Tag: Past Present Future
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Listen: https://ift.tt/nS5lRKD Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about the most famous trial in literature and one that never actually takes place. David talks to writer and literary scholar… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/PbwCNun To start our new instalment of episodes about the most consequential political trials in history David explores the trial of the eighteenth century: the impeachment of Warren Hastings that ran… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/bd5WKEX Today in Politics on Trial David tells the tale of the Dreyfus Affair that split France down the middle at the turn of the last century and revealed… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/jDs5h3u Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about three trials that took place over two months in the late spring of 1895 that brought about the destruction of… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/CamAIsW For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher Shannon Vallor about the myth that technology can be value free. It’s easy to see… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/NkIFiEn For today’s bonus episode on PPF+ David explores Filippo Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto (1909), a short document with a remarkable afterlife. From Vorticism to fascism, from cars to cod liver oil,… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/lbD3XcO Today’s episode in our history of revolutionary ideas explores the world-altering impact of Islam from the seventh century onwards. David talks to the leading Islamic scholar Tim Winter (Abdal… more ›
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https://ift.tt/w4DLtmc To begin our history of revolutionary ideas in earnest, David talks to the philosopher Agnes Callard about Socrates, the philosopher who changed – and can still change – everything.… more ›