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Some news! We are going to livestream our 100th episode recording session at 1pm Eastern / 12 noon central standard time on our YouTube channel on Su…
1 year, 6 months ago
99 | What is Dialectics? Part VI: From Explanation to Emancipation: Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism
Season 1 Episode 99
In this episode, we discuss the philosopher of science Roy Bhaskar and his essays in Reclaiming Reality. We discuss whether it is possible for the hu…
1 year, 6 months ago
98 TEASER | Reform or Revolution?
Season 1 Episode 98
In this episode we take on a Marxist classic, Rosa Luxemburg’s “Reform or Revolution,” in which she skewers Eduard Bernstein for being a feckless opp…
1 year, 7 months ago
97 | Poulantzas, Marxism and the State
Season 1 Episode 97
In this episode we take up the question: what is the State? With 1978’s State, Power, Socialism by Nicos Poulantzas as our guide, we talk about what …
1 year, 8 months ago
96 TEASER | What is Utopia? Part IV. Bacon's New Atlantis
Season 1 Episode 96
In this episode we talk about the weird little unfinished utopian novel The New Atlantis, written by founding enlightenment figure Francis Bacon. We …
1 year, 8 months ago
95 | John Dewey and the Education of Experience
Season 1 Episode 95
In this episode, we discuss the educational philosophy of the American pragmatist John Dewey. Focusing on his 1938 treatise Experience & Education we…
1 year, 8 months ago
94 | Norman Geras' Ethics of Revolution
Season 1 Episode 94
In this episode, we discuss the contributions of political theorist Norman Geras to socialist debates about revolutionary ethics, movement democracy,…
1 year, 9 months ago
93 TEASER | Charles Mills and the Racial Contract
Season 1 Episode 93
In this episode, we talk about the late, great Charles Mills and his landmark book The Racial Contract. Forcefully arguing that the modern discourse …
1 year, 9 months ago
92 | What is Liberalism? Part V. Robert Nozick’s Libertarian Reveries
Season 1 Episode 92
In this episode, we discuss Robert Nozick’s libertarian political philosophy as presented in his 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia. We consider hi…
1 year, 10 months ago
91 | Fanon’s Dialectic of Violence
Season 1 Episode 91
In this episode, we tackle the concept of violence as it appears in the revolutionary and anticolonial work of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Ear…
1 year, 11 months ago