Political Philosophy Podcast
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Political Philosophy Podcast
Podcast by Toby Buckle
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It will be worse in the UK
Measuring our anti-fascist preparedness vs the US, Video version: https://youtu.be/t8DEEUs-RFg?si=L8DDXCT5VTE82RTP
Do Cars Make us Free? with Henrietta Moore & Arthur Kay
Originally a symbol of mobility, of escape and adventure, we have now built much of our world around the car. Has doing so liberated us? Moore & Kay a...
Left-Abstention & Message Discipline with Liam Bright
Does my argument that the left should not threaten abstention survive Liam's case that we can't impose message discipline on online communities? An op...
White Psychodrama Revisited with Liam Bright
Liam Bright discusses his influential White Psychodrama paper & we give our takes on the various cultural products arising from white guilt. Is the er...
Can Deliberation Save Democracy? with James S. Fishkin
James S. Fishkin, the Pioneer of deliberative polling joins the podcast. We discuss the nature of public opinion, how it can be changed, the positivit...
Should Liberalism Fight, or Retreat & Retrench? with Alec Crisman
I recently wrote that liberalism must reject neutrality and instead embrace a comprehensive vision of what is good for people, one that takes the figh...
Writing The Bible 2: Hammurabi's Code
The series continues, exploring the world the Bible was born into. Another genre of writing these texts existed within was the Ancient Near Eastern la...
Precolonial Africana Philosophy with Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers
From Ancient Egypt, to Ethiopia, to the Islamic tradition, Africa had a rich - & truly ancient - tradition of philosophy prior to European Colonizatio...
Do Elections Define Democracy? with Natasha Piano
What is democracy and why is it failing? Natasha Piano joins the show to discuss her recent book, Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Po...
Writing the Bible: 1 The First Flood
The first episode of my new, new format, history series - the Bible in its historic and literary context. We start in 1850 BC in ancient Babylon, with...
Writing the Bible - New Series Preview
A shot preview of a new series I'll be doing on the podcast
THE NEVERENDING PRIMARY
Why Hillary vs Bernie still shapes our politics & how we can move past it.
THE FAR-RIGHT & CRIMINALITY with Josie Duffy Rice
Crime and criminality are central concepts in American political discourse - fears of crime, crime as code for race, or illegal immigration are all co...
TECH-BRO DYSTOPIA with Dave Karpf
What the hell is up with Silicon Valley's lurch to the far-right? Dave Karpf joins to discuss
FIRING THE GENERALS with Samantha Hancox-Li
Why & how the Democratic Party needs to change. Samantha and I discuss our recent articles on what is going wrong for democrats, and what is going wro...
IT'S THE FASCISM, STUPID with Kevin Elliott
The debate on if Trump is an existential fascist threat is now over. What, if anything, is to be learnt from it?
Yes, It's Fascism https...
THE EUROPEAN UNION with Simon Hix
The EU from a political philosophy perspective - How do we justify it, is it legitimate, is there a 'democracy gap', & how will it weather the rising...
ROUSSEAU with Eoin Daly
Who was Rousseau? What is the 'general will'? What did he think was important when designing constitutions, and what does this tell us about freedom -...
THE FIRST KINGS with Moudhy Al-Rashid
Moudhy Al-Rashid on the first kings in history - The origins of the institution, royal ideology & propaganda, & their use of violence & terror
THE ETHICS OF ASYLUM with Rebecca Buxton
What's wrong with the refugee debate in the UK? Does our process respect assylum seekers (or even attempt to)? Do refugees have an obligation to be gr...
THE UK IMMIGRATION DEBATE with Rob Ford
How does the UK political system work, what role has immigration played in our politics, and are we at risk of a 'Trump moment' here?
MAPPING THE ANTI-TRUMP COALITION
I share a new political spectrum for the ati-trump coalition and use it to think through questions like: Why did the democtratic vote decline from 202...
PLATO'S TYRANT with Carol Atack
A deep dive into all things Plato & The Republic with Dr Carol Atack. Particularly his description of tyranny and the tyrant, do they apply today, and...
BIDEN, TRUMP, & ISRAEL with Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis
An in-depth look at the US-Israel relationship. What were the Biden administrations goals post October 7th, and how successful where they? How should...
THE SUPREME COURT with Noah Rosenblum
Everything Supreme Court - Theory and practice: How has the role of the court developed historically, how has it gained more power recently, how shoul...
AMA - Trump, Falafel, & Dating (preview)
In a patreon supporers only episode I take a range of audience questions on democratic messaging, my liberal currents articles, and how to make falafe...
IGNORING POLITICS with Chris Freiman
Do we have an ethical obligation to vote? Chris Freiman joins the podcast to argue no, our time and energy is better spent elsewhere. I disagree, and...
THE MORAL MINIMUM with Nicole Hassoun
What is the minimum we can be asked to provide for others? I'm joined by Nicole Hassoun to discuss this, relationships, loneliness, and more.
REALISM & APOCALYPTICISM with Alison McQueen
How did realist thinkers like Machiavelli and Hobbes respond to people predicting the end of the world, and what lessons can we draw from that in our...
POLITICAL LEGITIMACY with Fabienne Peter
What makes a political decision legitimate? That it tracks the popular will, that it's made with the right information, or something else? Fabienne Pe...
NON-CANONICAL CHRISTIAN TEXTS with Eric Vanden Eykel
What are the books that didn't get included in the New Testament? A big, fun, deep-dive into all things early Christianity and non-canon with Eric Van...
THE (US) BODY POLITIC
In a final election think piece I argue that the danger the US political system faces is not easily understood through the mechanical-newtonian visual...
ANTI-TRUMP REPUBLICANS with Kristen Monroe
Kristen Monroe discusses conservative opposition to Trump from the perspective of political phycology - why so many republicans have capitulated, what...
FREEDOM & FASHION With Derek Guy
Part 2 of my conversation with Derek Guy - A broader look at pluralism in fashion, liberal freedom and its discontents, in which Derek challenges my M...
LIBERALISM & THE SUIT With Derek Guy
I'm joined by Derek Guy (AKA Menswear Guy) to take on the intersection of fashion history & the history of political thought. Derek argues the suit is...
LIBERAL SOCIALISM With Matt McManus
Matt McManus is back on the podcast to discuss liberal socialism throughout history from early antecedents, to Mill, Thomas Paine, and Rawls, as well...
UNIONS With Steven Klein
The history of unions, including antecedent forms of worker organisation, the different justifications for them, and how these relate to values like e...
TRUMP, GENDER, & 'GETTING IT'
I develop an original account of the increasing gender voting gap & relate it to why some people are much more alive to the dangers of the populist ri...
RAWLSIANISM & THE POPULIST RIGHT with Gabriele Badano & Alasia Nuti
Rawls, religion, the reasonable & unreasonable, and what are our obligations when liberal democracy is under threat? Do we have a duty to try and pers...