American politics

Episode 204: Furious Minds (with Laura K. Field)

November 14, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism 0 Comments

How do we tame the fury of today’s “furious minds”?

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Episode 202: Comedy

October 31, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics, Pop Culture, Race and Racism 0 Comments

What’s so funny about comedy, anyway?

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Episode 199: Crowds and Mobs

October 3, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics 0 Comments

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

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MINIBAR: Living in Occupied D.C.

August 22, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Minibar), Minibar Episodes, Politics, Race and Racism 3 Comments

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

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Episode 195: Arendt’s “Banality of Evil”

August 15, 2025 HBS Hosts Deep Dives, Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

“Evil arises from a failure to think.” -Hannah Arendt

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Episode 194: Major Life Changes

August 8, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics 0 Comments

It’s all the same until it isn’t.

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Episode 193: Doomscrolling

August 1, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Pop Culture, Technology 0 Comments

What are we looking for? When can we stop?

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Episode 192: NPC Energy

July 25, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Pop Culture, Technology 0 Comments

Are you even playing the game?

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Episode 190: Silence

July 11, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

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

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Episode 189: The War on “Radical Ideology”

July 4, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism 0 Comments

Radical for whom?

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