🚨 Next week we're back with more Great Political Fictions! 🚨

For those keen to get a head start, the next 4 will be:

📘 George Eliot's 'Middlemarch'
📗 Anthony Trollope's 'Phineas Redux'
📙 Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde'
📕 HG Wells' 'The Time Machine'

In episode 6 of our series David talks to the writer and broadcaster Helen Lewis.

Why were so many women against female enfranchisement?  And where can the echoes of those arguments still be heard today?

You can listen to the full episode here: linktr.ee/ppfideas

🚨Calling Cambridge students 🚨

Come to POLIS!! - our fabulous PPF interns (Joshua Shortman & Ella Veakins) are having a charity sale of books from David’s library. All in aid of ShelterBox - pay what you like!

If any of you are going to the ⁦Hay Festival⁩ later this month do come and say hi! David will be doing two panel events, one live recording of ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩’s Moral Maze, plus this ⬇️ hayfestival.com/p-21292-david-…

In episode 6 of our series David talks to the writer and broadcaster Helen Lewis.

Why were so many women against female enfranchisement?  And where can the echoes of those arguments still be heard today?

You can listen to the full episode here: linktr.ee/ppfideas

I thought this was absolutely fascinating. The whole series is good but this is the best episode.

Today I listened to this very inspiring Past Present Future podcast on Rawls, democracy, equality and capitalism. I can recommend Runciman's podcast to everyone, not just historians of ideas! (Thank you katharina prager for showing me the podcast)

My favourite episode of this series so far. Highly recommended.

Newsletter #6 out now!

All the extras to accompany the first four episodes in our Bad Ideas series, from eugenics to antisemitism - including James Bond on the Gold Standard and David on why Mark Zuckerberg is like Mick Jagger.

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Fancy a podcast for the weekend? I joined Dan Snow, Anne Applebaum and David Runciman to explore the case for democracy, the allure of dictators, and why the answer to our problems is *more* democracy, not less.
podfollow.com/dan-snows-hist…

Remembering this conversation about John Stuart Mill, especially the second half, about the necessity of awe.
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If any of you are going to the ⁦Hay Festival⁩ later this month do come and say hi! David will be doing two panel events, one live recording of ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩’s Moral Maze, plus this ⬇️ hayfestival.com/p-21292-david-…

In episode 5 of our series David talks to the geneticist Dr Adam Rutherford.

From scientific racism to social stratification to search engine optimisation, taxonomy gets everywhere. Can we escape its grip?

You can listen to the full episode here: linktr.ee/ppfideas

Newsletter #6 out now!

All the extras to accompany the first four episodes in our Bad Ideas series, from eugenics to antisemitism - including James Bond on the Gold Standard and David on why Mark Zuckerberg is like Mick Jagger.

Sign up right here ⬇️
mailchi.mp/99f5745c83a5/p…

In which I argue against the folly of classification. I’d love feedback on this from biologists, as I think I make a decent case, and maybe persuade David, but I’m not convinced.

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
For ep 5 in our series about the hold of bad ideas, we welcome back the geneticist Dr Adam Rutherford. Linnaean taxonomy: a seemingly innocuous scheme of classification that has had deeply pernicious consequences.
Listen here...🎧 linktr.ee/ppfideas

Is democracy in crisis?
Why are we drawn to dictators?

A new podcast with Anne Applebaum, Robert Saunders and Prof David Runciman.

Important ep.

Please have a listen:

🎧: podfollow.com/dan-snows-hist…

In episode 4 of our series David talks to the historian Christopher Clark.

What has made discrimination against the Jews different from other kinds of violent prejudice over the course of European history? 

You can listen to the full episode here: linktr.ee/ppfideas

We’re very honoured Pete!