| 1. |
Introducing Past Present Future |
April 12, 2023 |
| 2. |
The Novel that Unravels Democracy |
April 27, 2023 |
| 3. |
How Dallas Saw the Future |
May 4, 2023 |
| 4. |
Living Behind the Iron Curtain |
May 11, 2023 |
| 5. |
History of Ideas: Montaigne |
May 18, 2023 |
| 6. |
AI: Can the Machines Really Think? |
May 25, 2023 |
| 7. |
Live Special: The American Century w/ David Miliband |
June 1, 2023 |
| 8. |
Rawls, Capitalism & Justice |
June 8, 2023 |
| 9. |
History of Ideas: Hume |
June 15, 2023 |
| 10. |
Are There Too Many People? |
June 22, 2023 |
| 11. |
Why J.S. Mill Matters w/ Tara Westover |
June 29, 2023 |
| 12. |
Whose Space is it Anyway? |
July 6, 2023 |
| 13. |
History of Ideas: Thoreau |
July 13, 2023 |
| 14. |
From Lincoln to Trump: What Happened to the Republican Party? |
July 20, 2023 |
| 15. |
History of Ideas: Virginia Woolf |
July 27, 2023 |
| 16. |
History of Ideas: George Orwell |
Aug. 3, 2023 |
| 17. |
History of Ideas: Simone Weil |
Aug. 10, 2023 |
| 18. |
History of Ideas: James Baldwin |
Aug. 17, 2023 |
| 19. |
History of Ideas: Susan Sontag |
Aug. 24, 2023 |
| 20. |
History of Ideas: Joan Didion |
Aug. 31, 2023 |
| 21. |
The Great Essays: Q & A |
Sept. 3, 2023 |
| 22. |
The Handover |
Sept. 7, 2023 |
| 23. |
The Other 9/11: Chile & Allende |
Sept. 14, 2023 |
| 24. |
Animal Farm and Other Allegories |
Sept. 21, 2023 |
| 25. |
History of Ideas: David Foster Wallace |
Sept. 28, 2023 |
| 26. |
Zadie Smith on Dickens, Hypocrisy & Justice |
Oct. 5, 2023 |
| 27. |
Mary Beard on Caesar, Augustus & Zuckerberg |
Oct. 12, 2023 |
| 28. |
Rethinking Democracy w/ Lea Ypi |
Oct. 19, 2023 |
| 29. |
History of Ideas: Umberto Eco |
Oct. 26, 2023 |
| 30. |
The Leviacene: Defining Our Times |
Nov. 2, 2023 |
| 31. |
Jill Lepore on Trump, Guns and the Red Mirage |
Nov. 9, 2023 |
| 32. |
Democracy vs Nationalism w/ Lea Ypi |
Nov. 16, 2023 |
| 33. |
History of Ideas: Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Nov. 23, 2023 |
| 34. |
Democracy Q&A w/ Lea Ypi |
Nov. 30, 2023 |
| 35. |
Something’s Got to Give |
Dec. 7, 2023 |
| 36. |
The Art of the Essay |
Dec. 14, 2023 |
| 37. |
History of Ideas Q&A |
Dec. 21, 2023 |
| 38. |
History of Ideas 1: Montaigne |
Dec. 25, 2023 |
| 39. |
History of Ideas 2: Hume |
Dec. 26, 2023 |
| 40. |
History of Ideas 3: Thoreau |
Dec. 27, 2023 |
| 41. |
History of Ideas 4: Virginia Woolf |
Dec. 28, 2023 |
| 42. |
History of Ideas 5: George Orwell |
Dec. 29, 2023 |
| 43. |
History of Ideas 6: Simone Weil |
Dec. 30, 2023 |
| 44. |
History of Ideas 7: James Baldwin |
Dec. 31, 2023 |
| 45. |
History of Ideas 8: Susan Sontag |
Jan. 1, 2024 |
| 46. |
History of Ideas 9: Joan Didion |
Jan. 2, 2024 |
| 47. |
History of Ideas 10: David Foster Wallace |
Jan. 3, 2024 |
| 48. |
History of Ideas 11: Umberto Eco |
Jan. 4, 2024 |
| 49. |
History of Ideas 12: Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Jan. 5, 2024 |
| 50. |
The End of the UK? |
Jan. 11, 2024 |
| 51. |
Rory Stewart: What Does it Mean to be a 21st-Century Tory? |
Jan. 18, 2024 |
| 52. |
The End of Enlightenment |
Jan. 25, 2024 |
| 53. |
The Great Political Fictions: Coriolanus |
Feb. 1, 2024 |
| 54. |
The Great Political Fictions: Gulliver’s Travels |
Feb. 8, 2024 |
| 55. |
