Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking Politics host David Runciman， A History of Ideas explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics - from Hobbes to Gandhi， from democracy to patriarchy， and from revolution to lock down。

While explaining the most important and often-cited ideas of thinkers such as Constant， De Tocqueville， Marx and Engels， Hayek， MacKinnon and Fukuyama， David Runciman shows how crises - revolutions， wars， depressions， pandemics - generated these new ways of political thinking。 This is a history of ideas to help make sense of what's happening today。