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Apr 27, 2018 — Robert Wright & Chris Stedman
Chris’s experience as a humanist chaplain at Harvard and Yale
Secular community with a moral tone
Atheism, anti-theism, and humanism
What Richard Spencer doesn’t like about the Abrahamic faiths
Atheism and tribalism
Atheistic fervor as a response to religious trauma
An inspirational atheism
Does some New Atheist rhetoric encourage bigotry?
Apr 25, 2018 — Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell
Is masculinity treated as a pathology?
Why girls are outperforming boys in class
Disentangling gender and sex, culture and biology
“Girl power” was a success, but at what social cost?
Crispin’s years as a teen revolutionary
The modern school as a totalitarian institution
What really explains high-security schools?
How safe can we reasonably expect to be in society?
Is the media distorting our narratives of crime and danger?
Apr 23, 2018 — Philip Menchaca & Kelly Baker
The Ku Klux Klan’s appeal to Protestant America
How the KKK rationalized a Jewish Jesus
The Birth of a Nation
and the symbology of the burning cross
How to “love thy neighbor” as a Klansman (answer: very selectively)
Kelly: The Klan declined, but its politics went mainstream
Kelly’s search for apocalyptic rhetoric in Klan literature
Apr 20, 2018 — Robert Wright & Jon Kabat-Zinn
Was the Buddha a Buddhist?
What the Buddha meant by “suffering”
Mindfulness as awareness
“Secular” mindfulness as sacred
The trap of goal-oriented meditation
The heart of the Buddha’s message
When Jon discovered his purpose
Mindfulness training in schools
Apr 9, 2018 — Stephen Asma & Rami Gabriel
Puppet Show: Are emotions in the brain?
Luiz Pessoa’s argument for the feedback between lower and higher brain function
How the regions of the brain evolved to interact
“The content problem” in the neuroscience of emotion and cognition
Are the common fears of snakes and spiders “hard-wired,” and how?
What brain mapping fails to tell us about cognition
Rami’s research on prosopagnosia (face blindness) and emotional cognition
Apr 2, 2018 — William Black & Elizabeth Catte
The narrative of “economic anxiety” in Appalachia
Elizabeth: Appalachia is more diverse than you think
The myth of the “mountain white”
Critiquing J.D. Vance’s book
Hillbilly Elegy
Political activism in the region
How Elizabeth sees her role as a “public historian”
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