British author, scholar, and psychiatrist Dr. Iain McGilchrist argues that the quality of a civilization’s culture and ideas—and its tendency to flourish or self-destruct—depends on its habits of thinking. Hosted by John Bell.

Iain McGilchrist, a medical doctor and former Oxford literary scholar, is the author of several landmark works about the impact of the brain hemispheres on human life and culture.

His best known are The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, published in 2012, and his two-volume magnum opus The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, released in 2021.