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Back to our normal format with returning guest Toby Buckle of the Political Philosophy Podcast. We discuss his recent Liberal Currents article "A Disease of Affluence", where he argues that MAGA is a result of lack of precarity rather than economic anxiety, combined with the human need to feel superior or dominant over others. We also discuss social dominance theory and my recent article on men and the meaning making crisis.Political Philosophy Podcast: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/A Disease of Affluence: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/a-disease-of-affluence/The meaning crisis, and how we rescue young men from reactionary politics: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/11/the-meaning-crisis-and-how-we-rescue-young-men-from-reactionary-politics/Music by GW RodriguezEditing by Adam WikSibling Pod:Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!This show is CAN credentialed, which means you can report instances of harassment, abuse, or other harm on their hotline at (617) 249-4255, or on their website at creatoraccountabilitynetwork.org.Next Episode: Kat Grant and Trans Activism in Secular Spaces
I'm delighted to share insights from my latest podcast with Toby Buckle about leadership, management and movement. We open up conversation of conscious movement in the workplace. Body language and state (emotional) management has a profound effect on us and our performance. A concept I have is that we don't live in a body, we THROUGH a body. I like to help people define how they can move well and feel strong plus alleviate stress by moving and staying connected to their body. So much stress is based on psychological threats but it's experienced in the body.Toby is also a Tai Chi teacher and he explained to me how we can use that lens to view senior people's activity with. Toby says that post pandemic, there's even less movement based on working practices. Video calls are an example of we are moving less compared to when we walk and talk on a voice call. Perhaps that's something you can consider in your own working day.There's a brilliant exercise we go through based on 3 zones – Comfort, Stretch and Panic. These can be done as imaginary zones on the floor you can actually 'step' into. Toby explains this this process and it's super helpful to help understand how to get into the ‘stretch' zone where you can grow. Coming out of our head only and connect to the embodied experience is so powerful.Tai Chi, much like Yoga, teaches how to be grounded and become present and able to take on things when we are grounded. These principles can be learned through movement practices. Our body happens before our head (most of the time) and we can harness this with self awareness to connect better with others, especially as a leader.We talk about the distinction between motivating and demotivating strategies - How this can work for you or against you. Building in buffer zones to reflect and have space between meetings and ideally include some movement, even if you're watering the plants in the office (Toby's real example). My suggestion is “how can you move more?” Looking at what you're doing and not doing can be revealing and help you strategise to move more on a daily basis.What are you role modelling to your team and your family by your choices around movement? How do you describe yourself? Our identity statements are ones to watch. Toby uses a big ‘away-from' thought to help motivate him. All these factors play into making new choices around movement and exercise and thinking in long-term timelines will be factors that create a formula for healthy habit building.Get in touch with TobyYou can find all Toby's details and info on this website.Get in touch with SalIf this episode has caught your attention and you wish to learn more, then please contact me. I offer a free 20 min call where we can discuss a challenge your facing and how I may be able to help you
On June 24, the US Supreme court overruled a landmark decision: Roe v Wade. For nearly 50 years, abortion was a constitutional right in the Unites States. No more. “The constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.” Read the decision. But quite apart from the legal argument, everyone knew this was at heart deeply political decision. Three of the judges in the majority opinion were appointed by the previous president, Donald Trump, who had explicitly promised his voters he would appoint pro-life judges when given the chance. So how should we understand this political decision? Why is the right, always brandishing liberty as its central value, so happy to restrict the freedoms of millions of women? Why does the party who wants a small state, and is averse to government regulation, so happy for the state to intervene in the private lives of citizens, and regulate one of the most personal choices one can make: whether to have a child or not? Is the Republican party simply riddled with internal contradictions when it comes to freedom? Or do they simply understand freedom in an altogether different way? Toby Buckle is the producer and host of The Political Philosophy Podcast, and the editor of a new collection of essays entitled What is Freedom? Conversations with Historians, Philosophers, and Activists, from Oxford University Press. Pease leave us a rating and a review on Apple Podcasts.This podcast is created in partnership with The Philosopher, the UK's longest running public philosophy journal. Check out the spring issue of the philosopher, and its spring online lecture series: https://www.thephilosopher1923.org Artwork by Nick HallidayMusic by Rowan Mcilvride
This month, Toby Buckle, host of the Political Philosophy Podcast, returns to talk about John Stuart Mill's liberty principle! (Also sometimes called the ‘harm principle'.) The occasion for the episode is the recent release of Toby's cool new book, What is Freedom?, which is out now from Oxford University Press. Get it while it's hot!John Stuart Mill is probably one of the most influential intellectuals of the 19th century, having penned treatises on markets, logic, feminism, utilitarianism, and freedom of speech that people continue to pick up and read today. In this episode, we talk about how he had one foot in the free market-oriented tradition of liberalism and another in the more social justice-oriented type of liberalism, how he was raised under the world's most ambitious parenting/education regime, and how he had a lifelong collaboration with Harriet Taylor. We also introduce what gets called his ‘liberty princple'.The idea behind the liberty principle is that we want as much freedom for each person as possible: they should have the ability to set their own agenda and carry it out. But we also need to limit it somewhat, because if everyone was completely