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In her book Left Is Not Woke today's guest Susan Neiman argues that the left has taken a wrong turn and must differentiate itself from "wokism". She talks to Hugh about what she means by "woke" and why its appeal to traditional left-wing tendencies, like solidarity and supporting the underdog, helps disguise its more reactionary elements. They also talk about Germany's relationship with Israel and how its own history influences German views on what is happening in Gaza. Susan Neiman is an American moral philosopher, commentator and author known for her work on ethics, the Enlightenment and contemporary politics. She is the director of The Einstein Forum, a think-tank based in Potsdam, Germany, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we prepare our fifth season of Exile, we're looking back at our favorite episodes from seasons 1-4. Each re-release brings back a unique, fascinating, and often heart-wrenching story from the Leo Baeck Institute Archives. At the height of his fame, a shirtless, barefooted Albert Einstein escapes the bustle of Berlin for a simpler life. The best thinkers of the time gather at his beloved summer house in Caputh to laze by the water, swap ideas, and gossip. There, he can escape the pressures of global fame, but his summer haven can't keep him safe from the growing Nazi movement bubbling in Germany.  The Albert Einstein Collections in the Archives of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York include hundreds of Einstein's personal photographs, many from Caputh, as well as the Guestbook from his summer home. After a few pages bearing the signatures of the friends and international luminaries who visited the Einsteins those short summers before 1933, most of the pages remain blank. You can see the Collections at www.lbi.org/caputh.  Exile is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York | Berlin and Antica Productions.  It's narrated by Mandy Patinkin.  Executive Producers include Katrina Onstad, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Produced by Emily Morantz. Associate Producer is Hailey Choi. Research and translation by Isabella Kempf. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson with help from Cameron McIver. Additional sound by Kevin Caners. Theme music by Oliver Wickham. Voice acting by Jillian Rees-Brown.   Thank you to Outloud Audio; Erika Britzke of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam; Michael Grüning's, “A House for Albert Einstein”; Friedrich Hernick's “Einstein at Home” translated by Josef Eisinger; The Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The New York Times; and the Max Planck Society.

Was heißt es, erwachsen zu sein? Welche Qualitäten und Rituale gehören dazu, und wie individuell verschieden sind wir da? Ist unsere individualistische, auf Jugendlichkeit fixierte Gesellschaft weniger erwachsen als frühere, eine #söderisst-Politik infantiler? Andererseits: wie „erwachsen" wollen wir überhaupt sein, und was sagt das Innere Kind dazu? Bernd Lechler diskutiert mit Prof. Dr. Alexander Grob - Psychologe, Universität Basel, Prof. Dr. Till Kössler - Erziehungswissenschaftler und Historiker, Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Prof. Dr. Susan Neiman - Philosophin und Direktorin am Einstein Forum in Potsdam

Susan Neiman studierte Philosophie an der Harvard University und Freien Universität in Berlin und leitet seit 2000 das Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Geboren wurde sie in Atlanta, Georgia und hat zuletzt Bücher veröffentlicht wie “Von den Deutschen lernen. Wie Gesellschaften mit dem Bösen in ihrer Geschichte umgehen” können und “Links ist nicht woke”, ein Buch, was mit Blick auf das aktuelle Wahlergebnis in den USA und die Rückkehr Trumps von großer Relevanz ist. Im Gespräch mit Wolfgang reflektiert Susan Neiman das für viele schockierende Ergebnis der US-Wahl und diskutiert zudem auch den Krieg in Gaza, die Haltung Deutschlands zu Kritik an Israel, sowie die Tatsache, dass der Konflikt viel größere internationale Aufmerksamkeit und Lösungen erfordere. Zudem beleuchtet sie den fortlaufenden Prozess der Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Deutschland und ihren eigenen Werdegang von den Südstaaten Amerikas bis nach Berlin. Zur Verortung: Das Gespräch wurde bereits am 19. November aufgezeichnet. Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/ApokalypseundFilterkaffee

Zu Gast im Studio: Susan Neiman, Philosophin und seit dem Jahr 2000 Direktorin am Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Sie hat die amerikanische, israelische und deutsche Staatsbürgeschaft. Ein Gespräch über Hoffnung als Prinzip, Universalismus, die Ideale der Aufklärung, Ungleichheit, demokratischer Sozialismus, Aufstieg des Faschismus, Biden vs Trump, die Politik des Status Quo, den Nahostkonflikt, eine Ein-Staaten-Lösung für Israelis und Palästinenser, den 7. Oktober, Hamas und Netanjahu, Susans Biografie, Werdegang und Großwerden in den USA sowie Wokeness und Susans Kritik an linker Identitätspolitik und vieles mehr + eure Fragen via Hans Bitte unterstützt unsere Arbeit finanziell: Konto: Jung & Naiv IBAN: DE854 3060 967 104 779 2900 GLS Gemeinschaftsbank PayPal ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaiv

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Uma guerra pode fazer todo tipo de vítimas, não apenas mortos e feridos no campo de batalha ou entre os civis próximos. A Alemanha se orgulha por ser um país de cena cultural aberta e livre, sobretudo depois da reunificação levada a cabo em 1991. Entretanto, no passado recente, artistas e intelectuais têm manifestado preocupação diante do que descrevem como um clima de “repressão” por acusações que consideram exageradas de antissemitismo, o que teria se acentuado a partir de outubro deste ano, com o conflito envolvendo o Hamas, o governo israelense, o ataque terrorista de 7 de outubro e o bombardeio e ocupação da Faixa de Gaza, com vítimas civis tanto do lado israelense quanto do palestino.  Flávio Aguiar, analista políticoA reclamação dos artistas e intelectuais alcançou repercussão internacional graças a um artigo no New York Review of Books (19/10/2023) e uma reportagem no The New York Times (7 e 8/12/2023). O artigo é assinado por Susan Neiman, de origem judaica, diretora do Einstein Forum, organização acadêmica com sede em Potsdam, ao lado de Berlim, voltada para a cooperação internacional. Nele, a autora deplora que o esforço por combater o antissemitismo descambou para uma às vezes velada, às vezes ostensiva repressão contra quem manifeste críticas a Israel e ao governo israelense. Uma das bases deste desvirtuamento estaria em resolução adotada pelo Parlamento Federal que considera qualquer forma de boicote a Israel como um ato antissemita; outra base seria também a consideração de que a segurança de Israel tornou-se uma “razão de Estado” na Alemanha, o que implica um apoio incondicional às ações daquele país e de seu governo. A partir daí, qualquer declaração ou ação de artistas ou intelectuais que propiciem uma acusação ou sequer suspeita de antissemitismo leva à exclusão dos autores dos planos de fomento - financiamento - público de atividades culturais, venham a acusação ou a suspeita de onde vierem. Aponta ela que esta prática vem ocorrendo já há alguns anos no país.Casos A reportagem do The New York Times lista uma série de casos de artistas que tiveram exposições ou premiações canceladas, ou suspensas por fazerem declarações consideradas hostis a Israel depois do ataque de 7 de outubro e da retaliação israelense em Gaza e na Cisjordânia ocupada. Também comparece à lista pelo menos um caso de artista que fez anos atrás uma declaração considerada hostil a Israel. Um dos casos mais contundentes listados no jornal é o da artista judia sul-africana Candice Breitz que, por ter criticado a retaliação de Israel em Gaza, teve sua exposição, prevista para 2024, cancelada no estado de Saarland. Diga-se de passagem que a exposição nada tinha a ver com a questão palestina ou israelense, versando sobre prostituição na África do Sul.O antissemitismo continua sendo um problema ora latente, ora explícito na Alemanha, assim como em outros países, e merece repulsa, assim como a islamofobia ou qualquer outra forma de discriminação racial, cultural, política, religiosa, de gênero ou ainda outras. O problema, aponta Neiman em seu artigo, é que esta preocupação vem descambando para o que chama de uma forma de “histeria” que promove ou aceita qualquer tipo de denúncia, com ou sem fundamento, como motivo suficiente para cancelar atividades ou personalidades de iniciativas culturais.Artistas e intelectuais de origem judaica, além de outras e outros, têm se manifestado em favor do diálogo ao invés da exclusão. A ministra da Cultura alemã, Claudia Roth, também se manifestou em favor de uma maior tolerância, afirmando que a exclusão deva ser um último recurso, ao invés de algo liminar. Entretanto, o problema persiste, uma vez que curadores de arte e diretores de museus ou outras instituições culturais temem perder o apoio institucional caso alguma de suas atividades levante uma sombra de suspeita de antissemitismo.Problema também em outros paísesO problema não é só da Alemanha. Em novembro, o conhecido artista chinês Ai Wei Wei, que apoia as reivindicações dos palestinos, teve uma exposição em Londres cancelada porque seus patrocinadores consideraram que este não era “o momento oportuno” para fazê-la, diante de apreensões por ele formuladas sobre a situação dos palestinos na Faixa de Gaza. Disseram respeitar o artista, e que considerariam a conveniência de retomar a iniciativa em outra ocasião. Nos Estados Unidos, denúncias da deputada do Partido Republicano por Nova York Elise Stefanik, uma entusiasta apoiadora de Donald Trump, levaram à convocação pela Câmara de três presidentas de universidades norte-americanas, Harvard, Princeton e o MIT, Massachussets Institute of Technoogy.As três foram acusadas de não porem ênfase suficiente na condenação do eventual ou suposto antissemitismo em manifestações pró-palestinos entre seus estudantes. Em consequência, a presidenta da Universidade de Princeton, Elizabeth Magill, renunciou. A deputada republicana comemorou: “Uma já foi”. Há quem veja nisto o renascimento do macarthismo repressivo dos anos 50, de triste memória. 

