All Episodes
Hotel Bar Sessions — 263 episodes
Failure
Multi/Race/Less/Ness (with Jon Ivan Gill)
Trust
The Right to Die
Rules
Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Sense (with Nathan Widder)
Disorienting Cisgender (with Perry Zurn)
Sports
MINIBAR: Mythos, Fable, Farce (with Leigh M. Johnson)
MINIBAR: Art and Phenomenology (with Bob Vallier)
MINIBAR: Hanlon's Razor (with Jennifer Kling)
REPLAY: Food (with Bob Valgenti)
Foucault's "Panopticism"
Goodhart's Law
A**holes
De-Skilling
War Crimes
Violence
Possible Worlds
Strange Bedfellows: Adorno and Strauss (with Jeffrey Bernstein)
Philosophy on Drugs (with Justin Smith-Ruiu)
Against the Future (with Simon Critchley)
Family "No Contact" (with Kiran Bhardwaj)
Food (with Bob Valgenti)
Anonymity
Catastrophic Philosophy
Intelligence(s)
MINIBAR: Algorithmic Nostalgia (with Leigh M. Johnson)
MINIBAR: Uncivil Obedience (with Jen Kling)
MINIBAR: Pain (with Bob Vallier)
Marilyn Frye's "Oppression"
Nostalgia
Sophistry
The Enshittification of... everything?
Quiet Resistance (with Tamara Fakhoury)
Therapy
Furious Minds (with Laura K. Field)
Imagination (with Stephen T. Asma)
Comedy
The Hills We Die on
Meet the NEW Co-Hosts!
Eternity
Crowds and Mobs
Free Will (with Mark Balaguer)
How The Manosphere Killed Cool (with Robin James)
The "Expertise" Crisis
MINIBAR: Cancer
MINIBAR: In Defense of Metaphysics
MINIBAR: Living in Occupied D.C.
Arendt's "Banality of Evil"
Major Life Changes
Doomscrolling
NPC Energy
Public Philosophy (with Kate Manne)
Silence
The War on "Radical Ideology"
Sovereignty
Interpretation
Panic Now? (with Ira Allen)
Private Parts
The Future of the University
Cringe
Tragic Temporality (with Sean Kirkland)
What is Philosophy?
REPLAY: Zionist ressentiment, the Left, and the Palestinian Question (with Zahi Zalloua)
REPLAY: Trans Philosophy (with Talia Mae Bettcher)
Fearless Speech (Foucault on Parrhesia)
Are Universals "Real"?
Totalitarianism (with Peg Birmingham)
El roto, Lo huachafo, Lo jodido (with Carlos Amador)
The Establishment Clause
DEI Then and Now (with Paul Breines)
Decorum
Unruly Identity (with Falguni Sheth)
Ambiguity
Trust
Judgment
Responsibility
Authority
Revenge
Virtue
REPLAY: Forgiveness
REPLAY: Deconstruction
Kant's Categorical Imperative
The Significance Impulse (with Josh Glasgow)
Justice
Matter and Consciousness in Indian Philosophy (with Tuhin Bhattacharjee)
Ethics, Democracy, and Phronesis (with Dimitris Vardoulakis)
Posthumanism
Nature
Does God Exist?
The Ethics of Refusal (with Devonya Havis)
Meat
Zionist ressentiment, the Left, and the Palestinian Question (with Zahi Zalloua)
Aristotle and Feminist Materialism, Troubled (with Emanuela Bianchi)
The Gutenberg Parenthesis (with Jeff Jarvis)
Evidence
Whose Jesus? (with John D. Caputo)
REPLAY: The Master/Slave Dialectic
REPLAY: Punching Nazis (with Devin Shaw)
Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation
Voting
The Future of Journalism (with Andrea Guzman)
Overcoming Sexuality (with Nir Kedem)
Peer Review
Ideology and Self-Emancipation (with William Clare Roberts)
The Sublime
Off-Grid Living (with Eric Mack)
Ideology
Generative AI
Reality TV
Friendship
Personhood
Originality
HBS Goes to the Movies: "Joe Versus the Volcano" (1990)
MINIBAR EPISODE: Will The Courts Save Democracy?
