190 Episodes

  1. #127 - Obscene Totalitarians: Slavoj Zizek on the Bhagavad Gita, Ideological Guilt, the Third Reich, and Stalin's Perverse Legacy

    Published: 10/27/2024
  2. #126 - Gaia: James Lovelock on Planetary Systems, the Challenge of Climate Change, and the Role of Human Beings in Ecological Stewardship

    Published: 10/27/2024
  3. #125 - War in the Nazi Imagination: Richard J. Evans on Hitler's Goals in Poland, British Diplomacy, Winston Churchill, and the Final Solution

    Published: 10/27/2024
  4. #124 - The Wages of Rebellion: Chris Hedges on the Death of Liberalism, the Decline of Moral Institutions, and the Moral Imperative of Revolt

    Published: 10/26/2024
  5. #123 - The Genocide in Gaza: Chris Hedges

    Published: 10/26/2024
  6. #122 - The Mystery of Consciousness: Iain McGilchrist on Hemispheric Difference, The Neuroscience of Experience, Complexity Theories of the Brain, and the Ontological Implications of Holism

    Published: 10/26/2024
  7. The War on Terror S1E4: SuperOrganism *TEASER*

    Published: 10/26/2024
  8. #121 - Philosophy and Human Values: Rick Roderick on Socrates, Epictetus, Kant, Mill, Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the Challenge of Postmodernism [REUPLOAD]

    Published: 10/25/2024
  9. #120 - The Aztecs (Full Series): Roy Casagranda on the Mexíca, the Aztec and Mayan Religion, Human Sacrifice, the Spanish Conquest, and Christopher Columbus

    Published: 10/21/2024
  10. #119 - Surveillance Capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff on Behavioral Futures Markets, Collusion between Big Tech and Intelligence, the Weaponization and Commodification of "Metadata"

    Published: 10/20/2024
  11. #118 - Fateful Triangle: Israel, Palestine, and the United States: Noam Chomsky on Settler Colonialism, The Two-State Solution, and American Foreign Policy in the Middle East [REUPLOAD]

    Published: 10/20/2024
  12. #117 - A Very Modern Ancient Egypt: Roy Casagranda

    Published: 10/6/2024
  13. #116 - The Meaning of Existentialism: Hubert Dreyfus on Martin Heidegger, Soren Kierkegaard, Artificial Intelligence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Human Nature

    Published: 10/5/2024
  14. #115 - Why Everyone Should Read Dante: Professor Bill Cook

    Published: 9/29/2024
  15. Hemlock #6 - Interregnum and the Angel of History

    Published: 9/29/2024
  16. #114 - Isaiah Berlin's Lectures on Romanticism: Beethoven, Kant, Byron, Percy Shelley, and Blake [REUPLOAD #2]

    Published: 9/28/2024
  17. Hemlock #5 - Greek Tragedy and the Net of Aeschylus

    Published: 9/25/2024
  18. #113 - Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State: Chris Hedges Interviews Princeton Professor Sheldon Wolin

    Published: 9/22/2024
  19. #112 - Dreams and Genocide: Iraq: Roy Casagranda on Petroluem Conflicts, International Sanctions, and the War on Terror

    Published: 9/13/2024
  20. #111 - Guest Interview with Environmental Philosopher Guillermo Zapata: Reading Indigenous Philosophers on Confronting the Sixth Mass Extinction, Building Community, and Overcoming Corporate Power

    Published: 9/11/2024

4 / 10

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.