To end our first season we're talking about Arcade Fire's first three albums: Funeral, Neon Bible, and The Suburbs. We cover American extremism, growing up, and, of course, life in suburbia. Enjoy!

This week we finish our discussion of Karl Jasper's Philosophy of Existence. This includes some core existential concepts such as authenticity and we also tackle his categories of truth. Enjoy!

It's time for some existentialism! We discuss the first half of Jasper's lectures on The Philosophy of Existence, covering the difference between existence and his term existenz, and so much more. Enjoy!

Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows is a classic text. It attempts to explicate a whole nation's aesthetic character...is it successful? And what of Tanizaki's more dated claims? Join us this week as we work through a great and, at times, frustrating work.

Join us this week as we read Roland Barthe's essay Lesson In Writing. We're talking about Bunraku theatre and how the medium highlights an essential difference between Eastern and Western art...and yes, disagreements abound! Enjoy!

Think of the hero in your favorite action film. Now ask yourself: would it make sense for them to die and remain dead? Or! Is the hero strangely safe...join us as we explore the hero as the guise of his majesty the Ego in this week's episode on Freud's Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming.

Join us this week as we explore Harry G. Frankfurt's definition of "Bullshit," what separates it from lying, and its relationship to the truth!

Fairy tales! This week we're excited to talk about storytelling which, for us, means talking about a lot of Disney movies. Enjoy!