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The Rise and Fall of Homo Sapiens

Today’s episode explores some very big picture history: David talks to palaeontologist and science writer Henry Gee about the story of the human species from origin to peak to inevitable decline. When and how did Homo sapiens see off the competition from its rivals in the human a ... Show More

54m 22s

Nov 19

Trump-like Leadership in German History w/Chris Clark: Part 2 – Chancellor, Tyrant, Emperor?

Part two of David’s conversation with historian Chris Clark asks whether the best historical insights into Trump-like leadership come from comparison with kings or commoners, democrats or dictators. Does Trump’s leadership style share much if anything with an epoch-making politic ... Show More

58m 54s

Nov 16

Trump-like Leadership in German History w/Chris Clark: Part 1 – Kaiser Wilhelm II?

Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like leadership, but not through looking at the Nazi period. Instead, David and Chris explore the character and leadership style of Kaise ... Show More

51m 53s

Oct 22

The Flow and Freedom of a Stoic Life

This episode turns to two of the Stoics’ deepest insights: that everything outside us is in constant motion, and that within us lies a freedom nothing can touch.Using Zeno’s vision of happiness as “a good flow of life,” we explore how change and death are not disruptions but esse ... Show More

7m 5s

Sep 2023

TIL 431: Freedom that Lasts (feat. Ben Marshall)

1. An overview of the ministry of Freedom That Lasts. 2. How Freedom that Lasts differs from twelve-step programs. 3. Other biblical counseling resources for addictions. 4. Click <a href="https://freedomthatlasts.com/">here</a> for more information ... Show More

24m 46s

May 2024

Joseph E. Stiglitz, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" (Norton, 2024)

In his latest book, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society (W. W. Norton, 2024), Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz rethinks the nature of freedom and its relationship to capitalism. While many agree that freedom is good and we want more of it, we don’t agree about w ... Show More

42m 15s

Apr 2025

Episode #227 ... Albert Camus - On Exile

Today we talk about the concept of exile from the work of Camus. We focus on a couple stories from his book Exile and The Kingdom. We talk about why Camus insists that true lucidity can only arise from the jarring lived experience he calls “exile,” not from armchair reflection. W ... Show More

34m 29s

Aug 8

Philosophy Series: Hegel, Marx, & Modern Life (Part 1)

Breht listens to, comments on, and expounds upon a public lecture by the late professor of philosophy Rick Roderick from 1989 on Hegel, Marx, and modern American capitalism. Along the way he explicates the Hegelian notion of Freedom, Right and Left Hegelianism, the End of History ... Show More

1h 15m

Jul 2025

What Makes Us Free?

What's the role of government in society? What do we mean when we talk about individual responsibility? What makes us free? 'Neoliberalism' might feel like a squishy term that's hard to define and understand. But this ideology, founded by a group of men in the Swiss Alps, is a po ... Show More

49m 9s

Mar 2025

Episode #225 ... Albert Camus - The Plague

We look at Albert Camus' The Plague. We talk about a common misreading from the Myth of Sisyphus. We talk about different cycles of his work from his earlier individual confrontation with the absurd to a more community focus. We talk about solidarity. Absurd heroes. Empathy and m ... Show More

30m 7s

Aug 2024

Krishnamurti on Liberation

‘Liberation is not a form of snobbishness; it is there for anyone who will inquire into it. It is there with an ever-widening, deepening beauty and strength when there is self-knowing.’ This week’s episode on Liberation has four sections. The first extract (2:40) ... Show More

1h 5m

May 2025

[BEST OF] "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" by Karl Marx

ORIGINALLY RELEASED Mar 19, 2024 Alyson and Breht explain and explore Karl Marx's classic work "The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte." Together, they discuss Marx's incisive analysis of Louis Bonaparte's rise to power, the complex ... Show More

1h 37m

Nov 2023

Montaigne: Philosopher of the French Renaissance

Centuries before Proust's Remembrance of Things Past took us on a tour of memory and James Joyce played with stream of consciousness, a 16th century nobleman - Michel de Montaigne - developed a wholly new style of reflective prose that examined his place in the world. ... Show More

44m 18s

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