Past Present Future
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 Wednesday and Sunday.

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Episoder(310)

The Leviacene: Defining Our Times

The Leviacene: Defining Our Times

This week David explores a different way of thinking about the current epoch: what if this isn’t the Anthropocene but the Leviacene? Who or what is really driving planetary destruction? Can human natu...

2 Nov 202355min

History of Ideas: Umberto Eco

History of Ideas: Umberto Eco

This week’s episode in our series on the great essays and great essayists explores Umberto Eco’s ‘Thoughts on Wikileaks’ (2010). Eco writes about what makes a true scandal, what are real secrets, and ...

26 Okt 202350min

Rethinking Democracy w/ Lea Ypi

Rethinking Democracy w/ Lea Ypi

This week David and Lea resume their conversation – and their differences of opinion – about how to understand politics in the modern world. What is it reasonable to expect of democracy? Are its failu...

19 Okt 202354min

Mary Beard on Caesar, Augustus & Zuckerberg

Mary Beard on Caesar, Augustus & Zuckerberg

This week David asks Mary Beard what the Roman Empire can tell us about the nature of unaccountable power, then and now. How did Roman emperors rule when they had so little knowledge of the lives of t...

12 Okt 202352min

Zadie Smith on Dickens, Hypocrisy & Justice

Zadie Smith on Dickens, Hypocrisy & Justice

This week David talks to the novelist Zadie Smith about Charles Dickens: what he means to her, why we still read him, and what’s missing from the Dickensian view of the world. It’s a conversation abou...

5 Okt 202349min

History of Ideas: David Foster Wallace

History of Ideas: David Foster Wallace

This week’s episode in our series on the great political essays is about David Foster Wallace’s ‘Up, Simba!’, which describes his experiences following the doomed campaign of John McCain for the Repub...

28 Sep 202355min

Animal Farm and Other Allegories

Animal Farm and Other Allegories

This week David talks to novelists Adam Biles and John Lanchester about the timeless appeal of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Why has it retained its hold far longer than other political allegories? Do ...

21 Sep 202352min

The Other 9/11: Chile & Allende

The Other 9/11: Chile & Allende

This week is the fiftieth anniversary of the coup in Chile that ended the life of Salvador Allende and marked the temporary death of Chilean democracy. We talk to the politician and economist Andrés V...

14 Sep 20231h 5min

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