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Episode 217: Philosophy on Drugs (with Justin Smith-Ruiu)

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

The Western philosophical tradition built itself on sobriety — but what if that was the wrong call?

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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 208: Sophistry

December 12, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

What to do when “just asking questions” is not that.

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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 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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Episode 197: How the Manosphere Killed Cool (with Robin James)

September 19, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics, Pop Culture, Race and Racism, Technology 1 Comment

Robin James explains how tech bros and manosphere podcasters made “cool” obsolete.

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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 183: Cringe

May 23, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

This is gonna be awkward.

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