The Great Political Fictions: Mary Stuart |
Feb. 15, 2024 |
| 56. |
The Great Political Fictions: Fathers and Sons |
Feb. 22, 2024 |
| 57. |
Q & A: Shakespeare, Gulliver and Trump |
Feb. 25, 2024 |
| 58. |
American Elections: 1800 |
Feb. 29, 2024 |
| 59. |
American Elections: 1828 |
March 3, 2024 |
| 60. |
American Elections: 1860 |
March 7, 2024 |
| 61. |
American Elections: 1896 |
March 10, 2024 |
| 62. |
American Elections: 1912 |
March 14, 2024 |
| 63. |
American Elections: 1936 |
March 17, 2024 |
| 64. |
American Elections: 1980 |
March 21, 2024 |
| 65. |
American Elections: 2008 |
March 24, 2024 |
| 66. |
Introducing PPF+ |
March 27, 2024 |
| 67. |
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Why Does It Matter? |
March 28, 2024 |
| 68. |
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: The Ancients - Socrates, Seneca & Jesus |
March 31, 2024 |
| 69. |
The History of Freedom w/ Lea Ypi: Machiavelli and Political Liberty |
April 4, 2024 |
| 70. |
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Kant, Enlightenment and Peace |
April 7, 2024 |
| 71. |
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: What is the Free Market? |
April 11, 2024 |
| 72. |
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Anarchism and Nihilism |
April 14, 2024 |
| 73. |
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis |
April 18, 2024 |
| 74. |
The History of Freedom w/Lea Ypi: Liberation Movements |
April 21, 2024 |
| 75. |
The History of Bad Ideas: Eugenics |
April 25, 2024 |
| 76. |
The History of Bad Ideas: The Gold Standard |
April 28, 2024 |
| 77. |
The History of Bad Ideas: Facebook Friends |
May 2, 2024 |
| 78. |
The History of Bad Ideas: Antisemitism |
May 5, 2024 |
| 79. |
The History of Bad Ideas: Taxonomy |
May 9, 2024 |
| 80. |
The History of Bad Ideas: Anti-Suffragettes |
May 12, 2024 |
| 81. |
The History of Bad Ideas: The Death of the Author |
May 16, 2024 |
| 82. |
The History of Bad Ideas: Mesmerism |
May 19, 2024 |
| 83. |
The Great Political Fictions: Middlemarch (part 1) |
May 23, 2024 |
| 84. |
The Great Political Fictions: Middlemarch (part 2) |
May 26, 2024 |
| 85. |
The Great Political Fictions: Phineas Redux |
May 30, 2024 |
| 86. |
The Great Political Fictions: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
June 2, 2024 |
| 87. |
The Great Political Fictions: The Time Machine |
June 6, 2024 |
| 88. |
The Great Political Fictions: Mother Courage and Her Children |
June 9, 2024 |
| 89. |
The Great Political Fictions: Atlas Shrugged |
June 13, 2024 |
| 90. |
The Great Political Fictions: Midnight’s Children |
June 16, 2024 |
| 91. |
The Great Political Fictions: The Handmaid’s Tale |
June 20, 2024 |
| 92. |
UK General Elections: 1906 |
June 23, 2024 |
| 93. |
UK General Elections: 1945 |
June 27, 2024 |
| 94. |
UK General Elections: 1979 |
June 30, 2024 |
| 95. |
UK General Elections: 1997 |
July 3, 2024 |
| 96. |
UK General Elections: 2019 |
July 4, 2024 |
| 97. |
UK General Elections: 2024 |
July 6, 2024 |
| 98. |
The Great Political Fictions: The Line of Beauty |
July 11, 2024 |
| 99. |
The Great Political Fictions: American Wife |
July 14, 2024 |
| 100. |
The Great Political Fictions: Hamilton |
July 18, 2024 |
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