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"... we also see the spread of really pernicious cybersecurity legislation, which is spread under the guise of protecting people online, but is really about enabling online censorship, so that people feel too scared to put messages online. And those processes, I think, have started to really erode the emancipatory potential of this technology."
#NicCheeseman, political scientist, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-how-to-stop-election-rigging
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"... we also see the spread of really pernicious cybersecurity legislation, which is spread under the guise of protecting people online, but is really about enabling online censorship, so that people feel too scared to put messages online. And those processes, I think, have started to really erode the emancipatory potential of this technology."
#NicCheeseman, political scientist, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-how-to-stop-election-rigging
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"... we also see the spread of really pernicious cybersecurity legislation, which is spread under the guise of protecting people online, but is really about enabling online censorship, so that people feel too scared to put messages online. And those processes, I think, have started to really erode the emancipatory potential of this technology."
#NicCheeseman, political scientist, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-how-to-stop-election-rigging
(1/2)
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"... we also see the spread of really pernicious cybersecurity legislation, which is spread under the guise of protecting people online, but is really about enabling online censorship, so that people feel too scared to put messages online. And those processes, I think, have started to really erode the emancipatory potential of this technology."
#NicCheeseman, political scientist, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-how-to-stop-election-rigging
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"... my hypothesis is that as Citizens’ Assemblies become more widely known, as we have more examples where people know that, OK, this is worth my time because I know the government is going to do something, that will also have an impact on response rates. We're still really early in the wider historical sense of this democratic innovation."
#ClaudiaChwalisz, CEO, Democracy Next, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-citizens%E2%80%99-assemblies
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #FixingDemocracy #CitizensAssemblies
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"... my hypothesis is that as Citizens’ Assemblies become more widely known, as we have more examples where people know that, OK, this is worth my time because I know the government is going to do something, that will also have an impact on response rates. We're still really early in the wider historical sense of this democratic innovation."
#ClaudiaChwalisz, CEO, Democracy Next, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-citizens%E2%80%99-assemblies
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #FixingDemocracy #CitizensAssemblies
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"... my hypothesis is that as Citizens’ Assemblies become more widely known, as we have more examples where people know that, OK, this is worth my time because I know the government is going to do something, that will also have an impact on response rates. We're still really early in the wider historical sense of this democratic innovation."
#ClaudiaChwalisz, CEO, Democracy Next, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-citizens%E2%80%99-assemblies
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #FixingDemocracy #CitizensAssemblies
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"... my hypothesis is that as Citizens’ Assemblies become more widely known, as we have more examples where people know that, OK, this is worth my time because I know the government is going to do something, that will also have an impact on response rates. We're still really early in the wider historical sense of this democratic innovation."
#ClaudiaChwalisz, CEO, Democracy Next, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-citizens%E2%80%99-assemblies
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #FixingDemocracy #CitizensAssemblies
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The Destruction of Trust
Why do we keep damaging the very thing on which we all depend?Trust is an abstract concept. Abundant research shows that in human psychology abstractions pale next to the concrete.
#PastPresentFuture #DanGardner
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The Destruction of Trust
Why do we keep damaging the very thing on which we all depend?Trust is an abstract concept. Abundant research shows that in human psychology abstractions pale next to the concrete.
#PastPresentFuture #DanGardner
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All countries that claim to practice 'compulsory voting', don't. Because they all offer a 'no confidence' option. Which is, in effect, not voting.
It's a nonsense, and a distraction from meaningful attempts at democratic reform
https://nzpod.co.nz/podcast/past-present-future/fixing-democracy-compulsory-voting
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#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #democracy #elections #CompulsoryVoting
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All countries that claim to practice 'compulsory voting', don't. Because they all offer a 'no confidence' option. Which is, in effect, not voting.
It's a nonsense, and a distraction from meaningful attempts at democratic reform
https://nzpod.co.nz/podcast/past-present-future/fixing-democracy-compulsory-voting
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#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #democracy #elections #CompulsoryVoting
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All countries that claim to practice 'compulsory voting', don't. Because they all offer a 'no confidence' option. Which is, in effect, not voting.
It's a nonsense, and a distraction from meaningful attempts at democratic reform
https://nzpod.co.nz/podcast/past-present-future/fixing-democracy-compulsory-voting
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#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #democracy #elections #CompulsoryVoting
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All countries that claim to practice 'compulsory voting', don't. Because they all offer a 'no confidence' option. Which is, in effect, not voting.
