(Late) Summer Reading List 2024
September 1, 2024
Looking for some deep dives into pop culture this summer? Josh and Ray talk to…
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Summer Reading List: Banned Books Edition
September 4, 2022
The American Library Association reports that last year 1,597 books were challenged or removed from…
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…
Poetry as a Way of Knowing
April 19, 2020
What is poetry? Mere word play? A pretty, or at any rate striking, way of…
Can Speech Kill?
March 22, 2020
Free speech is one of the core tenets of our democracy. We’re inclined to think…
Summer Reading (and Misreading)
September 1, 2019
What should you be reading this summer—and how should you be reading it? We’re often…
More Than Pun and Games
April 7, 2019
Puns have been called both the highest and lowest form of humor. There is something…
Summer Reading List 2018
August 19, 2018
Summer is here – what philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want to read…
Summer Reading List 2017
July 2, 2017
Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Hannah Arendt’s The Origins…
Summer Reading List 2015
June 21, 2015
Summer is here – what philosophers, philosophies, or philosophical issues do you want to read up…
How Words Work: From Noise to Meaning
May 17, 2015
Humans have an amazing capacity to communicate. By uttering sounds we are able to convey…
Forbidden Words
March 15, 2015
Some words, like n****r, ch*nk, and c*nt, are so forbidden that we won’t even spell…
Summer Reading List 2012
May 27, 2012
Summer is the perfect time to dig in to deep reading. Plato’s Collected Dialogues may…
What are Words Worth?
July 24, 2011
How do words shape our minds? Do the French suffer because they have no word…
Language and Thought
June 15, 2008
You might think our thoughts simply determine what we say. But maybe the language we…
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