Podcast Episodes

#115 - Why Everyone Should Read Dante: Professor Bill Cook

The soul, which is created quick to love, responds to everything that pleases, just as soon as beauty wakens it to act.

-Dante, Purgatorio, Canto 18

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Hemlock #6 - Interregnum and the Angel of History

"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters."

-Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, 1929.

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#114 - Isaiah Berlin's Lectures on Romanticism: Beethoven, Kant, Byron, Percy Shelley, and Blake [REUPLOAD #2]

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Credit for the copy below as well as the source videos goes to the great YouTube channel Phi…

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Hemlock #5 - Greek Tragedy and the Net of Aeschylus

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"Our joy today is equal to the pain that made it"

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon.

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#113 - Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State: Chris Hedges Interviews Princeton Professor Sheldon Wolin

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In this episode, Chris Hedges interview Princeton political scientist Sheldon Wolin, explori…

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#112 - Dreams and Genocide: Iraq: Roy Casagranda on Petroluem Conflicts, International Sanctions, and the War on Terror

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In this Professor Roy presentation we get to hear about how international sanctions killed h…

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#111 - Guest Interview with Environmental Philosopher Guillermo Zapata: Reading Indigenous Philosophers on Confronting the Sixth Mass Extinction, Building Community, and Overcoming Corporate Power

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In this conversation with environmental ethicist Guillermo Zapata we discuss the role of ind…

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#110 - Why Did Someone Think This Was a Good Destination? Roy Casagranda on Modernity, Drug Dealer Empires, Neocolonialism, and the Cold War (4/4 Part Series)

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Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are …

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#109 - Love and the Search for God: Thomas Merton on Rilke, Monastic versus Lay Living, and Finding God

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Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more …

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#108 - The Philosophy of Simone Weil: Sister Ann Astell on Loving Attention, Interfaith Dialogue, Vatican 2, and Christian Mysticism

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When we are the victims of illusion, we do not feel it to be an illusion but a reality. It i…

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