What have we learned? How has our take on the PEL project changed? What are our future plans? On the eve before our big live-in-front-of-an-audience ep. 100, we four sat down in Dylan's living room together (with recurrent guest Daniel Horne to provide some semi-outisder perspective) to reflect on what we've been doing here. Folks new to PEL may want to listen to any other Continue Reading …
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Topics for #97-100: Sandel, Symposium, and What We’ve Learned
You've likely all heard about our big ep. 100 recording, and should surely start reading Plato's Symposium right now prep for that. To help you get all the various speakers involved in that work straight in your head, you might want to listen to the "In Our Time" episode on this from last January. The dialogue is about love, and a number of participants of this ancient Continue Reading …
Ep. 29: Kierkegaard on the Self
On Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death (1849), with some discussion of Fear and Trembling (1843) What is the self? Kierkegaard says we are a tension between opposites: necessity and possibility, the finite and the infinite, soul and body. He thinks we’re all in despair, whether we know it or not, because we wrongly think we’re something we’re not, or we reject what Continue Reading …
5,000,000 Downloads
In Nov 2012 we posted a retrospective mini-episode to celebrate 2 million PEL episodes downloaded according to libsyn (whom we haven't hosted with since the beginning, so there are some additional ones from the first year or so in addition to whatever they tell us). We've now hit 5 million, and all you get is this little overshare about behind the scenes stuff: 1. We are Continue Reading …
What the Word “Bigot” Actually Means (and Why it is Important)
Subscribe to more of my writing at https://www.wesalwan.com Follow me on Twitter Update: Coates responds. I rebut. Ta-Nehisi Coates and Andrew Sullivan have both responded to my criticisms of their claim that Alec Baldwin is a “bigot” for, among other offenses, calling a photographer a “cocksucking fag.” In doing so, they resort to two tried-and-true tactics available Continue Reading …