Tag: Past Present Future
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Bv6ufQA Today’s bad idea is one with a very recent history but also a long backstory: David talks to author and journalist James Marriott about what happens when the… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/SL6T1O9 Today’s episode in the history of bad ideas is about one of the central ideas in modern philosophy: utilitarianism, or the view that what matters is the greatest… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/UScBrt8 Today’s great political fiction is a path-breaking work of science fiction: David explores Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (1974), which imagines a world without the need for government or coercive… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/lGKP2r8 For the first in a new set of episodes about some of the great political fictions of the past hundred years David explores Aldous Huxley’s much misunderstood dystopian… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Tjfrln3 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 United States, from its… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/2CaJL8p Today’s episode was recorded last Wednesday in front of a live audience at Friends’ House in London, where David was joined by the BBC’s Lyse Doucet, historian Chris… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/ZRmKCEe In the fourth and final conversation in this series David talks to Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, about where we might be heading. Where does the greatest risk… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/AaiZqgF Today’s episode is the first in a series of conversations about what causes human societies to fall apart and what might come next. David talks to Luke Kemp,… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/lCNWGsX 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 strange. What has… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/EKgA9az 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 works… more ›