A political podcast dedicated to combating one-dimensional thought through the insights of Philosophy, History, Economics, Critical Theory, Culture, and Society. Your boss makes a dollar, you make a dime, so that's why you listen to 1Dime Radio on company time. For access to the Patreon exclusive episodes (The Backroom podcast), become a Patron: thttps://www.patreon.com/OneDime
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A podcast about Nietzsche's ideas, his influences, and those he influenced. Philosophy and cultural commentary through a Nietzschean lens. Support the show at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/untimelyreflections A few collected essays and thoughts: https://untimely-reflections.blogspot.com/
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Untimely Reflections #36: Tony of 1Dime - The Neoliberal Zeitgeist
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2:01:07I met up with Tony of 1Dime to discuss the neoliberal moment in American culture. We discuss what neoliberalism means, why there is a general discontent with it, the advantages of neoliberalism, and the potential of a vision for a future beyond neoliberalism as it inevitably comes to an end. We also psychologically analyze the left and the right fr…
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From Zohran to Tehran—The War Is Real (Ft. Benjamin Studebaker)
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2:41:27Get access to The Backroom exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by political theorist Benjamin Studebaker, a PhD at Cambridge and author of the books "The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy" and "Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies," to break down the Iran-Israel conflict, Zohran…
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Fascism vs Bonapartism Vs Caesarism (Ft. C. Derick Varn)
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2:04:53Get access to The Backroom Exclusive podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime. In this week's episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, friend of the show C. Derick Varn (@VarnVlog) returns to discuss whether America under Trump is heading towards fascism and, more importantly, what the differences are between Fascism, Caesarism, and Bonap…
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115: Martin Heidegger, pt 3 - Will to Power as Knowledge & Metaphysics
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1:51:45Finally, we reach the conclusion of our exploration of Heidegger's lectures on Nietzsche. This time we consider another lecture on will to power, from Volume II of Heidegger's collected lectures on Nietzsche, in which will to power is considered instead as a framework for knowledge, and the principle of a new valuation.…
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Zionism and The Left (Ft. Overzealots )
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2:09:08Get access to The Backroom Exclusive podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime. In this week’s episode, I am joined by Isaac Zale of the rising socialist YouTube channel “Overzealots” who has most recently gained traction for his videos critiquing “commentary” YouTubers like Ethan Klein and Streamers like Destiny, who are currently “a…
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114: Martin Heidegger, pt 2 - The Will to Power as Art
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1:34:34Continuing with Heidegger, we consider his first lecture on Nietzsche, "The Will to Power as Art", in which Heidegger gives an unorthodox but very enlightening reading of will to power, then hinges the second half of his argument on a passage where Nietzsche describes art as will to power's most perspicuous manifestation.…
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The Economy is Rigged & Economics is Wrong (Ft. Unlearning Economics)
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1:39:51In this week’s episode, I am joined by Dr. Cahal Moran, the man behind the YouTube channel “Unlearning Economics,” and author of the recent book “Why We're Getting Poorer: A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How We Can Fix It.” In this podcast, I ask Cahal how he went from being an economist to debunking “Basic Economics” on YouTube. We also talk …
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113: Martin Heidegger, part 1 - On Nietzsche & Dasein
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1:58:15In this episode, we begin a three-part series on Martin Heidegger and his reading of Nietzsche. The episode begins with a discussion of the background of Heidegger's life and ideas, as well as a brief tour of the content of Being & Time in which we look at Dasein, temporality, care, being-towards-death among other core concepts. In the latter half …
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Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Ft. Adam Turl)
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1:21:01Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime. In this week’s episode, I am joined by Adam Turl, author of the book “Gothic Capitalism,” Published by Revol Press (where I am also going to be publishing my book): https://www.revolpress.com/gothic-capitalism Adam and I debate the hot topic of AI Art, wh…
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Untimely Reflections #35: Uberboyo - Politics as Neuro-Physiology
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1:53:13An Irishman named Stef visited Austin recently. We met for a discussion about the revaluation of values, strange brain experiments with magnets, Gnosticism and its relation to the politics of castration, the brain's threat detection matrix as creating the "hard times strong men" cycle, the possibility of neuro-physiological centrism, and how this a…
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Modern Monetary Theory: The Fundamentals (Ft. L. Randall Wray)
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2:03:55Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime. In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Professor L. Randal Wray, a heterodox economist and a Pioneer of Modern Monetary Theory. In this episode, we demystify the history of money, what money is, and how modern money works in the economy today (how…
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Accelerationism: The Philosophy of Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin (Ft. Michael Downs)
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2:53:36Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime. In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Michael Downs (known for his Blog “The Dangerous Maybe”) - a working-class intellectual autodidact philosopher who recently published the book “Capital VS Timenergy: A Žižekian Critique of Nick Land.” In this…
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This episode is an upload to Spotify of my response to Abigail Thorn's "Was Nietzsche Woke?" video. This video was previously uploaded to Youtube. Watch me spend more time than the entire length of Abigail Thorn's video explaining why it is a superficial hit piece based on strained, bizarre arguments and outright false information. There are many "…
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The End of Neoliberalism? (Ft. Benjamin Studebaker)
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2:00:23Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime. In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by political theorist Benjamin St. Studebaker, a PhD at Cambridge and author of the books “The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy” and “Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies,” on we are witnessing the “end of neol…
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I talk about philosophy & music, my history as a musician, my new album, and give some updates about the future direction of the podcast. Stream the album today: https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2025/05/slumbering-sun-on-starmony-an-interview-with-dooms-crazy-romantics.html Album comes out tomorrow, buy it here: https://slumberingsun.bandcamp.com…
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The Gay Science #15 (III.176-III.275)
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3:23:32The lightning round! The final episode of The Gay Science book III. The 100 sections we cover in this episode are all rapid-fire, short aphorisms on morality, human nature, the social life, virtue, vice, really the whole panoply of human experience!
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Why Economists are CLUELESS (Ft. Steve Keen)
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1:29:37Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime. In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by economist Steve Keen to discuss the many myths of “Basic Economics” (Neo-Classical Economics), the end of Neoliberalism, the Trade Wars, Trump Tariffs, Marxism, and MMT (Modern Monetary Theory. In The Backroom…
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The Gay Science #14 (III.148-III.175)
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2:05:29Renaissance & Reformation, the critique of saintly virtue, the color we have thrown onto life and how it differs from that of the ancient world, and Nietzsche's attempt to "untangle the knot" of his moralization of the world by returning to the style of the moral maxim. Rapid fire epigrams finish out book III, we cover a large swatch of them in thi…
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Socialism With American Characteristics (Ft. JT Chapman)
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2:07:23In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by JT Chapman, the man behind Second Thought, the largest socialist YouTube channel at the moment, and The Deprogram Podcast. JT and I discuss the experiences and challenges in producing independent media, the importance of optics, and what Socialism in America could look like. In The Backroom on Patreon,…
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The Gay Science #13 (III.132 - III.147)
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1:47:27Discussion of the origins of Christianity as the apotheosis of sin, the Christian attack on the passions versus the Greek deification of the passions, as well as scattered remarks about German pessimism, and diet as the cause of one's metaphysics.
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The Gay Science #12 (III.125-III.131)
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1:53:58Extended discussion of The Madman passage (#125), including analysis of the metaphysical and moral implications, the surrounding context, and other interpreters - Girard, Freud, Jung, Heidegger, and Deleuze; then, discussion of half a dozen more aphorisms that follow.
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Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by homie @JREG to chat about the Politics of "Zoomers" (Generation Z/Gen Z). In The Backroom segment on Patreon, we give some hot takes and find out what Jreg "Really Believes." Become a Patron and get access to …
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Untimely Reflections #34: Gnostic Informant
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1:50:48Gnostic Informant on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/ We discussed the following topics: why the Torah is probably younger than commonly believed; the influence of Hellenism on Judaism as well as the New Testament; the Carpocratians (syncretists of Greek philosophy & Christian religion); the link between Platonism & Christianity; Nietzsche's argum…
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The Correct Position on Race (Ft. Touré Reed)
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1:36:50Get access to The Backroom and 55+ exclusive podcast episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Dr. Touré Reed (Son of Adolph Reed Jr.) to discuss his book “Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism” In the Backroom on Patreon, Touré and I discuss the question of Reparations and mi…
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The Gay Science #11 (III.114-III.124)
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1:47:24The text proceeds from epistemology to morality. Nietzsche suggests that value judgments are at the foundation of perception. Exploration of herd instinct & herd conscience. Suggestion that the moral skepticism of Christianity was turned against Christianity. Preparation for the Madman passage.
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MMT in the Global South (Ft. Fadhel Kaboub)
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2:14:17Get access to The Backroom and over 55 exclusive podcast episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Professor Fadhel Kaboub, Professor of Economics at Denison University, specializing in Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in the Global South, particularly Africa. In this conversation, I ask Fadhe…
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The Gay Science #10 (III.108-III.113)
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1:31:05Continuing with The Gay Science readthrough, and begin with book III. This book begins with the first passage to contain the saying, "God is dead", and Nietzsche then uses the metaphor of "the shadow of God" to refer to the falsification of our understanding of reality as a result of thousands of years of metaphysical error. These errors may in fac…
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Warren Mosler, the founder of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), comes on 1Dime Radio to talk about MMT, what Elon Musk's DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) gets wrong, Trump's tariffs, inflation, and an alternative for a better tax system.DISCLAIMER: The audio for this is not very good because Warren Mosler had bad internet on his end, but afte…
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Reaction to Jordan Peterson on Lex Fridman
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1:10:14This is a special episode before we get into The Gay Science walkthrough analysis, and it is something of an experiment. I know the video is not perfect, I would have formatted it a bit differently, plus the my audio is quieter than I wanted it to be. But, I may do more videos like this in the future and plan to up my game. In any case, I think the…
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Woke Politics and the Deep State (Ft. Christian Parenti)
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2:00:35Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode, Professor Christian Parenti, son of the Legendary Michael Parenti, comes on 1Dime Radio to make the "leftist case for Kash Patel" and talks about his article "The Cargo Cult of Woke." In The Backroom on Patreon, we talk about his spicy art…
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I released a song today! Go check it out on Invisible Oranges: https://www.invisibleoranges.com/slumbering-sun-together-forever/ The new single is also live anywhere that you stream music, including spotify, apple, etc. You can also visit our bandcamp to pre-order the album or purchase the single now: https://slumberingsun.bandcamp.com/album/starmo…
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How China Works (Ft. Jayne Hayward)
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1:40:33Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, we host Dr. Jane Hayward, a lecturer in Chinese Studies at the Lao China Institute at King's College. Dr. Hayward specializes in explaining China's political economy and misconceptions surrounding it. The conversation explor…
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111: Protagoras, The Sophists & The Art of Rhetoric
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1:14:11In this episode, we consider some of the philosophically insightful sections of Nietzsche's lectures on rhetoric & the Sophists. In particular, we examine the figure of Protagoras, of whom we have little information, but who is credited with establishing the Sophists as a philosophical school focused on rhetoric. The latter half of the episode conc…
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Is Trump Accelerating the Decline of US Hegemony? (Ft. Benjamin Studebaker)
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1:39:56Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDimeWhy is Trump pissing off all of America's allies? Is he inadvertently sinking the US empire? In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by a friend of the show, Benjamin Studebaker, PhD in politics and international studies from the University of Cambridge…
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Short form episode; audio version of a Youtube release. Additional content coming on Thursday! Creating a listicle of Nietzsche's ideas is always problematic, but thankfully Nietzsche occasionally provides us with one. In his notes, collected in Will to Power, Nietzsche records his "Five Nos": five ideas that he roundly rejects, and positions his p…
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The Left in the Trump Era (Ft. C. Derek Varn)
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2:44:53Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, C. Derek Varn returns to discuss a wide range of topics related to The Left and the shifts in North American politics in the Age of Trump. In The Backroom on Patreon, Varn and I discuss the politics of multipolar…
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Untimely Reflections #33: Craig (Acid Horizon) - Deleuze's Anti-Oedipus & Lynch's Eraserhead
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1:32:41A rhizomatic discussion. Craig tells us his history with philosophy, and his journey through the work of Jung, Hillman, Deleuze and others. We then discuss Anti-Oedipus and some of the core concepts, such as the Deleuzian reinterpretation of desire and the unconscious, and the body without organs. Then, as a tribute to the late, great David Lynch, …
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Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode, I am joined by Aaron Good, author of the book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State” and host of the American Exception podcast , to discuss Trump's plans to declassify the JFK and MLK Files. People believe that this promise i…
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110: Nietzsche Contra Peterson - Yes, We Can Create Values
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1:16:32This episode is a polemic. While I have addressed Jordan Peterson's misunderstandings of the "God is dead" aphorism, or his bungling of Nietzsche's view of truth, here we address one of his most often repeated distortions of Nietzsche's philosophy. According to Jordan, Nietzsche said we can create our own values, but, in fact, this is impossible. I…
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Gaza, Greenland and Canada as the 51st State (Ft. Chris Cutrone)
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3:11:34In this episode, IdebateChris Cutrone on Trump's plans for Gaza, Greenland, and the idea of Canada joining the "empire of liberty." InThe Backroom segment onPatreon, we discuss the recent news about Israel and Trump's plans to clear out Gaza, which literally happened in the midst of our conversation: Get access to The Backroom and over 50 exclus…
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109: Carl Jung - Psychology & Alchemy, part 2
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1:44:07Today we continue with Psychology & Alchemy. This week, we'll spend the beginning of the episode considering the parallel between the lapis philosophorum and Christ, and the unusual claim of the alchemists that man can redeem God. The rest of the episode concerns Carl Jung's extended dream analysis of a single patient, which he found to be laden wi…
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Why The Left is Out Of Touch (Ft. Catherine Liu)
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1:18:19Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Catherine Liu, author of 'Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class" to discuss her critiques of PMC Progressivism and why "the Left" of today has failed to court enough working suppo…
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108: Carl Jung - Psychology & Alchemy, part 1
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1:42:29The alchemists claimed that they explained "the obscure by the more obscure, the unknown by the more unknown", and accordingly, the secrets of the alchemical work have remained largely a mystery to the public consciousness. While most think of alchemy as charlatanism, the promise to "turn lead into gold", this is far from the truth, and fails to gr…
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Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime In this episode of 1Dime Radio, the host discusses anarchism with Daniel Baryon from the YouTube channel Anark joins me to discuss Anarchism and his case for it. After debunking some misconceptions about "anti-authoritarianism" popularized by Engels's Pole…
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Untimely Reflections #32: Dr. Gregory Sadler - On Stoicism & Philosophy as a Guide to Life
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1:34:44Very pleased to finally be joined by Gregory Sadler on the podcast! Greg is one of the more popular teachers of philosophy in the modern age, and given his recent courses on Stoicism, we decided to make that the focus. I hope you all enjoy our conversation: about philosophy as a guide to life, Stoicism versus Epicureanism, distortions of Stoicism a…
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Why Nothing Ever Changes (Ft. Benjamin Studebaker)
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2:59:57Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime Benjamin Studebaker comes on 1Dime Radio to BlackPill us again on sobering realities of politics in America and other Western countries. We discuss some of the themes of his new book “Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies,” which discusses some of the themes t…
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107: Søren Kierkegaard - Fear & Trembling
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1:23:29Among the 19th century forerunners of existentialism are Friedrich Nietzsche and Søren Kierkegaard. While there is much that divides these two thinkers - one is atheist and the other a Christian, one seeks faith in Fate and the other in God - there are some curious similarities between these two great minds. Kierkegaard is a Christian against Chris…
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Pierre Poilievre: Canada’s Donald Trump?
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1:39:33This episode is all about Canada's political situation, Canada's "right-wing" shift, and the rise of Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party and most likely Canada's Next Prime Minister. For this episode, I am joined by Rose, Matthias, and Umer, three members of the Democratic Socialists of Canada (The DSC). In the Backroom on Patreon, w…
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106: Emil Cioran - On the Heights of Despair
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1:23:37Cioran is notorious as the depressive philosopher par excellence. While figures such as Schopenhauer, Ligotti and Benatar have advanced logical arguments for their pessimistic outlook, Cioran's work is completely missing any such justification for his depressive feeling for life. Instead, his work is a lyrical outpouring of his inner life. In this …
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The Political Zeitgeist (Ft. Joshua Citarella)
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1:24:34Joshua Citarella, host of the Doomscroll Podcast, joins me to exchange some hot takes on the state of political ideologies, problems with the left, and the political zeitgeist of our times. In the Backroom on Patreon, we talk about the "post-left." and the bizarre phenomenon of declining sperm counts, gay frogs, and various right-wing half-truths…
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