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The Scapegoat - René Girard // 271 (preview)

October 23, 2026 · 22 min

Listen to the whole episode on patreon https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills René Girard is known mainly as someone Peter Thiel mentions in between deranged analogies, but he also wrote some books on some typically French topics such as…
René Girard on Blood Sacrifice // 270

October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

René Girard is known mainly as someone Peter Thiel mentions in between deranged analogies, but he also wrote some books on some typically French topics such as desire, the symbolic, and anthropological historiography. This is his take on…
Learning Fake Economics in a Fake Economy // 268

October 13, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

We ask Cahal Moran what leftists need to get straight on economics, talking through "orthodox" vs. "heterodox" economics, the labour theory of value, Mark Carney, and the AI Bubble. Visit Unlearning Economics on YouTube…
Fit Fascists v. Fat Foucauldians // 266

September 13, 2026 · 41 min

Another discourse has hit the timeline. Find all episodes ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills Is health fascism? Is Ozempic Zyklon-B? Should Gabriel Rockhill have to approve every leftist monograph prior to publication? All…
Palantir's "Marxist Critical Theory" CEO // 263

August 25, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

Find all episodes ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills The business press has pushed the "leftist-outsider-dishevelled-genius" about Palantir's CEO Alex Karp for a decade. This episode we explore Karp's relationship with…

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Today is' Arday // 264

August 18, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

The Pill Pod debates the academic and ethics perspectives' following the terminal end of the Jason Arday plagiarism scandal.
The Right's Recycled Mythology of Far-Left Terrorism // 261

August 14, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

Ad-free listens (even with no subscription) at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio are calling The Left strange combinatory insults, such as ugly-terrorists and dark-cancers. We review these old signifying…
Nature's Leftist Conspiracy against Western Civilization: Contemporary Mythology // 260

July 21, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

Socialist are to blame for the Forest Fires. Antifa caused Algae to take over the reflecting pool. Conservatives believe that nature has allied with their enemies to undermine their authority and Western vicilization. We discuss many…
LLMs prove Structuralism was Correct all Along // 258

July 7, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

Join for ad-free and more episodes https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills There's only been about a century of structuralism. It had a day, then in the 80s haters celebrated its falloff. But today, the LLMs designed according to the…
Chinese Room LLM // 257 (preview)

July 2, 2026 · 20 min

This week we evaluate a paper written by a Google DeepMind engineer which, in effect updates the Chinese Room Thought Experiment (Searle, 1980) to modern LLMs. Get this episode and hundreds more https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills
AI Will Fail Because Heidegger // 256

June 29, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

Join for ad-free and more episodes https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills Hubert Dreyfus loved recounting how he was maligned for his AI skepticism, which was informed by applications of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and…
POPE vs. AI // 255

June 9, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

All episodes are ad-free at https://www.patreon.com/plasticpills While many had hoped for a Butlerian Crusade against the thinking machines, the Pope has instead released a lukewarm encyclical asking the mean machine men making automated…