26 June 2019
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That “analytic swing”
Josh Summers speaks with jazz pianist Aaron Goldberg about his time working as a full-time musician while studying in a philosophy graduate program under Daniel Dennett.
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A thought experiment about free will and moral responsibility
Philosopher Gideon Rosen considers an ancient slaveholder who has no idea that slavery is wrong.
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Sorry, not sorry
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss Joe Biden and the emerging political advantage in refusing to apologize after gaffes or personal misconduct.
Mourning on Twitter
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Rachel Vorona-Cote, who recently wrote about grieving her mother’s death in the essay “The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning.”
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The “black silent majority”
Michael Fortner describes his book Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, about support for draconian drug laws in the black community in the 1970s.
Anti-interventionism isn’t isolationism
Chris Preble, author of the new book Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy, explains why his libertarian skepticism about military intervention isn’t the same as isolationism.
How do Iranians view Trump?
Iranian-American journalist Negar Mortazavi explains.
“This is my home”
Chris Arnade, author of the new book Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, discusses why many Americans don’t move away from where they grew up to seek better opportunities.
Abuse in the yoga community
Josh Summers speaks with Matthew Remski, author of the new book Practice and All Is Coming, about the prevalence of sexual assault in highly devoted yoga communities.
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How Clarence Thomas views race
Glenn Loury speaks with legal historian Scott Gerber, author of the book First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas.
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Embrace the strange
Jeffrey Kripal, author of the new book The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge, argues that strict materialism does more to encourage religious fundamentalism than to stem it.
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Were people really less sensitive in the past?
Philosophers Daniel Kaufman and Robert Gressis discuss.
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Envisioning a post-Trump foreign policy
Heather Hurlburt and Dan Drezner discuss what the next Democratic president would do if Trump loses in 2020.
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Into the Amash pit
Matt Lewis explains why he would readily vote for libertarian GOP congressman Justin Amash, who is weighing a presidential run.
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The downside of civic engagement
