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Hemlock #49: Three Passions feat. Bertrand Russell WARNING CONTAINS SOUNDS OF HUMAN BODY DRINKING

Hemlock #48 Peace in Iran: Jack Kennedy from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists talks Strait of Hormuz, Petroyuan, Albert Camus, Strategic Bombing, French and Israeli Nuke Programs, Kissinger

Hemlock #47: Teaching Nagasaki feat. Franco Castro Escobar - Disaster Storytelling, Youth Antinuclear Education in Japan, Militarism and Nuclear Abolition, Iris Chang, & The Bells of Nagasaki

#185: Eleusis in the Spring (Vernal Equinox Special) feat. Joseph Campbell - The Eleusinian Mysteries, the Rites of Orpheus, Fertility and Persephone, the Descent into Hades, and the Resurrection

#184: Gaza, or How to Normalize Genocide: Keynote Speech by Chris Hedges at The Sanctuary for Independent Media

Hemlock #46 Congress: feat. Dr. Maya Kornberg - Citizens United, Steve Bannon, Jan 6, Gerrymandering, Watergate Babies & Her New Book: STUCK: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress

#183: Tribute to Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026) feat. Rick Roderick and Michael Sugrue

#182a - The Radiance of Perfection and the Mystic Ascent: Plotinus on the Good and the One, Plato's Symposium, The Myth of Psyche and Eros (Aphrodite), Socrates' Teacher Diotima, feat. Pierre Grimes

The Phoenix Program: PART ONE - ORIGINS

Hemlock #45: Hannah Arendt and Natality feat. Guillermo Zapata

Hemlock #44: Epictetus and the Stoics with Greg Sadler

#181 Facing Gaia: Lectures on the Political Theology of Nature by Bruno Latour, Gifford Lecture Series 2013

Hemlock #43 - Enframing the Future with Emma Stamm, Nuclear Weapons, AI, Martin Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology, Walter Benjamin, Fascism, Fantasy, and Simple Folk Tales

#180: Michael Parenti Tribute: The Darker Truths of Empire (November 2005)

#179 Martin Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology" (1954) Presented by Gregory Sadler, Enframing, Standing-Reserve, Aletheia, Aristotle's Four Causes, and the Destining of Revealing

Acid Communism: Philosopher Emma Stamm on Mark Fisher's Unfinished Manuscript, Capitalist Realism, the Slow Cancellation of the Future, Joe Rogan, Critical Theory, AI, and Life in Para-Academia

Capitalism's Invisible Army (CIA) - Bill Yarborough on MKUltra, Operation CHAOS, Nixon & the Plumbers, the 40 Committee, Operation Gladio, Paperclip Nazis, Stranger Things, and Healing from Torture

Carved In Stone: Matthew Davis on Mount Rushmore, Wounded Knee & Medals of Honor, Deadwood, the Lakota, Stone Mountain and the Klan, American Aesthetics, Custer, Whitman, Jackson, and the Black Hills

#178a David Foster Wallace: The Complete Audio Archive of Interviews, Speeches, and Public Appearances (Winter Solstice Special - Part 1 of 2)

#178b David Foster Wallace: The Complete Audio Archive of Interviews, Speeches, and Public Appearances (Winter Solstice Special - Part 2 of 2)

SAURON, INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir - Part 2: CEO Alex Karp, or Evil Genius Adult-Baby Demands New Cold War

SAURON INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir (feat. the Bad Role Models) Part 1: Peter Thiel Crawls Out of an Apartheid-Era Uranium Mine and into the White House

Escape from the TechnoSphere feat. Jacob Ward: Sam Altman, AI Girlfriends, Karp and Thiel, the Dubious Hobbits of Palantir, Jevon's Paradox, and The Unstoppable Onslaught of Clanker-Made Slop

Nuclear Cascade with Jack Kennedy - Nukes in South Korea, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, New Cold War with China, Russia/Ukraine, Deterrence, Iran's/Iraq's WMDs, NeoCons, and Missile Defense

Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna - Graham St John on McKenna's Life and Work, Psilocybin and DMT, Psychedelic History, Alchemy, the Experiment at La Chorrera, +the Eschaton

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Part 1)

Goethe's Faust - Michael Sugrue on the Worldly Gospel, German Romanticism, Intellect and Theology, Mephistopheles and the Spirit of Negation, Gretchen's Eternal Feminine, and Last Minute Salvation

The Lessons of History feat. Dr. Roy Casagranda - Henry Kissinger, the Iraq War, Esoteric Platonism and the Neocons, Cycles in Political Power, Education Reform, Hiroshima, Anarchism, and State Power

What is Existentialism? - Bert Dreyfus on Sartre, Heidegger, Pascal, Camus, Kierkegaard, Philosophy's Struggle with Christianity, Dostoevsky, and the Road to Authenticity (HoPAA #176)

The "Ceasefire" in Gaza feat. Sabrina Jennings

The Ballroom feat. William Sanchez (Hemlock #34)

HEMLOCK HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: HAUNTOLOGY - Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, Left Melancholia, the Arab Spring, Walter Benjamin, and the Slow Cancellation of the Future (H33)

A Skeleton Key to James Joyce: Mythologist Joseph Campbell on Irish Literature and Joyce's Novels: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegan's Wake (HoPAA #175)

Dante's Divine Comedy: Professor Hubert Dreyfus on the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, Beatrice, Vergil, and the Beatific Vision (HoPAA #173e)

The Practical Value of Philosophy: Will Engels Interviewed by Roubin Thind on Education, Spirituality, Guerilla Media, US-China Relations, Blue Collar Intellectuals, the Origins of HoPAA (Hemlock #34)

The Gospel According to John: Hubert Dreyfus on the Logos, the Trinity, and the Ontological Transformations of Christianity (HoPAA #172d)

Magnolia (1999): A Love Letter - Paul Thomas Anderson's Greatest Film, Fate, Freemasons, Intergenerational Trauma, Pick Up Artists, Aimee Mann, and Why It's Not Going to Stop (Til' You Wise Up) BRM6b

Hemlock #32: Machines of Loving Grace - Palantir, Alex Karp, Alchemy and Science, Brute Force Mimetic Objects, Atomic Poetry, the Automation of Violence, and the Endless Empire of Perpetual Advantage

#174 - Dealing with Hungry Ghosts: Thích Nhất Hạnh on Healing Intergenerational Trauma, Realizing Emptiness, Self-Compassion, and Living as a Transmission from Ancestors

#173 - The Myths of Capital: Michael Parenti on Rags to Riches Fables, Pacifying Propaganda, Wealth Pyramids and Perpetual Scarcity, Corporate Power, and the Socialist Response to the Ruling Ideology

BRM7: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, H. P. Blavatsky, Samuel Mathers, Victorian Magick, Theosophy, Kabbalah, Séances, and the Great Occult Poetry Larp

#172c - Vergil and the Roman Tradition: Bert Dreyfus' Complete Course on the Aeneid, Augustus Caesar, Roman Propaganda, The Fall of Troy, Dido and Carthage, the Rise of Empire, and Latin Poetic Myth

BRM6a: Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master, There Will Be Blood, American Grifters, Bloodoil, Scientology, Solvent Abuse, Time Travel, Brahms, Chopin, Johnnie Greenwood, Radiohead and Milkshake Drinking

Bad Role Models #5: Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai Duelist, the Book of the Five Rings, the Way of Combat Strategy, Dokkōdō, Zen, and the Strike from the Void

Mission Accomplished: A Documentary Doctors Retrospective - Iraq, Afghanistan, 9/11, the War on Terror, Robert Fisk, Neocon Fear Bubbles, Saudi Connections, & Why It's All About The Petrodollar (DD8)

BRM4b: The HST Bonus Show - Screwjack, Better Than Sex, Hells Angels, Flesh-Eating Snails, Mescaline, Radical Lawyers, Motorcycle Crashes, and Finding the Edge

BRM4a: Hunter S. Thompson in Aspen - Fear and Loathing in the Sheriff's Office, Greedheads, Hatemongers, and Yellow-Eyed Hyenas, The Freak Power Ticket, Fat City, and the Death of the American Dream

172b - Aeschylus: Bert Dreyfus on Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, the Furies and the Eumenides, Pouring Out of Libations, Athenian Tragedy, and the Pessimism of the Greeks

DD7 - Judas and the Black Messiah: Fred Hampton, the Black Panthers, FBI/COINTELPRO, J. Edgar Hoover, the Rainbow Coalition, MHCHAOS, MLK and Malcolm X, Gary Webb's Dark Alliance, and the CIA

#172a - The Odyssey: A Philosophical Analysis, Hubert Dreyfus on Artistic Worldmaking, the Attuning Gift of Greek Gods, Telemachus' Journey to Manhood, Autonomy and the Divine Inspiration

DD6 - 40 Years in Solitary: "Cruel and Unusual: The Story of the Angola 3", Solitary Confinement, Torture, Jim Crow, Black Radicalism, Private Prisons, Prison Labor, and Mass Incarceration

DD5 Eichmann in Jerusalem: "Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt" Banality of Evil, Between Past and Future, Totalitarianism in Democracy, K. Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, the Third Reich, Fascism

Consolatio #6: The Finest Threads that Bind the Truth - Book 5 of the Consolation of Philosophy on Free Will, Higher Intelligence, History and Eternity, Hope's Epitaph

Hemlock #31: McNamara's Cold War: Pulitzer Prize-Winner Bill Taubman on Vietnam, the Domino Theory, Khrushchev & Gorbachev, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Tokyo Firebombing, Nuclear Abolition

The Art Life: A Tribute to David Lynch (BRM #3, Explicit) with Mr. Richard - Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, 50s Americana, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Mr. Eddy, Now It's Dark

Hemlock #30 - Kaila Yu: Orientalism (Old and New), WW2 Comfort Women, Disney Princesses, Imperialism and the Sex Trade, Okinawa Air Base, Asian Fetishization, Memoirs of a Geisha, Playboy, +New Book

Hemlock #29 - Welcome to the First Crusade Feat. American Prestige and We're Not So Different: Magic Spears, Starving Franks, Holy Massacres, Historical Himbos, and Why Only the First Crusade Worked

#171a - John Brown: Susan Neiman on One Man's Terrorist is Another Man's Freedom Fighter, Radical Ethics and Activism, Violence and Nonviolence, Battle Hymn of the Republic, & Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural

#171 - Heroism for a Time of Victims: Susan Neiman on Modern Myths, Odysseus, Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson, Adorno, George Eliot, Circe, John Brown and the Civil War, and Why We Need Heroes Today

#169b - Death: Shelly Kagan on the Living in the Face of Death, the Problem of Immortality, Suicide and the Value of Life, Loneliness, Overcoming and Confronting the Fear of Death

Hemlock #28 Watchmen: A Cold War Essay (Part One) Ozymandias, The Doomsday Clock, Rorschach, Nukes in Vietnam, Berlin Pop, Rilke, Thomas Merton & the Unspeakable, and Confronting the End of the World

BRM #2b - Byron: Frankenstein's Monster, Ada Lovelace, Dodging Child Support, 19th Century Gossip Columns, the Greek War for Independence, Butt Issues, Hayao Miyazaki, de Sade, and David Lynch

Bad Role Models #2a: Lord Byron with Richard, Earl of Sinex - European Grand Tours, Childhood Trauma, Crappy 18th century Dads, the Elgin Marbles, Bad Teenage Poetry, Dodging the Coppers Like a Dandy

DocDocs #4: The Riot Report: Lyndon Johnson, the Newark Riots, MLK/Malcolm X, the Kerner Commission, Redlining, Vietnam and Civil Rights, Militarized Police, Jimmy Baldwin, and the End of Jim Crow

Hemlock #27 - Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025): My Talk w/ Greg Sadler on Virtue Ethics, Zizek and Lacan, Modes of Rationality, Effective Altruism /Bentham, After Virtue, Thomism, Mill, & Heavy Metal

DocDocs #3 - Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat: Patrice Lumumba and the CIA, Dizzy Gillespie for President, Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, The Great Nina Simone, Frantz Fanon, Congo Liberation, Uranium, IMF, Jazz

#170 - 2nd Biannual Report to the Shareholders: Roy Casagranda, Boethius, the American Terror Series, Virginia Woolf, Alasdair MacIntyre, Getting Emailed by Kn@tsies, Contrapoints, Gratitude

