History of Philosophy Audio Archive
Episodes
Hemlock #49: Three Passions feat. Bertrand Russell
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/thought_and_writing/philosophy/Russell,%20Bertrand/Russell,%20Bertrand%20-%20Prologue%20-%20What%20I%20Have%20Lived%...
Hemlock #48 Peace in Iran: Jack Kennedy from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists talks Strait of Hormuz, Petroyuan, Albert Camus, Strategic Bombing, French and Israeli Nuke Programs, Kissinger
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nuclear Risk Editorial Fellow Jack Kennedy https://jackkennedy.ie/about/ comes back for the second time to talk Strait of Hormuz, Israel's nuclear...
Hemlock #47: Teaching Nagasaki feat. Franco Castro Escobar - Disaster Storytelling, Youth Antinuclear Education in Japan, Militarism and Nuclear Abolition, Iris Chang, & The Bells of Nagasaki
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hiroshima rages while Nagasaki prays. FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION ON PATREONI'm joined for a second time by friend of the show Franco Castro Escobar,...
#185: Eleusis in the Spring (Vernal Equinox Special) feat. Joseph Campbell - The Eleusinian Mysteries, the Rites of Orpheus, Fertility and Persephone, the Descent into Hades, and the Resurrection
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Equinox. The Beginning, is at last: beginning.Music Credit: Beethoven / Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" Gernot Schmalfuss / Music Direc...
#184: Gaza, or How to Normalize Genocide: Keynote Speech by Chris Hedges at The Sanctuary for Independent Media
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You can find the full talk from March 2025, officially-titled "Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order" at the link below, via The Sanc...
Hemlock #46 Congress: feat. Dr. Maya Kornberg - Citizens United, Steve Bannon, Jan 6, Gerrymandering, Watergate Babies & Her New Book: STUCK: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Full episode description on PatreonI am joined (just in time for the all-important Vernal Equinox on March 21st) - with the brilliant and timely Dr. M...
#183: Tribute to Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026) feat. Rick Roderick and Michael Sugrue
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
RIP Habermas. Rick Roderick and Michael Sugrue (both also gone, Sugrue earlier this year) remember the life and theory of Jürgen Habermas and the Fra...
#182a - The Radiance of Perfection and the Mystic Ascent: Plotinus on the Good and the One, Plato's Symposium, The Myth of Psyche and Eros (Aphrodite), Socrates' Teacher Diotima, feat. Pierre Grimes
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoy this work, please support the show on Patreon!Will (the host) writes a Substack page about various and sundry topics. Plotinus (204-270 C...
The Phoenix Program: PART ONE - ORIGINS
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
ADVISORY - Contains explicit description of warfare, killing, torture, and mutilation.FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION ON PATREONMusic by Anapse Entertainment...
Hemlock #45: Hannah Arendt and Natality feat. Guillermo Zapata
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
FULL EPISODE DESCRIPTION ON PATREONI, William Engels, write articles on Substack.Books Mentioned:Arendt: Origins of TotalitarianismArendt: The Human C...
Hemlock #44: Epictetus and the Stoics with Greg Sadler
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I read Epictetus Discourses and Enchiridion with Professor Gregory Sadler https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/ - although we both started off by dunki...
#181 Facing Gaia: Lectures on the Political Theology of Nature by Bruno Latour, Gifford Lecture Series 2013
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
RIP Bruno Latour (1947-2022)Follow Will’s writing on his Substack page, Hemlock:https://williamengels.substack.comSupport the entire show on Patreon...
Hemlock #43 - Enframing the Future with Emma Stamm, Nuclear Weapons, AI, Martin Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology, Walter Benjamin, Fascism, Fantasy, and Simple Folk Tales
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"Fascism is the desire for a simple folk tale" - Thomas Mann, I think.Substack's and LEPHT HAND's own Emma Stamm https://substack.co...
Michael Parenti Tribute: The Darker Truths of Empire (November 2005)
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
RIP Michael Parenti (1933-2026). A brave, undimmed (sometimes controversial, of course) critic of that great juggernaut of death: the American Empire....
#179 Martin Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology" (1954) Presented by Gregory Sadler, Enframing, Standing-Reserve, Aletheia, Aristotle's Four Causes, and the Destining of Revealing
07 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Reading Martin Heidegger is tough. Here to introduce us to some core concepts in The Question Concerning Technology (1954) is Greg Sadler, whose YouTu...
Acid Communism: Philosopher Emma Stamm on Mark Fisher's Unfinished Manuscript, Capitalist Realism, the Slow Cancellation of the Future, Joe Rogan, Critical Theory, AI, and Life in Para-Academia
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hemlock #42 - Support the History of Philosophy Audio Archive on Patreon, and follow William Engels's writing on Substack.I am joined on this epis...
Capitalism's Invisible Army (CIA) - Bill Yarborough on MKUltra, Operation CHAOS, Nixon & the Plumbers, the 40 Committee, Operation Gladio, Paperclip Nazis, Stranger Things, and Healing from Torture
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For Hemlock #41 on the History of Philosophy Audio Archive I am joined by MKUltra survivor Bill Yarborough to discuss government secrecy, Cold War hij...
Carved In Stone: Matthew Davis on Mount Rushmore, Wounded Knee & Medals of Honor, Deadwood, the Lakota, Stone Mountain and the Klan, American Aesthetics, Custer, Whitman, Jackson, and the Black Hills
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Support the Archive on Patreon! Follow William Engels's writing on Substack. Who do the Black Hills really belong to? Was George Armstrong Custer ...
#178b David Foster Wallace: The Complete Audio Archive of Interviews, Speeches, and Public Appearances (Winter Solstice Special - Part 2 of 2)
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Support this work on PatreonRead the full write-up on this archive on William Engels's Substack, Hemlock.Part 2 of 2:We all have our litt...
#178a David Foster Wallace: The Complete Audio Archive of Interviews, Speeches, and Public Appearances (Winter Solstice Special - Part 1 of 2)
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Support this work on PatreonRead the full write-up on this archive on William Engels's Substack, Hemlock.Part 1 of 2:We all have our little solips...
SAURON, INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir - Part 2: CEO Alex Karp, or Evil Genius Adult-Baby Demands New Cold War
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SOCIALSWill’s Patreon - patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonWill’s Substack (Hemlock) - williamengels.substack.comBad Role Models on YouTube: youtube.com/...
SAURON INCORPORATED: A Corporate History of Palantir (feat. the Bad Role Models) Part 1: Peter Thiel Crawls Out of an Apartheid-Era Uranium Mine and into the White House
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SOUND CREDIT: The Chamber Stage (YouTube)Support the boys (Thomas Vanek & Richard Sinex) and I on Patreon and YouTube:https://patreon.com/c/hemloc...
Escape from the TechnoSphere feat. Jacob Ward: Sam Altman, AI Girlfriends, Karp and Thiel, the Dubious Hobbits of Palantir, Jevon's Paradox, and The Unstoppable Onslaught of Clanker-Made Slop
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Looks like we're stuck with the Bad Elves, Frodo.You can find Jake’s work on his website, (The Rip Current) and you can find his podcast (same n...
Nuclear Cascade with Jack Kennedy - Nukes in South Korea, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, New Cold War with China, Russia/Ukraine, Deterrence, Iran's/Iraq's WMDs, NeoCons, and Missile Defense
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hemlock #39Nuclear war, and nuclear risk, are still just as real and just as close as they have been during the tensest eras of the Cold War. I had qu...
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna - Graham St John on McKenna's Life and Work, Psilocybin and DMT, Psychedelic History, Alchemy, the Experiment at La Chorrera, +the Eschaton
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Buy Graham's book on Terence on Amazon!Graham's website: https://www.edgecentral.net/Reputable information about psilocybin and harm reduction...
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Part 1)
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Creative Commons Zero "No Rights Reserved" free, open-source audiobook, narrated by William Engels. This is from Part 1, titled "The ...
Goethe's Faust - Michael Sugrue on the Worldly Gospel, German Romanticism, Intellect and Theology, Mephistopheles and the Spirit of Negation, Gretchen's Eternal Feminine, and Last Minute Salvation
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
History of Philosophy Audio Archive, Episode #177I have always loved Michael Sugrue, and I will never stop posting his talks. RIP to a legend (1957-20...
