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MINIBAR: AI’s Alien Mind (with Leigh M. Johnson)

October 16, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Minibar Episodes, Politics, Technology 0 Comments

What happens when the machine stops thinking out loud?

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Episode 238: Sikh Ethics (with Keshav Singh)

September 18, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism 0 Comments

On the many ways Sikh ethics both correct and expand Western ethical theory.

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Episode 236: Fashion

September 4, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Pop Culture 0 Comments

Your closet feels like self-expression, but it may function like a subscription service.

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Episode 232: Multi/Race/Less/Ness (with Jon Ivan Gill)

August 7, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Pop Culture, Race and Racism 0 Comments

How do we process the trauma of racial identification?

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Episode 226: Sports

June 26, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Pop Culture 0 Comments

How do sports contribute to our moral and political education?

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Episode 225: Foucault’s “Panopticism”

May 22, 2026 HBS Hosts Deep Dives, Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 15), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

Visibility is a trap.

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Episode 221: War Crimes

April 24, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 15), Politics, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

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

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Episode 218: Strange Bedfellows: Adorno and Strauss (with Jeffrey Bernstein)

April 5, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 15), Politics 0 Comments

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

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Episode 216: Against the Future (with Simon Critchley)

March 7, 2026 HBS Hosts Environmental Concerns, Ethics, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 15), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Technology 0 Comments

Why is Simon Critchley “against” the future?

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Episode 210: Marilyn Frye’s “Oppression”

December 26, 2025 HBS Hosts Deep Dives, Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

How to mark the distinction between being “inconvenienced” and being oppressed.

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