Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history... more
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For our last episode in this series David is joined by Helen Lewis to discuss Mesmerism – aka animal magnetism – an... more
For our penultimate episode in this series David talks to Kathleen Stock about Roland Barthes’s idea of the Death of... more
In this episode of our series on the lingering hold of bad ideas David talks to the writer and broadcaster... more
For the latest episode in our series about the hold of bad ideas, we welcome back the geneticist Adam Rutherford... 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
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