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News meet Philosophers

Philosophy Takes on the News - or PTOTN as no one lovingly calls it - is a news podcast where philosophers meet each week to chat about the week's events, offer insight, and imagine they're funny. Hosted by Simon Kirchin (University of Kent), with lots of interesting and chatty philosophical guests.

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Special episode on the 2022 US mid-term elections. A run-through of the results plus democracy, trust, compromise, Trump, information, media and all the rest. Julian Baggini, Fiona Macpherson and Chris Carman chat with Simon Kirchin.

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PTOTN - S2 Ep6 - US Mid-Terms Special

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