189 Episodes

  1. #157 - Learn to Die So You Can Learn to Live: Cornel West on Socratic Legacy, Blues, Chekhov's Christ, American Democracy, Deep Education, Jazz, Augustine, and the Blue Note in the American Song

    Published: 2/24/2025
  2. Consolation #1: 100 Reviewers Special! The Consolation of Philosophy - An Experiment in Reading Boethius, Part 1: Introduction

    Published: 2/24/2025
  3. Hemlock #11 - Call Your Friends (or, Unhinged Volume II)

    Published: 2/23/2025
  4. #156 - Sartre: Robert C. Solomon on Existential Philosophy, Responsibility, Sartre's Experience as a POW, Being and Nothingness, No Exit, Phenomenology, Bad Faith, and Why We Are Doomed to Be Free

    Published: 2/20/2025
  5. Hemlock #10 - Capital (Kapital) Volume 1: Interview with Yale's Paul North & OSU's Paul Reitter on Karl Marx's Theory of Commodification, Communism, Property Rights, Value Theory, Worker Alienation

    Published: 2/18/2025
  6. #155 - Speaking Peace: Marshall Rosenberg on Conflict Resolution, Giraffe and Jackal Language, Nonviolent Communication, Expressing Needs and Desires, and Articulating a More Peaceful World

    Published: 2/9/2025
  7. #154 - The Philosopher's Stone: Terence McKenna on Hermeticism, Renaissance Magic, the Hidden History of Alchemy, the Catharites, Giordano Bruno, Rosicrucians, and the Rise of the Invisible College

    Published: 2/7/2025
  8. #153 - A Process Perspective on Human Life: John Dupré on Panpsychism, Holobionts, the Paradoxes of Speciation, Dynamics of Human Evolution, Theseus's Ship, and Processual Mechanics

    Published: 2/4/2025
  9. Hemlock #9 - An Unhinged Rant About What Our Government Likes to Call "Detention Centers"

    Published: 1/31/2025
  10. #152 - The Crusades Complete & Remastered: Roy Casagranda on the Viking Conquest of Britain and France, the Great Schism, the “Byzantine” Frontier Crisis, and the End of the Arab Empire's Golden Age

    Published: 1/29/2025
  11. #151 - The British Romantic Poets: Adam Potkay on How Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Burns Worshiped Nature, Sought Transcendence, Defied Authority, and created Modern Love

    Published: 1/28/2025
  12. #150 - The Government of the Future: Noam Chomsky on Libertarianism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Political Implications of Marxism, Individualism v Collectivism, and Prospects for Democracy and Survival

    Published: 1/21/2025
  13. #149 - My Interview with Professor Michael Albertus on his New Book “Land Power”: Indigenous Rights, Climate Change, Land Theft and Restitution, the Great Reshuffle, and the Chinese Sparrow Massacre

    Published: 1/17/2025
  14. #148 - The Grail Quest: Joseph Campbell on the Arthurian Legends, the Adventure of Gawain, Parsifal's Quest for the Holy Grail, the Three Ages of the Church, and the Elementary Ideas of Mythology

    Published: 1/13/2025
  15. #147 - Dzogchen: James Low on Tibetan Buddhism, the Uncontaminated Mind, Developing Clarity and Insight, Overcoming Ego, and Riding the Wave that Never Breaks

    Published: 12/20/2024
  16. #146 - Moby Dick: Bert Dreyfus on the White Whale, the Origins of American Literature, Ahab's Madness, and Existentialist Themes in the 19th Century

    Published: 12/19/2024
  17. Letter to the Shareholders 2025

    Published: 12/13/2024
  18. #145 - Wittgenstein: Norman Malcom on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language, Analytic Philosophy, the Vienna Circle, Bertrand Russell, and Language Games

    Published: 12/11/2024
  19. #144 - The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche: Rick Roderick on Postmodernism, the Eternal Recurrence, Ressentiment, Master & Slave Morality, the Übermensch, and the Last Man

    Published: 12/10/2024
  20. Hemlock #8 - Rituals of Fire: Astika Royal Mason on Symbols of Spiritual Transformation, the Internalization of Religious Ceremonies, Developing Spiritual Maturity, and Buddhism's Reaction to Hinduism

    Published: 12/8/2024

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Curated lectures, interviews, and talks with philosophers, social scientists, and historians together in one place. Each week, we explore brand new research in history, economics, psychology, political science, philosophy, indigenous studies, and human rights while presenting the work of canonical scholars in a way that is accessible to newcomers while retaining interest for students and specialists. If you are an author in nonfiction or a scholar in the humanities/social sciences and are interested in being interviewed for the show please email me at [email protected] or @Bluesky.