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Whose Space is it Anyway?
Episode 11
This week we talk to astrophysicist Chris Lintott and writer Tom Stevenson about the threat from outer space: is it the asteroids, is it the aliens, …
2 years, 11 months ago
Why J.S. Mill Matters w/ Tara Westover
Episode 10
This week David talks to Tara Westover and the philosopher Clare Chambers about the enduring legacy of John Stuart Mill. Reading Mill’s Essays on Rel…
2 years, 11 months ago
Are There Too Many People?
Episode 9
This week David talks to science writer Meehan Crist about Thomas Malthus and the perennial question of overpopulation. Malthus wrote 225 years ago a…
3 years ago
History of Ideas: Hume
Season 1 Episode 8
For the second episode in this season of History of Ideas, David discusses the Scottish philosopher David Hume and explores how eighteenth-century ar…
3 years ago
Rawls, Capitalism & Justice
Episode 7
This week Daniel Chandler and Lea Ypi join David to talk about the legacy of the great American political philosopher John Rawls and his theory of ju…
3 years ago
Live Special: The American Century w/ David Miliband
Episode 6
This week’s episode was recorded live at the Hay Festival, where David was joined on stage by David Miliband and Helen Thompson to discuss the past, …
3 years ago
AI: Can the Machines Really Think?
Episode 5
Gary Marcus and John Lanchester join David to discuss all things AI, from ChatGPT to the Turing test. Why is the Turing test such a bad judge of mach…
3 years, 1 month ago
History of Ideas: Montaigne
Season 1 Episode 4
For the first episode in the new series of History of Ideas – on the great essays and the great essayists – David discusses Montaigne, the man who in…
3 years, 1 month ago
Living Behind the Iron Curtain
Episode 3
This week David talks to Katja Hoyer and Lea Ypi about life under communism. East Germany was the most successful of the communist states of Eastern …
3 years, 1 month ago
How Dallas Saw the Future
Episode 2
This week David talks to Helen Thompson about Dallas and the end of oil. How did the world’s most popular soap opera come to explain the energy crisi…
3 years, 1 month ago