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Episode 220
In honor of Labor Day, David and Tamler dive into two works by Karl Marx - "The Communist Manifesto" and "Estranged Labor." What is Marx's theory of …
4 years, 10 months ago
Multiplied by Mirrors
Episode 219
It's a Borges bonanza! David and Tamler dive into two stories: "Emma Zunz" and "Borges and I." The first seems like a straightforward daughter reveng…
4 years, 11 months ago
...But You Can't Hide (Michael Haneke's "Caché")
Episode 218
David and Tamler go deep on Michael Haneke's unnerving psychological thriller Caché. An upper middle class French intellectual couple receives myster…
4 years, 11 months ago
Dropping Paradigms (Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions")
Episode 217
David and Tamler hit the books and cram for their beloved Patreon listener-selected episode – this time on Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific…
5 years ago
Oral Judgments
Episode 216
We've promised you for years that we would do an episode on apologies and never got to it until today. So we both want to say from the bottom of our …
5 years ago
Touch My Pink Monkey
Episode 215
David and Tamler argue about the philosopher L.A. Paul's ideas on "transformative experiences" – big life decisions that will change you and your val…
5 years, 1 month ago
You Shouldn't Feel Bad (Except You Should)
Episode 214
Tamler welcomes social psychologist David Pizarro of Cornell University to the podcast to talk about his recent article (along with Raj Anderson, Sha…
5 years, 1 month ago
What Is It Like To Be a Robot Fish Man? (with Ted Chiang)
Episode 213
We've done deep dives on three of his stories, and now THE MAN HIMSELF, multi-award winning science fiction author Ted Chiang, joins us to explore th…
5 years, 2 months ago
Follow Your Nose (with Yoel Inbar)
Episode 212
Canada's leading Russian literature scholar Yoel Inbar joins us to try to make sense of Gogol's 1836 short story "The Nose." A nose goes missing from…
5 years, 2 months ago
To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"
Episode 211
"Sometimes I think of my death," Akira Kurosawa said, "I think of ceasing to be...and it is from these thoughts that Ikiru came." David and Tamler ex…
5 years, 3 months ago