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Today: #193 in Government on our combined chart.
Today: #58 in Government, United Kingdom on our combined chart.
Today: #78 in Government, Canada on our combined chart.
Today: #78 in Government, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #188 in Government, Germany on our combined chart.
Today: #5 in Government, Brazil on our combined chart.
Today: #141 in Government, Mexico on our combined chart.
Today: #173 in Government, Ireland on our combined chart.
Today: #90 in Government, India on our combined chart.
Today: #73 in Government, Philippines on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Castbox |
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| Oct 27 | #193 | #196 | — |
| Oct 26 | #153 | #155 | — |
| Oct 25 | #137 | #138 | — |
| Oct 24 | #122 | #121 | — |
| Oct 23 | #111 | #115 | #88 |
| Oct 22 | #99 | #100 | — |
| Oct 21 | #93 | #93 | #93 |
| Oct 20 | #167 | #168 | — |
| Oct 16 | #170 | #172 | — |
| Oct 15 | #90 | #94 | #80 |
| Oct 14 | #117 | #115 | — |
Latest episodes
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Kojève & the End of History
April 6, 2026 · 1 hr 33 minWe talk about Alexandre Kojève, whose reading of Hegel gave rise to a theory of recognition and of an "end of history". We also discuss Kojève's influence on Francis Fukuyama and on contemporary liberalism.
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Murray Edelman & Symbolic Politics
February 4, 2026 · 1 hr 33 minWe discuss the work of American political scientist Murray Edelman, whose work on symbolic politics predates later French theory on the "spectacle".
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Clarence Streit and International Federalism
November 27, 2025 · 1 hr 41 minWe discuss Streit's 1939 proposal for a international federation of democracies to avoid a new world war. We explore the limits of argumentation and the difference between making an argument and doing politics.
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Friedrich List and the National System
September 8, 2025 · 1 hr 27 minWe discuss Friedrich List's many careers, his struggle for a German customs union, his belief that nationalism would lead to the "uniting of all nations under a common law of right", what happened instead, and why.
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Vico and the Concept of the Natural
July 6, 2025 · 1 hr 22 minWe discuss Vico's theory of nature, his unorthodox mix of stereotypically ancient and modern approaches, and how his "new science" seems to be going so far.
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Hobbes' Behemoth
June 6, 2025 · 1 hr 41 minA whole episode of Political Theory 101 devoted to Thomas Hobbes' Behemoth. We discuss Hobbes' historical narrative and his theory of education, both of which receive little attention in Leviathan.
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Nick Land & the Politics of Acceleration (w/Michael Downs)
April 21, 2025 · 1 hr 48 minMichael Downs joins Benjamin to discuss the political thought of Nick Land, its relationship to the work of Deleuze and Guattari, and the degree to which it has influenced the contemporary left and right.
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The Politics of Plato's Parmenides
March 27, 2025 · 1 hr 37 minWe discuss how Plato used dialectical thinking to deal with objections to the theory of the forms. Then we discuss how this kind of thinking enriches our ability to make use of all sorts of political concepts and abstractions.
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John Morley & the Politics of Compromise
March 5, 2025 · 1 hr 27 minWe discuss the work of John Morley, a British viscount heavily involved in the government of Ireland and India during the late 19th and early 20th century. Morley was a liberal, but he was often in situations in which his liberalism was…
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The Politics of Plato's Philebus
December 22, 2024 · 1 hr 58 minDaniel joins Benjamin to discuss Plato's Philebus. We traverse the dialectic of limit and unlimit and discuss the difference between memory and recollection, connecting all of this to Plato's political thought.
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Clausewitz (w/Elizabeth Dearden-Williams)
November 20, 2024 · 58 minElizabeth Dearden-Williams, a former student of mine from Cambridge who is currently pursuing a masters, comes on to discuss the work of the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz.
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Cutrone and the Party (w/Chris Cutrone)
October 8, 2024 · 1 hr 40 minChris Cutrone joins Benjamin for a discussion of political parties, focusing on the role pluralism plays in Chris' thinking about party structure.
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