The History of Bad Ideas: Polycrisis

In this podcast, David Runciman talks to historian Gary Gerstle about how the idea of the polycrisis was originally conceived, what its current popularity reveals about our times, and whether we are truly experiencing a polycrisis or something else entirely. They also explore questions such as: Why is it comforting to think that the crises we are living through are all connected in some way? Why might it also be dangerous to think like that? And what does it say about our sense of powerlessness that we haven’t found a better way to describe the problems of our world?