Then & Now: Philosophy, History & Politics

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James
 Nov 21, 2025
I love the way you analyse and provide context. Very good indeed.

MAGA
 Nov 27, 2023
You don't know what you don't know. You may know your argument well, but if you don't know the actual arguments of your political opponents then you are fighting strawmen in a silo.

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The Then & Now podcast: audio versions of the Youtube videos on philosophy, history, and politics.

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Episode Date
How to Make a Fascist: Part 4
Jul 15, 2026
How to Make a Fascist: Part 3
Jul 07, 2026
How to Make a Fascist: Part 2
Jul 03, 2026
How to Make a Fascist: Part 1
Jun 30, 2026
Dreams Beyond the Algorithm
Dec 09, 2025
Burnout: The Hustle Century
Dec 06, 2025
The End of the End of History
Dec 03, 2025
How the Deep State really works
Dec 01, 2025
Populism: A Complete Guide
Jun 20, 2025
10 Steps to Becoming AI Proof
Jun 13, 2025
Monopoly World: Oligarchy & Authoritarianism
Apr 22, 2025
Capitalism: In-Depth
Mar 18, 2025
Marx: A Complete Guide to Capitalism
Mar 11, 2025
The Rise and Fall of the Mainstream Media
Mar 05, 2025
How AI was Stolen
Jan 02, 2025
The Real Harm of Social Media
Sep 14, 2024
The Origins of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Sep 11, 2024
Does History Progress?
Aug 24, 2024
Can History Decline?
Aug 21, 2024
Hegel: A Complete Guide to History
Jan 18, 2024
How Socrates Beat Addictions
Jan 14, 2024
The Roots of Modern Democracy
Jan 07, 2024
Why Culture Wars Matter
Jan 01, 2024
What Red Pill Philosophy Gets Wrong
Dec 28, 2023
Being Outside Changes How You Think
Dec 24, 2023
Stoicism's Major Flaw
Dec 18, 2023
How New Addictions Are Destroying Us
Dec 12, 2023
How Big Tech is Ruining Your Attention
Dec 07, 2023
How the Internet Was Stolen
Dec 01, 2023
Why Our Idea of History is a Poison
Nov 27, 2023
The First Critics of Modern Life
Nov 22, 2023
Why German History is Different
Nov 17, 2023
Kant: A Complete Guide to Reason
Nov 14, 2023
What the Evidence on Immigration Says
Apr 18, 2023
Tucker Carlson's Paranoid Mind
Oct 20, 2022
How Fox News Changed The World
Oct 17, 2022
Our Consumer Society
Oct 15, 2022
Free Will Is Political
Oct 13, 2022
Putin's Sense Of Russian History
May 19, 2022
How The Atom Bomb Changed How We Think
May 12, 2022
MrBeast: Capitalism & Philanthropy
May 12, 2022
Thinking About Changing The World
Apr 12, 2022
Our 'Age Of Anger'
Apr 08, 2022
How Robotics Will Control You
Apr 05, 2022
Spinoza A Complete Guide To Life
Feb 24, 2022
Why The Internet Hasn't Fixed Democracy
Feb 11, 2022
How The Nature Nurture Debate Is Changing
Jan 14, 2022
The BIG Problem With The Metaverse
Dec 23, 2021
The Surprising Philosophy Of Dirt
Dec 18, 2021
Would You Have Been A Nazi?
Dec 16, 2021
The Psychology Of Racism In Jim Crow America
Dec 14, 2021
Scientific Racism and Immigration: A History
Dec 12, 2021
What The Sea Can Teach Us About Ourselves
Dec 10, 2021
Is Wokeism a Civil Religion?
Nov 02, 2021
What Makes Us Postmodern?
Oct 29, 2021
Wokeism
Oct 27, 2021
The Invention Of Individual Responsibility
Oct 25, 2021
Is Equality Natural?
Oct 22, 2021
What Makes Us Modern
Oct 19, 2021
Why Jordan Peterson is Wrong About Ideology
