Moral Minority
Episodes
Content of the Form: Hannah Smart on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In honor of the 30th anniversary of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, novelist Hannah Smart once again joins us for a discussion of the ethic...
Contemporary Conversations: Jonathan B. Fine on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and the German Enlightenment
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On September 7, 1945, only a few months after the Allies accepted the Nazis’ unconditional surrender, the Deutches Theater in Berlin reopened its do...
Nota Bene: The Moral Passion of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King with Hannah Smart Episode
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
David Foster Wallace, the loquacious novelist behind Infinite Jest, seemingly predicted much of our culture moment from AI avatars to the hypnotic and...
Contemporary Conversations: Eleanor Russell on Simone Weil's Gravity & Grace
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor Russell joins us to discuss the mystical writings of French philosopher, Simone Weil. Published posthumously and edited by Gustave Thibon, Gra...
Contemporary Conversations: A.V. Marraccini on Susan Sontag’s Fascinating Fascism & Notes on Camp
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Sontag for almost forty years was the most recognisable public intellectual in America. She inspired an entire generation of critics to read mor...
Content of the Form: Grace Byron on Annie Ernaux’s The Years & Herculine
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Content of the Form” is a new interview series excavating the moral and political meshwork implicit in the use of certain artistic forms and genr...
Moral of the Story: Sebastian Castillo on Fresh, Green Life
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Moral of the Story” is a new interview series in which we talk to contemporary novelists and poets about the ethical content of their work, the r...
Contemporary Conversations: Ross Wolfe on Domenico Losurdo's Neo-Stalinist Revival and the Future of Marxism
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the legacy of 20th century Marxism one of victory or defeat? On a certain reading, the defeat of the international proletarian revolution has been ...
Contemporary Conversations: Alina Stefanescu on Derrida's The Politics of Friendship and My Heresies
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The poet, Alina Stefanescu, joins us for a freewheeling discussion of Jacques Derrida's classic work of politico-ethical deconstruction, The Poli...
Being & Nothingness, Part 2
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Part 2, we wrap up our consideration of Jean-Paul Sartre's midcentury magnum opus by exploring how we move from the inaccessible interiority o...
Nota Bene: The Metaphysics and Moral Vision of David Lynch with Jon Repetti
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Note Bene is a series of off the cuff episodes that delve more into our personal experiences with broader topics with relevance to normativity and the...
Contemporary Conversations: Matt McManus on The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matt McManus joins us to help excavate the common origins of liberalism and socialism within the revolutionary republican tradition and illuminate sha...
Contemporary Conversations: Ryan Ruby on Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious and Context Collapse
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a far-reaching conversation with the critic Ryan Ruby, we unpack the legacy and impact of Fredric Jameson's landmark work of Marxist literary ...
Being & Nothingness, Part 1
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Part 1, we explicate Jean-Paul Sartre's attempt to build a total existential system hinges on an unusual account of the evanescent character o...
Repetition
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Repetititon(1843) is a difficult and, for many, a baffling work by Søren Kierkegaard. It is equal parts psychological study, literary riddle, and phi...
Contemporary Conversations: Vanessa Christina Wills on Marx's Ethical Vision
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this lively interview with philosopher Vanessa Wills, we discuss her recently published book, Marx's Ethical Vision, which argues that Marx&ap...
Fear and Trembling
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode inaugurates a series of episodes exploring the existentialist approach to modern philosophy by considering the most well-known work of th...
Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 3: The Culture Industry
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To complete our series on Dialectic of Enlightenment, we take an extended look at the famous chapter on the culture industry. The function of the cult...
Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 2
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this multi-part series, we examine the legacy of critical theory and the prospects of a recuperation of Marxist theory in the face of rising fascis...
Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 1
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this multi-part series, we examine the legacy of critical theory and the prospects of a recuperation of Marxist theory in the face of rising fascis...
Vocation Lectures
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses the German sociologist Max Weber's Vocation Lectures. In these lectures, Weber outlines a secular conception of the meanin...
Shame & Necessity
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Shame and Necessity, Bernard Williams interrogates what we can still glean about the universal character of human action and the notion of respon...
Sources of Normativity
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode turns to Christine Korsgaard's Tanner lectures, "The Sources of Normativity," to explore how morality might be rationally ...
After Virtue
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode examines Alasdair MacIntyre's attempt to explain the existence of interminable moral and political disagreement as a symptom of the ...
Moral Realism
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Devin and Charles climb down from the heights of Nietzsche's critique of conventional morality in order to take a brief detour i...
Dawn
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the inaugural episode of Moral Minority, Devin and Charles make the case for Nietzsche's continual relevance to contemporary politics by exami...