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Podcast Profile: Political Philosophy Podcast

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210 episodes
2018 to 2026
Median: 71 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast explores political philosophy through a mix of contemporary political analysis, interviews, debates, and occasional audio-essay style episodes. Much of the conversation centers on the health and legitimacy of liberal democracy in the US and UK, with sustained attention to the rise of far-right politics, how democratic systems erode, and what kinds of civic and institutional responses might be available. Themes include how to recognize authoritarian or fascist dynamics, the role of political parties and coalitions, and the pressures that culture-war issues place on democratic governance and political messaging.

Immigration and asylum policy appear as recurring focal points, treated both as matters of moral philosophy and as strategic flashpoints in electoral politics. Related discussions examine refugees’ rights, anti-immigrant policymaking, and whether mainstream parties should concede ground on cultural issues. The podcast also addresses civil liberties and equal protection under law, including disputes over trans rights and the legal and political mechanisms used to restrict or defend them.

A significant strand is institutional and constitutional: what democracy is beyond elections, how courts accrue power, and what makes political decisions legitimate under conditions of polarization, misinformation, or crisis. These questions are often linked to practical cases such as Brexit, COVID-era governance, and US politics in the Trump era, including the behavior of elites, the dynamics of political psychology, and the ways “crime” and “criminality” function rhetorically in public discourse.

Alongside current events, the show frequently returns to canonical political thought—figures like Plato, Rousseau, Hobbes, and Machiavelli—to frame modern problems such as tyranny, public opinion, and realism in moments of perceived democratic emergency. It also branches into intellectual history beyond the standard Western canon, including precolonial Africana philosophy. Interdisciplinary episodes connect political ideals to areas like bioethics and racial disparities in healthcare, labor and unions, technology and Silicon Valley politics, and even cultural domains such as fashion and the social meaning of the suit. Occasional history series episodes place biblical texts and early Christianity in their ancient literary and legal contexts.

Episodes:

Tenure with Deepa Das Acevedo 2026-Jan-30 111 minutes

Fascism & fiction with Elia Ayoub 2026-Jan-23 101 minutes

Fascism & socialism with Matt McManus 2026-Jan-16 65 minutes

Abolishing ICE is not enough. They must be held accountable. 2026-Jan-08 43 minutes

The global immigration debate with Pontus Odmalm 2025-Dec-30 72 minutes

Fascism's Cassandras 2025-Dec-22 45 minutes

Building Opposition Media with Adam Gurri 2025-Nov-26 75 minutes

Appeasement Isn’t Working 2025-Nov-16 53 minutes

Should we compromise with the right on immigration? - With Thomas Prosser 2025-Nov-09 92 minutes

Bioethics & Race with Yolonda Wilson 2025-Nov-09 74 minutes

Fighting Britain's Bathroom Ban with Jolyon Maugham 2025-Oct-16 76 minutes

It will be worse in the UK 2025-Oct-14 56 minutes

Do Cars Make us Free? with Henrietta Moore & Arthur Kay 2025-Sep-30 76 minutes

Left-Abstention & Message Discipline with Liam Bright 2025-Sep-24 66 minutes

White Psychodrama Revisited with Liam Bright 2025-Sep-16 63 minutes

Can Deliberation Save Democracy? with James S. Fishkin 2025-Sep-07 54 minutes

Should Liberalism Fight, or Retreat & Retrench? with Alec Crisman 2025-Aug-29 185 minutes

Writing The Bible 2: Hammurabi's Code 2025-Aug-24 22 minutes

Precolonial Africana Philosophy with Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers 2025-Aug-14 84 minutes

Do Elections Define Democracy? with Natasha Piano 2025-Jul-26 74 minutes

Writing the Bible: 1 The First Flood 2025-Jul-20 22 minutes

Writing the Bible - New Series Preview 2025-Jul-15 4 minutes

UK AMA 2025-Jul-11 63 minutes

THE NEVERENDING PRIMARY 2025-Jun-27 106 minutes

THE FAR-RIGHT & CRIMINALITY with Josie Duffy Rice 2025-Jun-13 64 minutes

TECH-BRO DYSTOPIA with Dave Karpf 2025-Jun-13 67 minutes

FIRING THE GENERALS with Samantha Hancox-Li 2025-May-23 61 minutes

IT'S THE FASCISM, STUPID with Kevin Elliott 2025-May-11 94 minutes

THE EUROPEAN UNION with Simon Hix 2025-Apr-28 65 minutes

ROUSSEAU with Eoin Daly 2025-Apr-21 89 minutes

THE FIRST KINGS with Moudhy Al-Rashid 2025-Apr-06 77 minutes

THE UK IMMIGRATION DEBATE with Rob Ford 2025-Mar-22 54 minutes

THE ETHICS OF ASYLUM with Rebecca Buxton 2025-Mar-22 65 minutes

MAPPING THE ANTI-TRUMP COALITION 2025-Mar-16 117 minutes

PLATO'S TYRANT with Carol Atack 2025-Mar-09 84 minutes

BIDEN, TRUMP, & ISRAEL with Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis 2025-Feb-27 71 minutes

