Past Present Future Podcast
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The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts. Find us at 🔗 www.ppfideas.com
As ever, superb. ranging from Baudelaire to Sunset Boulevard. David seems to be lamenting missing all the fun of civilisational collapse.
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 17h agoNEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s bad idea is a hard one to pin down: David talks to writer & literary scholar Ian Ellison about the concept of decadence, which went from explaining the fall of ancient Rome to becoming a label modern artists wanted to claim for themselves. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s bad idea is a hard one to pin down: David talks to writer & literary scholar Ian Ellison about the concept of decadence, which went from explaining the fall of ancient Rome to becoming a label modern artists wanted to claim for themselves. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s bad idea is a hard one to pin down: David talks to writer & literary scholar Ian Ellison about the concept of decadence, which went from explaining the fall of ancient Rome to becoming a label modern artists wanted to claim for themselves. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
I enormously enjoyed recording this PPF episode on Major Douglas’s Social Credit - a crank economic theory of the interwar period that caused immense frustration to mainstream intellectuals (including Keynes, Cole, Hobson and Gaitskell) but whose followers ended up taking power in Western Canada.
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 3d agoBONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! In this PPF+ bonus David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about an idea of the 1920s & 30s: social credit, meant to usher in an age of abundance & freedom, producing conspiracy theories & crypto-fascism instead. Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
This is such an entertaining and interesting and wide-ranging episode. Easily the best of the current run so far. X
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For today’s bad idea David talks to literary critic and memoirist Catherine Taylor about what’s wrong with romantic heroes, from Byron and Heathcliff to James Dean and Jack Kerouac to Bridget Jones’s Mr Darcy and Andy Burnham. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! In this PPF+ bonus David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about an idea of the 1920s & 30s: social credit, meant to usher in an age of abundance & freedom, producing conspiracy theories & crypto-fascism instead. Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For today’s bad idea David talks to literary critic and memoirist Catherine Taylor about what’s wrong with romantic heroes, from Byron and Heathcliff to James Dean and Jack Kerouac to Bridget Jones’s Mr Darcy and Andy Burnham. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s bad idea is one the US has been stuck with for a long time: David talks to historian of America @aipsmith.bsky.social about the damage done by the idea of the electoral college. How has it served to distort or discredit electoral outcomes? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Oh man, I've been waiting for this. Utilitarianism is a BAD IDEA.
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s ep is about one of the central ideas in modern philosophy: utilitarianism, or the view that what matters is the greatest happiness of the greatest number. David talks to philosopher Nikhil Krishnan. Whose pleasure and pain gets to count? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! In this PPF+ bonus episode David and philosopher Nikhil Krishnan explore some of the political implications of utilitarianism from its relationship to democracy to its role in justifying colonialism. Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s ep is about one of the central ideas in modern philosophy: utilitarianism, or the view that what matters is the greatest happiness of the greatest number. David talks to philosopher Nikhil Krishnan. Whose pleasure and pain gets to count? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today a pervasive political myth: the notion that what really matters at election time is political leadership. David talks to political scientist @profjanegreen.bsky.social about why leaders are less important than they – and we – tend to think. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
I was a guest on one of my favourite podcasts! Talking about the history of celebrity & fame
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW EPISODE OUT NOW! David talks to historian & broadcaster @gregjenner.bsky.social about the surprising history of the idea of celebrity, from Roman generals to 18th-century child stars to contemporary pop culture icons. How is celebrity different from fame or renown? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! David talks to historian & broadcaster @gregjenner.bsky.social about the surprising history of the idea of celebrity, from Roman generals to 18th-century child stars to contemporary pop culture icons. How is celebrity different from fame or renown? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Really enjoyed this conversation, covering deliverism, post-materialism, Zohran Mamdani's "show-and-tell" politics, and the importance of being willing to make arguments
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 3w agoNEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is about a bad idea with a very recent history: David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about the dangers of deliverism. When did the view that delivering for the voters is a good idea become so controversial? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is about a bad idea with a very recent history: David talks to political historian @dmk1793.bsky.social about the dangers of deliverism. When did the view that delivering for the voters is a good idea become so controversial? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
As someone who used to teach news media and politics: I *highly* recommend subscribing to @ppfideas.bsky.social to listen to someone work through why asking 'what's new?' about an issue can be a lot less useful than asking 'what's true?'. Or find a subscriber friend and ask to listen.
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 3w agoBONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! In this PPF+ bonus episode David discusses what’s wrong with the idea of the news. How does news have its origins in gossip, rumour and travellers’ tales? Why does it put a premium on new information over true information? Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! In this PPF+ bonus episode David discusses what’s wrong with the idea of the news. How does news have its origins in gossip, rumour and travellers’ tales? Why does it put a premium on new information over true information? Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s bad idea is a way of doing history: David talks to historian Alec Ryrie about the seductions and pitfalls of narrative history. Why do we need more Herodotus and less Thucydides? And how can podcasts do it better? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Great episode of a great podcast. I mostly avoid podcasts that focus exclusively on the politics of the moment. PPF digs deeper and as the name implies, looks both forward and backwards to give a better understanding of the present
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For the 1st in a new set of episodes about bad ideas with interesting histories David talks to the writer and broadcaster @helenlewis.bsky.social about hysteria, an ancient idea that became a very modern diagnosis. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For the 1st in a new set of episodes about bad ideas with interesting histories David talks to the writer and broadcaster @helenlewis.bsky.social about hysteria, an ancient idea that became a very modern diagnosis. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Ivan Krastev is a hugely important thinker. Always worth reading/listening to.
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · last mo.NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In the 2nd part of their conversation about what has happened to our ideas of the future David and Ivan Krastev explore where the future is going next. Why do our expectations of what comes after us shift as we live longer and our societies age? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
What if "the future" doesn't have a future? [And neither does the apocalypse] Epic, mind-blowing, troubling @ppfideas.bsky.social conversation between David Runciman and Ivan Krastev. 🧵 Idea 1: The end of the world used to be more egalitarian. Cue nostalgia for universal Armageddon.
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If like me you love the @ppfideas.bsky.social pod & often find its ideas a little challenging at first listen, this thread is an excellent breakdown of the episodes "The Future". An exceptional discussion & the final analysis of the impact of demographics was mind opening.
Richard Delevan@richard.wickedproblems.earth · last mo.What if "the future" doesn't have a future? [And neither does the apocalypse] Epic, mind-blowing, troubling @ppfideas.bsky.social conversation between David Runciman and Ivan Krastev. 🧵 Idea 1: The end of the world used to be more egalitarian. Cue nostalgia for universal Armageddon.
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In the 2nd part of their conversation about what has happened to our ideas of the future David and Ivan Krastev explore where the future is going next. Why do our expectations of what comes after us shift as we live longer and our societies age? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
The morning after Brexit, you could see that we were going to have a crazy decade! Wise words A great podcast from David Runciman Highly recommended..
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is the first of two with writer and political scientist Ivan Krastev exploring what has happened to our ideas of the future. What goes wrong with democracy when we start to lose our faith in the future? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
I loved doing this, I love the book, and the film, and @ppfideas.bsky.social.
Past Present Future Podcast@ppfideas.bsky.social · last mo.NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Recorded in front of a live audience, David talks to geneticist & science writer @adamrutherford.bsky.social about Mark Romanek’s 2010 film of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. A story of cloning & organ donation exploring the meaning of mortality. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
