210 Episodes

  1. The Leviacene: Defining Our Times

    Published: 02/11/2023
  2. History of Ideas: Umberto Eco

    Published: 26/10/2023
  3. Rethinking Democracy w/ Lea Ypi

    Published: 19/10/2023
  4. Mary Beard on Caesar, Augustus & Zuckerberg

    Published: 12/10/2023
  5. Zadie Smith on Dickens, Hypocrisy & Justice

    Published: 05/10/2023
  6. History of Ideas: David Foster Wallace

    Published: 28/09/2023
  7. Animal Farm and Other Allegories

    Published: 21/09/2023
  8. The Other 9/11: Chile & Allende

    Published: 14/09/2023
  9. The Handover

    Published: 07/09/2023
  10. The Great Essays: Q & A

    Published: 03/09/2023
  11. History of Ideas: Joan Didion

    Published: 31/08/2023
  12. History of Ideas: Susan Sontag

    Published: 24/08/2023
  13. History of Ideas: James Baldwin

    Published: 17/08/2023
  14. History of Ideas: Simone Weil

    Published: 10/08/2023
  15. History of Ideas: George Orwell

    Published: 03/08/2023
  16. History of Ideas: Virginia Woolf

    Published: 27/07/2023
  17. From Lincoln to Trump: What Happened to the Republican Party?

    Published: 20/07/2023
  18. History of Ideas: Thoreau

    Published: 13/07/2023
  19. Whose Space is it Anyway?

    Published: 06/07/2023
  20. Why J.S. Mill Matters w/ Tara Westover

    Published: 29/06/2023

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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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