Carl Schmitt: The Thoughtful Nazi (with Lars Vinx and Samuel Zeitlin)
Why is Carl Schmitt one of the most widely read political theorists of the twentieth century? A lifelong antisemite, a petty careerist, a Nazi ideologue who only avoided being tried at Nuremberg becau...
27 Apr 20251h 54min
Indigenous Ideas: A Global Perspective (with Saliha Belmessous)
In 1686, a French witness spoke openly of a Native American declaration of independence. ‘We have to assume’, he said, ‘that the Iroquois do not accept any master’. Claims such as this were made frequ...
4 Mar 202559min
Slavery, Empire, and John Locke (with Mark Goldie)
John Locke continues to excite controversy. For American liberals, he is an honorary Founding Father, one of the architects of modern democracy. In their view, as Allan Bloom put it, ‘the whole world ...
4 Feb 20251h 6min
Francis Bacon: A Lion under the Throne (with Richard Serjeantson)
According to some, Francis Bacon accomplished nothing less than a scientific revolution. Some even say he was the founder of modern science itself. Born into a world where natural magic, astrology, al...
17 Des 20241h 27min
Big States, Small States, and the End of Enlightenment (Prof. Richard Whatmore)
What lessons can we draw from eighteenth-century thought about the relationship of big and small states? What are the limits of intellectual history? How and why did the Enlightenment end? Richard Wha...
24 Sep 202439min
Equality, Intellectual Traditions, and the Seventeenth Century (Prof. Teresa Bejan)
What can the seventeenth century teach us about equality? Why do philosophers construct intellectual traditions and how do we use them? In what ways is political theory an educative endeavour? These a...
26 Apr 202440min
Hume, the History of Philosophy, and the Concept of the People (Prof. James Harris)
How can we understand thinkers in their own terms? Why is such an approach particularly fruitful to understanding Hume? What can philosophy and the history of political thought learn from one another?...
13 Feb 202435min
Representation, Public Debt, and the Ends of History (Dr Michael Sonenscher)
What is the relationship between war and representation? Why can't we understand the French Revolution without thinking about the political management of public debt? And what does the future have to ...
7 Nov 202336min
