The History of Bad Ideas: TaxonomyFor the latest episode in our series about the hold of bad ideas, we welcome... more

Today’s bad idea is one with a very long history: David talks to the historian Christopher Clark about antisemitism and the reasons... more

In today’s episode about seemingly good ideas gone badly wrong David talks to the philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock about... more

In the second episode in our series on bad ideas David talks to the political economist Helen Thompson about the gold standard,... more

For the first episode in our new series about the hold of bad ideas David talks to the geneticist and... more

In our final episode David and Lea discuss liberation movements, from post-colonial liberation to women’s liberation, gay liberation and animal... more

In the penultimate episode in this series David and Lea discuss two twentieth-century philosophies of freedom and the human psyche. What... more

In our series about different ideas of freedom David and Lea have reached anarchism and nihilism. What is the positive vision of human... more

In the latest episode of our series about different ideas of freedom David and Lea explore what makes the free... more

In this episode in our series about ideas of freedom David and Lea explore Immanuel Kant’s vision of rational freedom and perpetual... more