Such a fascinating pair of episodes.
I did not have the Regius Professor of History at Cambridge doing such uncanny impersonations of Donald Trump on my 2025 bingo card.
21.11.2025 21:59 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Two gripping episodes that demonstrate the power of history to illuminate our understanding of the present.
“Normative power of the factual”; all power is relational and thus constantly changing; the value of not switching off your brain when you are outraged; and other penetrating insights.
20.11.2025 08:06 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
He can’t help himself! 🤣
19.11.2025 13:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
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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19.11.2025 08:47 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2
Thanks Adam!
18.11.2025 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
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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16.11.2025 08:47 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Issue 47.21 is now online, featuring:
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.
Read at www.lrb.co.uk
12.11.2025 12:51 — 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 1
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
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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12.11.2025 08:47 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
‘We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population growth has dramatically slowed and is about to go into reverse.’
Are we doomed? David Runciman on depopulation, online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
10.11.2025 20:13 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
Thanks G!
09.11.2025 18:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
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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09.11.2025 08:47 — 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
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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06.11.2025 08:47 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
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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05.11.2025 08:47 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Outstanding analysis of an incredible trial. What’s so interesting to me is that the fallout did not settle the debate and militant creationism continues to be a force today
02.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
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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02.11.2025 08:15 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
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.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
02.11.2025 08:15 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
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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29.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
Listen to the full episode. Very important
29.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Good idea, noted, thanks Hannah!
29.10.2025 09:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
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?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
29.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
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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27.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
PPF+ subscribers can also hear mine & David Runciman's answers to further questions - covering the limits of sortition, the dilemmas of devolution, the appropriate usage of referenda, and the (irreconcilable?) tensions between democracy and capitalism
27.10.2025 10:40 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
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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27.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
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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26.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 2
Really enjoyed recording this discussion with David Runciman, covering threats to democracy, early 20thc theories of oligarchy, how algorithmic social media is changing politics, the problem with 19thc approaches to suffrage - and much, much more!
26.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 45 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 1
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26.10.2025 13:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
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?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
26.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 2
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
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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22.10.2025 07:47 — 👍 19 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 1
Anything but AI
22.10.2025 08:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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