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An individual "is responsible for everything he does," claimed Sartre. And from criminal justice to creative expression, free will and responsibility are central to our culture and our personal lives. Yet neuroscientists and materialist thinkers commonly maintain that freedom is ... Show More

Are we living in the moment? Are we really free? How can we transcend the constant anxieties of our mind? Throughout history, certain people in the West and the East have claimed that the human mind could reach states of so-called higher consciousness. In the twentieth century, s ... Show More

The good, the bad, and the transgressiveIs the transgression of norms and rules what brings history forward and allows for creativity and change? OR is the fetishization of transgression an ever-present danger that breaks down all structures of meaning and becomes totalizing in o ... Show More

<p>&quot;A leader will be forced into countless situations that they have never been in before. Trying, painful, stressful, baffling dilemmas and difficulties unlike any they have known. Nothing could have prepared Kennedy for the Cuban Missile Crisis, but it’s a good thing he ha ... Show More

<p>It would be wonderful to live in a time where people got along. It’d be better if the economy was roaring. It’d be nice if the political landscape wasn’t dominated by grifters and demagogues. And of course, who doesn’t wish that our parents had taken better care of the environ ... Show More

<p>Today’s episode features an excerpt from Jeffrey Beneker’s <a href="https://geni.us/8rJc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How To Be A Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership</a>. How To Be A Leader is a modern translation and collection of essays about successful ... Show More

<p><em>Imperfect Paradise</em> Host Antonia Cereijido speaks with philosopher and author of <em data-stringify-type="italic">Elite Capture: How The Powerful Took over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) </em>Olúfemi O. Táíwò. They examine the question: are identity politics o ... Show More

--{ "Will the Real Rulers of America Please Stand Up? Orwell Gave us Daily 2 Minutes of Hate, But it's 24/7 from Media and Deep State." © Alan Watt }-- Snow - Increased Taxes on Essentials - Monitored, Socialized System - Trilateral Commission, Royal Institute for International A ... Show More

Adam Gopnik, the celebrated New Yorker writer whom Tina worked with for many years when she was editor in chief, talks with her about his new book, A Thousand Small Sanities, born of a talk he had with his teenage daughter on the night President Trump was elected. In the book, Go ... Show More

<p>We know what <a href="https://dailystoic.com/seneca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Seneca</a> thought of Alexander the Great. We know what he thought of Marius. We know what he thought of entitled and gluttonous Romans. We have his seething satire of Claudius.</p> ... Show More