Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLosing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)
Episode 259
The great Paul Bloom returns to the show to explore the many mysteries of Todd Field's 2022 film "Tár." Is it a ghost story? A movie about cancel cul…
3 years, 3 months ago
Mystic Peeza
Episode 258
David and Tamler talk about William James' chapter on mysticism from his book "Varieties of Religious Experience." What defines a mystical experience…
3 years, 3 months ago
Aural Fixation
Episode 257
David and Tamler deliver a PODCAST episode, one of many that comes from the INTERNET, that you'll probably listen to through Air Pods or some other k…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Right to Punish?
Episode 256
Here's an episode with something for both of us – a healthy serving of Kantian rationalism for David with a dollop of Marxist criminology for Tamler.…
3 years, 4 months ago
Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")
Episode 255
David and Tamler get lost in the world of Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi," a hauntingly beautiful and thrilling novel with echoes of Borges, Plato, C.S. …
3 years, 5 months ago
Nobody's Parfit
Episode 254
Tamler's earlier self committed to doing an episode on Parfit, and David holds his current self to that promise, which shows how unconvinced David wa…
3 years, 5 months ago
Tarkovsky's Starchild
Episode 253
It's the episode that Tamler has been waiting for – a long deep dive into Andrei Tarkovsky's mysterious masterpiece "Stalker." A writer and professor…
3 years, 5 months ago
Yes We Sene-can
Episode 252
David and Tamler dive into Seneca's "On the Happy Life" and stoicism, the topic selected by our beloved patreon supporters. Why is stoicism so popula…
3 years, 6 months ago
First Order, Then Chaos
Episode 251
David and Tamler wind their way through another Borges story - "The Immortal"- about a Roman soldier who seeks the secret of immortality and, much to…
3 years, 7 months ago
Metaphors All the Way Down
Episode 250
We often think of metaphors as poetic flourishes, a nice way to punctuate your ideas and make them more relatable. But what if metaphors aren’t sim…
3 years, 7 months ago