What does it mean to earn, lose, and re-gain trust?

From Robert's Rules to the rule of law: why every rule needs a rule about the rule.

The word everyone's fighting about has a history almost no one knows.

How do sports contribute to our moral and political education?

A lesson in how NOT to think about AI risk.

Your body already knows what art is.

On attributing to malice what is best attributed to stupidity.

Visibility is a trap.

A 1975 footnote about central banks turns out to explain almost everything wrong with late capitalism.

Why are there suddenly so many of them?

What happens to a skill when you stop needing it?

A philosophical discussion about the worst we do to one another.

We think we know what violence is. We don't.

What philosophers do with worlds that don't exist — and whether it helps.

Strauss and Adorno walk into a bar. Turns out they both hate fascism.

Why is Simon Critchley "against" the future?

Is family "estrangement" a defensible choice?

Philosopher and culinary professor Bob Valgenti explains how the history of humanity is the history of gastronomy.

Why must state power wear a mask?

How does philosophy respond to catastrophes? And how does it generate them?

Why do AI's fabricated memories "feel" so true?

What happens when we follow the letter of the law, while refusing to cooperate with its spirit?

How to mark the distinction between being "inconvenienced" and being oppressed.

What does nostalgia fondly remember, and what might it dangerously enable?

What to do when "just asking questions" is not that.

How late capitalism turns every click into crap.

What can Palestinian rock climbers teach us about resisting differently?

What problems arise when "therapy speak" becomes our default social vocabulary?

How do we tame the fury of today's "furious minds"?

How can we recover not only the power, but the importance, of imagination for philosophy?

What's so funny about comedy, anyway?

How do we choose the hills where we make our stand?

Because forever is a long time to buy the next round.

What, if anything, distinguishes a crowd from a mob?

One bar, three philosophers, infinite choices... or none at all.

Robin James explains how tech bros and manosphere podcasters made "cool" obsolete.

What happens when nobody trusts experts anymore?

Rick Lee explains what metaphysics is and why it's worth defending.

What it's like to live with a President who is too extra.

"Evil arises from a failure to think." -Hannah Arendt

It's all the same until it isn't.

What are we looking for? When can we stop?

Are you even playing the game?

Who are philosophers talking to when they do "public philosophy"?

When is being silent complicity? And when is it resistance?

Radical for whom?

Grab a drink and buckle up—this is the kind of philosophical brawl you don’t want to miss.

The rise of AI, the decay of democracy, colonial legacies, climate disaster, Is it time to panic now?

How can we talk, or think, about "private parts" in a philosophical way?

Can the University be saved? Should it be saved?

This is gonna be awkward.

Sean Kirkland unpacks living on the edge of "was" and "not yet."

Same bar, new co-host, perennial question: What is Philosophy?

Who, if anyone, is speaking truth to power?

Do universals exist? Are they "real"? And why are we talking about porcupines?!

Can democracy be saved from totalitarianism?

Carlos Amador on Latin American aesthetics, precarity, and what it means to be completely f*cked.

Where’s the line between church and state?

Freedom Rider Paul Breines joins us to talk about the three most dangerous letters in the alphabet.

When does decorum keep us civil—and when does it keep us silent?

Raising a glass to the misfits, rebels, and rule-breakers!

When nothing is clear, how do we decide?

Can anyone be trusted anymore?

Who gets to judge right and wrong? And on what grounds?

How, and for what, are we responsible?

Is ChatGPT usurping the authority of the "Author"? Or is it just a pretender to the throne?

The HBS hosts unpack the complexities of a dish best served cold.

Is "virtue" an outdated concept? And why is there a bear in this classroom?!

What if morality was law-governed in the same way that logic and physics are?

What if our cosmic unimportance is itself not all that important?

The HBS hosts survey theories of justice from the ancients to the present.

What can the Indian dualist philosophy Sāṃkhya teach us about matter and consciousness?

The HBS hosts discuss what is lost in the critique of instrumental thinking with Dimitris Vardoulakis.

What are the limits of the "human"? And what comes after us?

What do we mean when we say "Nature"? And what, if anything, is "natural"?

Are you there God? It's us, Hotel Bar Sessions.

When is it right, or even necessary, to say "no"?

Should we eat meat?

What can Fanon and Nietzsche teach us about the Israeli/Palestinian crisis?

Philosophy has traditionally associated the feminine with matter, implying passivity. Why? And to what ends?

Are we nearing the end of the Age of "Print"? And, if so, what comes next?

What counts as evidence? What makes it good or bad? How do we know?

When did Jesus start hating immigrants and gays, loving guns and capitalism?

Welcome to the desert of the real.

Does voting matter?

What happens when AI takes on the role of human journalists?

Can queer theory overcome its ties to sexuality?

The HBS hosts discuss the current peer review crisis.

Ideology is said in many ways. Which one is emancipatory?

The ocean and space and “Ode to Joy” are sublime, of course… but what about an excellent lentil soup? In a confusing twist of etymology, where one would expect “sub” to mean “below,” in the word “sublime” it indicates something above or even beyond. We use it as a superlative, but a superlative of what?...

What motivates people to live off-grid in the 21st C? And how hard is it to survive out there? This week, the HBS hosts are joined by Eric Mack, journalist and co-host of Our Uncertain Future podcast, who decided in 2020 to move his family “off-grid.” Currently residing in a 100% water- and energy-independent compound in the...

What, if anything, is the difference between having ideological commitments and belonging to a “cult”? This episode is a “deep dive” into the very deep waters of ideology and ideological commitments. A couple of important notes for listeners: first, this episode was recorded the day before William Clare-Roberts’ excellent essay “Ideology and Emancipation: Voluntary Servitude, False Consciousness,...

Generative Ai is a still new and emergent technology capable of producing not only text that could be mistaken as human-generated, but also images, video, music, and “voice.” For all of the amazing opportunities opened up by generative AI, however, it does not come without its own risks. Secondary and post-secondary education, for example, was...

The HBS hosts discuss how friendships are forged, maintained, and sometimes broken. In The Politics of Friendship, Jacques Derrida invokes a statement originally attributed to Aristotle: “My Friends, there are no friends,” capturing something that seems to be fundamental about friendship. Friendship is essential to human thriving, but also difficult, if not impossible, to attain...