#169a - Death: Shelly Kagan on Plato, Immortality, Physicalism versus Dualism, Individual Continuity Across Time and Space, Arguing the Existence of the Soul, Phaedo and Socrates, Memento Mori

Hemlock #26 - Targeting the Death Star with Guillermo Zapata: Palantir, ICE Camps, Peter Thiel & the Antichrist, Vaclav Havel, Star Wars and Rogue One, Maersk/BDS, Deporting Zohran, Melancholia, Gaza

Hemlock #25 - Maturity: Taoism, Confucianism, Epicureanism, Kierkegaard's Aesthetic/Hedonistic Way of Life, the Origins of Evil, Ahimsa/Nonviolence, and Disputing the Tao

Hemlock #24 - Countdown: Journalist Sarah Scoles on Nuclear Weapons Safety, Jill Tarter and SETI, Nuclear LARPing, the Golden Dome and Missile Defense, and What Really Happens at Los Alamos

Consolatio #5 - For the Evil, Show Your Pity: Book 4 of the Consolation of Philosophy, All Things Depend Upon Will and Power, Virtue is the Health of the Soul, Our Aim Is To Be Unlike Those We Hate

Hemlock #22 - Congratulations to the Neocons: We're Now At War with Iran - Also the Effective Altruist/AI Grifters, Because That's What I Wanted To Talk About Before The Bombing Began

Hemlock #21 - Iran in the Modern World: Five Sideways Reflections, Operation AJAX, FDR and the Yalta Pact with Saudi Arabia, Oil and the AIOC, Mossadegh, Israel, Nuclear Blackmail, and the Great Satan

DocDocs #2 - The Act of Killing: Musical Theater, Politicide, Death Squads, Suharto/Sukarno, East Timor, Interviews with Mass Murderers, American Gangster Movies, and the Aesthetics of Violence

Hemlock #20 - Abuses of Power, Constitutional Reform, and the Gaza Holocaust, featuring William Sanchez

Bhagwan Richard Presents: Osho (Complete Series) - Sex Cults, New Age Theology, Bioterrorism, Nurse Mengele, Dynamic Meditation, Tax Evasion, and Ten Weird Reasons You NEVER Leave a Cult Unsupervised

The Documentary Doctors #1: Sabrina Jennings and William Engels Review the Award-Winning Docs "The Bibi Files" and Al-Jazeera's Banned Documentary "The Lobby" - AIPAC, Jewish Voice for Peace, & Cigars

#168 - Kant: The Categorical Imperative, A Priori and A Posteriori, First and Second Critique, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kantian Ethics & Deontology, Enlightenment, and Perpetual Peace

#167 - Edward Said's Legacy: Cornel West on His Colleague's Work in the Middle East, the Human Spirit in Poetry, Kendrick Lamar, John Coltrane, the Funk of Life, and the Truth of Radical Solidarity

Hemlock #19 - The Left: A Love Letter

Hemlock #18 - DOME: My Response to Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Golden Dome" vis a vis the Last Forty Years of Missile Defense History

Hemlock #17: Trans Technologies with Oliver Haimson - Chelsea Manning, Trans Rights in the US, Technologies of Identity Formation and Community Resilience, Videogames, and the Future for Trans Youth

Hemlock #16: Gaia Wakes 2: Topher McDougal on Planetary Consciousness, AI Personhood and Risk, Economies of Predation and Production, Abolitionism for Sentience, and the Light at the End of the Tunnel

#166 - War: Chris Hedges on the Permanent Psychosis of War, Covering the Middle East for the New York Times, Gaza, Kosovo, the Plague of Violence, Corporate Totalitarianism, Propaganda, and Revolution

#165 - Breaking the Myth: Vintage Chomsky on Neoliberalism, US Economic Hegemony, Bretton Woods Corporate Power, the Contradictions of Capitalism, and the End of the Cold War

#164 - The Future of Faith: Huston Smith on Comparative Religion, Tibetan Buddhism, Scientism versus Science, the Fairness Revolution, Darwinian Reduction, and Why Religion Matters in the 21st Century

Consolatio #4 - The Crystal Fount: Boethius on True and False Happiness, the Unity of Goodness, the Two Binding Threads, the Myth of Orpheus, and Those Darknesses which Bring Ruin to the Souls of Men

