# Episode

## [S2E05 Americans Don’t Know How to Sing the Blues w/ Brad Elliott Stone & Jacob Goodson](/content/podcast/s2e05-americans-dont-know-how-to-sing-the-blues-w-brad-elliott-stone-jacob-goodson/index.html)

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](/content/podcast/s2e04-does-metamodernism-actually-move-us-past-postmodernism-w-jason-ananda-josephson-storm/index.html)

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](/content/podcast/s2e03-literature-must-be-an-unsettling-force-for-democracy-w-elin-danielsen-huckerby/index.html)

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](/content/podcast/s2e02-fear-of-breakdown-in-american-democracy-w-noelle-mcafee/index.html)

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](/content/podcast/s2e01-scientific-knowledge-is-metaphorical-w-jessica-wahman/index.html)

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](/content/podcast/s1e20-can-pragmatism-help-us-live-well-w-john-stuhr/index.html)

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](/content/podcast/s1e19-buddhist-reflections-on-race-and-liberation-w-charles-johnson/index.html)

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](/content/podcast/s1e18-a-friendly-introduction-to-stoicism-w-derek-parsons/index.html)

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…