The Coherent Present

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No. 27: Propaganda, knowing yourself, and Atlantis
Arendt/Aristotle/Aquinas/Confucius/Dewey/Euclid/Emerson/Lenin/Mao/Marx/Plato/Russell/Schopenhauer/Socrates/Whitehead
No. 25: The contemplative life, provincialism, and sockpuppets
Aristotle/Dickens/Fitzgerald/Kant/King/Luther/Moliere/Plato/Proust/Russell/Shakespeare/Tolstoy/
No. 22: Science mistakes, devils, and rest
Aristotle/Dostoevsky/Galen/Marx/Milton/Plato
No. 21: When to marry, nuclear weapons, and Frasier
Aristotle/Borges/Einstein/Emerson/Leviticus/Plato/Russell
No. 17: Unhappiness, consciousness, and stagnation.
Austen/Galileo/James/Plato/Russell/Shakespeare/Smith/Socrates/Thucydides
No. 16: truth, beauty, and old politicians
Chaucer/Kant/Keats/King/Orwell/Plato/Voltaire/Whitman
No. 12: Democratic doubt, happiness, and pain.
Augustine/ Aristotle/Homer/Jesus/Lenin/Luther/Moses/Plato/Pliny/Wittgenstein/
No. 10: Selfhood, birds, and property law.
Aristotle/Dostoevsky/Foucault/Heidegger/Hobbes/Kant/Marx/Montaigne/Nabokov/Nietzsche/Plato
No. 9: Russian tyranny, salvation, and twitching
Aristotle/Descartes/Du Bois/Jesus/Nietzche/Thucydides/Tocqueville/Tolstoy
No.8: 2023.09.01
Cicero/Kipling/Orwell/Plato/Pliny/Rawls/Shakespeare/Spinoza/Tacitus/Tolstoy
No. 5: 2023.08.22
Aristotle/Dante/Dewey/Du Bois/Hemingway/Homer/Nietzsche/Jesus/Plato/Wilde
No. 3: 2023.08.15
Aristotle/Borges/Dewey/Freud/Hobbes/Locke/Marx/Socrates/Plato/Rousseau
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