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Free Thinking - Against Democracy
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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Mar 4, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
Churchill famously commented that ‘democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' Rana Mitter and his guests David Runciman, Professor of Politics, University of Cambridge;
Duncan Kelly, Reader in Political Thought, University of Cambridge;
Patricia Thornton, University Lecturer in the Politics of China, University of Oxford and Tim Stanley, blogger and columnist for The Daily Telegraph test Free Thinking to its limits by looking at the alternatives to our own political system.
Duncan Kelly, Reader in Political Thought, University of Cambridge;
Patricia Thornton, University Lecturer in the Politics of China, University of Oxford and Tim Stanley, blogger and columnist for The Daily Telegraph test Free Thinking to its limits by looking at the alternatives to our own political system.
Released:
Mar 4, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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