The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Christianity w/Tom Holland
Today’s episode in our series on revolutionary ideas is a conversation covering two millennia with the historian Tom Holland exploring the never-ending upending of human understanding brought about by...
23 Jan 202556min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Socrates w/Agnes Callard
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. Just what is so ra...
19 Jan 202553min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: What Makes a Revolutionary Idea?
To kick off our new series on revolutionary ideas past, present and future David talks to two regular PPF contributors – the philosopher Lea Ypi and the scientist Adam Rutherford – about what makes an...
16 Jan 202554min
The Great Political Films: The Zone of Interest
The final episode in our great political films series explores Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023), his haunting take on the home life of the man who ran Auschwitz. This is a film like nothi...
12 Jan 202557min
The Great Political Films: Zero Dark Thirty
The penultimate episode in our great political films series explores Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty (2012), her controversial take on the War on Terror. Tracking the CIA’s years-long pursuit of Os...
9 Jan 20251h
The Great Political Films: The Social Network
The second David Fincher film in our series (after Fight Club) is The Social Network (2010), the Aaron Sorkin-scripted take on how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and the price paid by everyone else....
5 Jan 202555min
The Great Political Films: There Will Be Blood
Our great political films series reaches the twenty-first century with Paul Thomas Anderson’s unforgettable There Will Be Blood (2007), starring Daniel Day-Lewis as oilman Daniel Plainview in one of t...
2 Jan 202553min
The Great Political Films: Fight Club w/ Helen Lewis
David talks to writer and journalist Helen Lewis about David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), the film that launched a thousand memes. Does this tale of thwarted masculinity and corporate malfeasance code...
29 Dec 202457min
