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Episode 234: The Q Word

August 21, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Pop Culture 0 Comments

“Normal” was never all that normal to begin with.

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Episode 233: Failure

August 14, 2026 HBS Hosts HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16) 0 Comments

Can you fail at life, or only in it?

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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 229: Rules

July 17, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

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

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Episode 227: Disorienting Cisgender (with Perry Zurn)

July 3, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

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

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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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MINIBAR: Mythos, Fable, Farce (with Leigh M. Johnson)

June 19, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Minibar), Minibar Episodes, Politics, Technology 0 Comments

A lesson in how NOT to think about AI risk.

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MINIBAR: Hanlon’s Razor (with Jennifer Kling)

June 6, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Minibar), Minibar Episodes, Politics 0 Comments

On attributing to malice what is best attributed to stupidity.

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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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