243 Episodes

  1. The Other 9/11: Chile & Allende

    Published: 9/14/2023
  2. The Handover

    Published: 9/7/2023
  3. The Great Essays: Q & A

    Published: 9/3/2023
  4. History of Ideas: Joan Didion

    Published: 8/31/2023
  5. History of Ideas: Susan Sontag

    Published: 8/24/2023
  6. History of Ideas: James Baldwin

    Published: 8/17/2023
  7. History of Ideas: Simone Weil

    Published: 8/10/2023
  8. History of Ideas: George Orwell

    Published: 8/3/2023
  9. History of Ideas: Virginia Woolf

    Published: 7/27/2023
  10. From Lincoln to Trump: What Happened to the Republican Party?

    Published: 7/20/2023
  11. History of Ideas: Thoreau

    Published: 7/13/2023
  12. Whose Space is it Anyway?

    Published: 7/6/2023
  13. Why J.S. Mill Matters w/ Tara Westover

    Published: 6/29/2023
  14. Are There Too Many People?

    Published: 6/22/2023
  15. History of Ideas: Hume

    Published: 6/15/2023
  16. Rawls, Capitalism & Justice

    Published: 6/8/2023
  17. Live Special: The American Century w/ David Miliband

    Published: 6/1/2023
  18. AI: Can the Machines Really Think?

    Published: 5/25/2023
  19. History of Ideas: Montaigne

    Published: 5/18/2023
  20. Living Behind the Iron Curtain

    Published: 5/11/2023

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Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator 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 come from, what they mean, and why they matter. Ideas from the past, questions about the present, shaping the future. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.