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You Can't Win

Nov 4, 2024

Tom walks us through the book The Essence of Reality by 'Ayn al-Qudat, a 12th Century Sufi text about going beyond the intellect to embrace mystical experience.


Sep 24, 2024

We chat about our cookie headaches and X-Com and Lebanon and Hannah Arendt.

Mentioned:

Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
On Revolution by Hannah Arendt

The X-Com 2 mod guy Tom mentions is christopherodd


Jul 19, 2024

Marlon Ettinger, a journalist living in France, joins Don to talk about French politics. Find Marlon on Twitter at @MarlonEttinger his new pod at @flep24pod and his book Zemmour & Gaullism.


Jul 1, 2024

Our friend Freddy joins from Vienna to talk about his Euro-Trip, Noam Chomsky, the war in Gaza, and the point of philosophy.

The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans.
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson.
Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky.
Left anti-communism: The Unkindest Cut by Michael Parenti.
My Struggle...


Jun 3, 2024

We chat about the failing Dream Port, the peace plan, paying off our debts, soul corn, some books and elections.

Mentioned:
Harland's Half Acre by David Malouf.
My Struggle Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Historical Capitalism by Immanuel Wallerstein.
Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer.
Our Bloc by James Schneider.