Past Present Future
By David Runciman
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Subscribers: 558
Reviews: 4
Episodes: 194
CS
Mar 5, 2025
fantastic balance of detail, rigour and approachability. Best podcast discovery I've made in years
CD
Dec 29, 2024
Just can't hold my interest. Sorry 😔
very good
Jan 28, 2024
very good indepth discussions.
Ben
Nov 17, 2023
Very biased to the left.
Description
Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and many others about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean, and why they matter.
Ideas from the past, questions about the present, shaping the future.
New episodes every Thursday and Sunday.
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Ideas of Globalisation: Trade, Race and Empire (and Trump!)
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Lenin and Trotsky
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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PPF Live Special: Churchill – The Politician With Nine Lives w/Robert Saunders
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Rite of Spring w/Dominic Dromgoole
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Ubu Roi w/Dominic Dromgoole
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Salon Des Refusés w/Dominic Dromgoole
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Marx and the Paris Commune
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Free Speech
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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PPF Live Film Special: Network w/Helen Lewis
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Darwin w/Adam Rutherford
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Taiping Revolution
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: 1848: The Radical Revolution w/Chris Clark
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: 1848: The Liberal Revolution w/Chris Clark
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Bayesian Revolution w/David Spiegelhalter
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Slave Uprising: The Haitian Revolution
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: French Revolution 3: Paine
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: French Revolution 2: Robespierre
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: French Revolution 1: Sieyès
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: American Revolution 2: The Constitution
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: American Revolution 1: The Declaration of Independence
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Industrial Revolution
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: English Revolution 2: 1688
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: English Revolution 1: Civil War
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Scientific Revolution
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Reformation (part 1): Luther
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Humanism
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Magna Carta
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Islam
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Christianity w/Tom Holland
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Socrates w/Agnes Callard
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: What Makes a Revolutionary Idea?
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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The Great Political Films: The Zone of Interest
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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The Great Political Films: Zero Dark Thirty
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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The Great Political Films: The Social Network
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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The Great Political Films: There Will Be Blood
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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The Great Political Films: Fight Club w/ Helen Lewis
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: Do The Right Thing
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: Kagemusha
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: Jeanne Dielman
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: The Candidate w/Chris Smith
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: Z
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: Televised Leadership Debates
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: Party Members Choosing Leaders
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: Steady State Theory
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: The End of History
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: Modernisation!
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: The Marketplace of Ideas
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: Nobel Prizes
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: The Silent Majority
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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American Elections: 2024: The Meaning of Trump’s Triumph
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: The Battle of Algiers
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: Dr Strangelove & Fail Safe w/ Jill Lepore
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: The Leopard w/ Lucia Rubinelli
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: The Manchurian Candidate
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: Citizen Kane
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: Mr Smith Goes to Washington
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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The Great Political Films: La Grande Illusion
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Michael Lewis on Sam Bankman-Fried and Effective Altruism
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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American Elections: 2024: Is Anyone Winning?
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Thinking About Thinking Machines: Monk & Robot
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Thinking About Thinking Machines: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Thinking About Thinking Machines: Isaac Asimov’s ‘Franchise’
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Thinking About Thinking Machines: Metropolis
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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What if… Scotland Had Voted for Independence?
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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What if… The Berlin Wall Hadn’t Fallen?
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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What if… The 1919 Paris Peace Conference Had Actually Kept the Peace?
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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What If… The Russian Revolution Hadn’t Been Bolshevik?
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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What If… Franz Ferdinand Had Survived Sarajevo?
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Hamilton
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: American Wife
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: The Line of Beauty
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: The Handmaid’s Tale
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Midnight’s Children
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Atlas Shrugged
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Mother Courage & Her Children
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: The Time Machine
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Phineas Redux
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Middlemarch Part 2
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Middlemarch Part 1
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Fathers and Sons
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Mary Stuart
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Gulliver’s Travels
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Coriolanus
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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What If… The Vietnam War Had Ended in 1964?
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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What If… Wallace not Truman Had Become US President in 1945?
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China?
