Podcast Episodes featuring Edmund Burke

#42 Corey Robin on understanding conservatism - from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump

Politics Theory Other - April 03, 2019 14:24 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 130 ratings
Corey Robin joins me to discuss the history of conservative thought, the significance of Donald Trump's presidency, and Ayn Rand's contribution to conservatism and the reasons for her immense popularity in the United States.

Jimeoin and Edmund Burke

Modern Day Philosophers with Daniel Lobell - September 03, 2017 04:27 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 464 ratings
Jimeoin and Danny record this episode from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Great talk about the philosophy of Edmund Burke, and Jimeoin talks about growing up in Ireland and leaving to make his own way in the world and about getting older. Brought to you by Stand Up! Records and Ren...

Richard Bourke, “Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke” (Princeton UP, 2015)

New Books Network - September 30, 2016 18:31 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Richard Bourke, Professor in the History of Political Thought in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London, began developing his history of Edmund Burke’s political thought in 1991. Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (Princeton University Press, 2015) uses Bu...

Yuval Levin, “The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left” (Basic Books, 2013)

New Books Network - January 04, 2014 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
If you went to college in the United States and took a Western Civ class, you’ve probably read at least a bit of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) and Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man (1791). The two are so often paired in history and political science classes that they ar...

Drew Maciag, “Edmund Burke in America: The Contested Career of the Father of Modern Conservatism” (Cornell UP, 2013)

New Books Network - June 28, 2013 13:39 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Drew Maciag, author of Edmund Burke in America: The Contested Career of the Father of Modern Conservatism (Cornell University Press, 2013) spoke with Ray Haberski about the intellectual challenges Burke raised in a time of democratic revolutions and the legacy he left for thinkers who attempted t...

Edmund Burke

In Our Time: History - June 03, 2010 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the eighteenth-century philosopher, politician and writer Edmund Burke.Born in Dublin, Burke began his career in London as a journalist and made his name with two works of philosophy before entering Parliament. There he quickly established a reputa...

Edmund Burke

In Our Time: Philosophy - June 03, 2010 08:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 793 ratings
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the eighteenth-century philosopher, politician and writer Edmund Burke.Born in Dublin, Burke began his career in London as a journalist and made his name with two works of philosophy before entering Parliament. There he quickly established a reputa...