Hello, this is David Runtzman and I want to tell you about a new series that we're

launching through talking politics. prominent ideas lying behind modern politics. From Hobbs to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy,

from revolution to lockdown and back again. We've been wanting to do this for quite a while and with schools

and universities out and so many people stuck at home, the moment seems right.

It's a chance to explore in much more detail some of the

history behind many of the themes that we often touch on in talking politics.

The trade-off between liberty and security, the role of the state and the role of the

market, the relationship between democracy and technology, the nature of political leadership.

Many of these ideas come out of moments of crisis,

and I'll be discussing that too.

From the English Civil War to the French Revolution, from the Russian Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Almost all of them have something to say about the crisis that we're living through now.

Each episode will be about one writer and one piece of writing,

starting with Thomas Hobbs and Leviathan, which was published in 1651 and along the way will be taking Mary

Wilson Craft and Carl Marx, Max Weber and Hannah Arend, France Fanon and Francis

for Kiyama 12 episodes in all. The first two will be available on our

regular stream talking politics, but if you want to get them all, you'll need to

subscribe to Talking Politics, History of Ideas, and you can do that wherever

you get your podcasts.

We do hope you'll join us for this.

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