The Lessons of History feat. Dr. Roy Casagranda - Henry Kissinger, the Iraq War, Esoteric Platonism and the Neocons, Cycles in Political Power, Education Reform, Hiroshima, Anarchism, and State Power
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Follow Dr. Roy on Social Media:Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTubeReferencesStephen Skowronek // "The Politics Presidents Make" (1993)Rational Choice T...
What is Existentialism? - Bert Dreyfus on Sartre, Heidegger, Pascal, Camus, Kierkegaard, Philosophy's Struggle with Christianity, Dostoevsky, and the Road to Authenticity (HoPAA #176)
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Support this work and unlock more of it (for free!) on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonThis is from Hubert Dreyfus' 2008 Berkeley under...
The "Ceasefire" in Gaza feat. Sabrina Jennings
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Support Sabrina's work and educate yourself on Israel, Palestine, and the US while connecting with likeminded people: Not only will you learn abou...
The Ballroom feat. William Sanchez (Hemlock #34)
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Demolishing the White House is just the beginning.Subscribe to Will Sanchez on Substack!https://substack.com/@philosophicalrebellionANNOUNCEMENTS:Firs...
HEMLOCK HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: HAUNTOLOGY - Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, Left Melancholia, the Arab Spring, Walter Benjamin, and the Slow Cancellation of the Future (H33)
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Even the dead are not safe.“It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.” This statement, deliberatel...
A Skeleton Key to James Joyce: Mythologist Joseph Campbell on Irish Literature and Joyce's Novels: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegan's Wake (HoPAA #175)
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Support the perpetuity and integrity of this work for just $5 per month, or hang out in the Patreon for free.Originally published as "On Wings of...
Dante's Divine Comedy: Professor Hubert Dreyfus on the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, Beatrice, Vergil, and the Beatific Vision (HoPAA #173e)
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ultimate theological journey through the midlife crisis, presented by existentialist philosopher Bert Dreyfus in 2006 at UC Berkeley. (REPUPLOAD)P...
The Practical Value of Philosophy: Will Engels Interviewed by Roubin Thind on Education, Spirituality, Guerilla Media, US-China Relations, Blue Collar Intellectuals, the Origins of HoPAA (Hemlock #34)
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Support the show on Patreon!A nice change of pace for me as I am put on the hot-seat and forced to properly explain myself for once. Interview by Roub...
The Gospel According to John: Hubert Dreyfus on the Logos, the Trinity, and the Ontological Transformations of Christianity (HoPAA #172d)
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.John 1:5, King James VersionThis is Part Four of a multipart series on the Gre...
Magnolia (1999): A Love Letter - Paul Thomas Anderson's Greatest Film, Fate, Freemasons, Intergenerational Trauma, Pick Up Artists, Aimee Mann, and Why It's Not Going to Stop (Til' You Wise Up) BRM6b
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Thomas Anderson made this when he was 28. So did Richard and Will.A celebration of the greatest movie of our greatest living director. Hats off t...
Hemlock #32: Machines of Loving Grace - Palantir, Alex Karp, Alchemy and Science, Brute Force Mimetic Objects, Atomic Poetry, the Automation of Violence, and the Endless Empire of Perpetual Advantage
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everything becomes its opposite. cw: animal harm, general doom.If this work is important to you, consider supporting my financial and creative indepen...
#174 - Dealing with Hungry Ghosts: Thích Nhất Hạnh on Healing Intergenerational Trauma, Realizing Emptiness, Self-Compassion, and Living as a Transmission from Ancestors
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Times are tough for everyone, but if you can spare $5 per month to support the History of Philosophy, my political writing, open source audiobooks, an...
#173 - The Myths of Capital: Michael Parenti on Rags to Riches Fables, Pacifying Propaganda, Wealth Pyramids and Perpetual Scarcity, Corporate Power, and the Socialist Response to the Ruling Ideology
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The great Michael Parenti returns to HoPAA to enlighten us about capitalism's leading myths and legends. As the man says, 'brothers and sister...
BRM7: The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, H. P. Blavatsky, Samuel Mathers, Victorian Magick, Theosophy, Kabbalah, Séances, and the Great Occult Poetry Larp
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keep this work free for everyone and unlock my entire corpus for $5 per month on Patreon!Samuel Mathers is Bane, not Wolverine.People Mentioned:...
