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Is the US a Democracy?
Season 8 Episode 26
Not a rhetorical ploy, but an actual question. The strange form of American ‘Democracy’ today raises the very real idea that at some point a lack of …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Values: Ep. 2 - Health
Season 15 Episode 2
Often discussed as an ‘implicit’ good, health is nonetheless a relatively low priority in many modern societies. We have both a poor understanding of…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Power of Abstraction
Season 8 Episode 25
A reflection on our capacity to overwhelm our actual experience of the world with abstract concepts that somehow is often more powerful than even our…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Values: Ep. 1 - Introduction
Season 15 Episode 1
A brief introduction to the field of values and why they matter as a subject of reflection. Fundamentally, we understand the world through our values…
7 months ago
Biography
Season 8 Episode 24
A brief argument in favor of reading biographies as a warmup for a new series that will be coming very soon!
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7 months ago
Commodification vs Financialization
Season 13
A long footnote to the Late Capitalism series in which I discuss the, at least to me, very important difference between these two concepts. While com…
7 months, 1 week ago
How to be Wrong and Why!
Season 8 Episode 23
An invitation to explore the power of being wrong. In a culture that emphasizes the importance of rightness over a whole range of other possible valu…
7 months, 1 week ago
Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 18 - Conclusion 2 "Us"
Season 13 Episode 18
While our particular brand of history is unique, people have been living history for a long time. By looking back to some earlier patterns of living …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 16: Conclusion
Season 14 Episode 16
Nietzsche is not just presenting a series of arguments, he is modelling a very different approach to thinking and understanding our world than we usu…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 17 - Conclusion 1 "Cheerios"
Season 13 Episode 17
A reflection on the global structure of Late Capitalism encapsulated in Cheerios as an example that can help us understand the nature of the world we…
7 months, 3 weeks ago