what history can teach us, a talk with michae...

[video available on spotify] as many of you probably already know, i'm single for the first time in a long time. rather than rushing into my next relationship, this time around i’m committed to learning. there are a lot of great resources out there on dating and romantic relation ...  Show more

[video available on Spotify] it’s that time again for me to sit down and share a list of things that i like right now. i go through phases where i become obsessed with something, but then i eventually discard it and replace it with something else. so today i'll be going over my c ...  Show more

Andrew Simon, a historian of media, popular culture, and the Middle East at Dartmouth College, discusses his new book Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2022) , with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Media of the Masses is an engagi ...  Show more

Intelligence Squared has been producing agenda-setting events for over a decade. During the holiday season we're looking back over that extensive archive to pick out some of our favourite and most enlightening listens. For this episode we revisit 2018 and our event with James Rho ...  Show more

Past Present Future is a new weekly podcast with David Runciman, host of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and many others about where the most interesting ideas co ...  Show more

As Earth Day approaches, we revisit a compelling conversation from 2021 asking which factors are really responsible for the climate emergency and who might be able to prevent it? Dr Anne Karpf is a writer and sociologist whose book, How Women Can Save the Planet, looks to analyse ...  Show more