Podcast Episodes

Episode 188: Discussing "Lysistrata" and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part Two)

Concluding our discussion of Aristophanes's play with Lucy Lawless and Emily Perkins. We focus on trying to connect its lessons to the here and now: …

8 years, 5 months ago

Episode 188: Discussing "Lysistrata" and Politics with Lucy and Emily (Part One)

We are rejoined by actresses Lucy Lawless and Emily Perkins to discuss Aristophanes's bawdy play. Listen to us perform it first.

Supplementary readin…

8 years, 5 months ago

"Lysistrata" w/ Lucy Lawless, Emily Perkins, Erica Spyres, Bill Youmans & Aaron Gleason

The PEL Players return to perform a "cold read" of Aristophanes's play about using a sex strike to end war, first performed in 411 BCE. Jeffrey Hende…

8 years, 5 months ago

PREMIUM-Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Three)

Three substantial chunks of a follow-up conversation to our free speech episode. Mark and Wes discuss Jordan Peterson on speech, organizations' promo…

8 years, 5 months ago

Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part Two)

Continuing our free form discussion, trying to make sense of Stanley Fish's "There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too" (1994)…

8 years, 6 months ago

Episode 187: The Limits of Free Speech (Part One)

A free-form discussion drawing on Stanley Fish's "There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too" (1994), Joel Feinberg's "Limits t…

8 years, 6 months ago

Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part Two)

Continuing on How to Do Things with Words (lectures from 1955), covering lectures 5-9.

Austin tries and fails to come up with a way to grammatically …

8 years, 6 months ago

Episode 186: J.L. Austin on Doing Things with Words (Part One)

On How to Do Things with Words (lectures from 1955). What's the relationship between language and the world? Austin says it's not all about descripti…

8 years, 6 months ago

Episode 185: Ethics in Homer's "Odyssey" Feat. Translator Emily Wilson (Part Two)

Continuing with Emily Wilson on her translation of the Greek epic poem. We discuss the "oikos" or estate, built on violence, and its connection to "x…

8 years, 6 months ago

Episode 185: Ethics in Homer's "Odyssey" Feat. Translator Emily Wilson (Part One)

On the classic Greek epic poem, written ca. 750 BC and translated by our guest Emily Wilson in 2018.

Does this story of "heroes" have anything to tea…

8 years, 7 months ago