Sam talks with Dr. Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum in Germany. Her latest book is Left Is Not Woke. Her first work of fiction, Nine Stories: A Berlin Novel, will be published in 2024. She has written two recent thought provoking essays for the The New York Review of Books: Historical Reckoning Gone HaywireGermans' efforts to confront their country's criminal history and to root out antisemitism have shifted from vigilance to a philosemitic McCarthyism that threatens their rich cultural life. (Published October 19) Germany on EdgeIn recent weeks, Germany's reflexive defenses of Israel and suppression of its critics have assumed a fevered pitch. (Published November 3) More recently she authored The universalist tradition has been forgotten, the Enlightenment betrayedThe Hamas attack has devastated progressive Jews who are not prepared to celebrate the carnage as an act of liberation. (Published by The Newstatesman on November 29) Mentioned in this episode: A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending. by Robert Kagen ‘A mass assassination factory': Inside Israel's calculated bombing of Gaza by Yuval Abraham “The Only Democracy in the Middle East” Is a Fascist State by Paul Street What the “Pause” in the Fighting in Gaza Has Not Paused: The Ongoing U.S.-Backed Palestinian Genocide by Israel from Revcom.us How to help the show? Rate and review wherever you get your podcasts; share with your friends! Get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@RefuseFascism⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) and other social platforms including Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky. Plus! Sam just joined TikTok, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠@samgoldmanrf⁠⁠⁠⁠. Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@SamBGoldman⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Record ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠a voice message for the show here. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Connect with the movement at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RefuseFascism.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and support: · ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠paypal.me/refusefascism⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ · ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠donate.refusefascism.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ · ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/refusefascism⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/message

Susan Neiman ist eine berühmte Moralphilosophin. Sie hält die Woke-Bewegung im Kern nicht für progressiv, sondern für reaktionär. Es ist nicht so, dass Susan Neiman kein Verständnis hat. Natürlich gehe es »woken« Menschen um den Kampf gegen Unterdrückung und Ungerechtigkeit, so die 68-jährige Moralphilosophin. »Nur glaube ich, dass die philosophischen Thesen, auf die sich diese Bewegung bezieht, vielen dieser Menschen nicht bewusst sind.«Neiman stammt aus dem US-Bundesland Georgia und ist Direktorin am Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Sie lehrte als Professorin in Yale und an der Universität von Tel Aviv. Zuletzt veröffentlichte sie ihr Buch »Links ist nicht woke«. Im Podcast »Moreno+1« erklärt Neiman den in ihren Augen wichtigen Unterschied zwischen den lobenswerten Absichten der Woken-Bewegung und ihrem intellektuellem Kern, vertreten unter anderem von Leuten wie Ibram X. Kendi und Robin Di Angelo.»Wer Stammesdenken an die Stelle des Universalismus setzt, Gerechtigkeitsansprüche immer nur auf Machtansprüche reduziert, und alle vergangenen Fortschritte als subtilere Formen von Herrschaft ansieht, kann schwerlich aktiv für linke Politik eintreten«, so Neiman. +++ Alle Rabattcodes und Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier: https://linktr.ee/morenoplus1 ++++++ Alle Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier. Die SPIEGEL-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Seite verantwortlich. +++ Alle SPIEGEL Podcasts finden Sie hier. Mehr Hintergründe zum Thema erhalten Sie bei SPIEGEL+. Jetzt für nur € 1,- für die ersten vier Wochen testen unter spiegel.de/abonnieren Informationen zu unserer Datenschutzerklärung.

Woke: Laurie Taylor talks to Susan Neiman, philosopher and director of the Einstein Forum about her analysis of the concept of ‘woke'. Contrary to popular assumption, she argues, it is not a set of attitudes which belong on the left of the political spectrum, but is rather an attack on progressive, universal values and the Enlightenment. They're joined by Huw Davies, lecturer in digital education at the University of Edinburgh, who offers a dissection of the British ‘war on woke', suggesting that it is an intensive ideological campaign that is mobilising reactionary tropes within mainstream British political discourse. Producer: Jayne Egerton

If you dig this conversation with Chris Ryan, Ph.D and want more, he's also featured in episodes 48, 79, 109, and 206.Christopher's work has been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think. A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films.He was on a wild ride even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York's Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology.Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA. Chris' most recent book is Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy. He puts out a weekly podcast called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists.If you dig this podcast, will you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than 60 seconds and makes a difference when I drop to my knees and beg hard-to-get guests on the show. You can join my newsletter and book club on Substack. It's glorious.Send voice memos to thiermann@substack.com  Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

If you dig this conversation with Chris Ryan, Ph.D and want more, he's also featured in episodes 48, 79, 109, and 206.Christopher's work has been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think. A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films.He was on a wild ride even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York's Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology.Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA. Chris' most recent book is Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy. He puts out a weekly podcast called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists.If you dig this podcast, will you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than 60 seconds and makes a difference when I drop to my knees and beg hard-to-get guests on the show. You can join my newsletter and book club on Substack. It's glorious.Send voice memos to thiermann@substack.com  Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Susan Neiman (world-leading moral philosopher, socialist, Einstein Forum director) joins me to clear up a wholly frustrating and destructive dialogue stopper – wokeism. Susan is the Director of the Einstein Forum, in Potsdam, Germany. She has a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard and has written big, influential tomes on German guilt, the value of evil and how we all need to grow up, all through a philosophical lens. Her latest book is titled Left is Not Woke and in this episode, she explains why woke has become a loaded term, weaponised by the Right and has inverted to contradict Left or progressive principles. Susan plants the wild idea we need to abandon wokeism and become truly awake to the threat so much infighting is distracting us (sigh) from the rise of fascism. Much as Left infighting enabled Hitler to rise to power in the 1930s.The Show NotesLeft is Not Woke is available nowSusan mentions Paul Robeson's performance at the Sydney Opera HouseI mention my Substack post listing centre-right writers, you can read it hereIf you need to know a bit more about me… head to my "about" pageFor more such conversations subscribe to my Substack newsletter, it's where I interact the most!Get your copy of my book, This One Wild and Precious LifeLet's connect on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Susan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer. She is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, and the author of Left is Not Woke. In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Susan Neiman discuss how liberals can uphold their universal values while maintaining a politics of empathy and compassion; how the left's tendency to discount the progress of the past inhibits progress for the future; and whether Germany can serve as a model for how America, and other nations, should deal with the dark aspects of their own history. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community  Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Flesh is interesting. it comes in different sizes and colors and shapes but the bones are the things that bind us and hold us up and also what is left of us when we are gone. Happy to have the flesh be part of the culture, I want the politics to focus on the bones because that's the only place that you get a sense of common human dignity and common human rights." -Susan Neiman“Susan Neiman's profound wisdom, courage and vision give us a public conception of goodness and a reinvigorated progressive vision. She is a beacon of light and hope in these morally debased times.” -Cornel WestWoke. If there is one word that can embody and define so much of what is right and wrong here in America, while mapping out the journey in between, its Woke.Weapon for the right; as in Ron DeSantis's lovely “Stop Woke” Act, philosophical (or actual) tattoo alongside the butterflies and infinity symbols for the left, this multi layered word that started out as a way to describe being a non-racist, empathetic, aware and grown ass human (and a lyric in an amazing song) has become much larger and more powerful than it's mere 4 letters would lead you to believe. (We see you “fuck”) In this episode, Adam sits down with American philosopher, writer, and director of the Einstein Institute, Susan Neiman, author of Left is Not WokeSusan has written extensively on the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics. Her work shows that philosophy is a living force for contemporary thinking and action. An adept philosopher and public intellectual who has taught at Yale and Tel Aviv University, she has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and this is the latest of her nine books. Her upbringing in Atlanta during the Civil Rights Movement sealed her identity on the left. She has lived for years in Berlin, where she lectures and serves as the director of the Einstein Forum.Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Civil Rights Movement, Neiman dropped out of high school to join American activists working for peace and justice. Later she studied philosophy at Harvard University, earning her Ph.D. in 1986 under the direction of John Rawls and Stanley Cavell. In the 80s she spent six years in Berlin, studying at the Free University and working as a freelance writer. She was professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University. In 2000 she assumed her current position as director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.Links you are going to want after listening to this incredible episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/opinion/black-dancer-american-ballet-theater.htmlAmanda Gorman https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schmitt/Tell us what you think on Twitter! Or if you are fed up with Elon's bullshit, hit us up on Threads! There is always shenanigans over on TikTok too…Thanks for helping us save democracy one episode at a time!Join the Dirty Moderate Nation https://dirtymoderate.substack.com/Find us on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/DirtyModerate

