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Richard Sylvester – Non-duality
Progressive Myths, Michael Huemer
Hidden Heretics, Ayala Fader
The Zone of Interest
Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
Debating the Virus Theory of Medicine with Mike Wallach
Boswell's Life of Johnson is the strangest biography ever written
The Topeka School, Ben Lerner
The Greatest Scenes in All of Literature Part 1 – Boswell Meets Samuel Johnson
The Philosophy of Crime and Punishment Part 5 – Porfiry's Confession
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, Peter Beinart
Overturned – The Rhetoric of Overruling in the United States Supreme Court, Clarke Rountree
The Philosophy of Crime and Punishment Part 4 – Raskolnikov's First Confession
Tablets Shattered – The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life, Joshua Leifer
How Dostoevsky Experienced His Execution
The Philosophy of Crime and Punishment Part 3 – Guilt
Literature and AI
Author Interview 30 - Judaism is a About Love, Rabbi Shai Held
The Philosophy of Crime and Punishment Part 2 — Jesus Wept
The Philosophy of Crime and Punishment Part 1 — Raskolnikov and the Ubermensch
The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares
Author Interview 29 - A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden, Osamah F. Khalil
All Quiet on the Western Front
Making Sense of the Dennett-Sapolsky Free Will Debate
Moby Dick and Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
Author Interview 28 - Gatekeeper: The Tactical Guide to Commitment, Shawn T. Smith
Genocide Doesn't Look Like Genocide
The Case for Zionism – Dr. Gil Troy
Responding to Readings of Nietzsche with Daniel Tutt
Author Interview 27 - How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche, Daniel Tutt
Audio Essay 111 - Waiting for the Barbarians, J. M. Coetzee
Author Interview 26 - The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance, Shaul Magid
Lessons From the 2014 Gaza War – Benzion Sanders
Audio Essay 110 - Funes the Memorious, Jorge Luis Borges
Audio Essay 109 - Hanoch Levin
Protective Presence in the West Bank – Sam Stein
Audio Essay 108 - Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future Part 3
Audio Essay 107 - Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future Part 2
Audio Essay 106 - Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future Part 1
Audio Essay 105 - Les Miserables Books 4 and 5
Author Interview 25 - American Breakdown: Why We No Longer Trust Our Leaders and Institutions and How We Can Rebuild Confidence, Gerard Baker
Author Interview 24 - Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods, Mariana Alessandri
Author Interview 23 - The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality, William Egginton
Audio Essay 104 - Glimpses
Interview With a Jewish Flat Earther – Dave Weiss
Author Interview 22 - School of Woke: How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them, Kenny Xu
Audio Essay 103 - Les Miserables Book 3
Audio Essay 102 - Les Miserables Book 2
Audio Essay 101 - Les Miserables Book 1
Audio Essay 100 - Introduction to Les Miserables
Interview With a Jewish QAnoner – Gila
Interview With a Jewish QAnoner – Eli Weber
Reflecting on the Works of Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023)
Audio Essay 99 - A View of the Woods, Flannery O'Connor
Audio Essay 98 - Jeremiah's Grief
Author Interview 21 - Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature, Dr. Greg Ellermann
Audio Essay 97 - The Education of Henry Adams Part 5
Audio Essay 96 - The Education of Henry Adams Part 4
Audio Essay 95 - The Education of Henry Adams Part 3
Audio Essay 94 - The Education of Henry Adams Part 2
Audio Essay 93 - The Education of Henry Adams Part 1
Debating Responsible Platforming With Steve Donoghue
Audio Essay 92 - Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
Author Interview 20 - Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order, James E. Cronin
Author Interview 19 - How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy, F. Perry Wilson MD
Interview With Flat Earth Dave
Audio Essay 91 - The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Thomas Ligotti
Audio Essay 90 - The Twilight World, Werner Herzog
Just Non-duality with Jim Newman
Audio Essay 89 - How To Have Impossible Conversations
Audio Essay 88 - Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Author Interview 18 - The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society, William Deresiewicz
Audio Essay 87 - Molloy (Pt II), Samuel Beckett
Discussing Conceptions of God, Non-Duality, and the Core of all Mystical Traditions with Seekers of Unity's Zevi Slavin
Author Interview 17 - Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow with Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern
Debating Self Help and Talk-Therapy With Steve Donoghue
Audio Essay 86 - My 5 Perspectives on Friedrich Nietzsche
Author Interview 16 - Wolf's Guide to Dharma Books & Practice
Audio Essay 85 - To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Audio Essay 84 - "Nothing is True and Everything is Possible": Russia's Postmodern Dictatorship and The Future of Democracy in America
Audio Essay 83 - "Forbidden Knowledge" in the Stories of Jorge Luis Borges
Author Interview 15 - The Economics of Meaning in Life with Dr. Joel Vos
Audio Essay 82 - Meditation in Literature (Catch-22, Moby Dick, etc.)
Author Interview 14 - Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People: How to Learn from your Troublesome Buddhas with Mark Westmoquette
Author Interview 13 - The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival with Dr. Chris Begley
Tag Episode 8 – Best Chapter in All of Literature Tag
Author Interview 12 - The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama with Dr. Claude A. Clegg III
Author Interview 11 - The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future with Dr. Neil Lanctot
Author Interview 10 - Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It with Dr. Barbara Hofer and Dr. Gale Sinatra
Author Interview 9 - Borderline Fortune (poetry) with Teresa K. Miller
Author Interview 8 - The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky with Andrew D. Kaufman
Author Interview 7 - When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves with Lawrence Shapiro
Author Interview 6 - The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science by Dr. Paul Behrens
Author Interview 5 - Fringes: Life on the Edge of Professional Rugby by Ben Mercer
Author Interview 4 - The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism by Dr. Gerald Horne
Author Interview 3 - The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade by Dr. Benjamin Smith
Discussing the Manosphere with Steve Donoghue
Discussing Jewish Mysticism and the Occult with Dr. Justin Sledge
Audio Essay 81 - The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai