History of Philosophy Audio Archive

217 Episodes

1. 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

   Published: 6/15/2025
2. 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

   Published: 6/15/2025
3. Hemlock #20 - Abuses of Power, Constitutional Reform, and the Gaza Holocaust, featuring William Sanchez

   Published: 6/15/2025
4. 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

   Published: 6/14/2025
5. 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

   Published: 5/28/2025
6. #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

   Published: 5/28/2025
7. #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

   Published: 5/24/2025
8. Hemlock #19 - The Left: A Love Letter

   Published: 5/24/2025
9. Hemlock #18 - DOME: My Response to Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Golden Dome" vis a vis the Last Forty Years of Missile Defense History

   Published: 5/23/2025
10. 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

    Published: 5/22/2025
11. 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

    Published: 5/18/2025
12. #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

    Published: 5/13/2025
13. #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

    Published: 5/11/2025
14. #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

    Published: 4/27/2025
15. 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

    Published: 4/17/2025
16. 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

    Published: 4/13/2025
17. #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

    Published: 4/8/2025
18. #162 - The Thousand-Year Legacy of Ibn Sina: Roy Casagranda on Arab Philosophy, Medieval Medicine, the Baghdad House of Wisdom, and the Origins of Scholasticism in the Arab World

    Published: 4/5/2025
19. #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”

    Published: 4/4/2025
20. 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

    Published: 4/3/2025