It's a nonsense, and a distraction from meaningful attempts at democratic reform
https://nzpod.co.nz/podcast/past-present-future/fixing-democracy-compulsory-voting
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#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #democracy #elections #CompulsoryVoting
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"It might in the US seem impossible that a society based on 'American freedoms' could turn into this kind of repressive theocracy overnight."
#DavidRunciman, August, 2024
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
A year later ...
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"It might in the US seem impossible that a society based on 'American freedoms' could turn into this kind of repressive theocracy overnight."
#DavidRunciman, August, 2024
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
A year later ...
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"It might in the US seem impossible that a society based on 'American freedoms' could turn into this kind of repressive theocracy overnight."
#DavidRunciman, August, 2024
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
A year later ...
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"It might in the US seem impossible that a society based on 'American freedoms' could turn into this kind of repressive theocracy overnight."
#DavidRunciman, August, 2024
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
A year later ...
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I've never thought deeply about exactly what people might mean when they talk about "the polycrisis". So I'm glad I got the chance, thanks to David Runciman doing an episode about it for his History of Bad Ideas series;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-polycrisis
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#podcast #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #DavidRunciman #polycrisis
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I've never thought deeply about exactly what people might mean when they talk about "the polycrisis". So I'm glad I got the chance, thanks to David Runciman doing an episode about it for his History of Bad Ideas series;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-polycrisis
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#podcast #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #DavidRunciman #polycrisis
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I've never thought deeply about exactly what people might mean when they talk about "the polycrisis". So I'm glad I got the chance, thanks to David Runciman doing an episode about it for his History of Bad Ideas series;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-polycrisis
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#podcast #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #DavidRunciman #polycrisis
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I've never thought deeply about exactly what people might mean when they talk about "the polycrisis". So I'm glad I got the chance, thanks to David Runciman doing an episode about it for his History of Bad Ideas series;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-polycrisis
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#podcast #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #DavidRunciman #polycrisis
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"The answer 'we have to fix capitalism' doesn't help. It might be true, but it doesn't help.
So here's where I think there are some ... interventions that would require a change in political will to enable. But there's very little stopping them other than a lack of political will, which is largely a result of capture of political power by economic interests."
#ShannonVallor, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-value-free-tech
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #regulation #TechRegulation
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"The answer 'we have to fix capitalism' doesn't help. It might be true, but it doesn't help.
So here's where I think there are some ... interventions that would require a change in political will to enable. But there's very little stopping them other than a lack of political will, which is largely a result of capture of political power by economic interests."
#ShannonVallor, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-value-free-tech
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #regulation #TechRegulation
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"The answer 'we have to fix capitalism' doesn't help. It might be true, but it doesn't help.
So here's where I think there are some ... interventions that would require a change in political will to enable. But there's very little stopping them other than a lack of political will, which is largely a result of capture of political power by economic interests."
#ShannonVallor, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-value-free-tech
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #regulation #TechRegulation
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"The answer 'we have to fix capitalism' doesn't help. It might be true, but it doesn't help.
So here's where I think there are some ... interventions that would require a change in political will to enable. But there's very little stopping them other than a lack of political will, which is largely a result of capture of political power by economic interests."
#ShannonVallor, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-value-free-tech
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #regulation #TechRegulation
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"So the idea is, that guns aren't neutral, but it is also true that who we are, *plus* the technology, that leads to the affordances it has."
#ShannonVallor, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-value-free-tech
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #technology #affordances
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"So the idea is, that guns aren't neutral, but it is also true that who we are, *plus* the technology, that leads to the affordances it has."
#ShannonVallor, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-value-free-tech
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #technology #affordances
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"So the idea is, that guns aren't neutral, but it is also true that who we are, *plus* the technology, that leads to the affordances it has."
#ShannonVallor, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-value-free-tech
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #technology #affordances
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"So the idea is, that guns aren't neutral, but it is also true that who we are, *plus* the technology, that leads to the affordances it has."
#ShannonVallor, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-value-free-tech
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #technology #affordances
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𝗨𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿
Usher (46) heeft het Australische deel van zijn tournee geannuleerd. Ticketverkoper Ticketek meldt dat de promotor van Ushers 'Past Present Future Tour' heeft laten weten dat de geplande shows in november en december niet doorgaan.
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𝗨𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿
Usher (46) heeft het Australische deel van zijn tournee geannuleerd. Ticketverkoper Ticketek meldt dat de promotor van Ushers 'Past Present Future Tour' heeft laten weten dat de geplande shows in november en december niet doorgaan.
