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Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to work.
Sir Richard Evans, Margaret Heffernan, Isabel Oakeshott, Quassim Cassam join Anne McElvoy to look at the ideas shaping our lives today. Are they opti…
1 year, 7 months ago
New Thinking: 2024’s New Generation Thinkers
Does reading really encourage empathy? Are we asked to perform a role when we walk into the workplace? How was early film and technicolour embraced …
1 year, 7 months ago
Life expectations, philosophy in the world, protest
Can we still expect a meaningful job, stable income, a chance of owning property? How have expectations changed and what is the place of protest? Mat…
1 year, 8 months ago
Winning & Losing, Plato Scroll, the Decline of Nightlife
Matthew Sweet talks about the philosophy of winning and losing with Professor Lea Ypi a political scientist at the London School of Economics and the…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kant today, Spice Girls Reunited, Impersonating an Animal
Marshmallows and Kant, ideas about girl power from Mary Wollstonecraft (born April 27th 1759) to the Spice girls; and galloping horses, sea-gull soun…
1 year, 8 months ago
New Thinking: Exploring the local
Women made up 10-15% of the workforce in the early days of the post office. Looking at a series of different records from the 17th century onwards, S…
1 year, 8 months ago
Tacitus, Byron's fanmail and Bluey
Classicist Mary Beard picks Tacitus as a figure who still has relevance if we're thinking about satire, power and celebrity. Shahidha Bari is joined …
1 year, 8 months ago
Change, scrabble and cultural christianity
"The times they are a changin" or are they? In politics people are talking about an appetite for change, or being a candidate for change but how radi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Hobbes, Abba, Waterloo and margarine
What do you owe the state and what does it provide for us? Writing during the English civil war, Thomas Hobbes came up with an outline for the social…
1 year, 9 months ago
Unravelling plainness
Gold sequins, silk and vibrant colour threads might not be what you expect to find in a sampler stitched by a Quaker girl in the seventeenth century.…
1 year, 9 months ago