It isn't hard to find a right-wing critique of woke ideology. It is much more difficult to find left-leaning thinkers coming out in opposition to the woke dogma that has superseded traditional, social democratic principles in most western centre-left political parties. This is why Susan Neiman's new book, ‘Left is not Woke' is such an important contribution to the public debate. Susan is one of the world's most renowned and respected living philosophers. She currently resides in Germany where she is the Director of the Einstein Forum. She's also a self-described socialist, and she's set out to separate 'wokeism' from the historic principles of the left.Follow Australiana on social media here.Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.Buy 'Left is not Woke' here.

On Sunday, May 21, 2023, we welcomed Harvard-educated, American moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist Susan Neiman. Dr. Neiman has written extensively on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics, both for scholarly audiences and the general public. She is a lifelong leftist and socialist, and an unlikely critic of "woke-ism." She argues the tenets of the woke have become antithetical to the traditional values of the left. She currently lives in Germany, where she is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Neiman writes in her new book, Left Is Not Woke: "I am unwilling to cede the word 'left' or accept the binary suggestion that those who aren't woke must be reactionary. A left-wing critique of those who seem to share the same values might seem to be an instance of narcissism. But it's not small differences that separate me from those who are woke." She adds that the discourse around "woke-ism" is confusing. It evokes emotions that all progressive people share, such as empathy for those who are marginalized and indignation for the oppressed, but those emotions are "derailed by a range of theoretical assumptions that ultimately undermine them." https://Youtube.com/@TruthandDemocracyCoalition https://Tinyurl.com/RedPillMen https://Tinyurl.com/Jan6th2024 https://Tinyurl.com/PoliticalTherapy

On Sunday, May 21, 2023, we welcomed Harvard-educated, American moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist Susan Neiman. Dr. Neiman has written extensively on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics, both for scholarly audiences and the general public. She is a lifelong leftist and socialist, and an unlikely critic of "woke-ism." She argues the tenets of the woke have become antithetical to the traditional values of the left. She currently lives in Germany, where she is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Neiman writes in her new book, Left Is Not Woke: "I am unwilling to cede the word 'left' or accept the binary suggestion that those who aren't woke must be reactionary. A left-wing critique of those who seem to share the same values might seem to be an instance of narcissism. But it's not small differences that separate me from those who are woke." She adds that the discourse around "woke-ism" is confusing. It evokes emotions that all progressive people share, such as empathy for those who are marginalized and indignation for the oppressed, but those emotions are "derailed by a range of theoretical assumptions that ultimately undermine them."

On Sunday, May 21, 2023, we welcomed Harvard-educated, American moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist Susan Neiman. Dr. Neiman has written extensively on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics, both for scholarly audiences and the general public. She is a lifelong leftist and socialist, and an unlikely critic of "woke-ism." She argues the tenets of the woke have become antithetical to the traditional values of the left. She currently lives in Germany, where she is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Neiman writes in her new book, Left Is Not Woke: "I am unwilling to cede the word 'left' or accept the binary suggestion that those who aren't woke must be reactionary. A left-wing critique of those who seem to share the same values might seem to be an instance of narcissism. But it's not small differences that separate me from those who are woke." She adds that the discourse around "woke-ism" is confusing. It evokes emotions that all progressive people share, such as empathy for those who are marginalized and indignation for the oppressed, but those emotions are "derailed by a range of theoretical assumptions that ultimately undermine them."

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comSusan is a philosopher and writer focusing on the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics and politics. She was professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University, and in 2000 assumed her current position as director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. She's the author of nine books, including Evil in Modern Thought, Moral Clarity and Learning from the Germans. Her new book is Left Is Not Woke. We hit it off from the get-go.For two clips of our convo — on why being an “ally” is misguided, and the Nazi philosopher who influenced woke thought — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: the tension between universalism and tribalism in her Jewish upbringing in Atlanta; her mom's work desegregating schools amid night calls from the Klan; Susan joining a commie commune; making it to Harvard as a high-school dropout; the legacy of Kant; Montaigne on how the West could learn from other cultures; the views of Voltaire, Rousseau, Wittgenstein and Rawls; the dialogue between Socrates and Thrasymachus on justice and power; the cynical faux-sophistication of postmodernists; the impact of Foucault and Carl Schmitt on wokeness; truth and reason as mere instruments of power; the woke impulse to deny progress; evolutionary psychology; Jesus rejecting tribalism; the Enlightenment rebuking clerical authority but respecting religion; Anthony Appiah and universalism within African and Indian cultures; anti-colonialism; the Iraq War and the hypocrisy of a liberal democracy using torture; the transition from Obama to Trump; and the Afropessimism of Ta-Nehisi Coates and others.Browse the Dishcast archive for another discussion you might enjoy (the first 102 episodes are free in their entirety). Upcoming guests include Mark Lilla on liberalism, Nigel Biggar defending colonialism, Tabia Lee on her firing as a DEI director, Chris Stirewalt on Fox News, Ben Smith on going viral, and John Oberg on veganism.

At the height of his fame, a shirtless, barefooted Albert Einstein escapes the bustle of Berlin for a simpler life. The best thinkers of the time gather at his beloved summer house in Caputh to laze by the water, swap ideas, and gossip. There, he can escape the pressures of global fame, but his summer haven can't keep him safe from the growing Nazi movement bubbling in Germany.  The Albert Einstein Collections in the Archives of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York include hundreds of Einstein's personal photographs, many from Caputh, as well as the Guestbook from his summer home. After a few pages bearing the signatures of the friends and international luminaries who visited the Einsteins those short summers before 1933, most of the pages remain blank. You can see the Collections at www.lbi.org/caputh.  Exile is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York | Berlin and Antica Productions.  It's narrated by Mandy Patinkin.  Executive Producers include Katrina Onstad, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Produced by Emily Morantz. Associate Producer is Hailey Choi. Research and translation by Isabella Kempf. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson with help from Cameron McIver. Additional sound by Kevin Caners. Theme music by Oliver Wickham. Voice acting by Jillian Rees-Brown.   Thank you to Outloud Audio; Erika Britzke of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam; Michael Grüning's, “A House for Albert Einstein”; Friedrich Hernick's “Einstein at Home” translated by Josef Eisinger; The Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; The New York Times; and the Max Planck Society.

