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Discussions about literature, politics and philosophy. Video versions here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ami1649/

Episode Date
Richard Sylvester – Non-duality
Nov 14, 2025
Progressive Myths, Michael Huemer
Nov 12, 2025
Hidden Heretics, Ayala Fader
Nov 12, 2025
The Zone of Interest
Jul 17, 2025
Malone Dies, Samuel Beckett
Jul 10, 2025
Debating the Virus Theory of Medicine with Mike Wallach
Jun 22, 2025
Boswell's Life of Johnson is the strangest biography ever written
May 27, 2025
The Topeka School, Ben Lerner
May 11, 2025
The Greatest Scenes in All of Literature Part 1 – Boswell Meets Samuel Johnson
May 02, 2025
The Philosophy of Crime and Punishment Part 5 – Porfiry's Confession
Apr 23, 2025
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, Peter Beinart
Feb 04, 2025
Overturned – The Rhetoric of Overruling in the United States Supreme Court, Clarke Rountree
Feb 03, 2025
The Philosophy of Crime and Punishment Part 4 – Raskolnikov's First Confession
Nov 29, 2024
Tablets Shattered – The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life, Joshua Leifer
Nov 12, 2024
How Dostoevsky Experienced His Execution
Aug 22, 2024
The Philosophy of Crime and Punishment Part 3 – Guilt
Aug 12, 2024
Literature and AI
Jul 30, 2024
Author Interview 30 - Judaism is a About Love, Rabbi Shai Held
Jul 16, 2024
The Philosophy of Crime and Punishment Part 2 — Jesus Wept
Jul 04, 2024
The Philosophy of Crime and Punishment Part 1 — Raskolnikov and the Ubermensch
Jul 01, 2024
The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares
Jun 04, 2024
Author Interview 29 - A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden, Osamah F. Khalil
May 08, 2024
All Quiet on the Western Front
Apr 18, 2024
Making Sense of the Dennett-Sapolsky Free Will Debate
Apr 16, 2024
Moby Dick and Friedrich Nietzsche
Apr 01, 2024
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
Mar 17, 2024
Author Interview 28 - Gatekeeper: The Tactical Guide to Commitment, Shawn T. Smith
Mar 01, 2024
Genocide Doesn't Look Like Genocide
Feb 11, 2024
The Case for Zionism – Dr. Gil Troy
Jan 29, 2024
Responding to Readings of Nietzsche with Daniel Tutt
Jan 22, 2024
Author Interview 27 - How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche, Daniel Tutt
Jan 19, 2024
Audio Essay 111 - Waiting for the Barbarians, J. M. Coetzee
Jan 09, 2024
Author Interview 26 - The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance, Shaul Magid
Jan 05, 2024
Lessons From the 2014 Gaza War – Benzion Sanders
Jan 03, 2024
Audio Essay 110 - Funes the Memorious, Jorge Luis Borges
Dec 22, 2023
Audio Essay 109 - Hanoch Levin
Dec 12, 2023
Protective Presence in the West Bank – Sam Stein
Dec 07, 2023
Audio Essay 108 - Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future Part 3
Nov 19, 2023
Audio Essay 107 - Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future Part 2
Nov 19, 2023
Audio Essay 106 - Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future Part 1
Nov 19, 2023
Audio Essay 105 - Les Miserables Books 4 and 5
Nov 19, 2023
Author Interview 25 - American Breakdown: Why We No Longer Trust Our Leaders and Institutions and How We Can Rebuild Confidence, Gerard Baker
Oct 02, 2023
Author Interview 24 - Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods, Mariana Alessandri
