If we pick our next president only on personality, profile, or perceived electability, we waste the potential of the office.
A recent conference at Trinity College Dublin disproved President Michael D Higgins's portrayal of economics as a field dominated by a "hegemonic discourse".
In this podcast, Colm Tóibín talks to Dion Fanning about anxiety and the pandemic, the precision of a novelist and why Michael D Higgins couldn't attend a partition commemoration.
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