I had a wonderful conversation with Graham St John about ethnobotanist Terence McKenna! Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna - Graham St John on McKenna's Life and Work, Psilocybin and DMT, Psychedelic History, & Alchemy

Our new podcast episode on #HoPWaG is the first of a mini-series on the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi! We start by asking in what sense this is a "skeptical" work. www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ske... #podcast #daoism #philsky #philosophy

I interviewed Roy Casagranda about Henry Kissinger, the Iraq War, the lessons of history, and how to fix everything that's wrong with the world. open.spotify.com/episode/6759...

I'm reading Virginia Woolf's novel To The Lighthouse and making a free audiobook as I go! Listen on Spotify. open.spotify.com/episode/72l5...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW ON APPLE AND SPOTIFY open.substack.com/pub/williame...

NOTHING IS SPOOKIER THAN A DEAD REVOLUTION www.patreon.com/posts/hemloc...

This article helps to clarify a dark vision against which we must rally. It unifies what otherwise seem like discombobulated chaotic spasms under a shockingly un-American, hopelessly depressing world view necessary for promoting fascism. Excellent synthesis www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

New piece out about the late, great Mark Fisher and Capitalist Realism. "The kind of nostalgia that is now so pervasive may best be characterized not as a longing for the past so much as an inability to make new memories. The past keeps coming back because the present cannot be remembered."

Shadow Ticket rocks, by the way.

New podcast out now about Palantir, Lucky Palmer/Anduril, AI bloomers and doomers, and the neverending quest for technological domination, culminating in Dolby Atmos Surround generative AI slop Labubu terrordomes.

There's a ceasefire. Yay! Not so quick. Let's break this down and see what it's really about. PS. I used the same art for the thumbnail that I had made when Biden made the deal with Bibi. It's the same thing. Bunch of weasels. youtu.be/rDEW4Oaum6s

@notetoselfzine.bsky.social and I thought we would kick the hornet's nest by talking about the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, and the Banality of Evil. Check out our review of Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (public link) www.patreon.com/posts/dd5-ei...

Delighted to have discussed the First Crusade with @werenotsodiff.bsky.social and @amprestigepod.bsky.social on my podcast, History of Philosophy Audio Archive. Click here for the primal scene of Western Civilization, talismans, and quirked-up white bois (Normans). open.spotify.com/episode/4Gv9...

Posting this in advance of my upcoming series on David Lynch. A fantastic interview. The art life is coffee and cigarettes... youtu.be/EPTQVXwCkbw

Thrilled and honored to have remembered Alasdair MacIntyre's life and philosophy with Greg Sadler! open.spotify.com/episode/2Mux...

The latest episode of Documentary Doctors with me and my friend @william-engels.bsky.social ! There's jazz. There's bad ass women. There's a grown man banging his shoe on the table. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/0PGu...

How to fix problems in your life.

Needs some reviews and recommendations? Here's my reader's digest for the last few months: open.substack.com/pub/williame...

Happy 4th my fellow Burgers: w burger, w jazz, L racism, L heart disease rates, L highest greenhouse emitter, w sick rollercoaster parks, L fascist serial rapist reality tv president, w polio vaccine, L RFK jr banning vaccine research, w right to revolution, L corndogs, L CIA still exists, w Costco

Very happy to release my episode on government labs, nuclear weapons safety, nonproliferation, UFOs and more with @sarahscoles.bsky.social - had a blast (in the non-literal sense, luckily) and highly recommend. open.spotify.com/episode/6ofy...

We're now bombing Iran and I just wanna say...don't. open.spotify.com/episode/1mwp...

[A] lone protester was at last present... At the deportation officer recruiting table, he asked the agent, “Have you read Eichmann in Jerusalem?” “Do you know what the Nazis said?” he asked. “They said they were just following orders. How do you think of your own work in this context?”

New episode about Iran. Featuring the CIA. open.spotify.com/episode/6cz1...

Corvallis showed up for #NoKings

IMPORTANT class update: due to protests and pride events tomorrow, the start of class is postponed until June 21. So there is still time to sign up! Donate if you're able, no worries if you can't. And if the day/time doesn't work but you are interested let me know because I will offer it again.

I made a four-hour documentary about Osho with my best friend, please enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/5VwT...

My latest piece, reviewing Mountainhead, David Foster Wallace, Shelley's and Keat's poetry, and for some reason Kraftwerk.

One of the very very best books I have read in a very very long time. Incredible historical analysis of violence, way better than people like Girard or even Benjamin.

Only 2000s kids will remember this

A cartoon by Tom Toro. #NewYorkerCartoons See more cartoons and other funny stuff from New Yorker Humor: nyer.cm/9mf6isU

Status competition among wealthy men: when money is not enough, can you perform a moral life? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

This book is making my brain go brrrrrrr

Sunflower

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

STANDING INVITE: If you are a career professional in any of these topics and want to do a podcast interview then please feel free to comment or respond: -Climate change, glaciology, paleoclimatology, environmental science in general, forestry, etc. -History of or political theory of: fascism, racism

I can't believe I'm critiquing missile defense shenanigans but here I am critiquing missile defense shenanigans Learn from history, people open.spotify.com/episode/1RAL...

A perfectly reasonable use of an hour youtu.be/Qjna7PROMZ8

My new conversation with Oliver Haimson! Trans technology, safety for the queer community, Chelsea Manning, and resisting antitrans policies. open.spotify.com/episode/2IEL...

It's time to show a little love... To the Left, specifically: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/wil...

Whereabouts remain unknown

A bit of Chris Hedges, in this troubled time? New episode out NOW. www.patreon.com/posts/166-wa...

New CHOMSKY episode out now! www.patreon.com/posts/165-br...

Iran, Iran, Iran Oh to have not coup'd thee in 1953... NEW EPISODE OUT NOW www.patreon.com/posts/iran-f...

For it is life, dear brother, that imitateth Art....

Took me 19 years but finally made it all the way through the INCREDIBLE 2006 hip hop album Game Theory by The Roots. If you need to hear something that makes SENSE then listen to this sometime. ~You either speak your own life, or your rhymes are adopted~ tidal.com/browse/album...

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