Podcast Episodes

#184: Gaza, or How to Normalize Genocide: Keynote Speech by Chris Hedges at The Sanctuary for Independent Media

You can find the full talk from March 2025, officially-titled "Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order" at the link below, via The Sanctuary for…

16 hours ago

Hemlock #46 Congress: feat. Dr. Maya Kornberg - Citizens United, Steve Bannon, Jan 6, Gerrymandering, Watergate Babies & Her New Book: STUCK: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress

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I am joined (just in time for the all-important Vernal Equinox on March 21st) - with the brilliant and timely Dr. …

2 days, 22 hours ago

#183: Tribute to Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026) feat. Rick Roderick and Michael Sugrue

RIP Habermas. Rick Roderick and Michael Sugrue (both also gone, Sugrue earlier this year) remember the life and theory of Jürgen Habermas and the Fra…

6 days ago

#182a - The Radiance of Perfection and the Mystic Ascent: Plotinus on the Good and the One, Plato's Symposium, The Myth of Psyche and Eros (Aphrodite), Socrates' Teacher Diotima, feat. Pierre Grimes

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Will (the host) writes a Substack page about various and sundry topics.

Plotinus (204-270 …

6 days, 15 hours ago

The Phoenix Program: PART ONE - ORIGINS

ADVISORY - Contains explicit description of warfare, killing, torture, and mutilation.

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Music by Anapse.

1 week, 3 days ago

Hemlock #45: Hannah Arendt and Natality feat. Guillermo Zapata

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I, William Engels, write articles on Substack.

Books Mentioned:

Arendt: Origins of Totalitarianism

Arendt: The Human …

2 weeks, 3 days ago

Hemlock #44: Epictetus and the Stoics with Greg Sadler

I read Epictetus Discourses and Enchiridion with Professor Gregory Sadler https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/ - although we both started off by dunk…

2 weeks, 5 days ago

#181 Facing Gaia: Lectures on the Political Theology of Nature by Bruno Latour, Gifford Lecture Series 2013

RIP Bruno Latour (1947-2022)

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https://williamengels.substack.com

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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Hemlock #43 - Enframing the Future with Emma Stamm, Nuclear Weapons, AI, Martin Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology, Walter Benjamin, Fascism, Fantasy, and Simple Folk Tales

"Fascism is the desire for a simple folk tale" - Thomas Mann, I think.

Substack's and LEPHT HAND's own Emma Stamm https://substack.com/@elftheory rejo…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

#180: Michael Parenti Tribute: The Darker Truths of Empire (November 2005)

RIP Michael Parenti (1933-2026). A brave, undimmed (sometimes controversial, of course) critic of that great juggernaut of death: the American Empire…

1 month ago