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I talk with diverse philosophers about the social and political issues of our day. We learn. We laugh. We plot revolutions.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Social-political philosophy interviews • Forgiveness, revenge, self-forgiveness, reconciliation • Justice: reparations, discrimination, refugees, housing, health, education • Feminism, decolonial/Indigenous thought, race • Moral psychology: empathy, grief, hope, character, habitsThis podcast features conversations with philosophers and related thinkers about contemporary social and political life, using philosophical tools to examine everyday moral experience as well as public institutions. Across episodes, the host draws out how concepts from ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of mind illuminate questions people face in relationships, communities, and civic life.
A prominent thread is moral psychology and the ethics of interpersonal response: how emotions, memory, and self-understanding shape practices like forgiveness, self-forgiveness, confession, reconciliation, and repair. Related discussions explore regret, remorse, revenge, justice, empathy, hope, grief, love, happiness, and the formation of character through habits. The show also considers how social pressures and “emotional norms” can produce forms of injustice, and what it means to navigate moral ambivalence when responding to wrongdoing.
Another major theme is structural injustice and political responsibility. Conversations engage issues such as discrimination and inclusion, dehumanization, misogyny and “over-sympathy” toward men, racism and the challenges of teaching about race, and debates about sexuality, religious liberty, and marginalization in academic spaces. Several topics connect philosophical analysis to policy and institutional contexts, including democracy and polarization, reparations and public apology, housing and gentrification, health disparities, education and curriculum, prisons and carceral systems, refugees and statelessness, and the ethics of monuments and collective memory.
The podcast regularly foregrounds traditions and figures that shape social critique—ranging from Kant and the Stoics to existentialism, Buddhist philosophy, Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, and decolonial and Indigenous thought—often linking these frameworks to questions of resistance, solidarity, and environmental and climate injustice. Alongside serious analysis, the conversations also touch on culture and ordinary life (sports, film, social media, music, and other interests) as sites where identity, power, and moral perception are negotiated.
