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Episode 237: Confidence Men (with Landon Frim)

September 11, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism, Technology 0 Comments

On Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, Andrew Tate… and other enemies of truth.

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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 223: A**holes

May 8, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 15), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

Why are there suddenly so many of them?

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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 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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