Roots and Branches
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<p><strong>Roots and Branches</strong> is the ideas podcast with Selma Sondern from the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews.</p> <p>This podcast is all about digging into the roots of ideas, and seeing how they branch out into every corner of our lives.</p> <p>Join us each month as we explore why anyone and everyone should care about the History of Ideas. How does it connect to the issues of our days? What does it matter for you and me right now and how can we use it to make change?</p> <p><strong>Find us on</strong></p> <p>Instagram ↗ <u>@roots_and_branches_podcast</u></p> <p>X ↗ <u>@rbpod_ih</u></p> <p>For more info, visit: <u>http://www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-branches </u></p>
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Recent Episodes
February 15, 2026
Melissa Lane, how do we rule for the good of the people?
<p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Political theorist <strong>Melissa Lane</strong> talks about constitutionalism in Plato’s philosophy and how his differentiation between ‘ruling’ and ‘holding office’ can help governments rule for the good of the people. </p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Melissa is Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University. She has published extensively on ancient Greek political thought and its modern significance. </p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>📚 REFERENCES</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Melissa Lane, Eco-Republic: Ancient Ethics for a Green Age (Peter Lang, 2011)</p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Melissa Lane, Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political (Princeton University Press, 2023)</p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>Melissa Lane:</strong><a href="https://melissalane.princeton.edu/">https://melissalane.princeton.edu/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (Routledge, 1945)</p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>Josiah Ober:</strong><a href="https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/josiah-ober">https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/josiah-ober</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Sarah Broadie, Plato's Sun-Like Good: Dialectic in the Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2021)</p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)</p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>🔗 LINKS</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">• Website ↗ <a href="http://www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-branches">http://www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-branches</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">• Instagram ↗ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/roots_and_branches_podcast/">@roots_and_branches_podcast</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">• X ↗ <a href="https://x.com/rbpod_ih">@rbpod_ih</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">• Bluesky ↗ <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rbpodcast.bsky.social">@rbpodcast</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rbpodcast.bsky.social">• Selma </a>Sondern ↗ <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/selma-sondern">www.linkedin.com/in/selma-sondern</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>🎶 MUSIC</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">'A New Year' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. <a href="http://www.scottbuckley.com.au/">www.scottbuckley.com.au</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>📸 PHOTO</strong></p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy</p>
January 4, 2026
Ramin Jahanbegloo, can mysticism translate into freedom in Iran?
<p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Political philosopher and peace activist <strong>Ramin Jahanbegloo</strong> discusses Persian mysticism, liberalism and tyranny and how a comparison between the Ancient Greeks and Persians might help understand the struggle for political and cultural freedom in Iran today. </p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>📚 REFERENCES</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Jahanbegloo, Ramin, The Idea of Persia: A Philosophical Enquiry (Gingko Library, 2025)</p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://jgu.edu.in/jgls/faculty/prof-dr-ramin-jahanbegloo "><strong>Ramin Jahanbegloo</strong></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Mohammad Ali Foroughi (1877-1942)</p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Reza Shah (1878-1944)</p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Montesquieu, C., Lettres persanes (1721)</p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>🔗 LINKS</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">• Website ↗ <a href="http://www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-branches">http://www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-branches</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">• Instagram ↗ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/roots_and_branches_podcast/">@roots_and_branches_podcast</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">• X ↗ <a href="https://x.com/rbpod_ih">@rbpod_ih</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">• Bluesky ↗ <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rbpodcast.bsky.social">@rbpodcast</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rbpodcast.bsky.social">• Selma </a>Sondern ↗ <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/selma-sondern">www.linkedin.com/in/selma-sondern</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>🎶 MUSIC</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">'A New Year' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. <a href="http://www.scottbuckley.com.au/">www.scottbuckley.com.au</a></p>
December 8, 2025
Andrea Capussela, what have we not learned from the Financial Crisis?
<p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Political economist <strong>Andrea Capussela</strong> discusses how a republican conception of freedom and Schumpeter’s idea of ‘creative destruction’ can converge to foster economic reform and innovation. </p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">After working in Mergers & Acquisitions, Andrea became Head of the Economics Unit of Kosovo’s International Civilian Office in 2008 and later adviser to Moldova’s Minister of Economy. He has spent the last two years as visiting scholar at the London School of Economics working on his new book The Republic of Innovation. </p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>📚 REFERENCES</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Andrea Lorenzo Capussela, The Republic of Innovation: A New Political Economy of Freedom (Polity, 2025).</p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>🔗 LINKS</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">• Website ↗ <a href="http://www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-branches">http://www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-branches</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">• Instagram ↗ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/roots_and_branches_podcast/">@roots_and_branches_podcast</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">• X ↗ <a href="https://x.com/rbpod_ih">@rbpod_ih</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">• Bluesky ↗ <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rbpodcast.bsky.social">@rbpodcast</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rbpodcast.bsky.social">• Selma </a>Sondern ↗ <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/selma-sondern">www.linkedin.com/in/selma-sondern</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><strong>🎶 MUSIC</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">'A New Year' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. <a href="http://www.scottbuckley.com.au/">www.scottbuckley.com.au</a></p>
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- What is Roots and Branches?
<p><strong>Roots and Branches</strong> is the ideas podcast with Selma Sondern from the Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews.</p> <p>This podcast is all about digging into the roots of ideas, and seeing how they branch out into every corner of our lives.</p> <p>Join us each month as we explore why anyone and everyone should care about the History of Ideas. How does it connect to the issues of our days? What does it matter for you and me right now and how can we use it to make change?</p> <p><strong>Find us on</strong></p> <p>Instagram ↗ <u>@roots_and_branches_podcast</u></p> <p>X ↗ <u>@rbpod_ih</u></p> <p>For more info, visit: <u>http://www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-branches </u></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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