The Daily Eudemon
By Eric Scheske
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A weekly podcast focused on the problem of modernity: Its rejection of the Tao. Related topics: What is the Tao? Why was it rejected? How does its rejection manifest itself in modernity and postmodernity?
| Episode | Date |
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How to Drink Like an Occultist
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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McGilchrist Explains What Huxley Experienced
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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The Left Hemisphere Ruins Literature
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Thomas Sowell's Hemispheres, the Death of Chevron, and Fatty Bolger
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Gardening and Iain McGilchrist's Hemisphere Hypothesis
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Existence Strikes Back and The Hemisphere Hypothesis: A Summary
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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How to Brand Yourself
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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The Gnostic Hates the Structure
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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The Gnostic Believes His Paradise is a Historic Inevitability and His Movement Will Bring It About
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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The Gnostic is a Believer
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Why We Judge. And Why We Need to Stop
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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The Gnostic Never Blames Himself
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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These Six Traits Make a Person a Gnostic
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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A Dozen Quotes from Prometheus Bound: A Play about Spiritual Disease
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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The Tao: The Transcendental Router
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Voegelin’s New Science of Politics Put Gnosticism Back into Our Awareness
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Solon was a Man of the Tao
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Why David Hume is Important
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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The First Amendment’s Separation of Church and State Goes Back to 500 BC
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Introducing Eric Voegelin
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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We're All Machiavellians Now
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Keep Sweet and Have Sex
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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How to Cure Yourself of Modernitis
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Seven Early Symptoms of the Mental Disease “Modernitis”
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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When Western Civilization Submitted Itself to a Lobotomy
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Descartes Praised Lycurgus. It’s Our Earliest Glimpse of the Problem with Modernist Thinking
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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This Monk Understands David Foster Wallace
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Jack Kerouac: The Tao on Steroids
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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New Course/Newsletter: Raising Intellectually-Sound Children. Maybe
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Montaigne: Godfather of 4Chan?
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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71 Thoughts to Improve Your Thoughts
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Why Francis Bacon is a Founding Father of Modernity
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Top Ten Mystics of the 14th Century
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Blaise Pascal: First Anti-Modern
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Four Quirky Post-WWI Utopians
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Mystical Erections, Violence, and Theft
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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From Renaissance "Follow the Magic" to Modernity "Follow the Science"
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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The Black Arts Have No Nonsense About Them
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May 30, 2022 |
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150 Years that Shook Europe
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May 23, 2022 |
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The Satoshi Nakamoto of Mysticism
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May 16, 2022 |
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Dr. Faust and Mr. Lao-Tzu
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May 09, 2022 |
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We Golf. Therefore, the Tao is.
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May 02, 2022 |
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Thomas Aquinas: Pinnacle to Obsolescence in 200 Years and Why It Matters
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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How to Kill the Tao
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Seven Great Quotes About Money
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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How Do We Account for Thomas Merton?
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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How to Survive the Atheistic Hurricane
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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How to Kill that Feeling of Thankfulness
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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How to Escape the Selfishness Paradox
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Five Pieces of Furniture for Your Intellectual Living Room
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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How to Start Detaching the Door of Reality from its Hinges
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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How to Break on Through to the Other Side
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Lady, You Have One Ugly Kid
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Who Exactly is Trying to Take Down Joe Rogan
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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An Elf Lays Down His Harp to Kill an Orc
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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"Live in the Now" is Bad Advice
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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How to Break a Maniac
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Are You Engaged in the Act of Existence? Then You’re a Man of the Tao
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Dostoyevsky and Flannery O’Connor Reveal Something Ironic about Our Modern World
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May 02, 2021 |
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I Was There When Vegas Came Back
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Devil's Feast: An Ontological Meditation on the Passion
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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20 Books to Make You a Smarter Catholic (or Person in General)
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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The New Left and the Old Occult
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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How to Take a Stance without Taking a Stance
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Beyond Stoicism. Hesychasm: The largely-forgotten literary tradition that takes Stoicism to the next level
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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Three Lesser-Known Masters in the Zen Tradition
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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Did We Just See a Red Swan?
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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What is That Twitter Imp Up to?
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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The Diocletian Test
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Five Dispositions that Can Make Your Life More Productive and Happy
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Civil War, Restoration, Glorious Revolution
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May 31, 2020 |
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History of the Catholic Church in 30 Minutes
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May 24, 2020 |
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Arthur, Alfred, and Other English Kings. Medium dot Com
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May 17, 2020 |
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Charles MacKay, Popular Delusions, Radical Spiritualists
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May 10, 2020 |
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Wicked Pope, Moors, Siege of Vienna
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May 03, 2020 |
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1400s, Florence Banking, Heroes, States Rights
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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Bonus Episode: The Merits of Snoring
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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The 1300s: Black Death, 100 Years War, the Renaissance
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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Peak Crusades, Peak Middle Ages, Peak Mongols
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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1000 AD to 1200ish: Seljuk Turks, Crusades, St. Francis, Cluny
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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The Dark Ages. Charlemagne. Vikings.
