Cultural Dementia: How the West Lost Its Hist...

Last time, I sat down with Shui-yin Sharon Yam to talk about ambiguous loss, diasporic parenting and grieving the what-ifs. Thank you to those who sent me nice feedback about that one. As you might imagine, it wasn’t an easy one to record, but it felt necessary after I realised t ...  Show more

Over the past few years, I’ve had to reckon with loss and grief that felt unresolved, and perhaps unresolvable. It’s something we’re all dealing with in different ways. When loved ones die, we know they’re dead. Everything that comes with that remains horrible, even maybe unbeara ...  Show more

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished classicist, military historian, and prolific commentator on contemporary geopolitics. Hanson’s latest work, "The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation," delves into the unsettling parallels between the conflicts of antiquity ...  Show more

Dr. Andrew Delatolla is a professor of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Leeds. His book "Civilization and the Making of the State in Lebanon and Syria" explores the ever-shifting civilizational standards that were imposed upon the Ottomans by the West, and the implicat ...  Show more

In this episode, I present Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History?" If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy TikTok: @theoryphilo ...  Show more

Today I chat with Professor Andrew Roberts, a leading military historian and Churchill biographer. He’s the author of a new book titled Churchill: Walking with Destiny. We discuss the defining aspects of C ...