45 Degrees

The book deals with the evolution of right-wing and left-wing cultures in Portugal over the last few decades. We are therefore talking about society and the evolution of its habits and values, rather than political science and ideologies. This is because it is essentially these values and practices that influence the evolution of political ideas and the political system itself.

In this episode, I'll be chatting to José Milhazes to try to understand Russia. Specifically, the country's history, its geography, the Soviet Union and, more recently, Vladimir Putin's politics, among many other topics.

In this episode, I'm chatting to Pedro Braz Teixeira. We talk mainly about the Portuguese economy - especially the economic policies of recent decades - and the Euro as a currency.

In this episode, I'm talking to Esther Mucznik. It was a lively conversation in which we talked about many topics related to Judaism, from Judaism as a religion and culture, through its history - including in Portugal - to the constitution and current state of Israel.

In this episode I'm chatting to Arlindo Oliveira, president of the Instituto Superior Técnico and author of the book The Digital Mind, launched this year and whose Portuguese edition, entitled Mentes Digitais, was released last week.

The guest is a political scientist with research in various areas, but - for better or worse - he's mostly known as a polling expert - he's been a regular on election nights for many years. It was a great conversation, lasting almost an hour and a half, in which we talked about various topics related to political science.