Episode
If Philosophers Followed the News
- Podcast
- The School of Life
- Published
- Jul 17, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 237
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG8964238503.mp3
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-school-of-life-7778042/episodes/if-philosophers-followed-the-news/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-school-of-life-7778042/if-philosophers-followed-the-news.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Plato said that the world wouldn’t be right until philosophers were kings and kings philosophers. We’d add to this that it won’t be right until philosophers become news journalists and vice versa. Enjoying our Youtube videos? Get full access to all our audio content, videos, and thousands of thought-provoking articles, conversation cards and more with The School of Life Subscription: https://t.ly/h2v1m Be more mindful, present and inspired. Get the best of The School of Life delivered straight to your inbox: https://t.ly/ucChE SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ X: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Brought to you by http://www.theschooloflife.com Produced in collaboration with Matthew Hammett Knott http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/matthew-hammett-knott #TheSchoolOfLife Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices