220 Episodo

  1. DD6 - 40 Years in Solitary: "Cruel and Unusual: The Story of the Angola 3", Solitary Confinement, Torture, Jim Crow, Black Radicalism, Private Prisons, Prison Labor, and Mass Incarceration

    Publicado: 2/9/2025
  2. DD5 Eichmann in Jerusalem: "Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt" Banality of Evil, Between Past and Future, Totalitarianism in Democracy, K. Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, the Third Reich, Fascism

    Publicado: 2/9/2025
  3. Consolatio #6: The Finest Threads that Bind the Truth - Book 5 of the Consolation of Philosophy on Free Will, Higher Intelligence, History and Eternity, Hope's Epitaph

    Publicado: 25/8/2025
  4. Hemlock #31: McNamara's Cold War: Pulitzer Prize-Winner Bill Taubman on Vietnam, the Domino Theory, Khrushchev & Gorbachev, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Tokyo Firebombing, Nuclear Abolition

    Publicado: 23/8/2025
  5. The Art Life: A Tribute to David Lynch (BRM #3, Explicit) with Mr. Richard - Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, 50s Americana, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Mr. Eddy, Now It's Dark

    Publicado: 17/8/2025
  6. Hemlock #30 - Kaila Yu: Orientalism (Old and New), WW2 Comfort Women, Disney Princesses, Imperialism and the Sex Trade, Okinawa Air Base, Asian Fetishization, Memoirs of a Geisha, Playboy, +New Book

    Publicado: 14/8/2025
  7. Hemlock #29 - Welcome to the First Crusade Feat. American Prestige and We're Not So Different: Magic Spears, Starving Franks, Holy Massacres, Historical Himbos, and Why Only the First Crusade Worked

    Publicado: 12/8/2025
  8. #171a - John Brown: Susan Neiman on One Man's Terrorist is Another Man's Freedom Fighter, Radical Ethics and Activism, Violence and Nonviolence, Battle Hymn of the Republic, & Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural

    Publicado: 10/8/2025
  9. #171 - Heroism for a Time of Victims: Susan Neiman on Modern Myths, Odysseus, Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson, Adorno, George Eliot, Circe, John Brown and the Civil War, and Why We Need Heroes Today

    Publicado: 9/8/2025
  10. #169b - Death: Shelly Kagan on the Living in the Face of Death, the Problem of Immortality, Suicide and the Value of Life, Loneliness, Overcoming and Confronting the Fear of Death

    Publicado: 6/8/2025
  11. Hemlock #28 Watchmen: A Cold War Essay (Part One) Ozymandias, The Doomsday Clock, Rorschach, Nukes in Vietnam, Berlin Pop, Rilke, Thomas Merton & the Unspeakable, and Confronting the End of the World

    Publicado: 4/8/2025
  12. BRM #2b - Byron: Frankenstein's Monster, Ada Lovelace, Dodging Child Support, 19th Century Gossip Columns, the Greek War for Independence, Butt Issues, Hayao Miyazaki, de Sade, and David Lynch

    Publicado: 4/8/2025
  13. Bad Role Models #2a: Lord Byron with Richard, Earl of Sinex - European Grand Tours, Childhood Trauma, Crappy 18th century Dads, the Elgin Marbles, Bad Teenage Poetry, Dodging the Coppers Like a Dandy

    Publicado: 31/7/2025
  14. DocDocs #4: The Riot Report: Lyndon Johnson, the Newark Riots, MLK/Malcolm X, the Kerner Commission, Redlining, Vietnam and Civil Rights, Militarized Police, Jimmy Baldwin, and the End of Jim Crow

    Publicado: 31/7/2025
  15. Hemlock #27 - Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025): My Talk w/ Greg Sadler on Virtue Ethics, Zizek and Lacan, Modes of Rationality, Effective Altruism /Bentham, After Virtue, Thomism, Mill, & Heavy Metal

    Publicado: 20/7/2025
  16. DocDocs #3 - Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat: Patrice Lumumba and the CIA, Dizzy Gillespie for President, Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, The Great Nina Simone, Frantz Fanon, Congo Liberation, Uranium, IMF, Jazz

    Publicado: 14/7/2025
  17. #170 - 2nd Biannual Report to the Shareholders: Roy Casagranda, Boethius, the American Terror Series, Virginia Woolf, Alasdair MacIntyre, Getting Emailed by Kn@tsies, Contrapoints, Gratitude

    Publicado: 13/7/2025
  18. #169a - Death: Shelly Kagan on Plato, Immortality, Physicalism versus Dualism, Individual Continuity Across Time and Space, Arguing the Existence of the Soul, Phaedo and Socrates, Memento Mori

    Publicado: 6/7/2025
  19. Hemlock #26 - Targeting the Death Star with Guillermo Zapata: Palantir, ICE Camps, Peter Thiel & the Antichrist, Vaclav Havel, Star Wars and Rogue One, Maersk/BDS, Deporting Zohran, Melancholia, Gaza

    Publicado: 4/7/2025
  20. Hemlock #25 - Maturity: Taoism, Confucianism, Epicureanism, Kierkegaard's Aesthetic/Hedonistic Way of Life, the Origins of Evil, Ahimsa/Nonviolence, and Disputing the Tao

    Publicado: 3/7/2025

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