#172c - Vergil and the Roman Tradition: Bert Dreyfus' Complete Course on the Aeneid, Augustus Caesar, Roman Propaganda, The Fall of Troy, Dido and Carthage, the Rise of Empire, and Latin Poetic Myth
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The gates of hell are open night and day;Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:But to return, and view the cheerful skies,In this the task and might...
BRM6a: Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master, There Will Be Blood, American Grifters, Bloodoil, Scientology, Solvent Abuse, Time Travel, Brahms, Chopin, Johnnie Greenwood, Radiohead and Milkshake Drinking
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kick in on Patreon to support the both of us!This is the new work.Movies:The Master (2012)There Will Be Blood (2007)Magnolia (1999)Boogie Nights (1997...
Bad Role Models #5: Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai Duelist, the Book of the Five Rings, the Way of Combat Strategy, Dokkōdō, Zen, and the Strike from the Void
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come join the Patreon!https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonThe best version of Musashi in English that I have found is the book The Complete Musashi tr...
Mission Accomplished: A Documentary Doctors Retrospective - Iraq, Afghanistan, 9/11, the War on Terror, Robert Fisk, Neocon Fear Bubbles, Saudi Connections, & Why It's All About The Petrodollar (DD8)
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Documentaries:Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror (Netflix)Citizenfour (Laura Poitras)Hollywoodgate (Ibrahim Nah&...
BRM4b: The HST Bonus Show - Screwjack, Better Than Sex, Hells Angels, Flesh-Eating Snails, Mescaline, Radical Lawyers, Motorcycle Crashes, and Finding the Edge
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A truly decadent and indulgent episode for the genuinely twisted wordheads and storyfreaks still crawling on all fives. Cheers, you beautiful bastards...
BRM4a: Hunter S. Thompson in Aspen - Fear and Loathing in the Sheriff's Office, Greedheads, Hatemongers, and Yellow-Eyed Hyenas, The Freak Power Ticket, Fat City, and the Death of the American Dream
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With special guest Deputy Dick filling in (for) Richard Sinex.Music by Anapse, track Bisector off Streamsafe Essentials--Books--Hells Angels by ...
172b - Aeschylus: Bert Dreyfus on Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, the Furies and the Eumenides, Pouring Out of Libations, Athenian Tragedy, and the Pessimism of the Greeks
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Music Credit: Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 30 performed by Paavali Jumppanen, available on Museopen.The Alan Shapiro translation of the Oresteia is my ...
DD7 - Judas and the Black Messiah: Fred Hampton, the Black Panthers, FBI/COINTELPRO, J. Edgar Hoover, the Rainbow Coalition, MHCHAOS, MLK and Malcolm X, Gary Webb's Dark Alliance, and the CIA
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying,Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.Matthew 26:48Watch Judas and the Black Messi...
#172a - The Odyssey: A Philosophical Analysis, Hubert Dreyfus on Artistic Worldmaking, the Attuning Gift of Greek Gods, Telemachus' Journey to Manhood, Autonomy and the Divine Inspiration
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Support me on Patreon - or leave a review for the show.Hubert "Bert" Dreyfus (1929-2017) was a professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley who ...
DD6 - 40 Years in Solitary: "Cruel and Unusual: The Story of the Angola 3", Solitary Confinement, Torture, Jim Crow, Black Radicalism, Private Prisons, Prison Labor, and Mass Incarceration
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Watch "Cruel and Unusual" on Kanopy!https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/cruel-and-unusualFollow Sabrina and I on Bluesky or Patreon:Note To Self // P...
DD5 Eichmann in Jerusalem: "Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt" Banality of Evil, Between Past and Future, Totalitarianism in Democracy, K. Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, the Third Reich, Fascism
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Watch Vita Activa on Kanopy!https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/vita-activa-spirit-hannah-arendt-1?vp=newschoolFollow Sabrina on Bluesky or Patreon:Note...
Consolatio #6: The Finest Threads that Bind the Truth - Book 5 of the Consolation of Philosophy on Free Will, Higher Intelligence, History and Eternity, Hope's Epitaph
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The final book in Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, on the compatibility of divine omniscience and human free will, the eternal and the continual, ...
Hemlock #31: McNamara's Cold War: Pulitzer Prize-Winner Bill Taubman on Vietnam, the Domino Theory, Khrushchev & Gorbachev, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Tokyo Firebombing, Nuclear Abolition
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
McNamara at War is available September 23rd from Amazon! There's an audiobook as well for the audio-inclined...Summary (AI Generated, Model = Note...
The Art Life: A Tribute to David Lynch (BRM #3, Explicit) with Mr. Richard - Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, 50s Americana, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Mr. Eddy, Now It's Dark
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Now It's Dark.Explicit Advisory: This episode contains potentially upsetting discussions of child sexual abuse/violence as well as addiction, dome...
Hemlock #30 - Kaila Yu: Orientalism (Old and New), WW2 Comfort Women, Disney Princesses, Imperialism and the Sex Trade, Okinawa Air Base, Asian Fetishization, Memoirs of a Geisha, Playboy, +New Book
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
(Pre-) Order Kaila's new book, out August 19th:Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and BeautySummary (AI Generated by Gemini 2.5 ...
Hemlock #29 - Welcome to the First Crusade Feat. American Prestige and We're Not So Different: Magic Spears, Starving Franks, Holy Massacres, Historical Himbos, and Why Only the First Crusade Worked
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Check out the premium podcast Welcome to the Crusades: The First Crusade and unlock all ten episodes now. Click here for the full first episode.I am j...
#171a - John Brown: Susan Neiman on One Man's Terrorist is Another Man's Freedom Fighter, Radical Ethics and Activism, Violence and Nonviolence, Battle Hymn of the Republic, & Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is Lecture #3 of 6 in Susan Neiman's "Heroism for a Time of Victims" lecture series, part of the Gifford Lectures delivered...
#171 - Heroism for a Time of Victims: Susan Neiman on Modern Myths, Odysseus, Albert Einstein, Paul Robeson, Adorno, George Eliot, Circe, John Brown and the Civil War, and Why We Need Heroes Today
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Support me on Patreon!Read about Susan Neiman's May 2022 Gifford Lecture Series "Heroism for a Time of Victims" at the Gifford Lecture b...
#169b - Death: Shelly Kagan on the Living in the Face of Death, the Problem of Immortality, Suicide and the Value of Life, Loneliness, Overcoming and Confronting the Fear of Death
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is Part 2 of Shelly Kagan's course on YouTube/Yale Open Courseware. Part 1 is linked in the description, or you can just click here. You can ...
Hemlock #28 Watchmen: A Cold War Essay (Part One) Ozymandias, The Doomsday Clock, Rorschach, Nukes in Vietnam, Berlin Pop, Rilke, Thomas Merton & the Unspeakable, and Confronting the End of the World
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Support my work and get ad-free full episodes on Patreon:https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonEarlier episodes (#1-27) up now, ad-free on History...
BRM #2b - Byron: Frankenstein's Monster, Ada Lovelace, Dodging Child Support, 19th Century Gossip Columns, the Greek War for Independence, Butt Issues, Hayao Miyazaki, de Sade, and David Lynch
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon Support:patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonPodcast Sources (AI Generated, May Contain Errors):Ada LovelaceSource: Wikipedia: Ada Lovelace...
Bad Role Models #2a: Lord Byron with Richard, Earl of Sinex - European Grand Tours, Childhood Trauma, Crappy 18th century Dads, the Elgin Marbles, Bad Teenage Poetry, Dodging the Coppers Like a Dandy
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's not easy being a gay brain-sex icon and a straight brain-sex icon at the same time but ya boi Byron did it. Part 1 of 2. Poll in the thing for th...
DocDocs #4: The Riot Report: Lyndon Johnson, the Newark Riots, MLK/Malcolm X, the Kerner Commission, Redlining, Vietnam and Civil Rights, Militarized Police, Jimmy Baldwin, and the End of Jim Crow
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get full, official episodes of Documentary Doctors on the Shiny New Spotify Feed (coming soon) - you can watch The Riot Report on KanopySupport good c...
