent), Dr Yoni Appelbaum…

  • Founding Bangladesh: OPR-DULPR Joint Panel on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

    Founding Bangladesh: OPR-DULPR Joint Panel on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

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    Nicholas Leah from the Oxford Political Review and Md Azhar Uddin Bhuiyan from the Dhaka Law and Politics Review jointly host a panel event titled “Founding Bangladesh: Centenary Reflection on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Father of the Nation”. 2020 marks the 100th year anniversary of the birth of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first President of…

  • An Interview with Prof. Catharine MacKinnon

    An Interview with Prof. Catharine MacKinnon

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    The editors of the Oxford Political Review recently sat down with Professor Catharine MacKinnon, one of the foremothers of feminist legal theory. Her seminal book, The Sexual Harassment of Working Women, published in 1979, cleared the path for the legal recognition of harassment in the workplace as a case of sex discrimination. We discussed a…

  • OPR interviews Lord Mervyn King

    OPR interviews Lord Mervyn King

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    Nicholas Leah, OPR Managing Editor, and Brian Wong, OPR Editor-in-Chief, interview Lord Mervyn King – a British economist, the former Governor of the Bank of England (2003 -2013), and a crossbench peer in the House of Lords. They discuss HM Treasury’s response to COVID-19, the role of central banks in the recovery, Brexit, and Lord…

  • OPR interviews David Gauke

    OPR interviews David Gauke

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    Nicholas Leah, OPR Managing Editor, interviews David Gauke – the former Conservative MP for South West Hertfordshire (2005 – 2019), Lord Chancellor (2018 – 2019), Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2017 – 2018), and the holder of various ministerial positions in HM Treasury (2010 – 2017). They discuss the UK government’s spending commitments…

  • In conversation with Robert O. Keohane

    In conversation with Robert O. Keohane

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    Brian Wong spoke to Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University. He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (1984) and Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (2002). MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS. I have a controversial suggestion here – that much of such resentment and backlash has to do…

  • Interview: David Estlund

    Interview: David Estlund

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    In times of harsh political realities, sometimes we lose sight of the shape of the society we want to live in. Political philosopher David Estlund’s new book Utopophobia offers a defence of ideal theory political philosophy, suggesting that failure to explore utopianist conceptions of justice risks the “marginalization of inquiries and insights without demonstrating any…