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July 23, 2019 —
Josh Summers & Jenny Odell
- Jenny's new book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
- Learning from "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (part 1)
- Cultivating attention through art and mindfulness
- Josh's critique of contemporary mindfulness
- How social media destroys context
- Jenny: "Aliveness is change"
- Learning from "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (part 2)
September 30, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Kaitlyn Tiffany
Culturally Determined
- The hot new trend of being a homebody
- Social, economic, and technological reasons young people are staying in
- The surprisingly controversial topic of skincare
- Millennials using apps to order food delivered by Millennials
- Netflix and chill and take Instagram selfies wearing sheet masks
- Is being a homebody the modern way to go to Walden Pond?
October 23, 2018 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Max Read
Culturally Determined
- Viewing the Trump-Kanye meeting through the lens of mental illness
- The shared traits that make Trump and Kanye irresistible to the media
- How online news and social media created the "attention economy"
- Did reality TV remake reality?
- Jake and Logan Paul: brothers, YouTube superstars, and possible sociopaths
- How social media helps people with mental illness
May 27, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Andrew Sullivan
The Wright Show
- Remembering Andrew's recently deceased dog Eddy
- Can we explain the bond between dogs and people?
- The many disgusting things that dogs love
- Andrew angers the cat lovers in the audience
- Are there actually "cat people" and "dog people"?
- Dogs' use of affection as a tool
- What can we learn from dogs about how to be present?
- Andrew: "I do think that after death I will be with my dogs"
- Andrew wants the economy to open up--a little
August 06, 2003 —
Robert Wright & Francis Fukuyama
Being good without God
Consciousness
Direction in history
Limits of science
Purpose in history
Religion in a global age
Francis Fukuyama is the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of Political Economy at the School of Advanced International Studies.