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𝗨𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿
Usher (46) heeft het Australische deel van zijn tournee geannuleerd. Ticketverkoper Ticketek meldt dat de promotor van Ushers 'Past Present Future Tour' heeft laten weten dat de geplande shows in november en december niet doorgaan.
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𝗨𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿
Usher (46) heeft het Australische deel van zijn tournee geannuleerd. Ticketverkoper Ticketek meldt dat de promotor van Ushers 'Past Present Future Tour' heeft laten weten dat de geplande shows in november en december niet doorgaan.
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𝗨𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿
Usher (46) heeft het Australische deel van zijn tournee geannuleerd. Ticketverkoper Ticketek meldt dat de promotor van Ushers 'Past Present Future Tour' heeft laten weten dat de geplande shows in november en december niet doorgaan.
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"What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China?"
"David talks to world historian Ayse Zarakol about how the East might well have risen to global dominance before the West. What if the key revolutions of the modern world – political and industrial – had happened in Asia first?"
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #DavidRunciman #AyseZarakol #FrenchRevolution #China
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"What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China?"
"David talks to world historian Ayse Zarakol about how the East might well have risen to global dominance before the West. What if the key revolutions of the modern world – political and industrial – had happened in Asia first?"
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #DavidRunciman #AyseZarakol #FrenchRevolution #China
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"What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China?"
"David talks to world historian Ayse Zarakol about how the East might well have risen to global dominance before the West. What if the key revolutions of the modern world – political and industrial – had happened in Asia first?"
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #DavidRunciman #AyseZarakol #FrenchRevolution #China
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"What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China?"
"David talks to world historian Ayse Zarakol about how the East might well have risen to global dominance before the West. What if the key revolutions of the modern world – political and industrial – had happened in Asia first?"
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #DavidRunciman #AyseZarakol #FrenchRevolution #China
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... We had been betrayed. By our neighbour, friend, and ally. By a country we trusted completely.
Something snapped in Canadians.
#PastPresentFuture #DanGardner #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong
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... We had been betrayed. By our neighbour, friend, and ally. By a country we trusted completely.
Something snapped in Canadians.
#PastPresentFuture #DanGardner #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong
https://dgardner.substack.com/p/a-letter-for-american-friends -
Last night I listened to podcaster David Runciman and journalist Helen Lewis talking about Fight Club, and how it holds up 25 years later;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-great-political-films%3A-fight-club-w%2F-helen-lewis
The political aspect of the discussion exemplified a common lack of understanding among the political class, about what fascism really is and how it works. One that I also lacked when I first watched the film, about 20 years ago.
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #FightClub #DavidRunciman #HelenLewis
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Last night I listened to podcaster David Runciman and journalist Helen Lewis talking about Fight Club, and how it holds up 25 years later;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-great-political-films%3A-fight-club-w%2F-helen-lewis
The political aspect of the discussion exemplified a common lack of understanding among the political class, about what fascism really is and how it works. One that I also lacked when I first watched the film, about 20 years ago.
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #FightClub #DavidRunciman #HelenLewis
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Last night I listened to podcaster David Runciman and journalist Helen Lewis talking about Fight Club, and how it holds up 25 years later;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-great-political-films%3A-fight-club-w%2F-helen-lewis
The political aspect of the discussion exemplified a common lack of understanding among the political class, about what fascism really is and how it works. One that I also lacked when I first watched the film, about 20 years ago.
(1/?)
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #FightClub #DavidRunciman #HelenLewis
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Last night I listened to podcaster David Runciman and journalist Helen Lewis talking about Fight Club, and how it holds up 25 years later;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-great-political-films%3A-fight-club-w%2F-helen-lewis
The political aspect of the discussion exemplified a common lack of understanding among the political class, about what fascism really is and how it works. One that I also lacked when I first watched the film, about 20 years ago.
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #FightClub #DavidRunciman #HelenLewis
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Just listening to David Runciman and Gary Gerstle discuss the history of televised leadership debates;
I suspect we will look back on 2024 as a watershed year, where the net replacing television as the dominant media. Just as television did with radio.
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #media #television #DavidRunciman #GaryGerstle
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Just listening to David Runciman and Gary Gerstle discuss the history of televised leadership debates;
I suspect we will look back on 2024 as a watershed year, where the net replacing television as the dominant media. Just as television did with radio.
(1/2)
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #media #television #DavidRunciman #GaryGerstle
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Just listening to David Runciman and Gary Gerstle discuss the history of televised leadership debates;
I suspect we will look back on 2024 as a watershed year, where the net replacing television as the dominant media. Just as television did with radio.