Das Gedenken an den Holocaust gilt seit vielen Jahren als wichtiges Mittel, um einem Wiedererstarken von Nationalismus und der Verfolgung von Minderheiten vorzubeugen. Besorgniserregend ist allerdings eine neue Entwicklung: Wenn Gedenkphrasen von genau jenen Akteur*innen aufgesagt werden, die antidemokratische, xenophobe und oft antisemitische Politiken verfolgen. „Gerade in Russland sehen wir ein besonders tragisches Beispiel“, sage Emily Dische-Becker, „Putin behauptet die Ukraine zu entnazifizieren, sein Außenminister spricht davon dass auch Hitler jüdisches Blut hatte und es deswegen legitim sei, Selensky in seine Nachfolge zu stellen.“ Die Autorin Emily Dische-Becker organisiert mit anderen die internationale Konferenz „Hijacking Memory“, bei der auf dieses Problem aufmerksam gemacht werden soll. Der Kongress ist eine Veranstaltung des Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Einstein Forum und Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der Technischen Universität Berlin. „Die Konferenz will herausfinden, wie die Neue Rechte und die Tendenz, dass xenophobe Standpunkte wieder gesellschaftsfähig werden, bekämpft werden können“, sagt Dische-Becker bei SWR2, „das kann auch dazu führen, dass sich unser Verhältnis zum Gedenken des Holocaust verändern muss.“

Die Debatte mit Natascha Freundel, Mischa Gabowitsch und Inga Pylypchuk Wiederholung vom 7.4.2022 --- "Wie lebt man nach dem, was man da gesehen hat?" - Inga Pylypchuk --- Krieg bedeutet brutale Gewalt, Tod, Entmenschlichung. Das bezeugen die Kriegsbilder, die uns derzeit aus der Ukraine heimsuchen. Charkiw, Mariupol, Bucha – entsetzliche Fotos und Videos von dort landen auf unseren Bildschirmen. Was bedeutet es, das Leiden anderer zu betrachten? Darüber hat die Autorin und Regisseurin Susan Sontag vor zwanzig Jahren geschrieben: „Solche Bilder können nicht mehr sein als eine Aufforderung zur Aufmerksamkeit, zum Nachdenken, zum Lernen.“ Und: zum Handeln. „Es ist die Passivität, die abstumpft.“ Ein Austausch über die Wirkung der Kriegsbilder, über Mitgefühl und aktives Reagieren in der Zivilgesellschaft. --- Inga Pylypchuk, geboren 1986 in Kyjiw, ist Journalistin und Dokumentarfilmerin in Berlin. Sie hat Germanistik und Moderne Griechische Philologie in Kyjiw studiert. 2011 absolvierte sie einen Masterstudiengang in Vergleichender Literaturwissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin und 2013 ein Volontariat an der Axel Springer Akademie für Journalismus. Seit 2020 studiert sie an der Berliner Filmschule „filmArche“ und arbeitet als Kommunikationsmanagerin der Kyjiwer Gespräche, einer unabhängigen Plattform für den deutsch-ukrainischen Dialog. --- Mischa Gabowitsch, geboren 1977 in Moskau, ist Zeithistoriker und Soziologe. Er studierte in Oxford und Paris und promovierte an der Pariser Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Hochschule für Sozialwissenschaften, EHESS) über den russischen Nationalismus. Gabowitsch hat an der Princeton University unterrichtet und ist seit 2010 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Er ist Autor von „Putin kaputt!? Russlands neue Protestkultur“ (Suhrkamp 2013) und „Protest in Putin’s Russia“ (Polity Press 2016) --- Mehr Infos unter www.rbbkultur.de/derzweitegedanke

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is out, the outcome also amounts to a rejection of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp - which backed Morrison and ridiculed candidates demanding action on the climate. Murdoch's used to setting the political agenda down under. No longer.Contributors:Sally Rugg - National director, Australians for a Murdoch Royal CommissionRichie Merzian - Director, Climate and Energy Program, The Australia InstituteMalcolm Farr - Political journalistMichael Mazengarb - Climate & energy reporter, Renew EconomyOn our radar:Al Jazeera's journalism is being suppressed on YouTube. The Listening Post's digital producer, Stanley Kasirowore, talks us through the reasons why.Germany, anti-Semitism and the blacklisting of Palestinian journalists:Germany's toxic anti-Semitism and the effect it is having on the careers of Palestinian and Arab journalists there.Contributors:Alena Jabarine - JournalistHanno Hauenstein - Journalist, Berliner ZeitungSusan Neiman - Director, Einstein Forum

Das Bild von Osteuropa ist viel zu ungenau und undifferenziert – auch in Osteuropa selbst, sagt Mischa Gabowitsch. Der Historiker und Soziologe vom Einstein Forum in Potsdam beschäftigt sich insbesondere mit Gedenkkultur und Protestbewegungen. Moderation: Julia Schöning Von WDR 5.

Die Debatte mit Natascha Freundel, Mischa Gabowitsch und Inga Pylypchuk --- "Wie lebt man nach dem, was man da gesehen hat?" - Inga Pylypchuk --- Krieg bedeutet brutale Gewalt, Tod, Entmenschlichung. Das bezeugen die Kriegsbilder, die uns derzeit aus der Ukraine heimsuchen. Charkiw, Mariupol, Bucha – entsetzliche Fotos und Videos von dort landen auf unseren Bildschirmen. Was bedeutet es, das Leiden anderer zu betrachten? Darüber hat die Autorin und Regisseurin Susan Sontag vor zwanzig Jahren geschrieben: „Solche Bilder können nicht mehr sein als eine Aufforderung zur Aufmerksamkeit, zum Nachdenken, zum Lernen.“ Und: zum Handeln. „Es ist die Passivität, die abstumpft.“ Ein Austausch über die Wirkung der Kriegsbilder, über Mitgefühl und aktives Reagieren in der Zivilgesellschaft. --- Inga Pylypchuk, geboren 1986 in Kyjiw, ist Journalistin und Dokumentarfilmerin in Berlin. Sie hat Germanistik und Moderne Griechische Philologie in Kyjiw studiert. 2011 absolvierte sie einen Masterstudiengang in Vergleichender Literaturwissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin und 2013 ein Volontariat an der Axel Springer Akademie für Journalismus. Seit 2020 studiert sie an der Berliner Filmschule „filmArche“ und arbeitet als Kommunikationsmanagerin der Kyjiwer Gespräche, einer unabhängigen Plattform für den deutsch-ukrainischen Dialog. --- Mischa Gabowitsch, geboren 1977 in Moskau, ist Zeithistoriker und Soziologe. Er studierte in Oxford und Paris und promovierte an der Pariser Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Hochschule für Sozialwissenschaften, EHESS) über den russischen Nationalismus. Gabowitsch hat an der Princeton University unterrichtet und ist seit 2010 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Er ist Autor von „Putin kaputt!? Russlands neue Protestkultur“ (Suhrkamp 2013) und „Protest in Putin’s Russia“ (Polity Press 2016) --- Mehr Infos unter www.rbbkultur.de/derzweitegedanke

This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender talk to one of the world's leading moral philosophers Professor Susan Neiman. Professor Neiman is currently the director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, and the former professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv Universities. Her books include ‘Moral Clarity, A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists' and ‘Why Grow Up, Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age'. 0.00 Introduction2.02 Can you start by sharing some of the experience that shaped your world view, and the role that they played in forming the central ideas that sit at the heart of your work.6.16 Can we turn to ‘Moral Clarity', which centres on the failure of our culture to meet our moral needs and the problems that this creates in society. Can you take us through some of the central arguments.15.08 I'm really interested in this loss of moral language in the progressive parts of society. Is there something else that was going on with relativism etc that started to make it hard for that group of people to talk about it?23.58 Since you wrote moral clarity we've had a number of shock points including the Trump Presidency, Brexit and the growing influence of social media. How have these moments evolved your thinking?37.19 In your book ‘Why Group Up' you address the widespread infantilism that you feel pervades so much of society. Why do you think that's happened? Social: Instagram           @evolvingleader LinkedIn             The Evolving Leader Podcast Twitter               @Evolving_Leader The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.

durée : 00:58:19 - Être et savoir - par : Louise Tourret - Nous vous proposons un grand entretien avec Susan Neiman. Philosophe, elle fut professeure à Yale aux États-Unis et dirige désormais le Einstein Forum, une fondation allemande qui propose au public des conférences et tables rondes multidisciplinaires réunissant des penseurs contemporains. - invités : Susan Neiman Philosophe américaine

Joel and Sina chat with Dr. Christopher Ryan about whether civilization has been a net benefit to our species and how we can break out of the “zoo” that each of us has created for ourselves.       To watch the video version, click HERE or follow this link: https://youtu.be/Tf-DtkPpRn4Christopher Ryan, PhD and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, and other publications. He's been a featured speaker in varied platforms from TED to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Germany.  Dr. Ryan has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films.  He is the author of Civilized to Death and the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Sex at Dawn.  Ryan puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists.Video and Podcast edited by Nolan Gunn of Nolan G Film CoJoel's website: www.polyfacefarms.comSina's website:www.drsinamccullough.comDisclaimer:  The information provided by Joel Salatin and Sina McCullough, PhD is not intended to prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure any disease.  The information provided in the podcasts, videos, and show descriptions is for educational purposes only.  It is not intended to diagnose or treat any medical or psychological condition.  The information provided is not meant to prevent, treat, mitigate or cure such conditions.  The information provided is not medical advice nor is it designed to replace advice, information, or prescriptions you receive from your healthcare provider.  Consult your health care provider before making any changes to your diet, medication, or lifestyle.  Proceed at your own risk.Joel Salatin and Sina McCullough, Ph.D. specifically disclaim any liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, that may be incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents of their YouTube channel, Podcast, websites, books, Facebook pages, or any of the content during consulting sessions or speaking engagements.  Proceed at your own risk.  These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

