Former member of the Westboro Baptist Church @meganphelps says that when faced with difficult conversations, empathy is a powerful tool for persuasion. Watch The Witch Trials from #FODI 2024, now streaming on demand until 8 Sept 🔥 Tickets available at

Russian American journalist @mashagessen reasons that dissidents are more useful alive than dead, even if that means exile from the very country one is seeking to liberate. Catch up on Democracy is Not Worth Dying For, streaming on demand til 8 Sept 🔥

US cultural critic Roxane Gay says that our ideological chambers can be dismantled, but only if we listen to others. Catch up on her #FODI keynote How to Have Dangerous Ideas, streaming on demand until 8 Sept🔥 Tickets available at

Russian American journalist @mashagessen says in order to learn the most profound lessons of history we have to recognise the signs of when we're sliding into darkness. Stream Masha's keynote on demand until 8 Sept🔥 Tickets available at #FODI

RT @megcevans: Very grateful to have spoken at @FestOfDanger #FODI My talk (avail via podcast soon) highlighted the predicament Australia'…

RT @emvdn: What a pleasure to talk Counterfeit People at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney this weekend. The audience was wonderful…

Catch up with select sessions from this year's Fest, now streaming on demand 🔥 ROXANE GAY // DAVID BADDIEL // JEAN TWENGE // MASHA GESSEN // DAVID RUNCIMAN // MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER // ANDY MILLS // SAREE MAKDISI + MORE Digital tickets available at #FODI

Got room for more danger? Join @jean_twenge @StephanieAlis18 @sam_koslowski + @bkjabour as we stare down the generational gap at @UNSW Roundhouse this week🔥 TUE 27 AUG // 6.30PM // THE GENERATION GULF Co-presented by UNSW Sydney and #FODI Book now at

RT @TaleenShamlian: Thoroughly enjoyed my first Festival of Dangerous Ideas #fodi and hearing from two great panels

RT @celeste_wildeX: What a spectacular Sydney weekend! From attending the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and listening to the formidable Stan…

Multitudes of moral dilemmas, bodacious beats and uncancelled culture 🔥 #FODI closes our weekend takeover of @Carriageworks Sydney with a BANG! 📷 Anna Kucera

RT @ProfCarlRhodes: It was great to be back at the @FestOfDanger Ideas taking about the realities of inequality and the hope for equality w…

UK author @Baddiel is joined in conversation by @ethics_centre's @SimonLongstaff to present the inaugural John Caldon Provocation at @Carriageworks Sydney for #FODI 2024🔥 Missed out on The God Desire in person? Catch up with on demand tickets at

Are we too focused on race? Author and public intellectual @coldxman joins host @joshzepps for a live #FODI edition of Uncomfortable Conversations 🔥

In a world where public shaming often dominates the conversation, comedian and writer @Baddiel @rgay Andy Mills @meganphelps and @ockhamsbeard unpack what public forgiveness looks like. Catch up with on demand tickets at #FODI

Has the West been asleep at the wheel? US-based academic @sareemakdisi argues that Europe and America, in particular, are complicit in a historic wrong. Catch up with on demand tickets, now at #FODI

Will you join the Circle of Chairs? Walk in + unpack today's moral dilemmas alongside your fellow Festival goers + a philosopher. Presented by ethics_centre and supported by @joblink_plus 🔥 Spots available on the door – Next sessions at 3:45pm and 5:45pm this afternoon! #FODI

Is the price of democracy too steep? @mashagessen, Paul Ham, David Runciman of @PPFIdeas and journalist @GeraldineDoogue examine our current era of political turmoil at #FODI 🔥 Catch up with on demand tickets, now streaming at

RT @MerlinCrossley: Apparently we’re at about 73 democracies now (down from 120 countries at the peak). A fascinating conversation - some p…