Hemlock #15 - Confronting the Bomb: Franco Castro Escobar on the History of Nuclear Weapons in Japan, Antiwar Movements, World Federation, Hibakusha, Youth Antinuclear Organizations, and Fallout

#163 - May, 1968: An Intellectual and Political History of the Paris Student Revolt, Sexual Liberation, Street Philosophy, Alain Badiou, Feminism, Simon Critchley, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, and Zizek

#160b - The Meaning of History (2 of 2): Darren Staloff on Arnold Toynbee, R. G. Collingwood, Positivism, Arthur Danto, Fernand Braudel, Poststructuralism, and William McNeill's “Plagues and People”

Hemlock #14 - Secrets of the Killing State: Corinna Barrett Lain on Lethal Injection, the Ethics of the Death Penalty, Prison Reform, Televised Executions, and What the State Does at its Most Powerful

Hemlock #13 - Human Beings First: Rev. Dr. Helen Boursier on ICE Detention Centers, Human Rights in the Borderlands, Christian Ministry in Dark Places, and the Theology of Witness and Hospitality

#161 - The Birmingham Tragedy: James Baldwin and Reinhold Niebuhr Discuss Civil Rights, God's Presence in Tragedy, Justice and Love, and Bearing Witness to Evil

#160a - The Meaning of History (1 of 2): Darren Staloff on Philosophical Approaches to History, Eliade, Vico, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, and the Search for a Universal History of Humanity

Consolatio #3 - Book 2: Fortune's Wheel, the Lesser and Greater Teachers of Virtue, Fate and Goodness, and How Mixed with Bitterness is the Sweetness of Man's Life

Hemlock #12 - Gaia Wakes: My Conversation with Topher McDougal on AI, Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons, Planetary Consciousness, David Graeber, Gregory Bateson, Technological Lifeforms, and Evolution

Consolatio #2 - To Oppose Evil Men is the Chief Aim We Set Before Ourselves: Book I, Entrance of Philosophy to the Dungeon, Condemnation of Stoics and Epicurus, Pi & Theta, Fear Nothing, Hope Nothing

#158 - Mircea Eliade and the Cycles of Time: Darren Staloff on Comparative Mythology, Symbolic Archetypes, the History of Religion, Eliade's Religious Scholarship, and the Theophany of Profane Events

#157 - Learn to Die So You Can Learn to Live: Cornel West on Socratic Legacy, Blues, Chekhov's Christ, American Democracy, Deep Education, Jazz, Augustine, and the Blue Note in the American Song

Consolation #1: 100 Reviewers Special! The Consolation of Philosophy - An Experiment in Reading Boethius, Part 1: Introduction

Hemlock #11 - Call Your Friends (or, Unhinged Volume II)

#156 - Sartre: Robert C. Solomon on Existential Philosophy, Responsibility, Sartre's Experience as a POW, Being and Nothingness, No Exit, Phenomenology, Bad Faith, and Why We Are Doomed to Be Free

Hemlock #10 - Capital (Kapital) Volume 1: Interview with Yale's Paul North & OSU's Paul Reitter on Karl Marx's Theory of Commodification, Communism, Property Rights, Value Theory, Worker Alienation

#155 - Speaking Peace: Marshall Rosenberg on Conflict Resolution, Giraffe and Jackal Language, Nonviolent Communication, Expressing Needs and Desires, and Articulating a More Peaceful World

#154 - The Philosopher's Stone: Terence McKenna on Hermeticism, Renaissance Magic, the Hidden History of Alchemy, the Catharites, Giordano Bruno, Rosicrucians, and the Rise of the Invisible College

#153 - A Process Perspective on Human Life: John Dupré on Panpsychism, Holobionts, the Paradoxes of Speciation, Dynamics of Human Evolution, Theseus's Ship, and Processual Mechanics

Hemlock #9 - An Unhinged Rant About What Our Government Likes to Call "Detention Centers"

#151 - The British Romantic Poets: Adam Potkay on How Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Burns Worshiped Nature, Sought Transcendence, Defied Authority, and created Modern Love

#150 - The Government of the Future: Noam Chomsky on Libertarianism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Political Implications of Marxism, Individualism v Collectivism, and Prospects for Democracy and Survival