THE SUPREME COURT with Noah Rosenblum 2025-Feb-18 51 minutes

AMA - Trump, Falafel, & Dating (preview) 2025-Feb-06 12 minutes

IGNORING POLITICS with Chris Freiman 2025-Jan-31 62 minutes

THE MORAL MINIMUM with Nicole Hassoun 2025-Jan-27 63 minutes

REALISM & APOCALYPTICISM with Alison McQueen 2024-Dec-08 92 minutes

POLITICAL LEGITIMACY with Fabienne Peter 2024-Nov-28 75 minutes

NON-CANONICAL CHRISTIAN TEXTS with Eric Vanden Eykel 2024-Nov-18 105 minutes

THE (US) BODY POLITIC 2024-Nov-03 86 minutes

ANTI-TRUMP REPUBLICANS with Kristen Monroe 2024-Nov-03 79 minutes

FREEDOM & FASHION With Derek Guy 2024-Nov-03 62 minutes

LIBERALISM & THE SUIT With Derek Guy 2024-Oct-28 68 minutes

LIBERAL SOCIALISM With Matt McManus 2024-Oct-20 70 minutes

UNIONS With Steven Klein 2024-Oct-20 91 minutes

TRUMP, GENDER, & 'GETTING IT' 2024-Sep-30 100 minutes

RAWLSIANISM & THE POPULIST RIGHT with Gabriele Badano & Alasia Nuti 2024-Sep-30 102 minutes

USA Q & A 2024-Aug-14 63 minutes

ELITE CAPTURE & DEMOCRACY With Samuel Bagg 2024-Jun-30 101 minutes

EQUALITY With Darrin McMahon 2024-Jun-30 66 minutes

THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManus 2024-Apr-28 104 minutes

INTERGRALISM With Kevin Vallier 2024-Apr-28 92 minutes

THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST With Amanda Podany 2023-Jul-22 78 minutes

THE STATE With Philip Pettit 2023-Jul-22 77 minutes

THE HISTORICAL JESUS With Jonathan Rowlands 2022-Dec-19 109 minutes

MIDTERM REACTIONS 2022-Nov-22 120 minutes

Structural Injustice & Workers' Rights with Virginia Mantouvalou 2022-Oct-31 78 minutes

THE RESURECTION AS HISTORY 2022-Oct-11 331 minutes

FREE WILL REVISITED with Alfred Mele 2022-Sep-25 60 minutes

Audience Questions 2022-Sep-11 110 minutes

DATING THE GOSPELS 2022-Jun-07 212 minutes

J S MILL & SOCIALISM with Helen McCabe 2022-Apr-22 137 minutes

GLOBAL REPARATIONS with Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò 2022-Apr-01 66 minutes

LEVITICUS with Joel Baden 2022-Feb-20 74 minutes

AN INTRODUCTION TO J S MILL 2022-Jan-30 46 minutes

CONSCIOUSNESS AND MORALITY with Jack Symes 2022-Jan-30 86 minutes

End Of Year AMA 2021-Dec-31 92 minutes

THE BROKEN CONSTITUTION With Noah Feldman 2021-Nov-30 60 minutes

DEMOCRACY, DISCORD, & IMAGINATION With Robert Talisse 2021-Nov-29 84 minutes

THE POLITICS OF RAGE with Alec Ross 2021-Oct-31 72 minutes

POLITICAL APOCALYPTICISM 2021-Oct-31 201 minutes

COVID & IDEOLOGY With Magdi Semrau 2021-Sep-16 118 minutes

RADICALISM VS LIBERALISM With Thomas Prosser 2021-Sep-10 109 minutes

Announcing my First Book! - 'What Is Freedom?' with OUP 2021-Sep-01 10 minutes

Harm & Liberty In J S Mill 2021-Aug-30 166 minutes

ABORTION IN LAW & PHILOSOPHY 2021-May-30 179 minutes

PELOSI With Molly Ball 2021-Apr-15 69 minutes

BREXIT & FREEDOM With The Philosopher & The News Podcast 2021-Mar-31 75 minutes

LIBERALISM AFTER TRUMP With Ian Dunt 2021-Feb-18 77 minutes

2020 ABERRATION OR OMEN? 2020-Dec-31 178 minutes

QUO VADIS - Q & A on the Election 2020-Nov-22 98 minutes

2020 & THE ETHICS OF VOTING - Part 2 Identity 2020-Oct-31 117 minutes

THE US ELECTION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT - With Susan Neiman, Ian Dunt, & David Farris 2020-Oct-26 75 minutes

Upcoming Live Event With Roosevelt University - Panel With Ian Dunt, David Faris, & Susan Neiman 2020-Oct-21 6 minutes

2020 & THE ETHICS OF VOTING - Part 1 Institutions 2020-Oct-16 182 minutes

FROM HILLARY TO BIDEN With Seth Masket 2020-Sep-05 94 minutes

HUMILIATION & FREEDOM 2020-Aug-28 68 minutes

DEHUMANIZATION with David Livingstone Smith 2020-Jul-18 86 minutes

BEAUTY, SHAME, & HUMILIATION with Heather Widdows 2020-Jul-04 71 minutes

DEMOCRACY & THE AMERICAN LEFT With Elizabeth Anderson, Elizabeth Cohen, Angie Maxwell, & David Faris 2020-Jun-26 107 minutes

FREEDOM, EMPIRE, & TRUMP with James Kurth 2020-Jun-24 119 minutes

LIBERALISM, REPUBLICANISM, & VIOLENCE 2020-Jun-11 96 minutes

ASK ME ANYTHING 2020-Jun-01 66 minutes

GRANDSTANDING With Justin Tosi & Brandon Warmke 2020-May-23 72 minutes

RACE & THE 2020 PRIMARY 2020-May-17 161 minutes

OPEN DEMOCRACY With Hélène Landemore 2020-May-09 82 minutes

New Media Roundtable with ETVpod, Jerb the Humanist, Chrisiousity, & The Poplar Tapes 2020-Apr-25 97 minutes