(1/2)
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #media #television #DavidRunciman #GaryGerstle
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Just listening to David Runciman and Gary Gerstle discuss the history of televised leadership debates;
I suspect we will look back on 2024 as a watershed year, where the net replacing television as the dominant media. Just as television did with radio.
(1/2)
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #media #television #DavidRunciman #GaryGerstle
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I don't like to lead characterising a piece rather than just stating it, but that feels necessary here: the review / analysis I'm linking here is not sympathetic with its subject. It is however excellent, and its subject is, well, significant in today's world, though largely in a negative way.
#DavidRunciman's #PastPresentFuture has been tackling the Great Political Novels for the first part of 2024, and the episode which just dropped addresses every intellectually-stunted permadolescent's favourite book, by A.R.: A.S.
(You've either already guessed or can open the link for the reveal. Kitten pics for the rest of you to avoid a thumbnail spoiler.)
Much of the review covers bits I'm familiar with. The parts I wasn't aware of (and maybe that speaks poorly of me) were the associations with Keynes and Oppenheimer, obvious as Runciman reveals them. And I could add a bunch more on how much Silicon Valley was influenced by this book. Hell, the University Ave., incubator space which both Teh Goog and BookFace came out of was literally emblazoned with a sign reading "Rearden Steel" for much of the 1990s / aughts.
And if you absolutely can't stand this book (and I can't blame you), the rest of the series, the podcast, and others by Runciman ("Talking Politics") are also excellent. Despite the title and Runciman's own background as a historian of politics, it's remarkably free of highly topical current-issue discussion, whilst at the same time illuminating that in ways virtually no other source does.
There are three ad spots, 30s intro & outro and an annoying one spang in the middle of things.
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I don't like to lead characterising a piece rather than just stating it, but that feels necessary here: the review / analysis I'm linking here is not sympathetic with its subject. It is however excellent, and its subject is, well, significant in today's world, though largely in a negative way.
#DavidRunciman's #PastPresentFuture has been tackling the Great Political Novels for the first part of 2024, and the episode which just dropped addresses every intellectually-stunted permadolescent's favourite book, by A.R.: A.S.
(You've either already guessed or can open the link for the reveal. Kitten pics for the rest of you to avoid a thumbnail spoiler.)
Much of the review covers bits I'm familiar with. The parts I wasn't aware of (and maybe that speaks poorly of me) were the associations with Keynes and Oppenheimer, obvious as Runciman reveals them. And I could add a bunch more on how much Silicon Valley was influenced by this book. Hell, the University Ave., incubator space which both Teh Goog and BookFace came out of was literally emblazoned with a sign reading "Rearden Steel" for much of the 1990s / aughts.
And if you absolutely can't stand this book (and I can't blame you), the rest of the series, the podcast, and others by Runciman ("Talking Politics") are also excellent. Despite the title and Runciman's own background as a historian of politics, it's remarkably free of highly topical current-issue discussion, whilst at the same time illuminating that in ways virtually no other source does.
There are three ad spots, 30s intro & outro and an annoying one spang in the middle of things.
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I don't like to lead characterising a piece rather than just stating it, but that feels necessary here: the review / analysis I'm linking here is not sympathetic with its subject. It is however excellent, and its subject is, well, significant in today's world, though largely in a negative way.
#DavidRunciman's #PastPresentFuture has been tackling the Great Political Novels for the first part of 2024, and the episode which just dropped addresses every intellectually-stunted permadolescent's favourite book, by A.R.: A.S.
(You've either already guessed or can open the link for the reveal. Kitten pics for the rest of you to avoid a thumbnail spoiler.)
Much of the review covers bits I'm familiar with. The parts I wasn't aware of (and maybe that speaks poorly of me) were the associations with Keynes and Oppenheimer, obvious as Runciman reveals them. And I could add a bunch more on how much Silicon Valley was influenced by this book. Hell, the University Ave., incubator space which both Teh Goog and BookFace came out of was literally emblazoned with a sign reading "Rearden Steel" for much of the 1990s / aughts.
And if you absolutely can't stand this book (and I can't blame you), the rest of the series, the podcast, and others by Runciman ("Talking Politics") are also excellent. Despite the title and Runciman's own background as a historian of politics, it's remarkably free of highly topical current-issue discussion, whilst at the same time illuminating that in ways virtually no other source does.
There are three ad spots, 30s intro & outro and an annoying one spang in the middle of things.
