Podcast Episodes

Hemlock #21 - Iran in the Modern World: Five Sideways Reflections, Operation AJAX, FDR and the Yalta Pact with Saudi Arabia, Oil and the AIOC, Mossadegh, Israel, Nuclear Blackmail, and the Great Satan

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Nuclear weapons in…

9 months ago

DocDocs #2 - The Act of Killing: Musical Theater, Politicide, Death Squads, Suharto/Sukarno, East Timor, Interviews with Mass Murderers, American Gangster Movies, and the Aesthetics of Violence

Sabrina is back for the second installment of the Documentary Doctors!

As a reminder, you can sign up for her class on Palestine here. If you can't at…

9 months ago

Hemlock #20 - Abuses of Power, Constitutional Reform, and the Gaza Holocaust, featuring William Sanchez

Art Credit: "Piece Offering" by Mr. Fish

⁠https://clowncrack.com/2025/06/10/piece-offering/⁠

Find William's writing on Substack:

⁠https://philosophicalr…

9 months ago

Bhagwan Richard Presents: Osho (Complete Series) - Sex Cults, New Age Theology, Bioterrorism, Nurse Mengele, Dynamic Meditation, Tax Evasion, and Ten Weird Reasons You NEVER Leave a Cult Unsupervised

Osho, AKA Bhagwan, AKA Raj Rajneesh, AKA....we get it - mystic, con artist, cult leader, philosopher, terrorist, dupe? Your guess is as good as mine.…

9 months, 1 week ago

The Documentary Doctors #1: Sabrina Jennings and William Engels Review the Award-Winning Docs "The Bibi Files" and Al-Jazeera's Banned Documentary "The Lobby" - AIPAC, Jewish Voice for Peace, & Cigars

In this kickoff episode, activist and teacher Sabrina Jennings (links below) calls in to review two outstanding exposé documentaries, The Bibi Files,…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

#168 - Kant: The Categorical Imperative, A Priori and A Posteriori, First and Second Critique, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kantian Ethics & Deontology, Enlightenment, and Perpetual Peace

Written by Professor A. J. Mandt (Wichita State University)

https://philpeople.org/profiles/a-j-mandt

Voiced by Charlton Heston. Original here:

https://…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

#167 - Edward Said's Legacy: Cornel West on His Colleague's Work in the Middle East, the Human Spirit in Poetry, Kendrick Lamar, John Coltrane, the Funk of Life, and the Truth of Radical Solidarity

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Original Video (SFU)

https://youtu.be/gpkZRyXdmi0

Summary

In a passionate and wide-ranging lect…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Hemlock #19 - The Left: A Love Letter

I will end with a little scene that took place in the last months of peace. They were the most terrible months of my life, for helplessly and hopeles…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Hemlock #18 - DOME: My Response to Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Golden Dome" vis a vis the Last Forty Years of Missile Defense History

How I learned to stop worrying and love the Dome.

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Music Credit (under the FOX clip):

Anapse Entertainment…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

Hemlock #17: Trans Technologies with Oliver Haimson - Chelsea Manning, Trans Rights in the US, Technologies of Identity Formation and Community Resilience, Videogames, and the Future for Trans Youth

Oliver's Book Trans Technologies:

https://a.co/d/01Lhkk9

Oliver's Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/haimson.bsky.social

Guest: Oliver Haimson, Assistant …

9 months, 3 weeks ago