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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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Episode 187: Interpretation

June 20, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

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

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Episode 186: Panic Now? Tools for Humanizing (with Ira Allen)

June 13, 2025 HBS Hosts Environmental Concerns, Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Pop Culture, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

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

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Episode 184: The Future of the University

May 30, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

Can the University be saved? Should it be saved?

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Episode 182: Tragic Temporality (with Sean Kirkland)

May 16, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics 0 Comments

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

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Episode 181: What is Philosophy?

May 9, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

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

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Episode 180: Foucault’s “Fearless Speech” (Parrhesia)

April 18, 2025 HBS Hosts Deep Dives, Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

Who, if anyone, is speaking truth to power?

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Episode 179: Are Universals “Real”?

April 11, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism 0 Comments

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

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Episode 178: Totalitarianism (with Peg Birmingham)

April 4, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

Can democracy be saved from totalitarianism?

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