Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

News & Politics Podcasts

A new series of talks by David Runciman, in which he explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics – from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, from revolution to lock down. Plus, he talks...

Episodes

History of Ideas Q and A

Shklar on Hypocrisy

Nozick on Utopia

Rawls on Justice

De Beauvoir on the Other

Schumpeter on Democracy

Schmitt on Friend vs Enemy

Luxemburg on Revolution

Nietzsche on Morality

Butler on Machines

Douglass on Slavery

Bentham on Pleasure

Rousseau on Inequality

Q & A with David

Fukuyama on History

MacKinnon on Patriarchy

Fanon on Colonialism

Arendt on Action

Hayek on the Market

Weber on Leadership