BlomCast
The BlomCast looks at turning points in history, which have always fascinated me. My name is Philipp Blom, I am a historian and broadcaster and author of many books about the Enlightenment, the story of modernity and climate history. The climate catastrophe places us at the greatest historical turning point hin human history. What, if anything, can we learn from moments in the past in which a model of life seemed to change, or had to change, in which whole societies were transformed?
Podcasting since 2022 • 55 episodes
BlomCast
Latest Episodes
[44] Ian Buruma — Where Did the West Begin?
Ian Buruma is a historian, biographer, memorialist and essayist between “East” and “West" whose insights and intellectual precision make him a joy to discuss with. In his recent biography of Spinoza he argues that the great Enlightenment philos...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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55:56
[43] Julian Baggini — What happened to the Enlightenment?
Julian Baggini is one of the most insightful writers on philosophy in general and the Enlightenment in particular I know. We talk about the Enlightenment, and in how far it was the radical turning point as which it is often seen, or whether it ...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:01:30
[42] Misha Glenny — Highways and Byways of History
A historian and journalist, Misha Glenny has written about the history of the Balkans the wars in Yugoslavia, about cybercrime, and about international organised crime in “McMafia” which also became a TV series. In this free-ranging conversatio...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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47:35
[41] Luuk van Middelaar — Can Europe do Power?
Luuk van Middelaar is head of the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, as he points out an ironic name, because until very recently Brussels and geopolitics rarely occurred in the same sentence. But things have changed, and in a new world ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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53:07
[40] Julia Fischer — Wann wurden Primaten zu Menschen?
In dieser Folge gehe ich zurück zum frühesten aller Wendepunkte der menschlichen Geschichte. Die Primatologin Julia Fischer studiert Paviane und besucht seit vielen Jahren dieselbe Gruppe von Tieren, um ihre Kommunikation und ihr Sozialverhalte...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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55:13