Downstream: We Are Witnessing the Return of Empires & the End of Nations w/ Rana Dasgupta

Novara Media Podcasts · Mar 9, 2026 · 1h 37m

Nearly all of us on Earth live within a ‘nation-state’. Nation-states are an invisible and seemingly inevitable and eternal part of the infrastructure that forms our society: the water we swim in. Rarely do we pause to consider how this global system of nation-states came into being, and what might replace it after its gone. […]