Podcast Episodes

#132 - American "Patriots": Michael Parenti on American Exceptionalism, The Jingoist Desire to be Best and First, Opposing Fascism, and What Real Love of Country Looks Like

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“All conservative ideologies justify existing inequities as the natural order of things, ine…

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The Great Dictator: Charlie Chaplin in 1940

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Hemlock #7 - Zen as a Way of Life: My Interview with Zen Teacher Astika Royal Mason on Meditative Practice, Inner Silence, and Telling Stories about Spiritual Growth

“The Great Way is not difficult, for those who have no preferences"

-Xinxin Ming, Tang Dynasty Chan Buddhist Poem

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#131 - Philosophy in Our Age of Imperial Decline: Cornel West on Blues and Jazz, Radical Democracy, and the Consequences of Imperial Hubris

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“The [music of the] Blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors …

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#130 - The New War on Terror: Noam Chomsky on Subverting International Law, the Manufacture of Consent, and the True Meaning of the HW Bush's New WorldOrder [REUPLOAD]

“Destroying hope is a critically important project. And when it is achieved, formal democracy is allowed—even preferred, if only for public relation …

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#129 - What Good are the Humanities? Talbot Brewer

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Philosophy could be characterized with only a bit of irony as what is left if you begin with…

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#128 - Shockwave of the Future: Terence McKenna on Psychedelic Liberation, the Alchemical Method, Matrilenial Society, The Ingression of Novelty, and Why History Ends in Green

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"Human civilization is the result of ten million years of striving after the unspeakable"

-T…

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#127 - Obscene Totalitarians: Slavoj Zizek on the Bhagavad Gita, Ideological Guilt, the Third Reich, and Stalin's Perverse Legacy

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“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What …

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#126 - Gaia: James Lovelock on Planetary Systems, the Challenge of Climate Change, and the Role of Human Beings in Ecological Stewardship

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“We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] …

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#125 - War in the Nazi Imagination: Richard J. Evans on Hitler's Goals in Poland, British Diplomacy, Winston Churchill, and the Final Solution

“If the experience of the Third Reich teaches us anything, it is that a love of great music, great art and great literature does not provide people w…

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