The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
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David Walter Runciman, 4th Viscount Runciman of Doxford, is an English academic and podcaster who until 2024 taught politics and history at the University of Cambridge, where he was Professor of Politics. From October 2014 to October 2018 he was also head of the Department of Politics and International Studies. In April 2024 he decided to resign his position at the university to focus on his podcast full-time. He was subsequently made Honorary Professor of Politics. .. more
Today’s episode explores some very big picture history: David talks to palaeontologist and science writer @endofthepier.bsky.social about the story of the human species from origin to peak to inevitable decline. How near are we to the end?
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Part two of David’s conversation with historian Chris Clark asks whether the best historical insights into Trump-like leadership come from comparison with kings or commoners, democrats or dictators.
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David Runciman on the depopulation problem.
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Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period.
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David Runciman on the depopulation problem
John Kerrigan on the Atlantic slave trade
Donald MacKenzie on the future of Google
Holly Case on Habsburg legacies
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on waste
and a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social.
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Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Julian Jackson about the case of Marshal Pétain and the crimes of the Vichy regime. Did Pétain really play a ‘double game’ in which he tried to deceive the Nazis?
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Are we doomed? David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
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Today’s episode is the 1st of two on the extraordinary trial of Marshal Pétain in summer 1945 that ended up putting wartime France in the dock. David talks to historian Julian Jackson about how Pétain found himself so quickly charged with treason.
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In today’s PPF+ bonus David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about the trial in 1938 of Nikolai Bukharin, the darling of the Bolsheviks whose conviction & execution were the culmination of the Moscow Show Trials.
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Today’s episode is the first of two exploring the Moscow Show Trials that Stalin staged from 1936-38. David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about what motivated these grotesque spectacles and who was fooled by what they saw and heard.
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We return to our series about the most significant trials in history with our most requested trial: Scopes ‘Monkey’ (1925). Meant to be about a Tennessee schoolteacher but became a battle between science and religion and everything in between.
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Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. David talks to @brunomacaes.bsky.social & Sarah Wynn-Williams about the battlegrounds in the fight for the future. How will we know what victory looks like?
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In today’s bonus episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social answer more of your questions on all things Fixing Democracy. How do we know when we’ve reached the point of no return?
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In today’s episode David & @dmk1793.bsky.social try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had about this series. How do we know if democracy is broken? Have we ever had a real democracy anyway?
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For the final in this series David talks to historian @aysezarakol.bsky.social about the prospects for democracy in the age of strongman politics, from Trump to Erdogan, from Orban to Modi. Does democracy have the wherewithal to resist its pull?
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In our penultimate episode in this series David talks to writer @samfr.bsky.social about whether democracy can cope with the demands of the social media age. Is the bigger problem our ever-shrinking attention spans or our ever-divided politics?
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In this special live episode recorded in front of pupils from schools in Doncaster, David talks to political scientist @robfordmancs.bsky.social about whether Nigel Farage is really going to be the UK’s next Prime Minister.
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