Today’s episode is the podcast version of a virtual talk with Dr. Susan Neiman; “Learning from the Germans”. Susan Neiman directs Berlin’s Einstein Forum, a public think tank for the state of Brandenburg. She has lived in Berlin for most of her adult life but was born and raised in the southern United States. For this book, she spent three years interviewing people in both Germany and the United States. In her book, she asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting past evils, the concept of Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung, "working off the past", and how communities can come together to remember and move forward. Her other works include Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin, The Unity of Reason: Rereading Kant, Evil in Modern Thought, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grownup Idealists, and Why Grow Up? Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age. ### Since 1957 The Germanic American Institute has been building cultural bridges between the American Midwest and German-speaking European countries. We cordially invite you on the inside, to join us as we share insights into German grammar, the German cultural experience, we’ll look at current topics, and we’ll let you know about all the events that we are involved in, and you can participate in. If you'd like us to answer any questions you may have about our content, history, grammar, etc. please email us at podcast@gaimn.org and we'll answer your question in the next episode. ###

Chris Ryan is a Podcaster, Author, and all-round good guy, Chris has been a featured speaker at TED, SXSW, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House, the Portland Comedy Festival, the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, and is a frequent guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, the Duncan Trussell Family Hour and many other podcasts.

Christopher’s work has been translated into over twenty languages, and featured just about everywhere, including Netflix, HBO, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, and The Atlantic. Chris has been a featured speaker at TED, SXSW, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House, the Portland Comedy Festival, the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, and is a frequent guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, the Duncan Trussell Family Hour and many other podcasts. He’s provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, won a coveted AVN award (best non-sex performance, Marriage 2.0) and appeared in dozens of documentary films and television shows. Time Stamps:  0:10:09 - Podcast begins 0:10:29 - The story of Bryan Stevenson 0:14:34 - It is easy to become blind to how unhappy we have become in our modern world 0:19:29 - Charles Darwin, oceanic explorers, and how it applies to our modern world 0:21:09 - Most people prefer to live the indigenous, uncivilized life 0:29:09 - The Hadza did not want to change the way they were living 0:31:54 - The uncivilized life isn’t necessarily easy, but it seems “right” 0:35:24 - When the information that supports your view is easy to accept, and information that challenges your view is difficult to accept 0:39:39 - We are addicted to "modern day drugs” 0:41:54 - Animals in a zoo are told how lucky they are to be in a zoo 0:45:54 - We have demonized nature as a modern society 0:48:34 - Body contact and sexual exploration and repression results in less violence 0:51:29 - The story of how Chris Ryan met Jeff Leach and shifting our microbiomes 0:57:04 - Recommending a corn flakes diet to decrease sexual desires in humans 1:02:09 - Most chronic disease and violence began with our beginning of agriculture 1:05:09 - Our ancestors were always armed with weapons in some form or another 1:07:39 - Most researchers haven’t actually spent time with hunter gatherer tribes that they write and talk about 1:14:39 - How humans are like grasshoppers; consuming and destroying everything in our environment 1:22:29 - The Indian-mango trap: a metaphor for our civilization 1:31:19 - Rats living in an unnatural environment made unnatural choices; rats that live in a natural environment made natural choices 1:35:19 - Question for Chris Ryan: how do we create a natural environment for ourselves and move forward to find happiness and health? 1:43:09 - What is the most radical thing Chris Ryan has done recently? 1:45:19 - Wrapping up with Chris Ryan Episode Sponsors: Heart & Soil: www.heartandsoil.co White Oak Pastures: Whiteoakpastures.com, use CarnivoreMD for 10% off your first order Sacred Hunting: www.sacredhunting.com/Paul for $250 off your hunt! Lets Get Checked: 20% off your order at www.TRYLGC.com/carnivoremd   

It's the 50th episode! We started the podcast this past summer; the week millions began to pour into the streets rebelling against white supremacy and demanding justice for George Floyd. When we began a fascist regime was tightening its grip on society; we called the podcast "Inside With #OutNow" as the movement to get these fascists out became all the more urgent. Since then, we've covered Trump's refusal to wear a mask as a signal to fascism and other forms of fascist propaganda, the white supremacy, xenophobia and misogyny that is the core of this fascism, Trump's death cult, the Christian Fascist movement and its embrace of Trump, American exceptionalism and American mythology; faith, resistance and complicity under fascism. We've shared voices from the frontlines: from Portland and LA to North Carolina and the suburbs of Chicago, and overall the need to stop fascism and organizing methods to mobilize all who can be united against it. Throughout all of this we have mobilized people to act in the name of humanity. Thanks to all the amazing guests of the show as well as all of YOU listening, sharing and commenting. Donate this week and help us reach more people and do more... All donors who give $50 for this milestone will receive a beautiful Humanity enamel pin as a thank you (if you provide your address). This week, Sam Goldman interviews Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum in Germany and author of Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil and Daryle Lamont Jenkins, Executive Director of One People's Project. Follow Daryle on Twitter @DLamontJenkins. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: Venmo: @Refuse-Fascism Cashapp: @RefuseFascism paypal.me/refusefascism donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/message

On April 19th, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City; 168 people were killed, and hundreds more injured, in what remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the United States. Twenty five years later, in 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress that the United States had recorded the deadliest year for domestic terrorism since the Oklahoma City Bombing. Then came the January 6th Insurrection. America has a problem, it seems, and the problem isn’t new. But why are Americans attacking America? On this episode of “Who Is?,” Sean Morrow digs deeper into the nature of domestic violent extremism in the United States, and the history we as a nation must face up to if we are to confront—and address—the violence which plagues our democracy.  Alina Das, a Professor of Clinical Law at the NYU School of Law, where she co-teaches and co-directs the Immigrant Rights Clinic  Roudabeh Kishi, ‎the Director of Research & Innovation at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project  Susan Neiman, a philosopher and Director of the Einstein Forum. She is the author of many books, including “Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil” Kari Watkins, Executive Director of the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Die deutsch-amerikanische Philosophin Susan Neiman leitet seit 20 Jahren das Einstein-Forum in Potsdam. In Deutschland kommentiert sie oft die US-amerikanische Politik. Ihr neues Buch heißt „Von den Deutschen lernen“. Natascha Freundel hat es gelesen.

What can international comparisons teach us about Trump, COVID-19, the Democrats and our history? In this episode, political experts from the United States, United Kingdom and Germany will offer a global perspective on the 2020 election. This episode is presented by Roosevelt University and the Political Philosophy Podcast. The conversation was recorded as a live panel discussion as a part of the American Dream Reconsidered lecture series.In November, guest host Toby Buckle and David Faris will return with a new group of guests to break down the election results. Panelists Ian Dunt edits the website Politics.co.uk from the Houses of Parliament and contributes regularly to a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, the Irish Times, the Washington Post and Prospect. He is one of the hosts on the hit podcast Remainiacs and his new show The Bunker. His new book, How to Be a Liberal, came out in 2020 to much acclaim.Roosevelt political science professor David Faris is the author of It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics and The Kids are All Left: How Young Voters Will Unite America. He is a contributing writer at The Week and has published op-eds with Buzzfeed, the Washington Post and The New Republic, among many other major outlets.Susan Neiman serves as the director of the Einstein Forum in Berlin. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Neiman studied philosophy at Harvard and the Freie Universität Berlin and was professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University. She is the author of several books, most recently Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. Toby Buckle is a British-born political activist, organizer, fundraiser and podcast host. He has spent the last 10 years working in the United States for a wide range of Democratic candidates and human rights organizations. In 2017, Toby created the Political Philosophy Podcast and grew it from a handful of listeners to a significant, recognized platform for public philosophy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jeremi and Zachary speak with Dr. Susan Neiman about the role of historical memory in addressing past injustices. Zachary sets the scene with his poem, “Herbst ich erinnere mich”, or “Fall I Remember”. Susan Neiman is Director of the Einstein Forum in Berin, Germany. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Neiman studied philosophy at Harvard and the […]

In today's episode, International Horizons host John Torpey hosts Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum, about the global movement towards coming to terms with the history of racial oppression, how a nation's history affects the way that this plays out, and where society can go from here. You can find a transcript of the interview here: http://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/2020/07/20/international-horizons-episode-14/

Es diskutieren: Prof. Dr. Melanie Möller - Philologin mit dem Schwerpunkt Latinistik, Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. Dr. Philipp Stoellger - Lehrstuhl für Systematische Theologie, Universität Heidelberg, Dr. Rüdiger Zill - Philosoph, Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Moderation: Michael Köhler

Penelope Phillips-Howard of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Khadija Osman of Live Right Ghana, Kofi Nyanteng and Darmin Mutenda of CouldYou? Cup on menstruation stigmitization. Kevin Maillard of Syracuse Univ on “Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story.” Bethanee Bemis of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on Disneyfication. Susan Neiman of the Einstein Forum on “Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil.”

