All Episodes
BlomCast — 80 episodes
[67] Ralph Janik — das Völkerrecht, eine Illusion?
[66] Innovation – a blessing, and a curse?
[66] Innovation – Segen oder Fluch?
[65] Anton Howes — Why did the industrial Revolution happen, and why in England?
[64] Jörg Baberowski II — Wie Demokratien sterben
[63] Kerry Brown — The Great Reversal, China and the West
[62] Daniel Marwecki — Die Welt nach dem Westen
[61] Bonus Episode — Spinoza and the Art of Organising Knowledge
[60] Natasha Wheatley — How States Live and Die
[59] Georgios Varouxakis — The West, History of an Idea
[58] Mark Galeotti — On Russia, Historical Continuity, and the Business of Diplomacy
[57] Europe 2050 — the Challenges
[57] Europa 2050 — die Herausforderungen
[56] Stuart Gillespie — Food Fight: How Corporate Profit Overwhelmed Farming
[55] Philippe Sands — Impunity: International Justice in an Age of Lawlessness
[54] Sarah Newman — Did We Learn Culture from Animals?
[53] Colombe Cahen-Salvador — A New Age of Democracy?
[52] Karl Schlögel — Der Historiker und die Annexion
[51] Ussama Makdisi — Creating the Modern Middle East: The Peace Conference of 1919
[50] Beatrice de Graaf – 1815 and the Security State
[49] Luke Kemp — Elites and the Collapse of Empires
[48] David Bell — Charismatic Leaders and Revolutions
[47] Tim Mackintosh-Smith: Being Arab Throughout History and Ibn Khaldoun
[46] Gerd Schwerhoff — Die Bauernkriege, ein Wendepunkt?
[45] Laura Spinney — The First Human Language and How We Think
[44] Ian Buruma — Where Did the West Begin?
[43] Julian Baggini — What happened to the Enlightenment?
[42] Misha Glenny — Highways and Byways of History
[41] Luuk van Middelaar — Can Europe do Power?
[40] Julia Fischer — Wann wurden Primaten zu Menschen?
[39] Ulrich Schmid — von der Oktoberrevolution in die Gegenwart
[38] Bas van Bavel — How Markets Captured Societies
[37] Padraic Scanian — What the Irish Potato Famine Tells us About Markets and Merit
[36] Jörg Baberowski — Macht und Herrschaft in Russland und Europa
[35] Trevor Jackson — Capitalism and the Impunity of the Elites
[34] Kwame Anthony Appiah — On Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
[33] Sunil Amrith — The Burning Earth
[32] The Collapse of the West and European Futures
[31] Danilo Brozovic — How Societies Collapse
[30] Raoul Schrott — Der Sternenhimmel oder, wie Homo sapiens die Welt eroberte
[29] Richard Cockett — Vienna, City of Ideas
[28] Musa Al-Gharbi — Symbolic Capitalism and the Pitfalls of Moral Righteousness
[27] Franz Essl — Über Wendepunkte reden
[26] Samuel Moyn — Has the Liberal Dream Collapsed
[25] Philipp Blom — Zerrissene Jahre
[24] Roman Krznaric – History for Tomorrow
[23] Gaia Vince – Climate and a World in Motion
[22] Richard Whatmore – The End of Enlightenment?
[21] Katy Hessel — The Story of Art without Men
[20] Olivier Roy — the Crisis of Culture
[19] Maja Göpel — wie man eine Zukunft baut
[18] From the Invention of Race and to Identity Politics
[17] The collapse of the liberal project? Part 2
[17] Der Zusammenbruch des liberalen Projekts? Teil 2
[16] The collapse of the liberal project? Part 1
[16] Der Zusammenbruch des liberalen Projekts? Teil 1
[15] Transformationen — Wenn die Welt eine andere wird
[14] The Tyranny of Merit—How Liberal Promises Have Turned Sour
[13] Subjugate the Earth — The Rise and Fall of an Idea
[12] The Story of Culture: a conversation with Martin Puchner
[11] Magnificent Rebels — the Romantic Revolution
[10] A New Enlightenment?
[09] Artificial Intelligence — The Turning Point in the Story of Humanity and Machines?
[09] Künstliche Intelligenz — der Wendepunkt für Mensch und Maschine?
[08] The Fall of Rome — Was it Decadence, Plague, or Climate Change?
[07] Why Europe
[07] Warum Europa?
[06] “Subdue the Earth” — How the Idea of Dominating Nature was Born
[06] "Macht Euch die Erde untertan" — woher kommt die Idee der Naturbeherrschung?
[05] Culture Between Ice and Fire
[05] Kultur zwischen Eis und Feuer
Antwort: Grünes Wachstum — die Lösung der Klimakatastrophe?
[04] The Fire Pump — Why Utopias Fail
[04] Die Feuerpumpe — Warum Utopien scheitern
[03] Little Ice Age III: Little Ice Age and Climate Catastrophe — can we learn from history?
[03] Kleine Eiszeit III: Kleine Eiszeit und Klimakatastrophe — können wir aus der Geschichte lernen?
[02] The Little Ice Age II: A Tale of Two Cities
[02] Die kleine Eiszeit II: Zwei Städte, zwei Schicksale
[01] The Little Ice Age I — The Last Climate Catastrophe
[01] Die Kleine Eiszeit I — Die letzte Klimakatastrophe