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I don't like to lead characterising a piece rather than just stating it, but that feels necessary here: the review / analysis I'm linking here is not sympathetic with its subject. It is however excellent, and its subject is, well, significant in today's world, though largely in a negative way.
#DavidRunciman's #PastPresentFuture has been tackling the Great Political Novels for the first part of 2024, and the episode which just dropped addresses every intellectually-stunted permadolescent's favourite book, by A.R.: A.S.
(You've either already guessed or can open the link for the reveal. Kitten pics for the rest of you to avoid a thumbnail spoiler.)
Much of the review covers bits I'm familiar with. The parts I wasn't aware of (and maybe that speaks poorly of me) were the associations with Keynes and Oppenheimer, obvious as Runciman reveals them. And I could add a bunch more on how much Silicon Valley was influenced by this book. Hell, the University Ave., incubator space which both Teh Goog and BookFace came out of was literally emblazoned with a sign reading "Rearden Steel" for much of the 1990s / aughts.
And if you absolutely can't stand this book (and I can't blame you), the rest of the series, the podcast, and others by Runciman ("Talking Politics") are also excellent. Despite the title and Runciman's own background as a historian of politics, it's remarkably free of highly topical current-issue discussion, whilst at the same time illuminating that in ways virtually no other source does.
There are three ad spots, 30s intro & outro and an annoying one spang in the middle of things.
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I don't like to lead characterising a piece rather than just stating it, but that feels necessary here: the review / analysis I'm linking here is not sympathetic with its subject. It is however excellent, and its subject is, well, significant in today's world, though largely in a negative way.
#DavidRunciman's #PastPresentFuture has been tackling the Great Political Novels for the first part of 2024, and the episode which just dropped addresses every intellectually-stunted permadolescent's favourite book, by A.R.: A.S.
(You've either already guessed or can open the link for the reveal. Kitten pics for the rest of you to avoid a thumbnail spoiler.)
Much of the review covers bits I'm familiar with. The parts I wasn't aware of (and maybe that speaks poorly of me) were the associations with Keynes and Oppenheimer, obvious as Runciman reveals them. And I could add a bunch more on how much Silicon Valley was influenced by this book. Hell, the University Ave., incubator space which both Teh Goog and BookFace came out of was literally emblazoned with a sign reading "Rearden Steel" for much of the 1990s / aughts.
And if you absolutely can't stand this book (and I can't blame you), the rest of the series, the podcast, and others by Runciman ("Talking Politics") are also excellent. Despite the title and Runciman's own background as a historian of politics, it's remarkably free of highly topical current-issue discussion, whilst at the same time illuminating that in ways virtually no other source does.
There are three ad spots, 30s intro & outro and an annoying one spang in the middle of things.
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This interview with biologist Adam Rutherford includes some excellent examples of why liberal arts disciplines are essential to science. They are the tools by which we define what science is in the first place, and decide what questions are useful to explore in scientific practice.
https://shows.acast.com/pastpresentfuture/episodes/663b4689fe813600125390c2
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #TheHistoryOfBadIdeas #Taxonomy #AdamRutherford
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This interview with biologist Adam Rutherford includes some excellent examples of why liberal arts disciplines are essential to science. They are the tools by which we define what science is in the first place, and decide what questions are useful to explore in scientific practice.
https://shows.acast.com/pastpresentfuture/episodes/663b4689fe813600125390c2
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #TheHistoryOfBadIdeas #Taxonomy #AdamRutherford
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This interview with biologist Adam Rutherford includes some excellent examples of why liberal arts disciplines are essential to science. They are the tools by which we define what science is in the first place, and decide what questions are useful to explore in scientific practice.
https://shows.acast.com/pastpresentfuture/episodes/663b4689fe813600125390c2
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #TheHistoryOfBadIdeas #Taxonomy #AdamRutherford
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This interview with biologist Adam Rutherford includes some excellent examples of why liberal arts disciplines are essential to science. They are the tools by which we define what science is in the first place, and decide what questions are useful to explore in scientific practice.
https://shows.acast.com/pastpresentfuture/episodes/663b4689fe813600125390c2
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #TheHistoryOfBadIdeas #Taxonomy #AdamRutherford
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Intrigued? Runciman hosts the Past Present Future podcast;
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/pastpresentfuture
...and co-hosted Talking Politics from 2015 until its end in 2022.
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/
#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #TalkingPolitics
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Intrigued? Runciman hosts the Past Present Future podcast;
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/pastpresentfuture
...and co-hosted Talking Politics from 2015 until its end in 2022.
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/
#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #TalkingPolitics