Why do we punish people? How did our punishment practices evolve and what is their primary function? David and Tamler... more

David and Tamler face off with the Misfit in Flannery O’Connor’s classic short story “A Good Man is Hard to... more

David and Tamler share a few brief thoughts on the election and then raise some questions about Tucker Carlson being... more

David and Tamler hop into their Scooby Van and drive into Tobe Hooper’s mad and macabre horror classic The Texas... more

CD Broad called induction “the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.” As a matter of habit, we’re all... more

David and Tamler crawl up a riverbank, kiss the mud, and dream a discussion of Borges’ “The Circular Ruins.” We sort... more

David and Tamler lead off with a breakdown of the new commercial for “friend (not imaginary)” a new AI necklace that... more

Cornell philosopher David Shoemaker joins us for a long winding journey up to the Overlook Hotel, a DEEP dive on... more

David and Tamler continue their discussion of Plato’s allegory of the cave. We talk about the connections with mystical traditions... more

Over the years we’ve referred repeatedly to Plato’s cave, Platonic forms, and phrases like “copies of copies” without ever really... more