EV - 126 McMindfulness with Ron Purser
My guest this week is Ron Purser (@ronpurser), author of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. We discuss the commodifying of mindfulness and theInvocation: A life in ...
23 Jan 20201h 4min
EV - 125 Why Are We Yelling? with Buster Benson
My guest this week is Buster Benson (@buster), author of Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement. We discuss discussions and Buster's preferred methods for untangling confusions.Invoca...
16 Jan 20201h 10min
EV - 124 Death Doulas with Brenda Goodman pt2
My guest this week is Brenda Goodman, a mediator with a Masters in Gerontology and a lifelong interest in aging and death. We work through some of the practical and personal questions Brenda would use...
9 Jan 202052min
EV - 123 Death Doulas with Brenda Goodman pt1
My guest this week is Brenda Goodman, a mediator with a Masters in Gerontology and a lifelong interest in aging and death. We discuss how she became interested in these culturally taboo issues and wha...
2 Jan 20201h 1min
EV - 122 Better know Confucius with Bryan Van Norden
My guest this week is Bryan Van Norden (@BryanVanNorden), a prolific author and advocate for developing Western philosophy departments beyond their Eurocentric habits. We talk about the value of non-w...
27 Dec 20191h 10min
EV - 121 Better Know an Aristotle with Aristotle
My guest this week is Aristotle (from the @AristotlesStgra account on twitter). He preferred to answer questions in the voice of Aristotle himself, which gives us a fun opportunity to get to know more...
19 Dec 20191h 14min
EV - 120 Debating Scientific Racism with Dr. Mansa Keita
My guest this week is Dr. Mansa Keita (@rasmansa), a computer science PHD who spends a substantial amount of time engaging on academic twitter on issues like race that we've covered on the show before...
13 Dec 20191h 5min
EV - 119 Discordianism with Brian Henriksen
My guest this week is my longtime friend Brian Henriksen, who joins me to discuss our shared love of Discordianism, the most important of all parody religions. The convo is a bit chaotic as befits the...
5 Dec 20191h 2min
