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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 224: Goodhart’s Law

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

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

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Episode 222: De-Skilling

May 1, 2026 HBS Hosts HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 15), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Technology 0 Comments

What happens to a skill when you stop needing it?

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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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Episode 209: Nostalgia

December 19, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics 0 Comments

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

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Episode 207: The Enshittification of… everything?

December 5, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics, Pop Culture, Technology 0 Comments

How late capitalism turns every click into crap.

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Episode 205: Therapy

November 21, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

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

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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 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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