What's behind the name 'Pillar Talk'?
Why are we making a podcast at all?
How much could you win for reading all of Hobbes' Leviathan?
Is Ollie really a raging conservative, and Will a radical Marxist? 
In this introductory episode, we answer all these questions and more, explaining why the UQ PPE Society is making a podcast, what you can expect from this new initiative, and what perspectives we bring to the podcast as hosts.
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Pillar Talk is published by the University of Queensland Politics, Philosophy & Economics Society. It is produced by Will Splatt and co-produced and edited by Tom Watson, with music created by Isaac Haynes. Your hosts for this episode are Will Splatt, Oliver Friendship, and Tom Watson. 
If this episode has you keen for more content from the UQ PPE Society, you might want to check out our other publications: Statecraft Magazine, and The Statecraft Review.  
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References
Hannah Arendt - The Human Condition (Recommended by Will) 
Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens (Recommended by Tom)See also Connor Harvey's review of this title in Statecraft Magazine

Douglass C. North - Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Recommended by Ollie)

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