#149 - My Interview with Professor Michael Albertus on his New Book “Land Power”: Indigenous Rights, Climate Change, Land Theft and Restitution, the Great Reshuffle, and the Chinese Sparrow Massacre

#148 - The Grail Quest: Joseph Campbell on the Arthurian Legends, the Adventure of Gawain, Parsifal's Quest for the Holy Grail, the Three Ages of the Church, and the Elementary Ideas of Mythology

#147 - Dzogchen: James Low on Tibetan Buddhism, the Uncontaminated Mind, Developing Clarity and Insight, Overcoming Ego, and Riding the Wave that Never Breaks

#146 - Moby Dick: Bert Dreyfus on the White Whale, the Origins of American Literature, Ahab's Madness, and Existentialist Themes in the 19th Century

Letter to the Shareholders 2025

#145 - Wittgenstein: Norman Malcom on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language, Analytic Philosophy, the Vienna Circle, Bertrand Russell, and Language Games

#144 - The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche: Rick Roderick on Postmodernism, the Eternal Recurrence, Ressentiment, Master & Slave Morality, the Übermensch, and the Last Man

Hemlock #8 - Rituals of Fire: Astika Royal Mason on Symbols of Spiritual Transformation, the Internalization of Religious Ceremonies, Developing Spiritual Maturity, and Buddhism's Reaction to Hinduism

#143 - The End of Empire: Chris Hedges on Gaza Genocide, US Complicity, and the Fate of Conquerors

#142 - Aristotle: Thomas Brickhouse on the Golden Mean, Virtue Ethics, the Prime Mover, the Athenian Constitution, and Why Aristotle was Dante's "Master of Those Who Know"

#141 - Out of Your Mind: Alan Watts on Exploring Consciousness, The Illusion of Self, Practical Meditation Advice, the Difference between Hinduism and Buddhism, and the Wisdom of Insecurity

#140 - Albert Camus: Robert C. Solomon on the Absurd Hero, The Stranger, The Plague, Existentialism in Literature, and the Benign Indifference of the Universe

#139 - Machiavelli Double Episode: Michael Sugrue & Quentin Skinner on Renaissance Politics, the Philosophy of Ruthlessness, Nihilsm, and Why It Is a Double Pleasure to Deceive the Deceiver

#138 - The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Michael Sugrue on the Stoic Ideal, Absolute Power, Resistance to Temptation, and Who Writes a Book to Themself?

#137 - Censorship: Ada Palmer on the Spanish Inquisition, Galileo and Descartes, the Renaissance Book Economy, Government Surveillance, and Self-Censorship

#135b - The Work of John Milton (Part II): John Rogers on Miltonic Power, Satan's Rebellion, Areopagitica, the Blind Prophet, and Justifying the Ways of God to Man

#136 - Carl Jung's Approach to Therapy: Lionel Corbett on Depth Psychology, Mythic Imagery, The Treatment of Psychosis, and the Roots of Magical and Archetypal Thinking

#135a - The Work of John Milton: Yale's John Rogers on Miltonic Power, Satan's Rebellion, Areopagitica, the Blind Prophet, and Justifying the Ways of God to Man

#133 - The Philosophy of John Dewey: Progressive Education, Occupational Psychosis, American Pragmatism, and Process Philosophy

#132 - American "Patriots": Michael Parenti on American Exceptionalism, The Jingoist Desire to be Best and First, Opposing Fascism, and What Real Love of Country Looks Like

The Great Dictator: Charlie Chaplin in 1940

Hemlock #7 - Zen as a Way of Life: My Interview with Zen Teacher Astika Royal Mason on Meditative Practice, Inner Silence, and Telling Stories about Spiritual Growth

#131 - Philosophy in Our Age of Imperial Decline: Cornel West on Blues and Jazz, Radical Democracy, and the Consequences of Imperial Hubris

#130 - The New War on Terror: Noam Chomsky on Subverting International Law, the Manufacture of Consent, and the True Meaning of the HW Bush's New WorldOrder [REUPLOAD]

#129 - What Good are the Humanities? Talbot Brewer

#128 - Shockwave of the Future: Terence McKenna on Psychedelic Liberation, the Alchemical Method, Matrilenial Society, The Ingression of Novelty, and Why History Ends in Green

