Then & Now

Lewis Waller's video essays on philosophy, history and politics look for genealogies in history and first principles in philosophy. Episodes such as his complete guide to Hegel on history, or his treatment of Foucault's History of Madness, trace where an idea came from before asking whether it holds up. This is the slow, reading-heavy end of video essays: each one takes a long time to make, and it shows. Choose it when you want to understand a difficult thinker in context rather than collect a quick summary of their conclusions.