Subscriber extra: What is the right side of history anyway? Origin Story
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• Join Ian and Dorian for Origin Story Live in London on Tue 7 May. They’ll be looking at how the Conservative Party got addicted to conspiracy theory, and more.
https://www.designmynight.com/london/pubs/west-end/the-phoenix/origin-story-live-at-the-phoenix
• Everybody wants to be on the “right side of history” these days, from protesters to presidents. But who gets to decide which side is the right one? And does history have sides anyway? Dorian and Ian unpack the assumption of progress behind an alluring idea which unites Christianity, Marxism, Hegel, Francis Fukuyama, the Whig interpretation of history and – uh oh – Hitler.
Dorian digs in the newspaper archives to track the evolution of the phrase, from a simple description of those who won elections or wars to a consoling thought for those who are losing. Is the right side of history a useful account of events, empty moral posturing or a desperate plea to the future to sort things out? Did Martin Luther King have second thoughts about the moral arc of the universe? And who will end up on the right side of this podcast?
Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Music by Jade Bailey. Logo art by Mischa Welsh. Audio production by Simon Williams. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production
• Join Ian and Dorian for Origin Story Live in London on Tue 7 May. They’ll be looking at how the Conservative Party got addicted to conspiracy theory, and more.
https://www.designmynight.com/london/pubs/west-end/the-phoenix/origin-story-live-at-the-phoenix
• Everybody wants to be on the “right side of history” these days, from protesters to presidents. But who gets to decide which side is the right one? And does history have sides anyway? Dorian and Ian unpack the assumption of progress behind an alluring idea which unites Christianity, Marxism, Hegel, Francis Fukuyama, the Whig interpretation of history and – uh oh – Hitler.
Dorian digs in the newspaper archives to track the evolution of the phrase, from a simple description of those who won elections or wars to a consoling thought for those who are losing. Is the right side of history a useful account of events, empty moral posturing or a desperate plea to the future to sort things out? Did Martin Luther King have second thoughts about the moral arc of the universe? And who will end up on the right side of this podcast?
Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Music by Jade Bailey. Logo art by Mischa Welsh. Audio production by Simon Williams. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production