#127 - Obscene Totalitarians: Slavoj Zizek on the Bhagavad Gita, Ideological Guilt, the Third Reich, and Stalin's Perverse Legacy

#126 - Gaia: James Lovelock on Planetary Systems, the Challenge of Climate Change, and the Role of Human Beings in Ecological Stewardship

#125 - War in the Nazi Imagination: Richard J. Evans on Hitler's Goals in Poland, British Diplomacy, Winston Churchill, and the Final Solution

#124 - The Wages of Rebellion: Chris Hedges on the Death of Liberalism, the Decline of Moral Institutions, and the Moral Imperative of Revolt

#123 - The Genocide in Gaza: Chris Hedges

#122 - The Mystery of Consciousness: Iain McGilchrist on Hemispheric Difference, The Neuroscience of Experience, Complexity Theories of the Brain, and the Ontological Implications of Holism

#121 - Philosophy and Human Values: Rick Roderick on Socrates, Epictetus, Kant, Mill, Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the Challenge of Postmodernism [REUPLOAD]

#119 - Surveillance Capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff on Behavioral Futures Markets, Collusion between Big Tech and Intelligence, the Weaponization and Commodification of "Metadata"

#118 - Fateful Triangle: Israel, Palestine, and the United States: Noam Chomsky on Settler Colonialism, The Two-State Solution, and American Foreign Policy in the Middle East [REUPLOAD]

#116 - The Meaning of Existentialism: Hubert Dreyfus on Martin Heidegger, Soren Kierkegaard, Artificial Intelligence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Human Nature

#115 - Why Everyone Should Read Dante: Professor Bill Cook

Hemlock #6 - Interregnum and the Angel of History

#114 - Isaiah Berlin's Lectures on Romanticism: Beethoven, Kant, Byron, Percy Shelley, and Blake [REUPLOAD #2]

Hemlock #5 - Greek Tragedy and the Net of Aeschylus

#113 - Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State: Chris Hedges Interviews Princeton Professor Sheldon Wolin

#111 - Guest Interview with Environmental Philosopher Guillermo Zapata: Reading Indigenous Philosophers on Confronting the Sixth Mass Extinction, Building Community, and Overcoming Corporate Power

#109 - Love and the Search for God: Thomas Merton on Rilke, Monastic versus Lay Living, and Finding God

#108 - The Philosophy of Simone Weil: Sister Ann Astell on Loving Attention, Interfaith Dialogue, Vatican 2, and Christian Mysticism

#107 - A Medicine More Fit for Humanity: Iain McGilchrist on Anti-Materialism, the Divided Brain, and How Art and Literature Can Improve Medicine

#106 (LABOR DAY SPECIAL) - Why I Am Still A Communist: Slavoj Zizek on Stalin's Terror, the Consequences of Neoliberalism, and the Refugee Crisis

#105 - The Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza: J. Thomas Cook on Pantheism, the Geometric Method, and Life as a Jewish Heretic

#104 - The Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard: George Connell on Infinite Resignation, the Knight of Faith, and the Path to the Spiritual Life

#103 - The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas: Kenneth L. Schmitz on Scholasticism, the Proof of God's Existence, and the Beatific Vision

#102 - The Philosophy of David Hume: Nicholas Capaldi on the Fact/Value Distinction, the Problem of Induction, and Natural Religion

#100 - A Complete Guide to Plato's Dialogues: Michael Sugrue on Plato's Literary Style, the Visibility of Reason, and the Emergence of Justice and Wisdom [REUPLOAD]

#99 - Power and Ideology at the New School: Noam Chomsky on Internationalism, Media Bias, and US Global Aggression

#98 - Nonviolent Communication: Marshall Rosenberg on Resolving Conflict, Negotiating Compassionately, and Creating Peace

#97 - The Sword & the Dollar, The US Role in Central America: Michael Parenti on Banana Republics, Anti-Hispanic Racism, and Liberation Theology

#96 - Hegel, the Phenomenology of Spirit, and the Meaning of History: Michael Sugrue

#94 - David Graeber: Debt, a Five-Thousand Year History

#93- Chaotic Emergence & Strange Attractors: Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham (Trialogue 7-10)

