Podcasts
S2E05 Americans Don’t Know How to Sing the Blues w/ Brad Elliott Stone & Jacob Goodson
Brad Elliott Stone and Jacob Goodson argue that until Americans learn how to sing the blues, it’s going to be difficult to build beloved community…
S2E04 Does Metamodernism Actually Move Us Past Postmodernism? w/ Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm takes us through postmodernism to metamodernism, a new approach to producing what he calls “humble knowledge.”
S2E03 Literature Must Be an Unsettling Force for Democracy w/ Elin Danielsen Huckerby
Contrasting with dogmatism and scientism, Elin Danielsen Huckerby believes a ‘literary culture’ gives us more fruitful ways to move democracy forward.
S2E02 Fear of Breakdown in American Democracy w/ Noëlle McAfee
Noëlle McAfee takes a psychoanalytic view of deliberation to diagnose the downstream effects of the fear of breakdown in American democracy.
S2E01 Scientific Knowledge Is Metaphorical w/ Jessica Wahman
Jessica Wahman believes that treating scientific knowledge as metaphorical creates a naturalist approach to science that avoids scientism.
S1E20 Can Pragmatism Help Us Live Well? w/ John Stuhr
John Stuhr invites us to consider pragmatism as a “season of belief,” a dynamic philosophy that can help us live a little better each day.
S1E19 Buddhist Reflections on Race and Liberation w/ Charles Johnson
Award-winning writer Charles Johnson examines race, presenting Buddhist practice as a radical form of liberation.
S1E18 A Friendly Introduction to Stoicism w/ Derek Parsons
Derek Parsons provides an introduction to Stoicism, a life philosophy that places reason and virtue at the center of human flourishing.