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Moral of the Story: Hannah Smart on Meat Puppets
May 5, 2026
1h 02m 22s
Content of the Form: Hannah Smart on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
Apr 1, 2026
1h 58m 01s
Contemporary Conversations: Jonathan B. Fine on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and the German Enlightenment
Feb 6, 2026
1h 30m 10s
Nota Bene: The Moral Passion of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King with Hannah Smart
Jan 9, 2026
1h 39m 44s
Contemporary Conversations: Eleanor Russell on Simone Weil's Gravity & Grace
Jan 1, 2026
1h 31m 32s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/5/26 | ![]() Moral of the Story: Hannah Smart on Meat Puppets✨ | metafictionpersonal identity+3 | Hannah Smart | Meat Puppets | — | Hannah SmartMeat Puppets+5 | — | 1h 02m 22s | |
| 4/1/26 | ![]() Content of the Form: Hannah Smart on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest✨ | ethicsliterature+3 | Hannah Smart | Infinite Jest | — | David Foster WallaceInfinite Jest+5 | — | 1h 58m 01s | |
| 2/6/26 | ![]() Contemporary Conversations: Jonathan B. Fine on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and the German Enlightenment✨ | German Enlightenmentreligious tolerance+3 | Jonathan B. Fine | Deutches TheaterNathan der Weise | — | LessingNathan der Weise+6 | — | 1h 30m 10s | |
| 1/9/26 | ![]() Nota Bene: The Moral Passion of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King with Hannah Smart✨ | David Foster WallaceThe Pale King+5 | Hannah Smart | Infinite JestThe Pale King | — | David Foster WallaceThe Pale King+6 | — | 1h 39m 44s | |
| 1/1/26 | ![]() Contemporary Conversations: Eleanor Russell on Simone Weil's Gravity & Grace✨ | mysticismphilosophy+4 | Eleanor Russell | Gravity and Grace | — | Simone WeilGravity and Grace+5 | — | 1h 31m 32s | |
| 11/20/25 | ![]() Contemporary Conversations: A.V. Marraccini on Susan Sontag’s Fascinating Fascism & Notes on Camp✨ | Susan Sontagart criticism+3 | A.V. Marraccini | Moral Minority | — | Susan Sontagart+5 | — | 2h 03m 38s | |
| 11/5/25 | ![]() Content of the Form: Grace Byron on Annie Ernaux’s The Years & Herculine✨ | artistic formspolitical function+3 | Grace Byron | Annie Ernaux’s The YearsHerculine | — | artistic formspolitical meshwork+3 | — | 1h 08m 27s | |
| 10/28/25 | ![]() Moral of the Story: Sebastian Castillo on Fresh, Green Life✨ | ethical contentimaginative writing+4 | Sebastian Castillo | Fresh, Green Life | — | Sebastian CastilloFresh Green Life+5 | — | 1h 05m 02s | |
| 10/22/25 | ![]() Contemporary Conversations: Ross Wolfe on Domenico Losurdo's Neo-Stalinist Revival and the Future of Marxism✨ | MarxismWestern Marxism+4 | Ross Wolfe | 20th century MarxismWestern Marxism | — | MarxismWestern Marxism+4 | — | 1h 52m 32s | |
| 7/4/25 | ![]() Contemporary Conversations: Alina Stefanescu on Derrida's The Politics of Friendship and My Heresies✨ | philosophyfriendship+3 | Alina Stefanescu | The Politics of FriendshipMy Heresies | — | Alina StefanescuJacques Derrida+5 | — | 1h 56m 51s | |
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| 5/10/25 | ![]() Being & Nothingness, Part 2✨ | existentialismconsciousness+3 | — | — | — | Being & NothingnessJean-Paul Sartre+3 | — | 2h 17m 11s | |
| 4/2/25 | ![]() Nota Bene: The Metaphysics and Moral Vision of David Lynch with Jon Repetti | Note Bene is a series of off the cuff episodes that delve more into our personal experiences with broader topics with relevance to normativity and the ethical life. In this episode, Charles is joined by the writer and critic, Jon Repetti, to reflect on the art and philosophy of the late American avant-garde filmmaker, David Lynch. While touching upon his entire filmography, the discussion focuses on the LA triptych of films, Lost Highway(1997), Mulholland Drive(1999), and Inland Empire(2006) ... | 2h 43m 40s | ||||||
| 12/24/24 | ![]() Contemporary Conversations: Matt McManus on The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism | Matt McManus joins us to help excavate the common origins of liberalism and socialism within the revolutionary republican tradition and illuminate shared political and normative principles rooted in a commitment to egalitarianism and expressive individualism. His new work, The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism. functions as an survey of key figures within the tradition of political liberalism and how their ideas of freedom, equality, and solidarity run parallel to the development of socia... | 1h 25m 21s | ||||||
| 11/28/24 | ![]() Contemporary Conversations: Ryan Ruby on Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious and Context Collapse | In a far-reaching conversation with the critic Ryan Ruby, we unpack the legacy and impact of Fredric Jameson's landmark work of Marxist literary criticism, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Jameson's text argues for the explanatory richness and coherency of a Marxist hermeutical approach to interpreting the social function of the literary text. The guiding principle of Jameson's methodology is that any commentary that fails to historicize the narrative strategie... | 2h 01m 26s | ||||||
| 11/23/24 | ![]() Being & Nothingness, Part 1 | In Part 1, we explicate Jean-Paul Sartre's attempt to build a total existential system hinges on an unusual account of the evanescent character of consciousness at the heart of the meaning of existence. In this episode, we cover the first half of Sartre's monumental work, Being and Nothingness, explaining core concepts derived from his philosophical progenitors found in Husserlian phenomenology and Heideggerian Existenz philosophy. After discussing Sartre's creative appropriations of these th... | 1h 41m 03s | ||||||
