Are We Alone?
December 6, 2020
News that life might exist or have existed on Mars or somewhere else in our…
Democracy By Numbers
November 1, 2026
Despite adhering to the principle of “one person, one vote,” elections in the United States are often highly contentious: presidents can be elected after losing the popular vote, there is widespread gerrymandering and voter purging, and not everyone has equal representation in the Senate. So…
Camus and the Absurd
November 8, 2020
Albert Camus is most famous for his existential works of fiction including The Stranger as…
Monstrous Technologies?
November 1, 2020
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein raises powerful questions about the responsibilities of scientists to consider the impact…
Hannah Arendt
October 11, 2020
Hannah Arendt was one of the most original and influential philosophers of the 20th century. …
How to Humbly Disagree
September 27, 2020
People like to argue, especially Philosophy Talk listeners! But no matter how hard we try…
Time for Summer Reading
August 23, 2020
When John and Ken began shopping around their idea for a philosophy-on-the-radio show nearly 20…
Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism
July 19, 2020
Frantz Fanon is a thinker who has inspired radical liberation movements in places ranging from…
The 2020 Dionysus Awards
July 5, 2020
What movies of the past year challenged our assumptions and made us think about things…
White Privilege and Racial Injustice
June 7, 2020
“White privilege” has become a buzzword in discussions about racial inequality and racial justice. The…
Machiavelli
May 3, 2020
Niccolò Machiavelli is best known for arguing that people in power should use deception, force,…
Poetry as a Way of Knowing
April 19, 2020
What is poetry? Mere word play? A pretty, or at any rate striking, way of…
Fractured Identities
April 5, 2020
Despite tremendous strides made towards civil and political rights in the United States, discrimination and…
The Philosophy of Retirement
March 29, 2020
Many of us look forward to retirement, that time in life when we stop working…
Can Speech Kill?
March 22, 2020
Free speech is one of the core tenets of our democracy. We’re inclined to think…
Midlife and Meaning
March 8, 2020
At some point or another, the midlife crisis comes for us all. But what is…
Philosophy of Trash
March 1, 2020
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” or so the saying goes. But what makes…
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