Oct 02, 2023
Author Interview 23 - The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality, William Egginton
Sep 18, 2023
Audio Essay 104 - Glimpses
Sep 12, 2023
Interview With a Jewish Flat Earther – Dave Weiss
Aug 15, 2023
Author Interview 22 - School of Woke: How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them, Kenny Xu
Aug 11, 2023
Audio Essay 103 - Les Miserables Book 3
Aug 04, 2023
Audio Essay 102 - Les Miserables Book 2
Jul 28, 2023
Audio Essay 101 - Les Miserables Book 1
Jul 24, 2023
Audio Essay 100 - Introduction to Les Miserables
Jul 24, 2023
Interview With a Jewish QAnoner – Gila
Jul 02, 2023
Interview With a Jewish QAnoner – Eli Weber
Jun 29, 2023
Reflecting on the Works of Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023)
Jun 16, 2023
Audio Essay 99 - A View of the Woods, Flannery O'Connor
Jun 06, 2023
Audio Essay 98 - Jeremiah's Grief
May 25, 2023
Author Interview 21 - Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature, Dr. Greg Ellermann
May 08, 2023
Audio Essay 97 - The Education of Henry Adams Part 5
Apr 26, 2023
Audio Essay 96 - The Education of Henry Adams Part 4
Apr 26, 2023
Audio Essay 95 - The Education of Henry Adams Part 3
Apr 26, 2023
Audio Essay 94 - The Education of Henry Adams Part 2
Apr 26, 2023
Audio Essay 93 - The Education of Henry Adams Part 1
Apr 26, 2023
Debating Responsible Platforming With Steve Donoghue
Mar 13, 2023
Audio Essay 92 - Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
Mar 03, 2023
Author Interview 20 - Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order, James E. Cronin
Feb 23, 2023
Author Interview 19 - How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy, F. Perry Wilson MD
Feb 17, 2023
Interview With Flat Earth Dave
Feb 01, 2023
Audio Essay 91 - The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Thomas Ligotti
Jan 17, 2023
Audio Essay 90 - The Twilight World, Werner Herzog
Dec 20, 2022
Just Non-duality with Jim Newman
Nov 30, 2022
Audio Essay 89 - How To Have Impossible Conversations
Nov 22, 2022
Audio Essay 88 - Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Sep 28, 2022
Author Interview 18 - The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society, William Deresiewicz
Sep 08, 2022
Audio Essay 87 - Molloy (Pt II), Samuel Beckett
Aug 22, 2022
Discussing Conceptions of God, Non-Duality, and the Core of all Mystical Traditions with Seekers of Unity's Zevi Slavin
Jun 30, 2022
Author Interview 17 - Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow with Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern
Jun 23, 2022
Debating Self Help and Talk-Therapy With Steve Donoghue
Jun 07, 2022
Audio Essay 86 - My 5 Perspectives on Friedrich Nietzsche
May 24, 2022
Author Interview 16 - Wolf's Guide to Dharma Books & Practice
May 19, 2022
Audio Essay 85 - To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
May 19, 2022
Audio Essay 84 - "Nothing is True and Everything is Possible": Russia's Postmodern Dictatorship and The Future of Democracy in America
May 19, 2022
Audio Essay 83 - "Forbidden Knowledge" in the Stories of Jorge Luis Borges
May 19, 2022
Author Interview 15 - The Economics of Meaning in Life with Dr. Joel Vos
May 19, 2022
Audio Essay 82 - Meditation in Literature (Catch-22, Moby Dick, etc.)
