“Toby Buckle is a wonderful interviewer: thoughtful, probing, always willing to allow his guests to go off in unforeseen directions, yet without ever losing sight of the topic at hand.
His podcasts are a model of the genre.”
- Cécile Fabre
The podcast covers (surprise) political philosophy and theory in a broad sense; it has featured many of the world's leading academics in these and related fields (such as Elizabeth Anderson, Orlando Patterson, Phillip Pettit, Jacob Levy, Peter Singer, Samuel Moyn, Jonathan Wolff, Stanley Fish, and Cecile Fabre) as well as politicians (such as Senator Sherrod Brown, or Civil Rights Commission Chair, Mary Francis Berry).
To date, it has had over a million downloads and is consistently ranked as one of the top podcasts in philosophy. Interviews have been of interest to general audiences, specialists, and featured on a number of undergraduate and graduate academic syllabuses. A collection of edited material from the podcast was also recently published with Oxford University Press.
“Passionate, funny, and off the scale smart .”
- Ian Dunt
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“I've been interviewed many times on related topics, but never in such a well structured way as this.”
- Phillip Pettit
CREATOR/ HOST
The Political Philosophy Podcast is hosted by Toby Buckle.
My interest also comes from working in politics and activism: I'm a UK/US duel national, born in the UK, and moved the the States in my early 20's. I worked in progressive and electoral organizing in the US working for advocacy groups such as the Human Rights Campaign, Environment America, The Working Families party, and Democratic consulting groups, and Amnesty International. I've also been active in a number of social movements such as the BLM protests, or the campaign for gay marriage.
I was born in Grimsby, England, grew up in the North East, and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University and gained an MA in Political Philosophy from the University of York.
More recently, I've also started writing in addition to doing the podcast. I've had articles in IAI, Liberal Currents, The New Republic, and The Bulwark.
I returned to the UK recently and currently live in Edinburgh with my wife Irina (top right, bottom middle). Outside the podcast and writing, I like spending time with friends and family, cooking, and growing plants.
