You and your friend need to agree what programme to talk about. Spotlight English programmes all have interesting English content. There are many programmes to choose from. You should both listen carefully to the same programme before you have your conversation. Each person can listen alone. Or ...
To be sure, those of us trained in the methods of mainstream history might balk when Turchin pronounces that historians “are not in the business of testing [explanations] with data,” or that although “there is nothing wrong with such intellectual games . . . they are not science” (19...