Today, we continue our run of legendary authors and podcasters with Dr. Christopher Ryan, author of New York Times bestsellers, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships and Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress. He has a chart-topping dialog podcast is called, Tangentially Speaking, We have a fun, some times provocative discussion about everything from Muhammad Ali, what’s wrong with modernity, how the world is fundamentally changing, why living in a van is awesome, to what it’s like making a living as roving, smart person. The Legendary Muhammad Ali Christopher Ryan and Christopher Lochhead went into an insightful exchange of stories about Muhammad Ali. Chris shares during this lockdown, he discovered a YouTube channel that featured several classic fights and he enjoyed binge-watching on these.  Chris mentions Pete McCormick, the guy behind a documentary called “Facing Ali” and he interviewed guys who fought Ali. The interesting backstory was, during these tune-up fights, Ali would handpick his opponent.  “He would tell his agent, he heard one guy, his wife had been killed in an accident, so he will get a quarter-million dollars. He's beating people up in a charitable, generous way.” - Christopher Ryan Podcasting Has Been Instrumental Lochhead describes Ryan as “an insanely smart Ph.D. dude who seems to make a living being a smart guy, writing smart shit, podcasting smart shit, generally being the smart guy in the world.” He says podcasting has been instrumental in getting his message across. “It used to be, if you want to sit down and share your opinions to a hundred young smart people who are interested in hearing an old guy like me, you had a gig in the university. Universities are designed to filter out people like me or Joe Rogan or you, people who are liable to say something outlandish, to challenge this status quo.” - Christopher Ryan He further shares that he is generally pessimistic about the modern world, but one of the wonderful things that happened recently is that podcasting exploded.  “It is almost like a printing press, it just exploded, the opportunity to have direct contact between someone in the audience and the audience chooses whether or not it’s worth listening to. It is not the administrators of the university or publishing house, you know the gatekeepers.” - Christopher Ryan What It Is Like Living In A Van Christopher says he owned an apartment for a while until last fall when he spent 5 months in the van. He ditched his apartment, rented a storage space, and continued living life on the road since then. He traveled across the United States during the summer and flew to tropical countries during the wintertime.  “When this stuff got weird, end of January, I flew back. I didn't want to get stranded in Asia. I rented a house in a tiny little town in Colorado. I've been here, it is fantastic, there's no problem with social distancing. I like solitude. I like a good solid chunk of quiet and distance.” - Christopher Ryan To hear more about Christopher and what’s wrong with modernity and how the world is fundamentally changing, download and listen to this episode. Bio: Christopher and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including Netflix, HBO, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, and The Atlantic. Chris has been a featured speaker at TED, SXSW, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House, the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, and is a frequent guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and many other podcasts.  He’s also provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing and appeared in dozens of documentary films and television shows. Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 18 languages), with Cacilda Jethá, MD, 

Today, we continue our run of legendary authors and podcasters with Dr. Christopher Ryan, author of New York Times bestsellers, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships and Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress. He has a chart-topping dialog podcast is called, Tangentially Speaking, We have a fun, some times provocative discussion about everything from Muhammad Ali, what’s wrong with modernity, how the world is fundamentally changing, why living in a van is awesome, to what it’s like making a living as roving, smart person. The Legendary Muhammad Ali Christopher Ryan and Christopher Lochhead went into an insightful exchange of stories about Muhammad Ali. Chris shares during this lockdown, he discovered a YouTube channel that featured several classic fights and he enjoyed binge-watching on these.  Chris mentions Pete McCormick, the guy behind a documentary called “Facing Ali” and he interviewed guys who fought Ali. The interesting backstory was, during these tune-up fights, Ali would handpick his opponent.  “He would tell his agent, he heard one guy, his wife had been killed in an accident, so he will get a quarter-million dollars. He's beating people up in a charitable, generous way.” - Christopher Ryan Podcasting Has Been Instrumental Lochhead describes Ryan as “an insanely smart Ph.D. dude who seems to make a living being a smart guy, writing smart shit, podcasting smart shit, generally being the smart guy in the world.” He says podcasting has been instrumental in getting his message across. “It used to be, if you want to sit down and share your opinions to a hundred young smart people who are interested in hearing an old guy like me, you had a gig in the university. Universities are designed to filter out people like me or Joe Rogan or you, people who are liable to say something outlandish, to challenge this status quo.” - Christopher Ryan He further shares that he is generally pessimistic about the modern world, but one of the wonderful things that happened recently is that podcasting exploded.  “It is almost like a printing press, it just exploded, the opportunity to have direct contact between someone in the audience and the audience chooses whether or not it’s worth listening to. It is not the administrators of the university or publishing house, you know the gatekeepers.” - Christopher Ryan What It Is Like Living In A Van Christopher says he owned an apartment for a while until last fall when he spent 5 months in the van. He ditched his apartment, rented a storage space, and continued living life on the road since then. He traveled across the United States during the summer and flew to tropical countries during the wintertime.  “When this stuff got weird, end of January, I flew back. I didn't want to get stranded in Asia. I rented a house in a tiny little town in Colorado. I've been here, it is fantastic, there's no problem with social distancing. I like solitude. I like a good solid chunk of quiet and distance.” - Christopher Ryan To hear more about Christopher and what’s wrong with modernity and how the world is fundamentally changing, download and listen to this episode. Bio: Christopher and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including Netflix, HBO, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, and The Atlantic. Chris has been a featured speaker at TED, SXSW, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House, the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, and is a frequent guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and many other podcasts.  He’s also provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing and appeared in dozens of documentary films and television shows. Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 18 languages), with Cacilda Jethá, MD, 

Es diskutieren: Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann - Kulturwissenschaftlerin, Universität Konstanz, Prof. Dr. Norbert Frei - Historiker, Universität Jena, Prof. Dr. Susan Neiman - Philosophin, Einstein Forum, PotsdamModeration: Gregor Papsch

A professor of English literature, with degrees from Oxford and Columbia, William Kolbrener is the author of the highly acclaimed book, Open Minded Torah. Combining his academic scholarship with Torah insights gained from many years of yeshiva study, Professor Kolbrener addresses basic life issues such as truth, creativity and happiness. Professor Kolbrener's work has been recognized by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Einstein Forum and the Israel Science Foundation. He has published Milton's Warring Angels, he is a contributor to major scholarly journals and he is a regular columnist for The Washington Post.

Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Dr. Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany as they explore foresight, redemption, and societal values.

Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Dr. Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany as they explore foresight, redemption, and societal values.