#92- Fractal History and the Imagination: Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham (Trialogue 4-6)

#91- Chaos, Consciousness, and Creativity: Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham (Trialogue 1-3)

#90 - Robert Anton Wilson: Prometheus Rising

#89 - Joseph Campbell: Integrating the Myths of East and West

#88 - New Podcast Launch: Hemlock

#87 - Jeremy Rifkin: The Promise of the Third Industrial Revolution

#85 - Kurt Vonnegut: We Are All Dancing Animals

#84 - David Bentley Hart: The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (Satchitananda)

#83 - Richard D. Wolff: Intro to Marxism (Crises and Openings) REUPLOAD

#82 - Wassily Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Full Audiobook)

#81 - The Question of (Everyone's) Guilt

#80 - John Dupré: Process Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, and Evolution

A Jazz-Soaked Philosophy [Complete] - Cornel West

Self Under Siege [Complete] - Rick Roderick

The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers

Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution - Wendy Brown

Justice for Animals - Martha Nussbaum

Herbert Marcuse Double Episode

Existentialism in Literature: Kafka, Dostoevsky, Hesse

The Crucifixion of Julian Assange - A Sermon by Chris Hedges

What is the Soterioactive?

American Anomie - Chris Hedges

Philosophy at the Graveyard Shift

The James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Debate

Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy: Euminedes [Complete]

In Living Memory: Noam Chomsky

500 Subscriber Special - Existentialism is a Humanism, Read by the Host

Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (4): Libation Bearers

Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (3): Clytemnestra

Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (2): Agamemnon

Michael Davis - The Philosophy of Tragedy (1): Why We Love Tragedy

Michael Sugrue - Plato's Republic: The Complete Guide [Reupload]

Chris Hedges - American Sadism

Judith Herman - Psychological Trauma, Childhood Influences, and Recovery

Jonathan Lear - Virtue Ethics, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Psychotherapy

Martha Nussbaum - Upheavals of Thought: Neo-Stoicism and Emotional Cognition

Deborah Nelson - Ethics Without Empathy: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

Chris Hedges - Fascism in the Age of Trump

John Searle - Consciousness as a Problem in Philosophy and Neurobiology [Reupload]

Michael Parenti - The Nature of Empire [Reupload]

Noam Chomksy - Thought Control In A Democratic Society

Masha Gessen - Putin and the Political Uses of Homophobia

Richard Wolff - Marxism v. Capitalism: The Game Is Rigged

Roger Scruton - The Line Between "Left" and "Right"

Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Naomi Klein - Let Them Drown: The Violence of Othering in a Warming World

Robert Oppenheimer - Eulogy for Niels Bohr [Reupload]

Cornel West - A Love Supreme (Part 6 of 6)

Cornel West - American Allegro Molto Vivace (Part 5 of 6)

Cornel West - History Adagio (Part 4 of 6)

Cornel West - Folly Presto (Part 3 of 6)

Cornel West - Metaphilosophic Andante (Part 2 of 6)

Cornel West - Philosophical Prelude (Part 1 of 6)

Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism

Chris Hedges - The Politics of Cultural Despair

Noam Chomsky - Education for Whom, and for What?

Aristotle's Philosophical Innovations - M. Nussabum and B. Magee

Iain McGilchrist - A Revolution in Thought

Sugrue - Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

Schopenhauer "The World as Will and Idea" - M. Sugrue

Rick Roderick - Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity

Rick Roderick - Hegel and Modern Life

Sugrue on the Origin of Science

Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger's Being and Time (3)

Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger's Being and Time (2)

Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger's Being and Time (1)

Robert C. Solomon on Heideggerian Authenticity

David Christian Introduction to Big History

Grant Hardy Introduction to Asian Thought

Jeffrey L. Kasser on Interpreting Einstein's Theories

Michael Sugrue on Greek Tragedy

Grant Hardy on Confucius

Michael Sugrue on Plato's Phaedrus

Hubert Dreyfus on Soren Kierkegaard (4 of 4)

Hubert Dreyfus on Soren Kierkegaard (3 of 4)

Hubert Dreyfus on Soren Kierkegaard (2 of 4)

Hubert Dreyfus on Soren Kierkegaard (1 of 4)