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Jul 31, 2018 — Daniel Kaufman & Brian Leiter
To understand Marx, start with Hegel’s dialectics
Why Marx emphasized economic production over Hegelian idealism
Dan: Was Marx’s concept of labor too narrow?
What will happen if technology eliminates most jobs?
Marxism post-WWII: More than college activism and Jefferson Airplane?
Brian: Marx’s predictions were right, but his predicted timeframe was all wrong
Why “diversity blather” is a capitalist wolf in Marxist clothing
Jul 29, 2018 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Katie Herzog
What Katie saw at the Jordan Peterson roadshow
Is Peterson peddling bunkum?
Katie defends Peterson against charges of racism
Peterson’s views on gender: traditionalist, sexist, or misogynist?
Peterson as a holy fool
Jesse Singal’s controversial
Atlantic
cover story on detransitioning
Is the media telling the wrong stories about trans people?
Jul 20, 2018 — Robert Wright & Robin Hanson
Why Robin’s head will be severed and frozen upon his death
Robin used the phrase “redistribution of sex” and people got mad
Robin defends his controversial blog post about rape and cuckoldry
Robin’s book about our selfish motives,
The Elephant in the Brain
Laughter as a signal about norm violation
Robin: Politics is about proving your loyalty to your side
What’s the real reason we engage in conversation?
Jul 13, 2018 — Robert Wright & Thomas Metzinger
Try this at home: the rubber hand illusion
Out-of-body experiences in VR
Why you will never have a not-self experience
Meditation, capitalism, and political activism
The urgent need to teach meditation in schools
Thomas’s “transparent self” model
Jul 11, 2018 — Robert Wright & Michael Shermer
Michael’s controversial
Scientific American
column on the “final mysterians”
Bob’s thought experiment about God and quantum mechanics
The split among philosophers over the free will question
Revisiting Thomas Nagel’s famous essay, “What is it like to be a bat?”
What’s a harder problem, God or consciousness?
What laws should govern a colony on Mars?
Michael reports from inside the Intellectual Dark Web
Deconstructing Jordan Peterson’s appeal
Bob: Life is hard and religion can help
Jul 6, 2018 — Robert Wright & John Haught
John’s book,
The New Cosmic Story
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and cosmic evolution
What it means to say that “God is more Omega than Alpha”
John: We live in an “awakening universe”
Putting religion in cosmic context
Does “rightness” exist apart from human judgment?
Why John takes comfort in the “unfinishedness” of the universe
Alfred North Whitehead’s influence on John’s worldview
Why John rejects Perennialism
Jul 2, 2018 — Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Vanessa Grigoriadis
Vanessa’s
NYT Magazine
piece on NXIVM, an alleged “sex cult”
Why so many women rose to the top of the group
The Hollywood actress who became a NXIVM leader
The real story of the infamous branding of women’s skin
Is the group guilty of sex trafficking?
Is NXIVM a sex cult?
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