Politics Tagged Episodes

April 5, 2026

Seventeenth century philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that without government to control our worst impulses, life…

March 8, 2026

People often speak on behalf of others, like the concerned citizen who stands up for…

September 7, 2025

It’s common to judge a piece of architecture based on its functional and aesthetic values,…

January 19, 2025

Ancient philosophers like Socrates and Plato believed that an education focused on developing good character…

December 22, 2024

We all know our society is economically unequal: some people have more money and resources…

November 3, 2024

When Ken Taylor passed away, he was working on a manuscript titled Farewell to the…

February 11, 2024

More than any other President, Abraham Lincoln is known for his words, from the Lincoln-Douglass…

October 1, 2023

The 2020 election and startling events that followed show that the US is as polarized…

October 9, 2022

Most of us think it’s obvious that we have a self, but famously, both Buddhism…

July 3, 2022

Comedy can often give offense, especially when it concerns such sensitive topics as race, gender,…

May 22, 2022

In George Orwell’s 1984, the party’s “final, most essential command” was “to reject the evidence…

April 3, 2022

The doctrine of mutually assured destruction is supposed to deter both sides in a war…

February 27, 2022

Postmodernism is often characterized by its rejection of concepts championed by the Enlightenment, like meaning,…

September 12, 2021

Authority can refer to people or institutions that have the political power to make decisions,…

July 18, 2021

Many of us might think that developed nations should lead the effort to end global…

March 7, 2021

We sometimes think of the domains of ethics and morality as divorced from feeling and…