Hemlock #27 - Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025): My Talk w/ Greg Sadler on Virtue Ethics, Zizek and Lacan, Modes of Rationality, Effective Altruism /Bentham, After Virtue, Thomism, Mill, & Heavy Metal
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alasdair MacIntyre's book After Virtue:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_VirtuePatreon for Supporters/Fans:https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonG...
DocDocs #3 - Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat: Patrice Lumumba and the CIA, Dizzy Gillespie for President, Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, The Great Nina Simone, Frantz Fanon, Congo Liberation, Uranium, IMF, Jazz
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Check out the Documentary!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RwLdIiZk_8Sabrina's Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/notetoselfzine.bsky.socialWill Pat...
#170 - 2nd Biannual Report to the Shareholders: Roy Casagranda, Boethius, the American Terror Series, Virginia Woolf, Alasdair MacIntyre, Getting Emailed by Kn@tsies, Contrapoints, Gratitude
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contact: [email protected]'s Stuff: https://bsky.app/profile/notetoselfzine.bsky.socialBoethius Critical Edition I Used (Although ...
#169a - Death: Shelly Kagan on Plato, Immortality, Physicalism versus Dualism, Individual Continuity Across Time and Space, Arguing the Existence of the Soul, Phaedo and Socrates, Memento Mori
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon/Tip Jar: https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonTable of Contents Below >>>Original Course Listing on YouTube:https://www.youtu...
Hemlock #26 - Targeting the Death Star with Guillermo Zapata: Palantir, ICE Camps, Peter Thiel & the Antichrist, Vaclav Havel, Star Wars and Rogue One, Maersk/BDS, Deporting Zohran, Melancholia, Gaza
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Support the Rebel Alliance: https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonPeople Mentioned:Mahmoud KhalilMaria LugonesByung-Chul HanLars von Trier (dir. Melanch...
Hemlock #25 - Maturity: Taoism, Confucianism, Epicureanism, Kierkegaard's Aesthetic/Hedonistic Way of Life, the Origins of Evil, Ahimsa/Nonviolence, and Disputing the Tao
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonPhoto Credit:Morning Tai Chi by Shuolong MaMusic Credit:Music Copyright Kevin MacLeodhttps://youtu.be/qGA...
Hemlock #24 - Countdown: Journalist Sarah Scoles on Nuclear Weapons Safety, Jill Tarter and SETI, Nuclear LARPing, the Golden Dome and Missile Defense, and What Really Happens at Los Alamos
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Buy Sarah's Book:https://a.co/d/6zROOvVSarah's Socials:Website: https://www.sarahscoles.com/books.htmlBsky: https://bsky.app/profile/sarahscol...
Consolatio #5 - For the Evil, Show Your Pity: Book 4 of the Consolation of Philosophy, All Things Depend Upon Will and Power, Virtue is the Health of the Soul, Our Aim Is To Be Unlike Those We Hate
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At long last, Book 4 of the 5-book masterpiece, De Consolatione de Philosophiae by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Translated by W. V. Cooper, cri...
Hemlock #22 - Congratulations to the Neocons: We're Now At War with Iran - Also the Effective Altruist/AI Grifters, Because That's What I Wanted To Talk About Before The Bombing Began
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonBreaking News.....America has bombed 3 Iranian nuclear reactors.Happy summer solstice.ReferencesIraq 1981...
Hemlock #21 - Iran in the Modern World: Five Sideways Reflections, Operation AJAX, FDR and the Yalta Pact with Saudi Arabia, Oil and the AIOC, Mossadegh, Israel, Nuclear Blackmail, and the Great Satan
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come check out the Patreon, where this episode was held in special quarantine for a few months...https://patreon.com/hemlockpatreonNuclear weapons in ...
DocDocs #2 - The Act of Killing: Musical Theater, Politicide, Death Squads, Suharto/Sukarno, East Timor, Interviews with Mass Murderers, American Gangster Movies, and the Aesthetics of Violence
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sabrina is back for the second installment of the Documentary Doctors!As a reminder, you can sign up for her class on Palestine here. If you can't...
Hemlock #20 - Abuses of Power, Constitutional Reform, and the Gaza Holocaust, featuring William Sanchez
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Art Credit: "Piece Offering" by Mr. Fishhttps://clowncrack.com/2025/06/10/piece-offering/Find William's writing on Substack:htt...
Bhagwan Richard Presents: Osho (Complete Series) - Sex Cults, New Age Theology, Bioterrorism, Nurse Mengele, Dynamic Meditation, Tax Evasion, and Ten Weird Reasons You NEVER Leave a Cult Unsupervised
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Osho, AKA Bhagwan, AKA Raj Rajneesh, AKA....we get it - mystic, con artist, cult leader, philosopher, terrorist, dupe? Your guess is as good as mine. ...
The Documentary Doctors #1: Sabrina Jennings and William Engels Review the Award-Winning Docs "The Bibi Files" and Al-Jazeera's Banned Documentary "The Lobby" - AIPAC, Jewish Voice for Peace, & Cigars
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this kickoff episode, activist and teacher Sabrina Jennings (links below) calls in to review two outstanding exposé documentaries, The Bibi Files,...
#168 - Kant: The Categorical Imperative, A Priori and A Posteriori, First and Second Critique, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kantian Ethics & Deontology, Enlightenment, and Perpetual Peace
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Written by Professor A. J. Mandt (Wichita State University)https://philpeople.org/profiles/a-j-mandtVoiced by Charlton Heston. Original here:https://a...
#167 - Edward Said's Legacy: Cornel West on His Colleague's Work in the Middle East, the Human Spirit in Poetry, Kendrick Lamar, John Coltrane, the Funk of Life, and the Truth of Radical Solidarity
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon!https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonOriginal Video (SFU)https://youtu.be/gpkZRyXdmi0SummaryIn a passionate and wide-ranging lectu...
Hemlock #19 - The Left: A Love Letter
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I will end with a little scene that took place in the last months of peace. They were the most terrible months of my life, for helplessly and hopeless...
Hemlock #18 - DOME: My Response to Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Golden Dome" vis a vis the Last Forty Years of Missile Defense History
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How I learned to stop worrying and love the Dome.Patreon: https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonMusic Credit (under the FOX clip): Anapse Entertainment...
Hemlock #17: Trans Technologies with Oliver Haimson - Chelsea Manning, Trans Rights in the US, Technologies of Identity Formation and Community Resilience, Videogames, and the Future for Trans Youth
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oliver's Book Trans Technologies:https://a.co/d/01Lhkk9Oliver's Bluesky:https://bsky.app/profile/haimson.bsky.socialGuest: Oliver Haimson, Ass...
Hemlock #16: Gaia Wakes 2: Topher McDougal on Planetary Consciousness, AI Personhood and Risk, Economies of Predation and Production, Abolitionism for Sentience, and the Light at the End of the Tunnel
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TOPHER'S BOOK:https://a.co/d/izl2PvHCome join the Patreon!https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonBy the way here's what Google Gemini has to say ...
#166 - War: Chris Hedges on the Permanent Psychosis of War, Covering the Middle East for the New York Times, Gaza, Kosovo, the Plague of Violence, Corporate Totalitarianism, Propaganda, and Revolution
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon!https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonOriginal Video:https://youtu.be/MUfVPV5Of6ASummary:In this powerful 2014 speech, journalist a...
#165 - Breaking the Myth: Vintage Chomsky on Neoliberalism, US Economic Hegemony, Bretton Woods Corporate Power, the Contradictions of Capitalism, and the End of the Cold War
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon!https://patreon.com/c/hemlockpatreonSauce for the audio:https://archive.org/details/NoamChomsky-02-13-96-BreakingTheMythAnExposeO...
#164 - The Future of Faith: Huston Smith on Comparative Religion, Tibetan Buddhism, Scientism versus Science, the Fairness Revolution, Darwinian Reduction, and Why Religion Matters in the 21st Century
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Modernity has forced the human spirit into a tunnel - is the light at the end the way back to Paradise, or an unstoppable train coming to end the huma...
Consolatio #4 - The Crystal Fount: Boethius on True and False Happiness, the Unity of Goodness, the Two Binding Threads, the Myth of Orpheus, and Those Darknesses which Bring Ruin to the Souls of Men
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Book 3 of Boethius' 6th century masterpiece De consolatione philosophiaeCONTACT FORM:https://form.typeform.com/to/kW1uMg8GListen to previous secti...
