This episode picks up right where the last one left off. If you haven't listened to that one yet, jump into this one if you choose or go back to that one first. This is a long episode, and we cover several of the more popular topics in reaction

Tackling the Culture War with Philosophy, with Sam Hoadley-Brill, Part 1

May 10th, 2021 1h 29m

The way I see it, there are no unimportant ideas in philosophy, but among the most important concepts to understand for anyone interested in ethics or politics is epistemology. Fortunately for me, Sam Hoadley-Brill, a PhD student in philosophy

Building a Politics of Solidarity, with Ashley Bohrer

Apr 19th, 2021 1h 47m

Back on 7 January of this year, I met with Notre Dame professor Ashley Bohrer to discuss her book, Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality Under Contemporary Capitalism. Given this was the day after the white-supremaci

On American Anti-Democracy, with Seth Cotlar

Jan 25th, 2021 1h 39m

I don't know if anyone's noticed, but there's a groundswell of authoritarianism in America, and it's entirely centered in the current Republican Party. It wasn't three weeks ago that we saw supporters of Donald Trump attack the U.S. Congress in

Deconstructing "The Coddling of the American Mind," Part 3: Conclusion

Oct 13th, 2020 1h 19m

What is meant by toleration, and can people asking for toleration reasonably be intolerant? If you read The Coddling of the American Mind, you might come away thinking that intolerance is always a bad thing, that we should tolerate things like

Deconstructing "The Coddling of the American Mind," Part 2

Sep 14th, 2020 1h 32m

In this episode, I continue with an examination of the events at Yale during Halloween 2015. Most everywhere you look, Yale students have been demonized for their behavior, mostly because of a viral video that showed a student yelling and swear

Deconstructing "The Coddling of the American Mind," Part 1

Aug 31st, 2020 1h 3m

In 2015, protests erupted at Yale University after an email about the propriety of certain choices in Halloween costumes. I missed the coverage of this when it happened, and now I’m coming to find out that this protest and the ensuing controver

A Brief Review, Follow-up after discussion with Lewis Gordon

Aug 24th, 2020 25m 7s

A quick review of the important takeaways from my discussion with Prof. Lewis Gordon.Deeyah Khan, White Right: Meeting the Enemy:https://youtu.be/rxP4B374Os8The Guardian, “‘It’s not fair, not right’: How America treats its black farmers”: https

The Political Problem of Racism, with Dr. Lewis Gordon, Part 2

Aug 17th, 2020 1h 13m

What is racism? How does it operate, and to what extent is it a problem for all of us? The way my first guest on Politeia sees it, and I agree, is that societies either are racist or they aren’t—there’s no such thing as a not-racist society tha

The Political Problem of Racism, with Dr. Lewis Gordon, Part 1

Aug 10th, 2020 55m 8s

What Kind of Place Do You Want to Live In?

May 15th, 2020 8m 37s

What kind of animal are we? On the one hand, there’s this idea that we’re each individuals in competition with other individuals over a finite amount of resources, and on the other hand there’s the idea that we’re actually cooperative by nature

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