In this episode of Quill or Be Quilled, Greg talks with Ali Rizvi, author of The Atheist Muslim, about Soundgarden for a solid ten minutes before moving on to cultural flashpoints like Muslim identity, bigotry from the Left and Right, terrorism

WORDHAMMER: Dumb

Jun 7th, 2017 18m 52s

WORDHAMMER episodes of Quill or Be Quilled take us deep into the wilderness of language, into a tavern where words are unmade. In this episode, our host examines the word "dumb" and its deterministic implications, as well as "cretin," "moron,"

Sir John Hargrave

May 29th, 2017 1h 1m

In this episode of Quill or Be Quilled, Greg talks with Sir John Hargrave about loathing self-help as a genre, rewiring your brain, loathing trucks, Honda's five whys, and loathing other stuff.

Julie Schumacher

May 28th, 2017 40m 25s

In this episode of Quill or Be Quilled, Greg talks with author Julie Schumacher about Dickensian psycholinguistic character names, using children in focus groups, becoming someone worse, and silencing your inner editor.

Ken Liu

May 22nd, 2017 1h 24m

In this episode of Quill or Be Quilled, Greg talks with Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Ken Liu about silkpunk, identity, "identity," the strange appeal of tax law, how not to deal with rejection, rationalism, and single bit errors.

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