The Deep Dive with Andy Heintz

The Deep Dive with Andy Heintz is a podcast about global politics that features news analysis, opinion and interviews with intellectuals, academics, civil-society leaders and activists in different countries. The Deep Dive seeks to center the lived experiences of people on the ground rather than solely focusing on great power geopolitical intrigue from above. It seeks to promote universalism, democracy, human rights and grassroots democracy from the below. The Deep Dive seeks to plumb the depths rather than skimming the surface of issues. It strives to embrace complexity with humility.

The Deep Dive with Andy Heintz is a news podcast hosted by Andy Heintz, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Andy Heintz hosts The Deep Dive with Andy Heintz, a news show with 22 episodes published.

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  The Heartbreaking and Grotesque Human Consequences of closing U.S.A.I.D.

  Nov 23, 20254 minS0

  <p>This podcast episode examines the heartbreaking, horrifying and entirely preventable human consequences caused by the Trump administration's decision to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development, also known as U.S.A.I.D. Brooke Nichols, Boston University epidemiologist and mathematical modeller, maintains a respected tracker that estimates the human costs of the closure of U.S.A.I.D. As of November 23, the closing of the agency has caused more than 600,000 deaths, more than two-thirds of them children. That number grows each day. Established in 1961, U.S.A.I.D. had more than 60 years of bipartisan backing...

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  Why the term Western Civilization needs to be retired

  Nov 19, 20254 minS0

  <p>In this podcast episode, I discuss why the term Western Civilization is not only problematic, but also an obstacle to understanding the world and solving the some of the thorniest political issues facing us today. Whether it used as a codeword for white by the Far Right, or pro-science and pro-human rights by others, Western or Western civilization oversimplifies the world and draws artificial lines between countries and continents that obscures the reality that some of the most inspiring pro-democracy movements over the last decade have come from countries like Syria, Bangladesh, Sudan and Iran; while many so-called Western...

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  A Conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Jul 27, 202545 minS0

  <p>This episode features Part one of an interview I conducted with Kwame Anthony Appiah on March 29, 2025. Anthony is an author, intellectual, philosopher and writer. He writes The Ethicist column for the New York Times and he is a professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. Anthony has written several books including Captive Gods: Religion and the Rise of Social Science, The Ethics of Identity, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Dubois and the Emergency of Identity, and The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. He also co-authored Color Conscious: The...

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  Solidarity with the Rohingya

  Jul 26, 202510 minS0

  <p>This episode is meant to raise awareness and call for more international action to assist and empower the Rohingya, a ethnic Muslim minority whose ancestral home is the Rakhine State, a western state in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The Rohingya have faced years of discrimination and repression in Burma and are not among the 135 ethnic groups recognized in the country despite being able to trace Rohingya history in the country to the eighth century. Instead they are viewed as foreign migrants from Bangladesh. In August 2017, a genocidal assault by the Myanmar military killed 6,700 Rohingya and led to the...

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  Simone Rudolphi discusses Monsoon Revolution in Bangladesh

  Jul 13, 202524 minS0

  <p>This episode features an interview I recorded with documentary photographer Simone Rudolphi on August 9, 2024. Simone discussed her time interning for renowned photographer, writer and activist Shahidul Alam in Bangladesh. Simone shared her thoughts on the student-led Monsoon Revolution that ended the 15-year autocratic rule of Sheikh Hasina in August 2024. She also discusses how she came to see Alam and others in Bangladesh as kindred spirits and how the so-called Western world still dictates too much of global policy. Rudolphi touches on the origins of discontent that led to the revolution that ousted Sheikh Hasina, and how distorted framing in...

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