48 min listen
Is there a moral case against the COVID-19 “shutdown”?
FromThe Minefield
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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
May 13, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Calls are mounting for an end to the “shutdown” that has been imposed by governments throughout the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic – including from some highly regarded philosophers. Are there more humane, more democratic ways of responding to the threat of the virus?
Released:
May 13, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Democratic politics is being challenged, but is it changing?: What are we to make of the fact that, in a time when democratic politics is being radically challenged by a series of seismic shocks, and when ideas or options once thought impossible are now squarely back ‘on the table’, our political leaders and their opponents have rarely seemed more conventional? David Runciman, Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and host of the Talking Politics podcast, joins us to dissect this political moment. by The Minefield