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Back to SearchEpisode 328: Weapons Free
Episode 328
David and Tamler cross the border into Denis Villeneuve's taut and propulsive thriller Sicario, the story of an FBI agent who gets pulled into a task…
7 hours ago
Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")
Episode 327
David and Tamler return to the Southern Gothic well and talk about Flannery O'Connor's short story masterpiece "Good Country People." A nihilistic at…
3 weeks ago
Episode 326: The Most Important Episode of Your (Academic) Life
Episode 326
Are you a college student or about to be one? Do you have friends or family in college? This is the most important episode of your life. David and Ta…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 325: It Is Happening Again
Episode 325
David and Tamler return to Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and Profane and discuss the chapter "Sacred Time and Myths." How does viewing time as circular …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred
Episode 324
David and Tamler consecrate their podcast with a discussion of "The Sacred and the Profane" by Mircea Eliade. We focus on the first chapter on sacred…
2 months ago
Episode 323: Debate Me 'Phro
Episode 323
David and Tamler dive into Plato's Euthyphro, part of our intermittent Back 2 Basics series. A young cocksure priest, confident in his holiness, bum…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought")
Episode 322
David and Tamler return to William James' monumental "Principles of Psychology", this time wading through his famous chapter "The Stream of Thought."…
3 months, 1 week ago
Episode 321: The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers)
Episode 321
David and Tamler begin their long journey home to Homer's Odyssey, the tale of king Odysseus' 10 year journey home after the Trojan war (maybe the gr…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 320: Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist")
Episode 320
David and Tamler return to one of their favorites, Frans Kafka, this time on his beautiful and distressing short story "The Hunger Artist," a story t…
4 months ago
Episode 319: The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia")
Episode 319
David and Tamler transfer their libidinal energy to Freud's 1917 article "Mourning and Melancholia," in which he tries to understand what's going on …
4 months, 2 weeks ago