The HBS hosts talk about style.

Style can simply mean a way of doing something, like dressing, decorating, writing, singing, painting. Often, it seems as if style is an “add on,” something not essential, and often seems closely akin to fakery (we can say someone is “all style, no substance”). But is there something more significant about style?

In this episode, we mention and discuss the following works, items, authors, and thinkers:

• Professors fighting against the anti Critical Race Theory bills
• The Rob Roy cocktail
• The Stuff You Missed in History Class episode on Lucy Parsons
• The television series Lost
• The technology against robocalls called STIR/SHAKEN
• The Oculus Quest 2. You can find Leigh on Beat Saber or Space Pirate Trainer and her handle is “lumja”
• The author, actor, agent provacatuer, Quentin Crisp and his book The Naked Civil Servant
• The song “Englishmen in New York” by Sting (about Quentin Crisp)
• This is not a Fugazi t-shirt
• Alexander Nehemas on aesthetic taste and friendship
• A “vibe“
• Our episode on bars
• George Clinton and funk style
• Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
• Patti Smith
• The 30 Rock episode “Aunt Phatso vs. Jack Donaghy“
• Judith Butler on performativity
• The writings of Fratz Fanon
• Steve Biko, I Write what I like
• bell hooks
• Tim Gunn