Hemlock #15 - Confronting the Bomb: Franco Castro Escobar on the History of Nuclear Weapons in Japan, Antiwar Movements, World Federation, Hibakusha, Youth Antinuclear Organizations, and Fallout
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learn more about Franco and his research:https://www.keele.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/francocastroescobar/https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fcastroescobarCom...
#163 - May, 1968: An Intellectual and Political History of the Paris Student Revolt, Sexual Liberation, Street Philosophy, Alain Badiou, Feminism, Simon Critchley, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, and Zizek
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Help support the show, get access to exclusive episodes, and keep the podcast ad-free forever:https://patreon.com/c/HemlockPatreonWrite-up on the May ...
#160b - The Meaning of History (2 of 2): Darren Staloff on Arnold Toynbee, R. G. Collingwood, Positivism, Arthur Danto, Fernand Braudel, Poststructuralism, and William McNeill's “Plagues and People”
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
PART 1 (HoPAA #160a):https://open.spotify.com/episode/5taLk6nbSkUZ3kGgRIgoSk?si=7724226c6b1042e1Come join my Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/c/Hemlock...
Hemlock #14 - Secrets of the Killing State: Corinna Barrett Lain on Lethal Injection, the Ethics of the Death Penalty, Prison Reform, Televised Executions, and What the State Does at its Most Powerful
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Check out Dr. Lain's Work:https://law.richmond.edu/faculty/clain/Pre-Order "Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injectio...
Hemlock #13 - Human Beings First: Rev. Dr. Helen Boursier on ICE Detention Centers, Human Rights in the Borderlands, Christian Ministry in Dark Places, and the Theology of Witness and Hospitality
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Buy Dr. Boursier's Book Precious Precarity and Support Her Work:https://a.co/d/8h6xu0DCome join my community on Patreon (free to sign up!)https://...
#161 - The Birmingham Tragedy: James Baldwin and Reinhold Niebuhr Discuss Civil Rights, God's Presence in Tragedy, Justice and Love, and Bearing Witness to Evil
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come join my Patreon!https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreonWatch the conversation on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDzcdGzjXmI
#160a - The Meaning of History (1 of 2): Darren Staloff on Philosophical Approaches to History, Eliade, Vico, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, and the Search for a Universal History of Humanity
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Originally titled “The Search for a Meaningful Past”YouTube Playlist:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGCfeEu2DRR4_Px-vrIfyPRkmzaDbmyf&s...
Consolatio #3 - Book 2: Fortune's Wheel, the Lesser and Greater Teachers of Virtue, Fate and Goodness, and How Mixed with Bitterness is the Sweetness of Man's Life
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Creative Commons Zero (unrestricted free public domain use) production of Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy" read by the host, Will...
Hemlock #12 - Gaia Wakes: My Conversation with Topher McDougal on AI, Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons, Planetary Consciousness, David Graeber, Gregory Bateson, Technological Lifeforms, and Evolution
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Follow Topher's Work:https://tophermcdougal.com/Buy the book, Gaia Wakes:https://cup.columbia.edu/book/gaia-wakes/9781788218283Follow Topher on Li...
Consolatio #2 - To Oppose Evil Men is the Chief Aim We Set Before Ourselves: Book I, Entrance of Philosophy to the Dungeon, Condemnation of Stoics and Epicurus, Pi & Theta, Fear Nothing, Hope Nothing
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's finally here, and we're just getting started: Book I of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy with a new intro by me.(00:00:00) - Histo...
#158 - Mircea Eliade and the Cycles of Time: Darren Staloff on Comparative Mythology, Symbolic Archetypes, the History of Religion, Eliade's Religious Scholarship, and the Theophany of Profane Events
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Suggestions for the show:[email protected]:https://www.patreon.com/HemlockPatreon-//-(00:00:00) - Intro(00:01:55) - Staloff on Eliade-...
#157 - Learn to Die So You Can Learn to Live: Cornel West on Socratic Legacy, Blues, Chekhov's Christ, American Democracy, Deep Education, Jazz, Augustine, and the Blue Note in the American Song
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patreon: https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreonHang in there.Original Video, Published Feb 2014https://youtu.be/EwPCJ9WpH7EThank you to Wheaton College fo...