Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhere Are We Going? Nuclear War Part 1
Season 19 Episode 264
For the first in a new series of conversations exploring the future that faces us all, David talks to S. M. Amadae about what nuclear weapons and the…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Bernard Williams and Judith Shklar
Season 18 Episode 263
Today’s episode explores the ideas of two late-twentieth-century thinkers who argued that political philosophy needs to be concerned with more than j…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Max Weber
Season 18 Episode 262
In the third part of our series David and Paul Sagar explore what the German writer and sociologist Max Weber can teach us about the pitfalls of poli…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Adam Smith
Season 18 Episode 261
In the second episode in our short series about how the history of ideas can help with the deepest puzzles of politics, David talks to political theo…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Aristotle
Season 18 Episode 260
Today it’s the first episode in a new series asking why contemporary political philosophy struggles to make sense of the deepest problems of politics…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Talking Geopolitics with Helen Thompson: The Weirdness of American Power Part 2
Season 17 Episode 259
Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with Helen Thompson about what makes living in a world dominated by the United States so s…
5 months ago
Talking Geopolitics with Helen Thompson: The Weirdness of American Power
Season 17 Episode 258
The first of a two-part conversation in which David talks to Helen Thompson about how to understand the extraordinary and unlikely power of the Unite…
5 months ago
Politics on Trial: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein
Season 13 Episode 257
For the final episode in this series David talks to historian and political scientist Glen Rangwala about the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein i…
5 months, 1 week ago
Politics on Trial: O. J. Simpson vs the Evidence
Season 13 Episode 256
For the penultimate episode in this series David examines the criminal trial of O. J. Simpson in 1995 to ask what it reveals about how power really w…
5 months, 1 week ago
Politics on Trial: The Gang of Four vs the New China
Season 13 Episode 255
In today’s episode David explores the trial that gripped China at the end of 1980: the case against the three men and one woman accused of being resp…
5 months, 2 weeks ago