# Podcasts

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[August 3, 2023](/content/2023/08/03/americans-dont-know-how-to-sing-the-blues-w-brad-elliott-stone-jacob-goodson/index.html)

## [S2E05 Americans Don’t Know How to Sing the Blues w/ Brad Elliott Stone & Jacob Goodson](/content/2023/08/03/americans-dont-know-how-to-sing-the-blues-w-brad-elliott-stone-jacob-goodson/index.html)

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…

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[March 30, 2023](/content/2023/03/30/does-metamodernism-actually-move-us-past-postmodernism-jason-ananda-josephson-storm/index.html)

## [S2E04 Does Metamodernism Actually Move Us Past Postmodernism? w/ Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm](/content/2023/03/30/does-metamodernism-actually-move-us-past-postmodernism-jason-ananda-josephson-storm/index.html)

Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm takes us through postmodernism to metamodernism, a new approach to producing what he calls “humble knowledge.”

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[June 1, 2022](/content/2022/06/01/literature-must-be-unsettling-force-democracy-elin-danielsen-huckerby/index.html)

## [S2E03 Literature Must Be an Unsettling Force for Democracy w/ Elin Danielsen Huckerby](/content/2022/06/01/literature-must-be-unsettling-force-democracy-elin-danielsen-huckerby/index.html)

Contrasting with dogmatism and scientism, Elin Danielsen Huckerby believes a ‘literary culture’ gives us more fruitful ways to move democracy forward.

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[March 9, 2022](/content/2022/03/09/fear-of-break-american-democracy-noelle-mcafee/index.html)

## [S2E02 Fear of Breakdown in American Democracy w/ Noëlle McAfee](/content/2022/03/09/fear-of-break-american-democracy-noelle-mcafee/index.html)

Noëlle McAfee takes a psychoanalytic view of deliberation to diagnose the downstream effects of the fear of breakdown in American democracy.

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[February 16, 2022](/content/2022/02/16/scientific-knowledge-is-metaphorical-jessica-wahman/index.html)

## [S2E01 Scientific Knowledge Is Metaphorical w/ Jessica Wahman](/content/2022/02/16/scientific-knowledge-is-metaphorical-jessica-wahman/index.html)

Jessica Wahman believes that treating scientific knowledge as metaphorical creates a naturalist approach to science that avoids scientism.

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[July 7, 2021](/content/2021/07/07/pragmatism-human-flourishing-live-well-john-stuhr/index.html)

## [S1E20 Can Pragmatism Help Us Live Well? w/ John Stuhr](/content/2021/07/07/pragmatism-human-flourishing-live-well-john-stuhr/index.html)

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.

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[June 23, 2021](/content/2021/06/23/buddhist-reflections-race-buddhism-liberation-charles-johnson-grand/index.html)

## [S1E19 Buddhist Reflections on Race and Liberation w/ Charles Johnson](/content/2021/06/23/buddhist-reflections-race-buddhism-liberation-charles-johnson-grand/index.html)

Award-winning writer Charles Johnson examines race, presenting Buddhist practice as a radical form of liberation.

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[June 9, 2021](/content/2021/06/09/introduction-stoicism-derek-parsons-stoic-philosophy/index.html)

## [S1E18 A Friendly Introduction to Stoicism w/ Derek Parsons](/content/2021/06/09/introduction-stoicism-derek-parsons-stoic-philosophy/index.html)

Derek Parsons provides an introduction to Stoicism, a life philosophy that places reason and virtue at the center of human flourishing.