Episode

S2E05 Americans Don’t Know How to Sing the Blues w/ Brad Elliott Stone & Jacob Goodson

School boards and state governments have been locked in intense debates over what counts as history and whose history ought to be taught. Many of…

S2E04 Does Metamodernism Actually Move Us Past Postmodernism? w/ Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm

The German philosopher Hegel gives us a useful tool for understanding the history of ideas: thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. We can see this clearly in…

S2E03 Literature Must Be an Unsettling Force for Democracy w/ Elin Danielsen Huckerby

Whether it’s theology, philosophy, politics, or science, it is not uncommon for people to believe their particular worldview has greater authority over others. This authoritarian…

S2E02 Fear of Breakdown in American Democracy w/ Noëlle McAfee

Democratic deliberation can be viewed in a few different ways. It can be approached as a means of competing interests coming together to bargain between…

S2E01 Scientific Knowledge Is Metaphorical w/ Jessica Wahman

Scientific inquiry is sometimes viewed as a way of getting after literal knowledge, the belief our scientific claims are a one-for-one match with reality—or what…

S1E20 Can Pragmatism Help Us Live Well? w/ John Stuhr

Pragmatists do not hold absolute faith in any particular value, principle, or belief. This applies even to the many concepts affiliated with pragmatists—such as pluralism,…

S1E19 Buddhist Reflections on Race and Liberation w/ Charles Johnson

Buddhist practice has been around since the sixth century. As a way of life, Buddhism acknowledges there is suffering in the world, which arises from…

S1E18 A Friendly Introduction to Stoicism w/ Derek Parsons

A philosophy of living, similar to a religion, explains the human condition and provides a moral and spiritual guide for how we can navigate identified…