Jan 27, 2022
Author Interview 14 - Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People: How to Learn from your Troublesome Buddhas with Mark Westmoquette
Dec 27, 2021
Author Interview 13 - The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival with Dr. Chris Begley
Dec 14, 2021
Tag Episode 8 – Best Chapter in All of Literature Tag
Dec 14, 2021
Author Interview 12 - The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama with Dr. Claude A. Clegg III
Dec 14, 2021
Author Interview 11 - The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America's Future with Dr. Neil Lanctot
Dec 14, 2021
Author Interview 10 - Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It with Dr. Barbara Hofer and Dr. Gale Sinatra
Dec 14, 2021
Author Interview 9 - Borderline Fortune (poetry) with Teresa K. Miller
Dec 13, 2021
Author Interview 8 - The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky with Andrew D. Kaufman
Dec 10, 2021
Author Interview 7 - When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves with Lawrence Shapiro
Dec 06, 2021
Author Interview 6 - The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science by Dr. Paul Behrens
Dec 06, 2021
Author Interview 5 - Fringes: Life on the Edge of Professional Rugby by Ben Mercer
Dec 03, 2021
Author Interview 4 - The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism by Dr. Gerald Horne
Dec 03, 2021
Author Interview 3 - The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade by Dr. Benjamin Smith
Dec 02, 2021
Discussing the Manosphere with Steve Donoghue
Dec 01, 2021
Discussing Jewish Mysticism and the Occult with Dr. Justin Sledge
Dec 01, 2021
Audio Essay 81 - The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Dec 01, 2021
Discussing Street Epistemology with Anthony Magnabosco
Dec 01, 2021
Audio Essay 80 - Jordan Peterson's Appalling Relationship Advice
Nov 30, 2021
Audio Essay 79 - Ada or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov
Nov 30, 2021
Book Discussion 2 - Talking The JFK Assassination with Steve Donoghue
Nov 29, 2021
Audio Essay 78 - A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Nov 26, 2021
Discussing HRW's Israel Report with Isaac Fishman
Nov 26, 2021
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Rabbi Elhanan Miller
Nov 26, 2021
Audio Essay 77 - Encountering Buddhism from a Jewish Perspective
Nov 26, 2021
Audio Essay 76 - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Nov 26, 2021
Audio Essay 75 - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Nov 25, 2021
Discussing QAnon with a Conspiracy Theorist
Nov 25, 2021
Tag Episode 7 – Booktube Backstage Tag
Nov 25, 2021
Audio Essay 74 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Part 2
Nov 25, 2021
Audio Essay 73 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Part 1
Nov 25, 2021
Audio Essay 72 - The War Poetry of Wilfred Owen
Nov 25, 2021
Audio Essay 71 - The Nuremberg Trials
Nov 25, 2021
Audio Essay 70 - The Circular Ruins, Jorge Luis Borges
Nov 25, 2021
Audio Essay 69 - The 120 Days of Sodom, Marquis de Sade
Nov 25, 2021
Audio Essay 68 - Molloy by Samuel Beckett Part 2
Sep 20, 2021
Audio Essay 67 - The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
Sep 20, 2021
Audio Essay 66 - Molloy by Samuel Beckett Part 1
Sep 20, 2021
Audio Essay 65 - Reflections on Four Years of Trumpism
Sep 20, 2021
Author Interview 2 - The Philosophy of Rabbi Dr. Zohar Atkins
Sep 20, 2021
Audio Essay 64 - Symbols
Sep 20, 2021
Audio Essay 63 - Ararat, Louise Glück
Sep 20, 2021
Audio Essay 62 - The Philosophy of Dr. Seuss
Sep 20, 2021
Audio Essay 61 - The Library of Babel, Jorge Luis Borges
Sep 20, 2021
Book Discussion 1 - Talking The Road to Serfdom with David Murphy (debate)
Sep 20, 2021
Audio Essay 60 - The Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges
Sep 20, 2021
Audio Essay 59 - Why Be Well Read?
