In this week's bumper podcast, George Berridge assesses the legacy of Cormac McCarthy; Toby Lichtig on this summer's ideal reads; and an interview with American novelist Brandon Taylor.
'The Late Americans', by Brandon Taylor
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week David talks to science writer Meehan Crist about Thomas Malthus and the perennial question of overpopulation. Malthus wrote 225 years ago and was wrong about almost everything, yet his ideas still have a powerful hold on our imaginations and our fears. How many people is too many? What are the limits of population in the age of climate change? And why does Elon Musk think we should all be having more children?
Thomas Malthus, ‘An Essay on the Principle of Overpopulation’ (1798)
Meehan Crist’s 2020 LRB lecture, ‘Is it OK to Have a Child?’
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Owen Matthews on the triumph of the Kremlin propaganda machine
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This week, an exhibition of the Italian Renaissance painter Lavinia Fontana's work thrills Norma Clarke; and Kieran Setiya on Sarah Bakewell's bravura survey of the history of humanism.
'Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, rule breaker', at the National Gallery of Ireland until August 27, with accompanying book by Aoife Brady, Babette Bohn and Jonquil O'Reilly
'Humanly Possible: Seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, enquiry and hope' by Sarah Bakewell
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For the second episode in this season of History of Ideas, David discusses the Scottish philosopher David Hume and explores how eighteenth-century arguments about the national debt can help make sense of American politics today. When does public borrowing become a recipe for national disaster? Who is really in charge of the public finances: the government or the bankers, Washington, D.C. or Wall Street? And what has all this got to do with Hume’s arguments for the morality of suicide?
Read Hume’s original essay ‘Of Public Credit’ here: https://davidhume.org/texts/pld/pc
For more on Hume from the archive of the LRB:
Jonathan Rée on Hume’s voracious appetites: ‘“The Corpulence of his whole person was better fitted to communicate the Idea of the Turtle-Eating Alderman than of a refined Philosopher,” as a friend put it.’ https://bit.ly/3qFgYtE
Fara Dabhoiwala on Hume and mockery: ‘David Hume often resorted to ridicule to undermine hypocrisy or superstition, even if he doubted its capacity to settle controversial questions, arguing that mockery was as likely to distort as to reveal the truth.’ https://bit.ly/3X6KbtK
John Dunn on Hume and us: ‘Hume is in some ways so very modern . . . But just because he is in some ways so close to us, it is easy to lose the sense that in many others his beliefs and experiences stand at some little distance from our own.’ https://bit.ly/3qJRwTW
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Estudos mostram que metade dos pacientes que se infectaram com o coronavírus antes de se vacinar tiveram algum tipo de sequela de longo prazo – sintomas da síndrome da Covid longa. Entre os vacinados, esse número cai para 4%. Ainda assim, são centenas de milhões de pessoas ao redor do planeta.
A Covid longa pode acometer pessoas de todas as idades, de crianças a idosos. Pode atacar as mais variadas partes do corpo. E pode ter sintomas leves, como queda de cabelo, ou graves, como trombose ou demência.
Neste episódio, mergulhamos nessa doença ainda pouco conhecida e contamos a história de uma pessoa que foi ao extremo do humanamente possível para tentar se livrar dos sintomas da Covid.
Entrevistados do episódio
Geógrafo, urbanista, gestor e artista.
Farmacêutica e pesquisadora da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz).
Médica Neurologista, professora e pesquisadora da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), especialista nos impactos neurológicos da Covid.
Ficha técnica do episódio
Design das capas dos aplicativos e do site: Cláudia Furnari.
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama.
Mixagem de som: Vitor Coroa.
Apoio de produção: Ana Carolina Maciel.
Apoio de edição: Matheus Marcolino.
Direção, roteiro e edição: Tomás Chiaverini.
Peter Thonemann on a civilization that questions its first principles.
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-west-naoise-mac-sweeney-book-review-peter-thonemann/
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Autor de biografias de Getúlio Vargas, Padre Cícero e da cantora Maysa, Lira Neto abre no 451 MHz a sua caixa de ferramentas do biógrafo, revelando os macetes, os segredos e os bastidores desse ofício, sobre o qual ele se debruça no seu mais novo livro "A arte da biografia: Como escrever histórias de vida". Assine e apoie o podcast 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, Lucy and Alex head to Hay, and find guest stars Eleanor Catton and Sarah Raven.
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week Daniel Chandler and Lea Ypi join David to talk about the legacy of the great American political philosopher John Rawls and his theory of justice. Did Rawls provide a prescription for the only fair way of doing capitalism? Or did he really show why capitalism and justice will never be reconciled? What can Rawls teach us about how to treat each other as equals? And does it even make sense to talk about justice in Britain or America when the world as a whole remains so fundamentally unequal?
Daniel Chandler’s new book is Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?
Lea Ypi’s Free: Coming of Age at the End of History is out now in paperback.
You can hear David’s History of Ideas episode about Rawls and the theory of justice here.
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Edward Chancellor considers why central bankers have lost the plot with inflation.
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This week, Norma Clarke unpicks the complicated business of family legacy in Polly Toynbee’s memoir; and Nicholas Clee immerses himself in Paul Murray’s multi-generational saga of Irish small-town life.
'An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals’ by Polly Toynbee
’The Bee Sting’ by Paul Murray
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This week’s episode was recorded live at the Hay Festival, where David was joined on stage by David Miliband and Helen Thompson to discuss the past, present and future of American power. What explains American global dominance? Can it be justified? How will it be replaced? They discuss the fall-out of the Ukraine war, the threat posed by China, the challenge of climate change and the possibility of a second Trump presidency and ask – is the American century over?
David Miliband writes about the consequences of the Ukraine war in Foreign Affairs.
Hear more from Helen Thompson on the These Times podcast from UnHerd.
Follow Past Present Future on Twitter @PPFIdeas
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Na década de 1990, depois de uma longa campanha por alimentos mais saudáveis nos EUA, o McDonald’s tomou uma decisão radical. Mudou a receita secreta das batatas fritas mais famosas do mundo. Por causa disso, muita gente não sabe o gosto das batatinhas originais que, segundo quem experimentou, eram infinitamente melhores.
Neste episódio, além de contar essa história, além de investigar as mais diversas possibilidades de batata frita, a gente tenta reproduzir a receita original com ajuda de um chef de alta gastronomia.
Mergulhe mais fundo
Episódio do podcast Revisionist History que inspirou nosso programa (em inglês).
Entrevistados do episódio
Professor do curso de gastronomia da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie.
Chef de cozinha.
Ficha técnica do episódio
Pesquisa e reportagem: Ana Carolina Maciel e Matheus Marcolino.
Narração adicional: Priscila Pastre.
Mixagem de som: Vitor Coroa.
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama.
Design das capas dos aplicativos e do site: Cláudia Furnari.
Direção, roteiro e edição: Tomás Chiaverini.
Joe Moran explores the weird world of fandom.
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/fans-michael-bond-book-review-joe-moran/
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