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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The Years 313-622: Edict of Milan to the Eve of Islam
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Marcus Aurelius, Pax Romana, the Rise of Christianity
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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The Death of Socrates and the Rise of Rome
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Autobiographical Rumblings
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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Gnostics v. Metaxy, GMO v. Non-GMO, Athens v. Sparta
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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Gnosticism: Fake Religion, Moses, Achilles/Joshua
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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Developing an Historical Perspective: Pre-Modern History
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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Psychological Disruptions and the Reformation and Alexander the Great
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Feb 02, 2020 |
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Thomas Sowell, Condorcet, Postmodernism, Francis de Sales
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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Macarius the Great, Silence, Russia, Hollywood
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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Battle in the Desert, Anthony the Great, Limits on Reason and Logic
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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Language and Control: SJWs, Deplorables, Violence
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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Libertarianism and Porn
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Zeno and Zen, Aquinas, Realism
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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Hillsdale College, Stoner Talk, Existentialism, Rogan/Taibbi
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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The Monk Gardens
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Nov 24, 2019 |
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Lightning Segments
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Nov 17, 2019 |
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Copts, Kardashians, and Kanyes
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Halloween
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Oct 27, 2019 |
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Nature
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Oct 20, 2019 |
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Stillness
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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G.K. Chesterton and True Religion, LSD and the Eucharist
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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The Hiatus, LSD, Zen, Mind Control, Lightning Segments
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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Dan Aykroyd, Podcasts and John Senior, LSD and Shifting Consciousness
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Sep 15, 2019 |
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Nietzsche and the Two Great Narcotics
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Sep 08, 2019 |
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White Privilege
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Sep 01, 2019 |
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Authenticity and Young People
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Aug 25, 2019 |
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Small Towns and Importance of Place, Francis Bacon
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Aug 11, 2019 |
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The World of Total Work
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Aug 04, 2019 |
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The Hour
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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Retreat to Gethsemani
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Jul 14, 2019 |
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Detachment
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Jul 14, 2019 |
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Memorial Day Weekend, Drinking in Mexico, Catholic Church and Divine Corruption
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May 25, 2019 |
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Mental Exercise, Predictive Genetics, Hook-Up Software at Ivy
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May 19, 2019 |
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Brian Sims and Nuts on Both Sides, Fleeing California, E.F. Schumacher
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May 12, 2019 |
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Noise, Max Picard, George Gissing, Cardinal Sarah, Caleb Stegall
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May 04, 2019 |
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LGBTs in the Work Force, Easter, and College Loan Forgiveness
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Apr 27, 2019 |
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Tiger Woods, Seven Nation Army of Actuaries, Twitter's Narrative, Grand Narratives and Post-Modernism
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Apr 20, 2019 |
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The Healthy-Fat Binary in Postmodernism and Time
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Apr 14, 2019 |
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California
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Apr 07, 2019 |
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Thanks a Thousand, Boris at the Grocery Store, The Freakin' Poor, Dogs
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Postmodernism and a Soviet Philosopher, Postmodernism and Brahman, Stylites
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Mar 24, 2019 |
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Artificial Intelligence, Famine, Tyranny, Bill Burr, Cool Dudes
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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Zen Lent, Tariffs, Adult Video News Awards
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Mar 09, 2019 |
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Miami, a'Kempis, Miami Beach
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Mar 02, 2019 |
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History of the Old Testament in 8 Minutes, Gin and Tonics, Three Ho-Hum Derrida Conclusions
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Feb 16, 2019 |
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Sex in the Stall, Deconstructionism on Display, Gay Gnostics, Joseph Epstein
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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Introverts, Deconstructionists, and Gnostics
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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Mass Touching, Austen, Marshall McLuhan, Gnosticism
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Jan 20, 2019 |
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Nock, Deconstructing the Family, Mindfulness
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Jan 12, 2019 |
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Pope Francis and Brideshead Revisited, Structuralism and Libertinism, Buddhist Emptiness, Hungover,
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Jan 05, 2019 |
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Autobiographical Holiday Ruminations
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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Pagan Practices in Christianity, The Jesus Prayer, Autobiographical Tao
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Dec 22, 2018 |
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Episode 22
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Dec 16, 2018 |
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Onanism, Off-Color Humor, Seventh Century, Taoist Anarchy
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Dec 07, 2018 |
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Black Friday, Puritanizing Marijuana, Poustinia, Fools for Christ
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Las Vegas and Marij
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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The Year 650, Thanksgiving, and the Playful Tao
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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Taoism, Europe in 486, Mo-Fo, Russell Kirk
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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Halloween, Short History of Early Zen, the Fall of the Empire and BLM, Riggenbach
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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Zen, the "Fall" of Rome, Small Talk, Drinking with Commies, More
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Oct 21, 2018 |
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Episode 10.14.2018
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Oct 14, 2018 |
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Early Rise of the Centralized State, Catholic Libertarian?, Primary Obligations 10.7.2018
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Oct 06, 2018 |
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The Weekly Eudemon: September 30, 2018
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Sep 30, 2018 |
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Autumn, The Virgin Eye, Magic, and More
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Sep 23, 2018 |
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The Weather Man, Knowledge, and the USSR
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Sep 16, 2018 |
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Boston, Dostoyevsky, Orwell, NFL
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Sep 09, 2018 |
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Labor Day Early Release Edition. Chicago School of Economics, Burners, New Marian Iconoclast, Fellow Traveler
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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Clerical Crisis, Leaving the Church, and Other Funny Things
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Aug 25, 2018 |
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Mafia Techniques, Celibacy, and Rick Nelson
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Aug 19, 2018 |
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Seinfeld, Hayek, Mao, and Other Fun Guys
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Aug 12, 2018 |
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The Weekly Eudemon
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Aug 05, 2018 |