News and Notes

Episode 135: Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Bad Faith”

The HBS hosts discuss the many and varied ways we lie to ourselves.

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Episode 134: Companion Animals

The HBS hosts celebrate the paw-some impact of furry companions on our lives.

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Episode 133: Psychoanalysis (with Benedetta Todaro)

The HBS hosts take a break from the bar and lie down on the couch.

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Episode 132: Whose Anthropocene?

The HBS hosts look for the cause of the Golden Spike.

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Episode 131: Academic Freedom

The HBS hosts consider a case study testing the limits of academic freedom.

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Episode 130: Immediacy (with Anna Kornbluh)

The HBS hosts discuss the style of “too late” capitalism with Anna Kornbluh.

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Episode 129: Boredom

The HBS hosts discuss the many paradoxes of ennui.

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Episode 128: Breaking Things At Work (with Gavin Mueller)

The HBS hosts discuss how the Luddites were right about why we hate our jobs.

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Episode 127: Lying

The HBS hosts parse the difference between mistakes, half-truths, embellishments, and outright lies.

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Episode 126: Growing Old(er)

The HBS hosts consider the sands though the hourglass.

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