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Latest episodes

• MINIBAR: Derrida's First Lecture Series (with Bob Vallier)

  October 9, 2026 · 14 min

  In this very special "Minibar" episode of Hotel Bar Sessions podcast, co-host Bob Vallier gives us both a sneak peak into and the historical context surrounding the recent English translation (by Michael Naas and Pascale-Anne Brault) of…

• David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water"

  October 2, 2026 · 54 min

  For the final "deep dive" of Season 16, the HBS co-hosts have selected an unusual text to ground our conversation, namely,  a commencement speech by novelist David Foster Wallace entitled "This is Water" (delivered at Kenyon College in…

• Boredom

  September 25, 2026 · 55 min

  We've talked about the attention economy more than once on this podcast, and the diagnosis hasn't changed: nearly everything around us is built to capture our attention and then sell it. What we haven't asked is what all that scrambling is…

• Sikh Ethics (wtih Keshav Singh)

  September 18, 2026 · 55 min

  Over the past several decades, Anglophone philosophy has been trying to remember that it wasn't born in Athens. Syllabi now include Confucius and the Buddha, journals run special issues on Africana and Indigenous thought, and "global…

• Confidence Men (with Landon Frim)

  September 11, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

  Con men: From the sophists of ancient greece to the current grifter in chief, philosophy has been at odds with them for millennia, and given their success, it seems like it’s been a losing battle.  Some of their success is because, as one…

• Fashion

  September 4, 2026 · 55 min

  You are wearing an outfit right now. Maybe you chose it deliberately this morning, or maybe you grabbed it off the floor, but either way it is currently saying things about your class, your gender, your politics, your relationship to the…

• Betrayal

  August 28, 2026 · 56 min

  There are plenty of ready-to-hand moral sanctions for lies told and promises broken. We know how those wrongs work, we know what the apologies sound like, and we know, more or less, how to move on from them. Betrayal is different. Ask…

• The Q Word

  August 21, 2026 · 56 min

  At the beginning of April, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed from Ben Appel titled "I'm Gay, but That Doesn't Make Me Queer." On the last day of Pride Month 2026, the New York Times followed with an op-ed by Matthew Vines titled…