On today's show, I'm joined by my friend Adam Bates. Each of us made a list of our top five video games of all time--and there's only a couple of points of agreement.

It feels like nobody knows what postmodernism is, yet everyone has an opinion about it. Today’s conversation with Akiva Malamet is an effort to bring some clarity to an unclear topic. We explore the basic ideas of postmodernism and then move on to their implications for culture, society, politics, and individuals.

About my guest:

Akiva Malamet is completing his degree in Government at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel, where he was a long-time senior member of the RRIS Debate Society. He is a contributor to the sites Liberal Currents and Sweet Talk Conversation. His paper “Spontaneous Order as Social Construction: A Social Analysis of Emergent Institutions” was a co-recipient of the 2018 Carl Menger Award from the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics.

Some stuff we mention during the conversation:

Akiva’s essay introducing postmodernism
https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/postmodernism-libertarian-introduction

Jay Garfield interview about Buddhist philosophy
https://wisdomexperience.org/wisdom-podcast/jay-garfield/

Adrian Vermeule’s call for Catholic fascism
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/common-good-constitutionalism/609037/

“Gender as Art” by Jason Kuznicki
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/gender-as-art/

Jean-Francois Lyotard, “The Postmodern Condition”
https://amzn.to/3dKc0Rj

Today Brian Wilson, host of Combat & Classics, and Paul Meany, host of Portraits of Liberty, join me to talk about the value and appeal of ancient philosophy and literature.

Combat & Classics
http://combatandclassics.org/

Portraits of Liberty
https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/portraits-liberty

Welcome to the very first episode of my show! I kick things off with a discussion of one of my favorite topics: the remarkable difficult question of whether we’re obligation to obey the law. Plus, I manage to work in a Star Wars reference.

You can make a strong case that Batman is the most famous western fictional character of all time. He's also pretty clearly the coolest.

On today's episode, I'm joined by Cory Massimino. He's the Students for Liberty Academics Coordinator and a fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society. But what matters most for our purposes here is that he's thought a lot about Batman, and has a ton of interesting things to say about him.

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