Hello, this is David Rundsenman, and I want to tell you about a new series that we're launching through Talking Politics.

It's called Talking Politics, History of Ideas. And in it, I'm going to be talking about some of the most important thinkers and some of the most prominent ideas lying behind

modern politics.

From Hobbes 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 War. 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 Hobbes and

Leviathan, which was published in 1651, and along the way we'll be taking Mary

Wilston Craft and Karl Marx, Max Weber and Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon and Francis Fukuyama,

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.

Please subscribe to Talking Politics, History of Ideas,

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