Joseph J. Ellis, Chris Hirst & Natalie Bennett discuss leadership and the dangers of absolute power.
Apr 14
How they ruined philosophy | Babette Babich, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, and Christoph Schuringa
Did analytic philosophy ruin the entire discipline?For more than a century there has been a divide in Western philosophy between two distinct approaches, often described as analytic and continental philosophy. Analytic philosophy is predominantly based in the English-speaking wor ... Show More
48m 36s
Mar 31
Crisis in the academy | Yaron Brook, Eric Kaufmann, Catherine Liu
Universities, long celebrated as sanctuaries of free thought and intellectual rigour, have for centuries been regarded as the best way to educate and conduct research. But increasingly, this assumption is being questioned. A recent study found that two-thirds of academics feel th ... Show More
46m 43s
Dec 2020
A Leader Must Be a Reader
<p>"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
4m 24s
Nov 2019
Nov. 3, 2019 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt (Blurb, i.e. Educational Talk): "Will the Real Rulers of America Please Stand Up? Orwell Gave us Daily 2 Minutes of Hate, But it's 24/7 from Me
--{ "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
1h 6m
May 2019
Adam Gopnik Wants to Make Liberalism Great Again!
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
41m 19s
<p>Ryan talks about the qualities of a great leader, and reads this week’s meditation from <a href='https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/ryan5?_pos=1&_sid=bf7e56015&_ss=r'>The Daily Stoic Journal</a>.</p><p>The <a href='https://dailystoic.com/leadershipchallenge'>Dail ... Show More
<p><em>New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.</em></p> <p><em>---</em></p> <p><br /></p> <p>How getting your sh*t together can make you a better leader in your own personal orbit. It can maybe even ch ... Show More