Sep 20, 2021
Audio Essay 58 - Moby Dick Part 7
Sep 19, 2021
Audio Essay 57 - John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I of X
Sep 19, 2021
Audio Essay 56 - Moby Dick Part 6
Sep 19, 2021
Audio Essay 55 - Moby Dick Part 5
Sep 19, 2021
Audio Essay 54 - Moby Dick Part 4
Sep 19, 2021
Audio Essay 53 - Moby Dick Part 3
Sep 19, 2021
Audio Essay 52 - Moby Dick Part 2
Sep 19, 2021
Audio Essay 51 - Moby Dick Part 1
Sep 19, 2021
Audio Essay 50 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 7
Sep 19, 2021
Audio Essay 49 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 6
Sep 19, 2021
Tag Episode 6 - Summer School Book Tag
Sep 19, 2021
Author Interview 1 - The Poetry of Zohar Atkins
Sep 19, 2021
Audio Essay 48 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 5
Sep 17, 2021
Audio Essay 47 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 4
Sep 17, 2021
Audio Essay 46 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 3
Sep 17, 2021
Audio Essay 45 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 2
Sep 17, 2021
Audio Essay 44 - James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson Part 1
Sep 17, 2021
Audio Essay 43 - Racism in America
Sep 17, 2021
Audio Essay 42 - On Faith
Sep 15, 2021
Audio Essay 41 - My Bright Abyss, Christian Wiman
Sep 15, 2021
Audio Essay 40 - Lilah Tov Good Night, Ben Gundersheimer
Sep 15, 2021
Audio Essay 39 - Murke's Collected Silences, Heinrich Böll
Sep 15, 2021
Audio Essay 38 - Macbeth Act II, Scene 2
Sep 15, 2021
Audio Essay 37 - Pharmakon
Sep 15, 2021
Audio Essay 36 - The Problem of Pain, C. S. Lewis
Sep 15, 2021
Tag Episode 5 - The Age of Extremity Book Tag
Sep 14, 2021
Tag Episode 4 - The Coronavirus Book Tag
Sep 14, 2021
Audio Essay 35 - The Ivan's Nightmare Chapter From The Brothers Karamazov
Sep 14, 2021
Audio Essay 34 - "I Measure Every Grief I Meet," Emily Dickinson
Sep 14, 2021
Tag Episode 3 - The Sex in Literature Tag
Sep 14, 2021
Audio Essay 33 - September 1, 1939, W. H. Auden
Sep 14, 2021
Audio Essay 32 - Roger Malvin's Burial, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sep 14, 2021
Audio Essay 31 - The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus and Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Sep 14, 2021
Tag Episode 2 - Top 10 Nonfiction Books Tag
Sep 14, 2021
Audio Essay 30 - Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault
Sep 14, 2021
Audio Essay 29 - Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
Sep 14, 2021
Audio Essay 28 - "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died," Emily Dickinson
Sep 14, 2021
Audio Essay 27 - The Most Disturbing Chapter in The Brother's Karamazov
Sep 14, 2021
Audio Essay 26 - They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer
Sep 14, 2021
Audio Essay 25 - The Brothers Karamazov Part 5
Sep 13, 2021
Tag Episode 1 - 28 Random Questions
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 24 - The Brothers Karamazov Part 4
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 23 - Who Sold Joseph Down to Egypt? (Genesis 37 and 38)
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 22 - Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 21 - The Brothers Karamazov Part 3
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 20 - The Brothers Karamazov Part 2
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 19 - The Brothers Karamazov Part 1
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 18 - Jorge Louis Borges, The Zahir
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 17 - The Artificial N*****, Flannery O'Connor
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 16 - Analysis of Plato's The Euthyphro
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 15 - John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 3 (On His Blindness)
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 14 - Just some poems by Jorge Louis Borges
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 13 - Moby. Dick.
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 12 - The Brutality of American Literature
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 11 - The Most Startling Sentence in Nabokov's Lolita
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 10 - The Philosophy of Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 9 - Societies of Blood and Societies of Sex
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 8 - The Epigraphs of Blood Meridian
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 7 - Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 6 - Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 5 - Sam Harris Ezra Klein Debate Summary
Sep 13, 2021
Audio Essay 4 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor
Sep 05, 2021
Audio Essay 3 - Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Sep 05, 2021
Audio Essay 2 - Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Sep 05, 2021
Audio Essay 1 - The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
Sep 03, 2021