MINIBAR EPISODE: Meet Our New Co-host, David Gunkel!
REPLAY: YouTube's Alt-Right Rabbit Hole (with Caleb Cain)
Jean-Paul Sartre's "Bad Faith"
Companion Animals
Psychoanalysis (with Benedetta Todaro)
Whose Anthropocene?
Academic Freedom
Immediacy (with Anna Kornbluh)
Boredom
Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)
Lying
Growing Old(er)
The Phenomenology of Black Spirit (with Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan Johnson)
Back to "Normal"
Real Life Heroes
Deconstruction
HBS Goes to the Movies: "The Magnificent Seven" (1960)
Decartes' Second Meditation
Trust
Thought Leaders (with Christopher P. Long)
Trans Philosophy (with Talia Mae Bettcher)
The Stories We Tell
Collegiality
Debt
Political Philosophy of Mind (with John Protevi)
Fan Culture
The Problem Spaces of Philosophy (with William Paris)
The Uncanny Valley
Jordan Peele's Horror (with Johanna Isaacson)
The Subversive Seventies (with Michael Hardt)
Forgiveness
HBS Goes to the Movies: "Hands on a Hardbody" (1997)
REPLAY: Death
REPLAY: Revolutionary Mathematics (with Justin Joque)
The Master/Slave Dialectic
Too Soon?
Tenure
Prestige TV
Hobbies
What's YOUR Philosophy?
Community
Gossip
Men and Masculinity (with Nathan Duford)
Gatekeeping
Punching Nazis (with Devin Shaw)
Progress
The University and its Discontents
Lazy Relativism
HBS Goes to the Movies: The Conversation (1974)
REPLAY: The Public Intellectual (with Eddie Glaude, Jr.)
REPLAY: Vulgarity
REPLAY: YouTube's Alt-Right Rabbit Hole (with Caleb Cain)
REPLAY: Robots (with David Gunkel)
The Allegory of the Cave
Late Capitalism
ChatGPT
Death
Fascism (with Alberto Toscano)
Bullshit Jobs
Abolition of the Family (with Sophie Lewis)
Influencers
Afterthoughts: Season 6, Eps 79-81
Materialism
Afterthoughts: Season 6, Eps 76-78
Hospitality (with Michael Naas)
Attention and Distraction
The History of Philosophy
Revolutionary Mathematics (with Justin Joque)
Human Nature
HBS Goes to the Movies: Casablanca
REPLAY: Whose History? (with Dr. Charles McKinney)
REPLAY: Style
Podcasting and Philosophy
The Last Dance
Artificial Personhood (with Regina Rini)
The Rights of Nature (with Stewart Motha)
Critics and Criticism (with A.O. Scott)
Democracy in Peril (with Linda Alcoff)
Fear
YouTube's Alt-Right Rabbit Hole (with Caleb Cain)
Rethinking Disability (with Joel Michael Reynolds)
Sex Robots (with Kate Devlin)
The Blues (with Charles L. Hughes)
Memes (with Andrew Baron)
Reason
Plagiarism
The Public Intellectual (with Eddie Glaude, Jr.)
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Queers (with Ladelle McWhorter)
Utopia
Philosophers on the Internet
Musical Theater
National Identity
Algorithms
Metaphysics
Immortality
Moral Subjectivity
Desire
Memory
The Simulation Hypothesis
Style
Bars
Turning Up the Heat
The Godfather Trilogy
Superstition
Optimism and Pessimism
Tourism
Resolve
Work
Social Media
Transcendence
The Global South
Legally Right, Morally Wrong
Cancel Panic
Thought Experiments
American Christianity
Whose History?
Robots
Defending the Humanities
Generations
The Hustle
Music
Guns
Specialization
Superheroes
White Working Class
Conspiracy Theories
Vulgarity
Laughter
Digital Afterlives
Citizenship
Private Cities
Hey, Biden!
Shame
Teaching
WhoDunnIt?
Privacy
Love
The Philosophical Canon
Apocalypse(s)
Nostalgia
Metrics
One Year with COVID
Origins
Leigh M. Johnson on Technology
Ammon Allred on Art
Shannon M. Mussett on Freedom