Christopher and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think.  A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 15 languages), with his partner-in-crime (and wife), Cacilda Jethá, MD, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York’s Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA. Chris recently finished a new book for Simon and Schuster called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy, and he puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists. Chris is also featured in episodes 48, 79, 109, & 163. People talk about this episode here Music: West of Malbay Follow Chris on Instagram chrisryanphd.com Sign up for the weekly email Buy me a coffee on Patreon Leave a short review on I Tunes, (it helps me book guests.) Here's my Instagram Contact: info@kyle.surf SC Medicinals Use the code KYLE10 to get 10% off everything at SC Medicinals. Intro music by Nashe Howe

Christopher and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think.  A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 15 languages), with his partner-in-crime (and wife), Cacilda Jethá, MD, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York's Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA. Chris recently finished a new book for Simon and Schuster called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy, and he puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists. Chris is also featured in episodes 48, 79, 109, & 163. People talk about this episode here Music: West of Malbay Follow Chris on Instagram chrisryanphd.com Sign up for the weekly email Buy me a coffee on Patreon Leave a short review on I Tunes, (it helps me book guests.) Here's my Instagram Contact: info@kyle.surf SC Medicinals Use the code KYLE10 to get 10% off everything at SC Medicinals. Intro music by Nashe Howe Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending — balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Well, maybe we are and maybe we aren’t. Civilized to Deathcounters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the “progress” defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease. Prehistoric life, of course, was not without serious dangers and disadvantages. Many babies died in infancy. A broken bone, infected wound, snakebite, or difficult pregnancy could be life-threatening. But ultimately, Ryan argues, were these pre-civilized dangers more murderous than modern scourges, such as car accidents, cancers, cardiovascular disease, and a technologically prolonged dying process? In Civilized to Death, Ryan makes the claim that we should start looking backwards to find our way into a better future. Ryan and Shermer also discuss: human nature: peaceful or violent? humans: spectrum or binary? what hunter-gatherers were really like and why it is so hard to know hunter-gatherers and…children, women, the elderly, sex, religion, politics and economics how egalitarian were hunter-gatherers? why hunter-gatherers don’t think of work as “work” in the way we do the lottery test: if you won the lottery would you work at your job, live in your neighborhood, live your life? was civilization the biggest mistake humans ever made? the “Big Gods” theory of religion vs. the communal theory of religion, and how we can learn from our ancestors to lead more balanced and healthier lives. Christopher Ryan, Ph.D., and his work have been featured on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think. A featured speaker from TED to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Ryan has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. Ryan puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists. Listen to Science Salon via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn.

Christopher Ryan, PhD, is the author of the new book, Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress. A featured speaker from TED to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Ryan has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. The coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Sex at Dawn, Ryan puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists. More information about the guest can be found at http://chrisryanphd.com

Legacy of the Berlin Wall's Collapse (0:32)Guest: Peter Fritzsche, PhD, Professor of History, University of Illinois, author of “Hitler's First Hundred Days”This week marks 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall between communist East Germany and capitalist West Germany. Less than a month later, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George HW Bush sat side by side and declared the Cold War was ending. Two years later, the Soviet Union itself would collapse. So let's take a look at the legacy of November 9, 1989 –the day the wall came down. In Arid Regions, the Fog Harp Gets Water from Thin Air (18:17)Guest: Brook Kennedy, Industrial Designer and Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute's School of Architecture + DesignMore than one billion people around the world live where water is scarce. Another billion face water shortage because their country doesn't have the proper infrastructure for water gathering. And the United Nations predicts it's only going to get much worse in the coming years. That means we have to find new sources of H2O. So how about using fog? A couple researchers figured out how to more effectively harvest that eerie mist for drinkable water. Remembering the Overlooked Figures in History Through Obituaries (35:12)Guest: Amy Padnani is an Editor on the Obituaries Desk at the New York Time and the Creator of OverlookedThey say history is written by the winners. But Amy Padnani believes it's up to us to decide who should be remembered. After becoming an editor of obituaries at the New York Times, Amy Padnani asked herself “Where are all the dead women?” Very few people get the privilege of an obituary in the Times, but surely not all of the people of note dying are white men. So Padnani hatched a project called “Overlooked.” For the last year and a half, they've been publishing obituaries the New York Times missed. Computer programmer Ada Lovelace. Journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells.  Poet Sylvia Plath. “Jane Eyre” author Charlotte Bronte. Plus, lots of names you wouldn't recognize but should. The Apple Seed (51:07)Guest: Sam Payne, Host of the Apple Seed on BYUradioSam Payne of the Apple Seed shares a story. HR Handling of Sexual Harassment Needs Improvement (1:02:36)Guest: Laurie Ruettimann, HR Consultant, Host of Let's Fix Workpodcast, Author of “Let's Fix Work”Two years ago, a series of female Hollywood stars went public with their experiences of sexual assault and harassment using #MeToo on social media. It sparked a movement that demanded accountability from powerful men in Hollywood and other industries. Since then, reports of workplace sexual harassment filed with the Equality Employment Opportunity Commission have increased 13 percent. But what's happening after those reports are made? HR consultant Laurie Ruettimann says too often nothing happens. Or worse, the woman who reports the harassment ends up facing retaliation at work. What America Can Learn from Germany's Response to the Holocaust (1:14:04)Guest: Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum and Author of “Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil”The Civil War ended and slavery was abolished more than 150 years ago. How well do you think we've moved on from that as a nation? Not just moved on, but reckoned with –repented of, even –the wrongs done by men and women, who laid the foundation for our freedoms and prosperity? Whether its debate over reparations for slavery or fierce disagreement about whether the Confederate Flag is appropriate to fly in public, I think it's pretty clear we've got some unresolved business there. Philosopher Susan Neiman is a Jew who was born and raised in Georgia and has spent most of her adult life living in Germany. She's come to believe America could benefit from studying the way Germans have wrestled with the crimes of the Holocaust.

How can the German response to the Holocaust teach us about America's legacy of the Confederacy? Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum and author of many books, including the recent "Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil", suggests that it's a way into talking about American racial politics and potentially a way forward. Susan Newman, a philosopher and leading thinker on evil and modern thought, probes this question in her new book. She offered us a detailed account of how both East and West Germany dealt with the Nazi past in the postwar decades, and how we may learn from these two different countries' approaches to a painful and challenging legacy. The second part of the book is devoted to discussing the legacies of racism and slavery in the United States. Neiman does not imply that there is an equivalency between slavery and the genocide committed by the Germans. The point is not to create an analogy, but to see whether learning from these examples can teach us something about living in the present

Simon Rex also known as Dirt Nasty, is an American entertainer. Rising to fame as an MTV VJ, Rex later became an actor known for What I Like About You, Scary Movie 3, 4, and 5, and National Lampoon's Pledge This!. He later developed a rap persona, Dirt Nasty, and had several solo albums and co-founded the supergroup Three Loco.   Christopher and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think.  A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 15 languages), with his partner-in-crime (and wife), Cacilda Jethá, MD, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York's Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA. Chris is finishing a new book for Simon and Schuster tentatively called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy, due out in 2017—and he puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists.   Listen to Sourgrass Band   Buy me a coffee on Patreon   Follow me on Instagram   Box of Goodies   The Motherfucker Awards   Contact: info@kyle.surf   Mud Water   SC Medicinals Use the code KYLE10 to get 10% off everything at SC Medicinals. Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Simon Rex also known as Dirt Nasty, is an American entertainer. Rising to fame as an MTV VJ, Rex later became an actor known for What I Like About You, Scary Movie 3, 4, and 5, and National Lampoon's Pledge This!. He later developed a rap persona, Dirt Nasty, and had several solo albums and co-founded the supergroup Three Loco.   Christopher and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think.  A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 15 languages), with his partner-in-crime (and wife), Cacilda Jethá, MD, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York’s Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA. Chris is finishing a new book for Simon and Schuster tentatively called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy, due out in 2017—and he puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists.   Listen to Sourgrass Band   Buy me a coffee on Patreon   Follow me on Instagram   Box of Goodies   The Motherfucker Awards   Contact: info@kyle.surf   Mud Water   SC Medicinals Use the code KYLE10 to get 10% off everything at SC Medicinals.

Follow Chris on Instagram Buy me a coffee on Patreon Kyle's Instagram kyle.surf Contact: Info@kyle.surf Mud Water   SC Medicinals Use the code KYLE10 to get 10% off everything at SC Medicinals.    Christopher and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think.  A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 15 languages), with his partner-in-crime (and wife), Cacilda Jethá, MD, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York's Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA. Chris is finishing a new book for Simon and Schuster tentatively called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy, due out in late 2019—and he puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists. Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Follow Chris on Instagram Buy me a coffee on Patreon Kyle's Instagram kyle.surf Contact: Info@kyle.surf Mud Water   SC Medicinals Use the code KYLE10 to get 10% off everything at SC Medicinals.    Christopher and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think.  A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 15 languages), with his partner-in-crime (and wife), Cacilda Jethá, MD, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York’s Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA. Chris is finishing a new book for Simon and Schuster tentatively called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy, due out in late 2019—and he puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists.

