Podcast Episodes

Masha Gessen - Putin and the Political Uses of Homophobia

“Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers. [Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparent…

1 year, 9 months ago

Richard Wolff - Marxism v. Capitalism: The Game Is Rigged

“The impoverished families of the long-term unemployed strained to the point of dysfunction, communities deprived of viable economies, interrupted ed…

1 year, 9 months ago

Roger Scruton - The Line Between "Left" and "Right"

“There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’r…

1 year, 9 months ago

Vine Deloria Jr - The World We Used to Live In

A Dakota Sioux, Vine Deloria, Jr. is one of the most outspoken figures in Native American affairs. His works promote Native American cultural nationa…

1 year, 9 months ago

Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings, racial epithets, …

1 year, 9 months ago

Naomi Klein - Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World

On May 4th, 2016 journalist and political activist Naomi Klein delivered the Edward Said Lecture at the London Review of Books.

She addressed the hie…

1 year, 9 months ago

Robert Oppenheimer - Eulogy for Niels Bohr [Reupload]

"Bohr was the recipient of the Atoms for Peace Prize. None of us knew what the prize was for, but everyone knew that this was the right man to give i…

1 year, 9 months ago

Cornel West - A Love Supreme (Part 6 of 6)

In his final Gifford Lecture, Professor Cornel R. West’s jazz-soaked philosophy looks unflinchingly at our own catastrophic times, and says that ‘per…

1 year, 9 months ago

Cornel West - American Allegro Molto Vivace (Part 5 of 6)

In this lecture, Prof. West argues that the two great philosophically-inclined artists in early twentieth-century America were T.S. Eliot and Eugene …

1 year, 9 months ago

Cornel West - History Adagio (Part 4 of 6)

In this lecture, Prof. West argues that the greatest breakthrough in modern philosophy is found in the works of the Italian Giambattista Vico (1668-1…

1 year, 10 months ago