Jul 07, 2021
Jordan Peterson Critique: Philosophy & Responsibility
Jul 02, 2021
Baby Boomers VS Millennials: A History of the Coming Revolution
May 29, 2021
5 Useful Things I’ve Learned from the Existentialists
May 13, 2021
Being Us: Communities, Organisations, & Politics of Authenticity
Apr 30, 2021
Being You: The History and Philosophy of Authenticity
Apr 26, 2021
Kierkegaard: An Introduction
Mar 24, 2021
Steven Pinker & Human Nature: Nasty or Nice?
Mar 06, 2021
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
Mar 04, 2021
Zygmunt Bauman: Moral Relativism & The Holocaust
Feb 09, 2021
How We Become Genocidal: The Holocaust
Jan 30, 2021
Inviting the Tigers to Tea: Demagogues in America
Jan 19, 2021
Foucault: Criticisms & Method
Jan 14, 2021
Foucault: Madness & Civilization (History of Madness)
Jan 11, 2021
Heidegger & Descartes: Being-in-the-world, Care, Anxiety & Existentialism
Dec 26, 2020
Descartes' Error: Antonio Damasio's Somatic Marker Hypothesis
Dec 24, 2020
Descartes Introduction: Meditations
Dec 22, 2020
Francis Bacon: Introduction to Induction & the Scientific Method
Nov 27, 2020
Francis Bacon: A Critique
Nov 21, 2020
Empires of Modernity: The East India Company and the Anarchy
Nov 18, 2020
Great Barrington Declaration: Science and Politics
Nov 16, 2020
Proudhon: Introduction to Mutualism
Nov 14, 2020
Proudhon: What is Property?
Nov 12, 2020
Isaiah Berlin: Two Concepts of Liberty
Nov 10, 2020
Foucault: Nietzsche, Genealogy, History
Aug 13, 2020
Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State, & Utopia
Aug 12, 2020
Rawls A Theory of Justice: Comments, Utilitarianism, Rights
Aug 12, 2020
The Flesh Of Modernity
Aug 06, 2020
John Rawls: Property-Owning Democracy
Jul 28, 2020
Introduction to Rawls: A Theory of Justice
Jul 03, 2020
Statues, Philosophy, & Civil Disobedience
Jun 22, 2020
The Spanish Flu: Lessons
Jun 11, 2020
Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
May 27, 2020
The Historiography of the Police
May 15, 2020
The Fist of Modernity: A History of the Police in Britain
May 15, 2020
What is Modernity? Foucault, Governmentality, & the Plague
May 05, 2020
Romanticism: Covid-19, Climate Change, & Critique
Apr 24, 2020
The Philosophy of Creativity & The Castle of Indolence
Apr 22, 2020
Pandemics: The Politics of Trust & Optimism
Apr 14, 2020
Coronavirus & Scapegoats: Rene Girard
Apr 14, 2020
Stoicism & Coronavirus
Apr 05, 2020
Metaphors We Live By & Coronavirus
Apr 02, 2020
Metaphors We Live By: George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Apr 02, 2020
The Myth of Sisyphus: Responding to a Pandemic
Mar 26, 2020
Introduction to Stoicism
Mar 26, 2020
Rene Girard: An Introduction
Mar 26, 2020
The Culture Industry: Adorno and Horkheimer
Mar 06, 2020
Adorno and Horkheimer: Dialectic of Enlightenment - Introduction
Mar 06, 2020
Bourdieu: Cultural Capital and the Love of Art
Mar 06, 2020
Introduction to Bourdieu: Habitus
Mar 06, 2020
Introduction to Baudrillard
Feb 27, 2020
Introduction to Deleuze: Difference and Repetition
Feb 27, 2020
Introduction to Foucault
Feb 19, 2020
Introduction to Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction
Feb 19, 2020
John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism
Feb 16, 2020
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Feb 16, 2020