Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")
Episode 223
David and Tamler dive into Ingmar Bergman's 1966 masterpiece Persona, a film about two (?) women, Elisabet, a famous stage actress who has stopped sp…
4 years, 11 months ago
Choosing Sartre for All Mankind
Episode 222
David and Tamler don black turtlenecks and light up a couple of Gauloises to talk about Jean Paul Sartre's classic essay "Existentialism is a Humanis…
4 years, 11 months ago
Granite Cocks vs Robot Overlords
Episode 221
David and Tamler wind their way through the long-requested "Meditations on Moloch" by Scott Alexander, a comprehensive account of the coordination pr…
5 years ago
On Your Marx
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 …
5 years 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago