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April 17, 2016 — David Masciotra & William Irwin
An introduction to existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre's tough-minded optimism
Existentialists want you to keep it real
The dark side of the search for meaning
Capitalism as existentialist economics
"We're condemned to be free"
February 08, 2019 — Robert Wright & Douglas Rushkoff
The Wright Show
Douglas's new book, Team Human
Remembering when people behaved better online than IRL
Douglas was optimistic about the Internet. Then came capitalism.
Imagining a better Facebook
Douglas: "Being human is a team sport"
Tribalism and the Internet
The false promise of "disruption"
How capitalism complicates Douglas's life
July 14, 2018 — Robert Wright & Thomas Metzinger
The Wright Show
Try this at home: the rubber hand illusion
Out-of-body experiences in VR
Why you will never have a not-self experience
Meditation, capitalism, and political activism
The urgent need to teach meditation in schools
Thomas's "transparent self" model
December 13, 2015 — Robert Wright & Pamela Cooper-White
Conversations@Union
Clergy as front-line therapists for parishioners
Personal guilt about God's judgment
Using faith to counter a traumatic religious upbringing
Neoliberal capitalism and its discontents
A psychological reading of the Christian Trinity
Are humans making spiritual progress?
December 31, 2018 — Daniel Kaufman & E. John Winner
Sophia
John's personal history with punk rock
Why was punk more political in the UK than in NYC?
The far reach of capitalism into counterculture
How the NYC punk scene fizzled out
The early importance of record shops and FM radio stations
Punk and suburban oppression
Is punk dead or perennially youthful?
John: Gender expression is the new embodiment of the punk ethos
January 08, 2019 — John Horgan & Deirdre McCloskey
Mind-Body Problems
Deirdre McCloskey's personal experience with mind, body, and gender
Are there female and male psyches?
How traditional liberalism guides Deirdre's personal philosophy
Why Deirdre describes herself as a postmodernist
Liberalism, capitalism, and Marx
Understanding the global turn to populism
August 08, 2019 — Robert Wright & Ronald Purser
The Wright Show
Ron's new book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
A brief history of mindfulness in America
Ron's critique of the corporate teaching of mindfulness
A tool vs. a path
Ron: The mindfulness industry individualizes social problems
A call for civic mindfulness
Can capitalism and spirituality be reconciled?
October 16, 2019 — This Podcast Is Self Care (Aryeh Cohen-Wade, Drew Spears, & Cait Raft)
Culturally Determined
Cait and Drew's podcast, This Podcast Is Self Care
Emotional labor vs. self care
Unpacking the idea that self care is just for women
Crystals, sage, and "fake magic is real"
Why are Millennials so attracted to self care and the supernatural?
Astrology as anti-capitalism
The hot new trend of "self-grandparenting"
Why Aryeh loves the podcast
March 31, 2020 — Daniel Kaufman & Robert B. Talisse
Sophia
Robert's new book, Overdoing Democracy
The revealing differences between Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts
The diminishing importance of place in American culture
How homogeneity distorts groups
Partisan identity has become the core of our social selves
Is this the inevitable product of late capitalism?
What happens after Trumpism runs its course?
Robert finds optimism in a Nashville bluegrass club
May 25, 2020 — Robert Wright & Jacqueline Novogratz
The Wright Show
Jacqueline's new book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World
Female saints as childhood role models
How Jacqueline helped start Rwanda's first microfinance bank
Jacqueline's "patient capital" investment nonprofit, Acumen
The four steps toward building moral imagination
Toilet entrepreneurship in Nairobi
Changing the market for coffee and chocolate farmers
Can identity connect as well as it divides?
Jacqueline: A moral revolution must come from inside us
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