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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What If… Science Counterfactuals w/ Adam Rutherford
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Tim Rice on Evita
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Helen Lewis on To Kill A Mockingbird
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Lea Ypi on The Wild Duck
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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The Great Political Poems
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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American Elections: The Republican Convention
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Hamilton
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: American Wife
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: The Line of Beauty
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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UK General Elections: 2024
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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UK General Elections: 2019
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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UK General Elections: 1997
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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UK General Elections: 1979
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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UK General Elections: 1945
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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UK General Elections: 1906
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: The Handmaid’s Tale
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Midnight’s Children
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Atlas Shrugged
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Mother Courage and Her Children
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: The Time Machine
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Phineas Redux
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May 30, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Middlemarch (part 2)
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May 26, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Middlemarch (part 1)
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May 23, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: Mesmerism
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May 19, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: The Death of the Author
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May 16, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: Anti-Suffragettes
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May 12, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: Taxonomy
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May 09, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: Antisemitism
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May 05, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: Facebook Friends
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May 02, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: The Gold Standard
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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The History of Bad Ideas: Eugenics
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Liberation Movements
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Anarchism and Nihilism
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: What is the Free Market?
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Kant, Enlightenment and Peace
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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The History of Freedom w/ Lea Ypi: Machiavelli and Political Liberty
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: The Ancients - Socrates, Seneca & Jesus
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Why Does It Matter?
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Introducing PPF+
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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American Elections: 2008
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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American Elections: 1980
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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American Elections: 1936
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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American Elections: 1912
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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American Elections: 1896
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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American Elections: 1860
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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American Elections: 1828
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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American Elections: 1800
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Q & A: Shakespeare, Gulliver and Trump
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Fathers and Sons
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Mary Stuart
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Gulliver’s Travels
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Great Political Fictions: Coriolanus
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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The End of Enlightenment
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Rory Stewart: What Does it Mean to be a 21st-Century Tory?
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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The End of the UK?
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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History of Ideas 12: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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History of Ideas 11: Umberto Eco
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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History of Ideas 10: David Foster Wallace
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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History of Ideas 9: Joan Didion
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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History of Ideas 8: Susan Sontag
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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History of Ideas 7: James Baldwin
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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History of Ideas 6: Simone Weil
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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History of Ideas 5: George Orwell
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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History of Ideas 4: Virginia Woolf
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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History of Ideas 3: Thoreau
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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History of Ideas 2: Hume
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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History of Ideas 1: Montaigne
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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History of Ideas Q&A
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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The Art of the Essay
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Something’s Got to Give
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Democracy Q&A w/ Lea Ypi
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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History of Ideas: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Democracy vs Nationalism w/ Lea Ypi
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Jill Lepore on Trump, Guns and the Red Mirage
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The Leviacene: Defining Our Times
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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History of Ideas: Umberto Eco
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Rethinking Democracy w/ Lea Ypi
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Mary Beard on Caesar, Augustus & Zuckerberg
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Zadie Smith on Dickens, Hypocrisy & Justice
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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History of Ideas: David Foster Wallace
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Animal Farm and Other Allegories
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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The Other 9/11: Chile & Allende
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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The Handover
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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The Great Essays: Q & A
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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History of Ideas: Joan Didion
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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History of Ideas: Susan Sontag
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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History of Ideas: James Baldwin
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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History of Ideas: Simone Weil
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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History of Ideas: George Orwell
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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History of Ideas: Virginia Woolf
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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From Lincoln to Trump: What Happened to the Republican Party?
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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History of Ideas: Thoreau
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Whose Space is it Anyway?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Why J.S. Mill Matters w/ Tara Westover
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Are There Too Many People?
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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History of Ideas: Hume
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Rawls, Capitalism & Justice
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Live Special: The American Century w/ David Miliband
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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AI: Can the Machines Really Think?
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May 25, 2023 |
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History of Ideas: Montaigne
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May 18, 2023 |
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Living Behind the Iron Curtain
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May 11, 2023 |
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How Dallas Saw the Future
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May 04, 2023 |
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The Novel that Unravels Democracy
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Introducing Past Present Future
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Apr 12, 2023 |