Podcast Episodes

#87 - Jeremy Rifkin: The Promise of the Third Industrial Revolution

How can the economy be reorganized to serve human needs and preserve the environment while maintaining growth and technological advancement?

What fu…

1 year, 7 months ago

#86 - Roy Casagranda: The American Presidency (A User's Guide)

It's election season and Professor Roy would like to tell you how unreal the Presidency is and give you some political science pointers while he's at…

1 year, 7 months ago

#85 - Kurt Vonnegut: We Are All Dancing Animals

"I am suing the cigarette company - I have been smoking nothing but Pall Malls since I was 11. Right there on the package it says 'this stuff will ki…

1 year, 8 months ago

#84 - David Bentley Hart: The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (Satchitananda)

David Bentley Hart is an American theologian that works at the intersection of faith, philosophy, aesthetics, and Eastern religion. In this talk, he …

1 year, 8 months ago

#83 - Richard D. Wolff: Intro to Marxism (Crises and Openings) REUPLOAD

How would a Marxist economy function without a state that backs property rights? How could a corporation operate without a board of directors? How co…

1 year, 8 months ago

#82 - Wassily Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Full Audiobook)

The Russian painter and synesthete Wassily Kandinsky developed a vision of art as a spiritual pursuit and elaborated that vision in his book "Concern…

1 year, 8 months ago

#81 - The Question of (Everyone's) Guilt

Do you ever feel guilty? You probably should.

Especially if you're an American.

1 year, 8 months ago

#80 - John Dupré: Process Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, and Evolution

John Dupré is a leading philosopher of biology working at the intersection between the humanities, social sciences, and biological sciences.

The term…

1 year, 8 months ago

#79 - US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Roy Casagranda on Petroleum, Arab Nationalism, and the War on Terror

What happens when an unstoppable force (Arab Nationalism) meets an immovable object (US Economic Dependency on Saudi Oil)?

Will we achieve independen…

1 year, 8 months ago

A Jazz-Soaked Philosophy [Complete] - Cornel West

This year (2024) Dr. Cornel West was invited to give the annual Gifford Lecture Series at the University of Edinburgh. He shook things up - rather th…

1 year, 8 months ago