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 the final episode in our current series on the history of bad ideas, David talks to philosopher Alexander Douglas... more
In today’s episode of the history of bad ideas, David talks to political philosopher Alan Finlayson about behaviourism, a theory... more
Today’s bad idea is one with a short history but a big reach: the term polycrisis only came into being... more
For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher Shannon Vallor about the myth that technology... more
For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to economic historian Marc Palen about monopoly, an idea... more
Today’s bad idea is one that started out as satire and ended as a political slogan. David talks to historian... more
For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to cultural historian Tom Wright about charisma, a term... more
In today’s episode about the power of bad ideas, David talks to historian and podcaster Dan Snow about the myth... more
Today’s bad idea is ‘genius’, the label that has enabled all sorts of terrible behaviour through the ages. Writer and... more
For the first episode in our new series about how bad ideas take hold, David talks to economist Mark Blyth... more
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