The Last Curtain
Theatre students are dangerous. They possess enough philosophy to become fearless and not quite enough life to become cautious.
The Performance
The box was black, eight feet tall, four feet wide, and mounted on six wheels, only three of which respected the concept of forward motion.
The Spirit
A sleepless records clerk’s awkward videos become a worldwide movement, leaving him to confront the good, harm, and meanings created by people who no longer need him.
Deep Dive — John Stuart Mill: Collectivism vs. Individualism
John Stuart Mill is one of those philosophers who never really becomes “historical,” because the world keeps reproducing the dilemmas he cared about in new forms. How should we balance individual freedom against collective well-being?
Deep Dive — Thomas Aquinas: Faith and Reason
Thomas Aquinas, a towering figure of the 13th century, is often recognized for his efforts to synthesize faith and reason within the framework of Christian theology. Operating in a time when the interplay between religious belief and philosophical inquiry was increasingly contentious, Aquinas sought to offer a comprehensive account that upheld both the truths of…
Park Chan-wook — Operatic Violence & Surreal Beauty
You’re listening to Filmmaking Giants. Today’s episode is about a director who makes violence look like opera—stylized, rhythmic, sometimes darkly funny, sometimes horrifically intimate—and then uses that beauty to trap you.
Béla Tarr — The Collapse of Time
You’re listening to Filmmaking Giants. Today’s filmmaker does not ask for your attention.
Wong Kar-wai — The Poet of Longing
You’re listening to Filmmaking Giants. Today we’re stepping into the work of a director who doesn’t just tell stories about love and memory—he builds films that feel like remembering.
John Rawls (1921–2002)
In the late 1930s, an anxious teenager sits in a boarding school in Connecticut, surrounded by the trappings of privilege he doesn’t quite know what to do with. The school is Kent, Episcopalian and elite, a feeder into the American establishment.
William of Ockham
In the early fourteenth century, when Europe’s universities were packed with monks and clerics arguing about God, logic, and the structure of reality, a quiet Franciscan friar from a small English village began to do something dangerous: he started cutting away at the grand systems of his time. It was not a physical blade he…