Episodios

  • Politics on Trial: Socrates vs Democracy

    Politics on Trial: Socrates vs Democracy
    May 22 2025
    The first political trial in our new series is the one that set the template for all the others: the trial of Socrates in Athens in 399 BCE, which ended with a death sentence for the philosopher and a permanent stain on the reputation of Athenian democracy. Why, after a lifetime of philosophy, was Socrates finally prosecuted at the age of 70? Was the case motivated by private grievance or public outrage? What should Socrates have said in his own defence? Why, in the end, did he choose defiance instead? Out on Saturday on PPF+: Socrates part 2 - David explores the verdict of history on this case and the fierce arguments it still inspires. Sign up now to get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus Next time in Politics on Trial: Joan of Arc vs the Church Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    55 m
  • Politics on Trial: A History of Lawfare

    Politics on Trial: A History of Lawfare
    May 18 2025
    To introduce our new series about historic political trials – from Socrates to Marine Le Pen – David explores what makes political confrontations in a court of law so fascinating and so revealing. Why do even the worst of dictators still want to play by the rules? What happens when realpolitik and legal principles collide? How does the political system often find itself in the dock? Who wins and who loses in the great game of lawfare? Out now: a new bonus episode on PPF+ where David tries to answer your questions about Trump and the international order. Sign up now to get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus Next time in Politics on Trial: Socrates vs Democracy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    52 m
  • Ideas of Globalisation: What’s Gone Wrong? w/Dani Rodrik

    Ideas of Globalisation: What’s Gone Wrong? w/Dani Rodrik
    May 15 2025
    For the final episode in this series David talks to the leading economist Dani Rodrik about the case he made in the early 2000s that globalisation was unsustainable in its current form. How does he think this prediction has been borne out? What forms of globalisation might work in the 21st century? Where are the strengths and weaknesses of the existing system? And what does he make of the antics of Donald Trump? Available from Saturday on PPF+: David tries to answer your questions about Trump and the international order. Is it over? Is he over? When will it all be over? To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up now to PPF+ https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus Next time: Politics on Trial: A History of Lawfare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 m
  • Ideas of Globalisation: The Crisis of the 1970s (and Trump!)

    Ideas of Globalisation: The Crisis of the 1970s (and Trump!)
    May 11 2025
    David talks to historian Meg Jacobs about how the 1970s changed everything for America’s understanding of its place in the global economy. How did first the Nixon Shock and then the Oil Shock reshape American politics? Why did America’s politicians respond to these shocks not with tariffs or sabre-rattling but with calls to national self-sacrifice? Did anyone heed those calls? And what lessons did Donald Trump draw from America’s crisis decade? The latest edition of our free fortnightly newsletter is out now with guides, insights and clips to accompany this series, plus David writes about whether Nigel Farage really spells the end of two-party politics in the UK. It’s easy to sign up https://www.ppfideas.com/newsletters Next time on Ideas of Globalisation: What’s Gone Wrong? w/Dani Rodrik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!)

    Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!)
    May 8 2025
    Today David talks to political and economic theorist Leah Downey about the role that central banks in general – and the Federal Reserve in particular – have played in the story of globalisation. How has the Fed tried to reconcile its obligations to American democracy with its obligations to the global order? Is the Eurodollar a token of American strength or American vulnerability? Are the world’s central bankers really just a private club? And what does history tell us about the likely outcome of Trump vs Powell? The latest edition of our free fortnightly newsletter is out tomorrow with guides, insights and clips to accompany this series, plus David writes about whether Nigel Farage really spells the end of two-party politics in the UK. Sign up now https://www.ppfideas.com/newsletters Next time on Ideas of Globalisation: The Crisis of the 1970s (and Trump!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    57 m
  • Ideas of Globalisation: Hoover and Smoot-Hawley (and Trump!)

    Ideas of Globalisation: Hoover and Smoot-Hawley (and Trump!)
    May 4 2025
    David talks to historian Gary Gerstle about the last time the Republican party got caught up in a tariffs disaster and how it changed American politics. The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 brought tariffs back and helped bring down both the Republican Party and the global economy. Why didn’t Hoover stop it? What did the fiasco reveal about the limits of presidential power back then? And what does it suggest about the limits of presidential power today? Next time on Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h y 2 m
  • Ideas of Globalisation: Chamberlain and the Tariff Wars (and Trump!)

    Ideas of Globalisation: Chamberlain and the Tariff Wars (and Trump!)
    May 1 2025
    Today we explore the explosive fight over tariffs that took place in Britain in the first decade of the twentieth century. David talks to historian Robert Saunders about how Joseph Chamberlain made tariff reform a great popular cause and how it nearly destroyed his party. Are there parallels with Trump’s tariff wars today? Yes! Are there lessons for Trump’s opponents too? Yes! Out now on PPF+: Lenin and Trotsky part 2, taking the story on from 1917 to explore civil war, the rise of Stalin and the re-invention of Trotskyism. To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up now to PPF+ https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus Next time on Ideas of Globalisation: The Smoot-Hawley disaster (and Trump!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    58 m
  • Ideas of Globalisation: Trade, Race and Empire (and Trump!)

    Ideas of Globalisation: Trade, Race and Empire (and Trump!)
    Apr 27 2025
    We start a new mini-series on the history of ideas of globalisation by exploring how arguments from 150 years ago foreshadow what’s happening with Trump today. David talks to economic historian Marc Palen about the nineteenth-century fight between economic nationalists and the champions of an open economy. Was free trade for everyone or just for white people? Was it possible to be an imperialist and a globalist? What did the socialists want? And who thought that Canada should be annexed by the United States? Out now on PPF+: Lenin and Trotsky part 2, taking the story on from 1917 to explore civil war, the rise of Stalin and the re-invention of Trotskyism. To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up now to PPF+ https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus Next time on Ideas of Globalisation: The Tariff Wars of the 1900s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h
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