What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Max Weber
In the third part of our series David and Paul Sagar explore what the German writer and sociologist Max Weber can teach us about the pitfalls of political life and political philosophy. Why is doing p...
8 Feb 1h 4min
What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Adam Smith
In the second episode in our short series about how the history of ideas can help with the deepest puzzles of politics, David talks to political theorist Paul Sagar about the eighteenth-century polyma...
4 Feb 1h
What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Aristotle
Today it’s the first episode in a new series asking why contemporary political philosophy struggles to make sense of the deepest problems of politics and exploring how the history of ideas might help....
1 Feb 1h 12min
Talking Geopolitics with Helen Thompson: The Weirdness of American Power Part 2
Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with Helen Thompson about what makes living in a world dominated by the United States so strange. What has changed about American power in th...
28 Jan 58min
Talking Geopolitics with Helen Thompson: The Weirdness of American Power
The first of a two-part conversation in which David talks to Helen Thompson about how to understand the extraordinary and unlikely power of the United States, from its origins to its current incarnati...
25 Jan 57min
Politics on Trial: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein
For the final episode in this series David talks to historian and political scientist Glen Rangwala about the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein in 2006. What plans did the Americans have for Sadda...
21 Jan 57min
Politics on Trial: O. J. Simpson vs the Evidence
For the penultimate episode in this series David examines the criminal trial of O. J. Simpson in 1995 to ask what it reveals about how power really works in America. How did the prosecution fail to gr...
18 Jan 1h 18min
Politics on Trial: The Gang of Four vs the New China
In today’s episode David explores the trial that gripped China at the end of 1980: the case against the three men and one woman accused of being responsible for the worst excesses of the Cultural Revo...
14 Jan 1h 1min
