Beyond the Text Podcast
1) History of Ideas Club: Disraeli and Oakeshott
Send us a text 💭 Can politics be an art of belonging rather than a science of control? In this final instalment of the Heritage Series, Samuel Woodall explores the enduring legacy of Benjamin Disrael...Show More
2) History of Ideas Club: Roger Scruton
Send us a text 💭 Can conservatism be a culture of love rather than fear? In this episode, Jack Thomson explores the life and thought of Sir Roger Scruton (1944–2020) — philosopher, writer, musician, ...Show More
3) History of Ideas Club: Edmund Burke and the Romantic Poets
Send us a text 💭 Can feeling and imagination preserve what reason alone cannot? In this episode, Jack Thomson explores how Edmund Burke’s political vision of order, tradition, and moral imagination f...Show More
4) History of Ideas Club: Joseph de Maistre
Send us a text Welcome to the third instalment of our Heritage Series, part of the History of Ideas Reading Club, hosted by Jack Thomson (MA Philosophy, University of Buckingham). In this session, we ...Show More
5) History of Ideas Club: Augustine's City of God
Send us a text In this episode of the History of Ideas Club, Jack Thomson (MA Philosophy, University of Buckingham) leads a discussion on St Augustine’s The City of God. We explore Augustine’s respons...Show More
6) Plato's Republic
Send us a text In this episode of Beyond the Text, Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson sit down for an in-depth discussion on Plato’s Republic—one of the most influential works in the history of political...Show More
7) History of Ideas Club: Plato's Republic
Send us a text In this History of Ideas Club session, we turn to one of the foundational texts of Western political thought: Plato’s Republic. Written in the aftermath of Athens’ political turmoil and...Show More
8) Rawls and Sandel
Send us a text In this episode of Beyond the Text, Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson take a deep dive into the thought of John Rawls, exploring his major contribution to liberal political philosophy and...Show More
9) History of Ideas Club: Rawls and Sandel
Send us a text In this session of the History of Ideas Club, we dive into the thought of John Rawls, one of the towering figures of 20th-century political philosophy, and explore the debate he sparked...Show More
10) F. A. Hayek: Law, Legislation, and Liberty
Send us a text In this episode of Beyond the Text, we dive into Friedrich Hayek’s Law, Legislation, and Liberty, a profound exploration of legal philosophy, governance, and the limits of state power. ...Show More