DISABILITY & KNOWLEDGE with Tom Shakespeare 2020-Apr-17 69 minutes

SUFFRAGE, ATHEISM, & EVOLUTION With Kimberly Hamlin 2020-Apr-12 66 minutes

IDEOLOGIES OF THE ANCIENTS 3 Philip 2020-Apr-03 159 minutes

ARENDT, FREEDOM, & PROTEST With Roger Berkowitz 2020-Mar-21 98 minutes

SANDERS, WARREN, & the Ideological Future of the Left 2020-Mar-16 135 minutes

ETHICS & PUBLIC POLICY with Jonathan Wolff 2020-Mar-07 62 minutes

THE IDEOLOGIES OF THE ANCIENTS 2 Cyrus 2020-Mar-03 193 minutes

IDEOLOGIES OF THE ANCIENTS 1 Ashurbanipal 2020-Feb-21 130 minutes

CIVIL SOCIETY & DEMOCRACY With Robert Talisse 2020-Feb-15 101 minutes

DISAGREEMENT With Robert Tallise 2020-Feb-11 87 minutes

THOMAS HOBBES With Arash Abizadeh 2020-Jan-31 72 minutes

RIGHTS & NEO - LIBERALISM With Samuel Moyn 2020-Jan-26 75 minutes

FEMINISM, ART, & RAPE with Nancy Princenthal 2020-Jan-17 76 minutes

CONSTITUTIONAL HARDBALL With David Faris 2020-Jan-10 123 minutes

ACTIVISTS, ELITES, & THE LEFT 2020-Jan-04 117 minutes

THE OVERLAPPING CONSENSUS with Kevin Vallier 2019-Dec-28 94 minutes

CRACK COCAINE with David Farber 2019-Dec-20 69 minutes

RUNNING AS A BERNIECRAT with Chris Armitage 2019-Dec-14 96 minutes

CAMPUS POLITICS With Stanley Fish 2019-Dec-07 71 minutes

FREE SPEECH With Stanley Fish 2019-Nov-29 73 minutes

A PROGRESSIVE SENATE with Senator Sherrod Brown 2019-Nov-22 38 minutes

IMMIGRATION & SELF-DETERMINATION with David Miller 2019-Nov-15 80 minutes

INEQUALITY Q&A 2019-Nov-09 74 minutes

BREXIT, CONGRESS, & CULTURE 2019-Oct-25 100 minutes

ECONOMIC EQUALITY 2019-Oct-17 71 minutes

AUDIENCE QUESTIONS 2019-Oct-09 99 minutes

POPPER VS ADORNO 2 Positivism and Pluralism 2019-Oct-02 94 minutes

POPPER VS ADORNO (1) Context & History 2019-Sep-25 60 minutes

MILL VS RAWLS 2019-Sep-16 87 minutes

STATECRAFT with Cecile Fabre (2) 2019-Sep-11 49 minutes

PROPERTY RIGHTS, SANCTIONS, & AID with Cécile Fabre 2019-Sep-01 71 minutes

HUMILIATION in Neo-Republican Ideology 2019-Aug-26 105 minutes

TIME, POLITICS, & CITIZENSHIP With Elizabeth Cohen 2019-Aug-18 101 minutes

BERNIE, HILLARY, & TRUMP With Angie Maxwell 2019-Aug-11 85 minutes

THE SOUTHERN STRATEGY with Angie Maxwell 2019-Aug-04 72 minutes

DIVERSIFYING THE CANNON With Elizabeth Anderson 2019-Aug-01 53 minutes

CORPORATE GOVERNMENT With Elizabeth Anderson 2019-Jul-19 47 minutes

SPACE & POLITICS With Ryan D Enos 2019-Jul-14 82 minutes

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE FREEDOM 2019-Jul-10 72 minutes

THE SURVIVAL OF EUROPEAN LIBERALISM With Ian Dunt 2019-Jun-30 71 minutes

ARE IDEOLOGIES TRUE? 2019-Jun-24 81 minutes

POSTMODERNISM, 2020, and Other Audience Questions 2019-Jun-19 63 minutes

MACHIAVELLI 3 Chaos, Freedom, and Glory 2019-Jun-12 82 minutes

MACHIAVELLI 2 Resistance Freedom 2019-Jun-03 105 minutes

MACHIAVELLI History and Ideology 2019-May-29 81 minutes

HOW TO BE HAPPY With Peter Singer 2019-May-19 64 minutes

POLITICS WITOUT GUARANTEES with Jacob T. Levy 2019-May-12 68 minutes

JUSTICE IN A FALLEN WORLD With Jacob T. Levy 2019-May-08 55 minutes

WHAT IS IDEOLOGY? With Matto Mildenberger And Jonathan Leader Maynard 2019-Apr-28 79 minutes

IDEOLOGY & BREXIT A conversation with Helen Thompson 2019-Apr-21 84 minutes

PHILOSOPHY & HARRY POTTER A Conversation With Brenden Weber 2019-Apr-17 64 minutes

Futurism, Fascism, & Other Audience Questions. 2019-Apr-07 50 minutes

LIBERTARIANISM 4 The Nature Of Change 2019-Apr-02 126 minutes

BREXIT, IRELAND, AND THE CONSTITUTION - A Conversation With Cathy Barry 2019-Mar-24 114 minutes

Into The Void - A Conversation With ETV's Aaron R (2) 2019-Mar-17 52 minutes

MORAL LUCK A Conversation With ETV's Aaron Rabinowitz 2019-Mar-10 58 minutes

JESUS, SEX, AND THE FAMILY A conversation with Dale Martin (2) 2019-Mar-02 57 minutes

GENDER IN THE NEW TESAMENT A Conversation With Dale Martin 2019-Feb-24 65 minutes

LIBERTARIANISM 3 War And The Elite 2019-Feb-17 88 minutes

LIBERTARIANISM 2 Evolution And Equilibrium 2019-Feb-09 73 minutes

ESCAPING THE POLITICAL A Conversation With Rupert Read (2) 2019-Feb-02 54 minutes

WITTGENSTEIN, LANGUAGE, AND POWER A Conversation With Ruper Read 2019-Jan-26 49 minutes

LIBERTARIANISM An Ideological History (1) 2019-Jan-19 58 minutes

THE FOUNDATIONS OF LIBERALISM A Conversation With Shadi Hamid (2) 2019-Jan-12 51 minutes

WHAT ISLAMISTS BELIEVE A conversation with Shadi Hamid 2019-Jan-05 55 minutes

CHARACTER A Conversation With Christian Miller 2018-Dec-29 66 minutes

THE BIRTH OF ETHICS A Conversation With Philip Pettit (2) 2018-Dec-15 63 minutes

RECONSTRUCTING MORALITY A Conversation With Philip Pettit 2018-Dec-08 55 minutes

FREE WILL, RACE & IQ, AND OTHER LISTENER QUESTIONS 2018-Dec-01 70 minutes

RACE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY A Conversation With Glenn Loury 2018-Nov-24 75 minutes

