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UK General Elections: 1979
62 hours 2 mins; June 30, 2024
UK General Elections: 1945
58 mins; June 27, 2024
UK General Elections: 1906
56 mins; June 23, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: The Handmaid’s Tale
55 mins; June 20, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: Midnight’s Children
56 mins; June 16, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: Atlas Shrugged
61 hours 15 mins; June 13, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: Mother Courage and Her Children
56 mins; June 09, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: The Time Machine
58 mins; June 06, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
53 mins; June 02, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: Phineas Redux
56 mins; May 30, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: Middlemarch (part 2)
53 mins; May 26, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: Middlemarch (part 1)
54 mins; May 23, 2024
The History of Bad Ideas: Mesmerism
55 mins; May 19, 2024
The History of Bad Ideas: The Death of the Author
51 mins; May 16, 2024
The History of Bad Ideas: Anti-Suffragettes
56 mins; May 12, 2024
The History of Bad Ideas: Taxonomy
49 mins; May 09, 2024
The History of Bad Ideas: Antisemitism
52 mins; May 05, 2024
The History of Bad Ideas: Facebook Friends
52 mins; May 02, 2024
The History of Bad Ideas: The Gold Standard
47 mins; April 28, 2024
The History of Bad Ideas: Eugenics
57 mins; April 25, 2024
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Liberation Movements
58 mins; April 21, 2024
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis
51 mins; April 18, 2024
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis
53 mins; April 18, 2024
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Anarchism and Nihilism
52 mins; April 14, 2024
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: What is the Free Market?
52 mins; April 11, 2024
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Kant, Enlightenment and Peace
56 mins; April 07, 2024
The History of Freedom w/ Lea Ypi: Machiavelli and Political Liberty
52 mins; April 04, 2024
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: The Ancients - Socrates, Seneca & Jesus
56 mins; March 31, 2024
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Why Does It Matter?
58 mins; March 28, 2024
Introducing PPF+
3 mins; March 27, 2024
American Elections: 2008
59 mins; March 24, 2024
American Elections: 1980
51 mins; March 21, 2024
American Elections: 1936
50 mins; March 17, 2024
American Elections: 1912
48 mins; March 14, 2024
American Elections: 1896
54 mins; March 10, 2024
American Elections: 1860
60 hours 37 mins; March 07, 2024
American Elections: 1828
53 mins; March 03, 2024
American Elections: 1800
57 mins; February 29, 2024
Q & A: Shakespeare, Gulliver and Trump
45 mins; February 25, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: Fathers and Sons
56 mins; February 22, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: Mary Stuart
57 mins; February 15, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: Gulliver’s Travels
57 mins; February 08, 2024
The Great Political Fictions: Coriolanus
60 hours 2 mins; February 01, 2024
The End of Enlightenment
60 hours 18 mins; January 25, 2024
Rory Stewart: What Does it Mean to be a 21st-Century Tory?
50 mins; January 18, 2024
The End of the UK?
61 hours 5 mins; January 11, 2024
History of Ideas 12: Ta-Nehisi Coates
54 mins; January 05, 2024
History of Ideas 11: Umberto Eco
49 mins; January 04, 2024
History of Ideas 10: David Foster Wallace
54 mins; January 03, 2024
History of Ideas 9: Joan Didion
52 mins; January 02, 2024
History of Ideas 8: Susan Sontag
55 mins; January 01, 2024
History of Ideas 7: James Baldwin
51 mins; December 31, 2023
History of Ideas 6: Simone Weil
53 mins; December 30, 2023
History of Ideas 5: George Orwell
53 mins; December 29, 2023
History of Ideas 4: Virginia Woolf
52 mins; December 28, 2023
History of Ideas 3: Thoreau
56 mins; December 27, 2023
History of Ideas 2: Hume
60 hours 28 mins; December 26, 2023
History of Ideas 1: Montaigne
52 mins; December 25, 2023
History of Ideas Q&A
53 mins; December 21, 2023
The Art of the Essay
53 mins; December 14, 2023
Something’s Got to Give
58 mins; December 07, 2023
Democracy Q&A w/ Lea Ypi
59 mins; November 30, 2023
History of Ideas: Ta-Nehisi Coates
55 mins; November 23, 2023
Democracy vs Nationalism w/ Lea Ypi
54 mins; November 16, 2023
Jill Lepore on Trump, Guns and the Red Mirage
55 mins; November 09, 2023
The Leviacene: Defining Our Times
55 mins; November 02, 2023
History of Ideas: Umberto Eco
50 mins; October 26, 2023
Rethinking Democracy w/ Lea Ypi
54 mins; October 19, 2023
Mary Beard on Caesar, Augustus & Zuckerberg
52 mins; October 12, 2023
Zadie Smith on Dickens, Hypocrisy & Justice
49 mins; October 05, 2023
History of Ideas: David Foster Wallace
55 mins; September 28, 2023
Animal Farm and Other Allegories
52 mins; September 21, 2023
The Other 9/11: Chile & Allende
65 hours 29 mins; September 14, 2023
The Handover
54 mins; September 07, 2023
The Great Essays: Q & A
56 mins; September 03, 2023
History of Ideas: Joan Didion
54 mins; August 31, 2023
History of Ideas: Susan Sontag
57 mins; August 24, 2023
History of Ideas: James Baldwin
53 mins; August 17, 2023
History of Ideas: Simone Weil
55 mins; August 10, 2023
History of Ideas: George Orwell
54 mins; August 03, 2023
History of Ideas: Virginia Woolf
54 mins; July 27, 2023
From Lincoln to Trump: What Happened to the Republican Party?
60 hours 23 mins; July 20, 2023
History of Ideas: Thoreau
58 mins; July 13, 2023
Whose Space is it Anyway?
54 mins; July 06, 2023
Why J.S. Mill Matters w/ Tara Westover
62 hours 20 mins; June 29, 2023
Are There Too Many People?
59 mins; June 22, 2023
History of Ideas: Hume
61 hours 30 mins; June 15, 2023
Rawls, Capitalism & Justice
60 hours 21 mins; June 08, 2023
Live Special: The American Century w/ David Miliband
56 mins; June 01, 2023
AI: Can the Machines Really Think?
54 mins; May 25, 2023
History of Ideas: Montaigne
54 mins; May 18, 2023
Living Behind the Iron Curtain
56 mins; May 11, 2023
How Dallas Saw the Future
53 mins; May 04, 2023
The Novel that Unravels Democracy
55 mins; April 27, 2023
Introducing Past Present Future
4 mins; April 12, 2023
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