Ep. #14 - Chloe Valdary and Jamie Kilstein

05/04/20 • 71 min

Is spirituality compatible with capitalism? Bernie Sanders, Jay-Z, and Michael Vick feature prominently as points of conversation in this exploratory exchange between comedian Jamie Kilstein and writer/social critic Chloe Valdary. Through the lens of their personal experiences, the duo wrestles with the material-spiritual tension in contemporary society.

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Ep. #13 - Crisis and Leviathan: COVID-19

Historian Robert Higgs’ book Crisis and Leviathan takes center stage in this pandemic-centric exchange between Mary Theroux and Graham Walker of The Independent Institute. Originally published in 1987, the work is seeing a resurgence in popularity with the emergence of COVID-19 and its subsequent implications for the growing influence of government in society’s fight against the virus. Theroux and Walker make a case for the book’s relevance as a prescient forewarning against state overreach.

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Ep. #15 - Stephen Hicks and Mike Nayna

When Mike Nayna began using his camera to document the efforts of the Grievance Studies Project, it marked not only an explicit certification of his filmmaking talents but also an initiation of an urgent and necessary autodidactism in philosophy. Stephen Hicks’ work proved a reliable and enduring anchor point for Nayna’s research as an exploration of postmodernism’s vice grip on modern academia. The two join forces in this thinkspot exclusive for a discussion of Nayna’s experiences and his future projects.