Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAvalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar)
Episode 93
Scandinavian film scholar Yoel Inbar joins the podcast for a deep dive on the Swedish film Force Majeure, a darkly funny meditation on what our insti…
9 years, 8 months ago
Jonathan Edwards' Basement
Episode 92
David and Tamler continue their intermittent "classic paper series" with an episode on Jonathan Bennett's "The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn" (publi…
9 years, 8 months ago
Rage Against the Machines
Episode 91
Inspired by a recent ProPublica report on racial bias in an algorithm used to predict future criminal behavior, David and Tamler talk about the use o…
9 years, 9 months ago
Of Mice and Morals
Episode 90
David and Tamler have their first real fight in a while over an article defending "social mixing"--distributing babies randomly across families such …
9 years, 9 months ago
Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet)
Episode 89
David and Tamler welcome author and environmental science professor Jennifer Jacquet to the podcast to discuss the pros and cons of shame. What's the…
9 years, 10 months ago
A Doobie for Elijah
Episode 88
David and Tamler celebrate Passover with a high-spirited episode on guns, revenge, liberals, being offended, the fear of death, and whether kids have…
9 years, 10 months ago
Lucky You (with Robert Frank)
Episode 87
We hit the jackpot with this one! Economist Robert Frank (you may remember him from such episodes as The Greatest Books Ever Written) joins David and…
9 years, 11 months ago
Guns, Shame, and the Meaning of Punishment
Episode 86
We know that criminal punishment has consequences, both good and bad, and that many people think that offenders deserve it. But what does punishment …
9 years, 11 months ago
A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)
Episode 85
Philosophers can be funny and funny movies can be philosophical. David and Tamler welcome frequent VBW guest and arch-enemy of empathy Paul Bloom to …
10 years ago
Lifting the Veil
Episode 84
David and Tamler talk about the perils of trying to step outside of your own perspective in ethics, science, and politics. What do Rawls' "original p…
10 years ago