The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 and The Holocaust  What do these events have in common? They were both seminal events that challenged two different eras relationship to, and understanding of, evil.  Today I speak with Dr. Susan Neiman, director of The Einstein Forum, devotee of the enlightenment, moral crusader (well, sort of?), and author of "Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy." Link: https://www.amazon.com/Evil-Modern-Thought-Alternative-Philosophy/dp/0691168504 We speak about the way evil shapes human actions and understanding of the world.    Pre-order her new book: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/learning-from-the-germans-susan-neiman/1129556836?ean=9780374184469 Image: Oz by Ian Armstrong

Christopher Ryan and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think. Chris has been a featured speaker at TED, SXSW, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House, and the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films.Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 15 languages), with his wife, Cacilda Jethá, MD, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York’s Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians translate and publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to return to school to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA.Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner.Chris's latest book is called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy and he hosts a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to rattlesnake experts. CONNECT WITH CHRIS:Website: https://chrisryanphd.com/Podcast: https://chrisryanphd.com/tangentially-speaking/Shrimp Parade: https://chrisryanphd.com/the-tripodcast/Subscribe to this podcast:https://www.blubrry.com/integrate_yourself_with/Subscribe on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/user/PureEnergyWellnessAccess show notes, comment and share at:https://www.pureenergypdx.com/integrate-yourself-podcast/chris-ryan4-Sigmatic affiliate link:http://www.us.foursigmatic.com/#_a_integrateyourselfEnter our code and get 10% off: integrateyourselfJoin us on Patreon:http://www.patreon.com/integrateyourselfSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/integrateyourself)

Susan Neiman, PhD, director of the Einstein Forum in Berlin, brings thought provoking questions and insights about the process of growing up.

Follow Chris Ryan on Instagram Follow me on Instagram Buy me a coffee on Patreon Dr. Jim Fadiman is considered America's wisest and most respected authority on psychedelics and their use. In 1974 he co-founded the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, and has since continued to explore potential medical and creative uses of psychedelic drugs. In his most recent book, The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys (2011), he provides insight into safe and correct uses of psychedelic drugs. The book was inspired by his unique knowledge of psychedelic experiences and his desire to explain beneficial uses of those substances. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in Social Relations in 1960, and his M.A. and Ph.D from Stanford University in Psychology in 1962 and 1965, respectively.   Chris Ryan and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think.  A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 15 languages), with his partner-in-crime (and wife), Cacilda Jethá, MD, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York's Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA. Chris is finishing a new book for Simon and Schuster tentatively called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy, due out in 2017—and he puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists. Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Follow Chris Ryan on Instagram Follow me on Instagram Buy me a coffee on Patreon Dr. Jim Fadiman is considered America's wisest and most respected authority on psychedelics and their use. In 1974 he co-founded the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, and has since continued to explore potential medical and creative uses of psychedelic drugs. In his most recent book, The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys (2011), he provides insight into safe and correct uses of psychedelic drugs. The book was inspired by his unique knowledge of psychedelic experiences and his desire to explain beneficial uses of those substances. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in Social Relations in 1960, and his M.A. and Ph.D from Stanford University in Psychology in 1962 and 1965, respectively.   Chris Ryan and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think.  A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 15 languages), with his partner-in-crime (and wife), Cacilda Jethá, MD, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York’s Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA. Chris is finishing a new book for Simon and Schuster tentatively called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy, due out in 2017—and he puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists.

Christopher and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think.  A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 15 languages), with his partner-in-crime (and wife), Cacilda Jethá, MD, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York's Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA. Chris is finishing a new book for Simon and Schuster tentatively called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy, due out in 2017—and he puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists. Get full access to Writing by Kyle Thiermann at thiermann.substack.com/subscribe

Christopher and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think.  A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. Even before co-authoring the New York Times best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 15 languages), with his partner-in-crime (and wife), Cacilda Jethá, MD, Chris was on a wild ride. After receiving a BA in English and American literature in 1984 he spent the next two decades traveling around the world, pausing in unexpected places to work at decidedly odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York’s Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). In his mid-30s, Chris decided to pursue doctoral studies in Psychology. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris' research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural, first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San Francisco, CA. Chris is finishing a new book for Simon and Schuster tentatively called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy, due out in 2017—and he puts out a weekly podcast, called Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists.

Christopher Ryan is the author of the New York Times bestseller SEX AT DAWN, hes a researcher, lecturer and host of the Tangentially Speaking podcast. Christopher Ryan & his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: The Joe Rogan Experience, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think. He has been a featured speaker at TED, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House, the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam Germany, to name only a few. Chris has also consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films.

Chris Ryan returns to the podcast! It was so great to have him back and to dive into the mysteries of the human condition and why we do the things we do. Chris is one of the brightest minds around and together we dove into the potentials and optimism of the current state affairs, AI and social media. We of course, also talk about Chris's expertise as it relates to the hunter gatherer era and how it informs our current views on sex, gender roles and sexual identity. Also, read "Sex and Dawn" if you haven't already! Christopher and his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside,El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think. A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. https://chrisryanphd.com  

The brilliant, challenging and wise Chris Ryan stops by to talk about our world and species through his own unique cultural anthropologist lens. Enjoy getting your soul inspired and provoked as we head into 2016! Chris is the author of the now seminal book "Sex at Dawn" and his working on a new book that will be called "Civilized to Death." His work has been featured just about everywhere, including: MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think.  A featured speaker from TED in Long Beach, CA to The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House to the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, Chris has consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films. http://chrisryanphd.com @ChrisRyanPhD

The director of the Einstein Forum, Dr. Susan Neiman, talks with host Matthew Stevenson about the life and times of Albert Einstein, and especially about his summer house located in Caputh, a lakeside village near to Potsdam—where the Forum bearing his name has its headquarters. 

The 88th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association was held at the University of Cambridge from 11 to 13 July 2014. The Joint Session is a three-day conference in philosophy that is held annually during the summer by the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. It has taken place at nearly every major university across the United Kingdom and in Ireland. Since 1910, the Joint Session has grown to become the largest gathering of philosophers in the country, attracting prestigious UK and international speakers working in a broad range of philosophical areas. Inaugurated by the incoming President of the Mind Association, the Joint Session includes symposia, open and postgraduate sessions, and a range of satellite conferences. This podcast is a recording of the fourth symposium at the Joint Session - "The Ethical Significance of Persistence" - which featured Amber Carpenter (York) and Stephen Makin (Sheffield). Amber Carpenter has been Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of York since 2007; she has taught at St. Andrews, Cornell and Oxford. She has published in Ancient Greek philosophy, especially the ethics, epistemology and metaphysics of Plato, and is the co-founder of the Yorkshire Ancient Philosophy Network. She was an Einstein Fellow at the Einstein Forum, which enabled her to begin work in Indian Buddhist philosophy, and subsequently held an Anniversary Lectureship from the University of York. Her book on metaphysics as ethics in Indian Buddhism appeared in 2013. Her interests include the nature of pleasure and reason and their respective places in a well-lived life; the implications of metaphysics for ethics; and the nature of knowledge, our striving for it, and the effects this has on our character. Stephen Makin took his first degree at Edinburgh University, and then moved to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, to study for a PhD. His research was originally on the philosophy of the early Wittgenstein, but his interests rapidly turned to ancient philosophy. His doctoral thesis was on pre-Socratic atomism. He was a research fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, before being appointed to a lectureship in Sheffield in 1984. Stephen has published papers on philosophy of religion, Democritean atomism, method in ancient philosophy, the metaphysics of Aristotle, and Aquinas’ philosophy of nature. His book on principle-of-insufficient-reason arguments in ancient philosophy was published by Blackwell in 1993 under the title Indifference Arguments. His translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics Book 9, along with a substantial commentary, was published in the Clarendon Aristotle Series in 2006. His research interests also include various topics in contemporary metaphysics.

Over four days, our 20 plus speakers – philosophers and theologians, historians and writers, believers and non-believers – will consider what it means to be religious, and what role the voice of faith may legitimately have in the conversations of citizens in a multicultural, democratic state and the community of nations. Across Saturday, three keynote lectures from distinguished international guests each consider the challenges posed by – and to – faith in the building of modern communities. Following the three lectures, all three keynote speakers will be in discussion with each other, exchanging and challenging one another’s views. Too often in the public debate around religion, reason and rationality are lumped in together as a singular concept, one opposing force to faith. The third of our Saturday lectures will, in some way, redress this balance. Susan Neiman is a moral philosopher and long-time champion of the importance of reason in public life. Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam – one of Europe’s most important centres of intellectual and cultural innovation outside the university framework – Neiman studied philosophy at Harvard and the Free University of Berlin, and taught philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv Universities. She will present a lecture on the ‘Challenge of Reason in National and International Politics’. For the full text of this lecture plus transcripts and recordings of the series, visit our Faith and Culture archive.