Do Your Own Research

Each episode documents and diagrams our most serious attempts to understand the world at scale — the ideas, actors and events that make up contemporary politics, drawn out and connected up. The ambition, only half-joking, is to diagram the complete history of the world and everyone in it.

It grew out of years of tracking the endlessly surprising turns of events as they happen, are obscured, and become collective knowledge. Where a pundit offers a single confident scenario, the show tries to hold the whole picture in view at once.