| 9/27/24 | ![]() Repetition | Repetititon(1843) is a difficult and, for many, a baffling work by Søren Kierkegaard. It is equal parts psychological study, literary riddle, and philosophical problematic. In this discussion, we attempt to shed light on its central concept of repetition, how its interior dialectic differs from the Hegelian concept of mediation, and what the possibility of repetition means for the peculiarly modern problems of personal identity, historicity, and contingency. We interrogate the unusual literar... | 1h 33m 35s | ||||||
| 9/10/24 | ![]() Contemporary Conversations: Vanessa Christina Wills on Marx's Ethical Vision | In this lively interview with philosopher Vanessa Wills, we discuss her recently published book, Marx's Ethical Vision, which argues that Marx's historical materialism contains a coherent and consistent moral picture of social transformation grounded in a view of human nature and the conditions of human flourishing. Contra the amoralist reading of Marx, Wills critically reconstructs, drawing from the entire range of Marx's corpus, an unflinching concern for normative ends that emerge as the d... | 1h 59m 22s | ||||||
| 8/22/24 | ![]() Fear and Trembling | This episode inaugurates a series of episodes exploring the existentialist approach to modern philosophy by considering the most well-known work of the melancholic, Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric is a genre-bending blend of aesthetic criticism, biblical exegesis, and critical ethics. It is perhaps the most profound deliberation on the concept of faith in the history of philosophy. Firmly rooted in post-Kantian ethical universalism, Fear and Trem... | 1h 44m 44s | ||||||
| 7/22/24 | ![]() Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 3: The Culture Industry | To complete our series on Dialectic of Enlightenment, we take an extended look at the famous chapter on the culture industry. The function of the culture industry, or the sphere of production concerned with creating entertainment and art is to inure and train consumers to acquiesce to the dominant ideology expressed through its culture products. The tendency of this process, according to Adorno and Horkheimer, is to reproduce sameness, conformity, and eliminate the thought of rebellion a... | 1h 44m 07s | ||||||
| 6/19/24 | ![]() Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 2 | In this multi-part series, we examine the legacy of critical theory and the prospects of a recuperation of Marxist theory in the face of rising fascism by delving into the dense and fragmentary landmark text of the Frankfurt School, Dialectic of Enlightenment. In Part 2, we focus on the final completed fragment, "Elements of Anti-Semitism: The Limits of Enlightenment,' which analyzes the concept and instrumentalization of antisemitism in fascist political currents. Adorno and Horkheimer, over... | 1h 29m 07s | ||||||
| 5/14/24 | ![]() Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 1 | In this multi-part series, we examine the legacy of critical theory and the prospects of a recuperation of Marxist theory in the face of rising fascism by delving into the dense and fragmentary landmark text of the Frankfurt School, Dialectic of Enlightenment. In Part 1, we discuss the meaning of Enlightenment as the advancement of thought and ask how we square the traditional narratives of historical progress and emancipatory potential with the pernicious effects of rationalised management, ... | 1h 15m 48s | ||||||
| 4/4/24 | ![]() Vocation Lectures | This episode discusses the German sociologist Max Weber's Vocation Lectures. In these lectures, Weber outlines a secular conception of the meaning of a vocation, the role of passion in politics and scholarship, and the kind of ethically responsibility that confronts us given the unavoidably violent nature of modern politics. Weber characterises modernity as the instrumentalization of reason and scientific knowledge towards the end of a kind mastery or control over the natural world. In ... | 1h 23m 04s | ||||||
| 3/9/24 | ![]() Shame & Necessity | In Shame and Necessity, Bernard Williams interrogates what we can still glean about the universal character of human action and the notion of responsibility from a study of the Ancient Greeks. William provides a philosophical interpretation of the historical circumstances of the Greek understanding, expressed in the tragedies, of agency, responsibility, and the role of luck in human affairs. His claim is that our modern concept of moral responsibility does not deserve its presume... | 1h 15m 53s | ||||||
| 2/26/24 | ![]() Sources of Normativity | This episode turns to Christine Korsgaard's Tanner lectures, "The Sources of Normativity," to explore how morality might be rationally vindicated from within the nature of practical rationality. Korsgaard's project is an iteration of the Enlightenment's attempt to ground morality in human nature. Korsgaard suggests that the correct moral theory will not merely provide an explanation of our moral natures, but also be justified in the light of our status as reflective animals. Her constructivis... | 1h 14m 50s | ||||||
| 2/18/24 | ![]() After Virtue | This episode examines Alasdair MacIntyre's attempt to explain the existence of interminable moral and political disagreement as a symptom of the disarray of our inherited moral concepts. MacIntyre contends that the best way to unify our disparate and competing concepts of right, obligation, and virtue is to understand them as emerging from determinate social conditions. What modernity lacks or has forgotten in its instrumental use of moral concepts is that normative questions like "what... | 1h 28m 19s | ||||||
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