KNOWLEDGE AND PSEUDO KNOWLEDGE A Conversatin With Brain Earp (2) 2018-Nov-17 57 minutes

THE REPLICATION CRISIS A Conversation With Brian D. Earp 2018-Nov-10 50 minutes

DISCRIMINATION AND FREE SPEECH A Conversation With Existential Comics' Corey Mohler 2018-Nov-05 63 minutes

HARRIS, PETERSON, AND PINKER A Conversation With Existential Comics Corey Mohler 2018-Oct-27 62 minutes

COMEDY AND PROPAGANDA A Conversation With Existential Comics' Corey Mohler 2018-Oct-20 49 minutes

UNIVERSAL MORALITY A Crossover with The Elucidations Podcast 2018-Oct-13 50 minutes

THE CASE FOR REPARATIONS A Conversation With Colleen Murphy (2) 2018-Oct-06 48 minutes

TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE A Conversation With Colleen Murphy 2018-Sep-29 64 minutes

CIVIL RIGHTS FROM NIXON TO OBAMA A Conversation With Mary Frances Berry 2018-Sep-22 73 minutes

ROME, CHRIST, AND THE WESTERN MIND A Conversation With Orlando Patterson (3) 2018-Sep-15 56 minutes

THE UNIQUENESS OF ATHENS A Conversation With Orlando Patterson (2) 2018-Sep-08 50 minutes

SLAVERY AND FREEDOM A Conversation With Orlando Patterson (1) 2018-Sep-01 50 minutes

THE POINT OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY A Conversation With Tamler Sommers (2) 2018-Aug-25 46 minutes

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT A conversation with Tamler Sommers 2018-Aug-18 49 minutes

CIVILITY AND TONE POLICING A Conversation With Teresa Bejan 2018-Aug-11 47 minutes

EARLY AMERICAN RELIGION A conversation with Teresa Bejan 2018-Aug-04 53 minutes

CONTAINMENT AND DETERRENCE A conversation with Gregg Caruso (2) 2018-Jul-28 51 minutes

THE ILLUSION OF FREE WILL A conversation with Gregg Caruso 2018-Jul-21 56 minutes

S2 Ep 1 THE FIRST PHILOSOPHERS A conversation with Peter Adamson 2018-Jul-14 59 minutes

S1 Ep 19 Review and Recap 2018-Jul-07 38 minutes

THE LIBERTY PRINCIPLE A conversation with professor John Skorupski 2018-Jun-30 60 minutes

BLACK ATHEISM A conversation with Mandisa Thomas 2018-Jun-23 56 minutes

POSTMODERN CHRISTIANITY A conversation with Dale Martin (3) 2018-Jun-16 51 minutes

FROM CHRIST TO CONSTANTINE A conversation with Dale Martin (2) 2018-Jun-09 50 minutes

PAUL AND THE RESURRECTION A conversation with Professor Dale B Martin 2018-Jun-02 47 minutes

ASK ME ANYTHING Q&A with the host 2018-May-26 52 minutes

MORAL UNCERTAINTY A conversation with Professor Will MacAskill 2018-May-19 67 minutes

GAY LIBERATION A conversation with Peter Tatchell 2018-May-12 60 minutes

NEO-REPUBLICANISM A conversation with Philip Pettit 2018-May-05 70 minutes

ATHEIST HYPOCRISY ON FEMINISM A conversation with Aron Ra 2018-Apr-28 73 minutes

A GUARANTEED JOB A conversation with Richard D Winfield 2018-Apr-21 54 minutes

UTILITARIANISM A conversation with Roger Crisp 2018-Apr-14 57 minutes

EXECUTION, TORTURE, AND WAR A conversation with Cecile Fabre 2018-Apr-07 50 minutes

V.2 CORRUPTION AND CITIZENSHIP A conversation with Zephyr Teachout (Better audio) 2018-Apr-06 67 minutes

WITTGENSTEIN VS. RAWLS A conversation with Dr. Rupert Read 2018-Mar-31 49 minutes

SOCIAL JUSTICE WITHOUT CALLOUT CULTURE. A conversation with Kalaya'an Mendoza 2018-Mar-24 56 minutes

THOUGHT, IDEOLOGY, AND SILENCE A conversation with Michael Freeden 2018-Mar-17 79 minutes

CORRUPTION AND CITIZENSHIP A conversation with Zephyr Teachout 2018-Mar-10 67 minutes

1. SEX WORK, ORGAN SALES, AND INTUITION A conversation with Cecile Fabre 2018-Mar-02 62 minutes