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The History of Bad Ideas: The Death of the Author
Season 5 Episode 67
For our penultimate episode in this series David talks to Kathleen Stock about Roland Barthes’s idea of the Death of the Author (1967). Once very fas…
1 year, 7 months ago
The History of Bad Ideas: Anti-Suffragettes
Season 5 Episode 66
In this episode of our series on the lingering hold of bad ideas David talks to the writer and broadcaster Helen Lewis about the arguments made at th…
1 year, 7 months ago
The History of Bad Ideas: Taxonomy
Season 5 Episode 65
For the latest episode in our series about the hold of bad ideas, we welcome back the geneticist Adam Rutherford to talk about Linnaean taxonomy, a s…
1 year, 8 months ago
The History of Bad Ideas: Antisemitism
Season 5 Episode 64
Today’s bad idea is one with a very long history: David talks to the historian Christopher Clark about antisemitism and the reasons for its endless r…
1 year, 8 months ago
The History of Bad Ideas: Facebook Friends
Season 5 Episode 63
In today’s episode about seemingly good ideas gone badly wrong David talks to the philosopher and journalist Kathleen Stock about Facebook Friends, s…
1 year, 8 months ago
The History of Bad Ideas: The Gold Standard
Season 5 Episode 62
In the second episode in our series on bad ideas David talks to the political economist Helen Thompson about the gold standard, which was meant to an…
1 year, 8 months ago
The History of Bad Ideas: Eugenics
Season 5 Episode 61
For the first episode in our new series about the hold of bad ideas David talks to the geneticist and science broadcaster Adam Rutherford about eugen…
1 year, 8 months ago
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Liberation Movements
Season 4 Episode 60
In our final episode David and Lea discuss liberation movements, from post-colonial liberation to women’s liberation, gay liberation and animal liber…
1 year, 8 months ago
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis
Episode 50
In the penultimate episode in this series David and Lea discuss two twentieth-century philosophies of freedom and the human psyche. What can existent…
1 year, 8 months ago
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis
Season 4 Episode 59
In the penultimate episode in this series David and Lea discuss two twentieth-century philosophies of freedom and the human psyche. What can existent…
1 year, 8 months ago