Ideas / Past Present Future: a listening list
The History of Bad Ideas: Polycrisis
David Runciman with Gary Gerstle
Gary Gerstle traces the rise of polycrisis and asks whether connecting every crisis clarifies the world or disguises our powerlessness within it.
The term promises a map of crises as interlocking parts. Runciman and Gerstle ask whether it clarifies those connections or turns powerlessness into a theory of everything.