unconstrained in how they set their agenda and carried it out, they'd interfere with each other. We'd have one person's freedom detracting from other people's freedom. So in order to achieve the perfect equilibrium we want, the thing to do is aim for sort of a greatest lower bound: every person should be allowed to do whatever they want for whatever reason they want, only stopping shy once they reach the point where doing whatever they want would harm another person. It might seem like an obvious principle to us now, but arguably that's because we're all living in the shadow of Mill!Part of the background context for this principle is a worry about paternalism. There's a natural tendency for Person A to prevent Person B from doing what they want because Person A thinks it's obvious that what Person B wants to do right now is harmful to them. The liberty principle tells us that that's not a good reason to have laws prohibiting some course of action. We should only have a law prohibiting some course of action if allowing that course of action would interfere with other people's freedom. That way, Mill argued, we keep the decision about whether to pass a law prohibiting something grounded in empirical facts about what would actually happen if it were passed. He also wanted to emphasize that each person has the right to be their own arbiter of what kinds of risk they will assume.I hope you enjoy our discussion! It was a fun one.Further ReadingIf you'd like to hear more along the lines of what Toby and I discuss in this episode, you can do no better than to take a look at Mill's exquisite On Liberty, which you can get for free here:https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34901And if you missed the link up at the top, definitely check out Toby's edited volume, which gathers together a number of the interviews from his own podcast. The overarching theme is what freedom is and what it can be.What is Freedom?: Conversations with Historians, Philosophers, and Activists, Toby BuckleHappy reading!Matt Teichman See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
My returning guest this week is Toby Buckle, host of the Political Philosophy Podcast (@PolPhilPod) and Editor of the New Book What is Freedom? We discuss the concept of freedom and America's troubled relationship with that concept. What is Freedom?: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/what-is-freedom-9780197572221?cc=us&lang=en&Convocation: GoetheEditing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.htmlMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!Recent Appearances: I was on a panel discussing Chapelle's recent special and why I believe it was an objectively transphobic set, whether or not it was funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msCXuy7S75MNext week: Neo-Rationalism with George Hemington
My guest this week is Jesse Singal (@jessesingal), cohost of the Blocked and Reported podcast and a contributor New York mag and a range of other places, primarily Substack. We compare two recently published articles on detransition, Turban (2021) and Littman (2021).Article citing Turban (2021): https://fenwayhealth.org/new-study-shows-discrimination-stigma-and-family-pressure-drive-detransition-among-transgender-people/Turban (2021): https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/lgbt.2020.0437Criticism of Turban: https://medium.com/@JLCederblom/the-lukewarm-perjury-of-jack-turban-a85903109051USTS 2015 Transgender survey: https://www.ustranssurvey.org/reports?fbclid=IwAR2uVJUhljZ1SQcVaLNAHCjtHqzuz-VrEXUzQiq139hB39i2oJk-YaIDWh0#USTSTurban (2020): https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/01/21/peds.2019-1725/tab-e-letters?versioned=trueJesse's thread announcing Littman: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1450504856666509317?s=20 Littman (2021): https://t.co/F9eKSCcbUj?amp=1Twitter thread from Littman (2021) participant: https://twitter.com/reclaimingtrans/status/1450528282038898692Twitter thread showing recruiting info for Littman (2021): https://twitter.com/ImplausibleGrrl/status/1261328400360275970DysphoricWomen subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DysphoricWomen/Criticism of Littman recruitment strategies during the survey: https://www.reddit.com/r/ftm/comments/5ighgz/recruitment_call_individuals_who_received/Call for participants on Cari Stella's blog: https://guideonragingstars.tumblr.com/post/159584327846/hi-id-like-to-announce-recruitment-for-a-newComplete list of Littman (2021) questions: https://cryptpad.fr/code/#Correction to Littman (2018): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0214157Littman's defense of her methods: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01631-zConvocation: George TakeiEditing by Lu Lyons, check out her amazing podcast Filmed Live Musicals! http://www.filmedlivemusicals.com/podcast.htmlMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!Recent Appearances: I was on a panel discussing Chapelle's recent special and why I believe it was an objectively transphobic set, whether or not it was funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msCXuy7S75MNext week: Freedom with Toby Buckle
January 1st this year marked the end of the transition period in the UK’s long and tortured journey of leaving the European Union. Four and a half years after the 2016 Brexit referendum the UK began a new chapter in its history, sovereign and independent, as the Leave campaign might have put it, no longer constrained by the EU’s laws and courts. Underneath those claims lies a variety of different conceptions of freedom. As Isaiah Berlin explained in his famous essay “Two Concepts of Liberty” there are at least two, fundamentally different conceptions of freedom. So what are these conceptions? And how do they apply to Brexit? Are the claims that the UK is a freer country, now that it’s out of the EU true? Or are such claims concealing the many meanings of the concept of freedom? A joint episode with a fellow podcaster, Toby Buckle, producer and host of The Political Philosophy podcast. This conversation was based on an article I wrote for the LSE’s Politics and Policy blog, back in 2016, entitled "Isaiah Berlin and Brexit: How The Leave Campaign Misunderstands Freedom", and Toby’s past solo episode on Berlin’s distinction, entitled “Positive and Negative Freedom”. This podcast is created in partnership with The Philosopher, the UK’s longest running public philosophy journal. Register for free for the spring series of talks and events at: https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/events Music by Pataphysical Artwork by Nick Halliday
In this episode, Toby Buckle - host of the Political Philosophy Podcast - talks all about ideology, including how the term is understood by different people or groups, as well as what ideologies tend to represent. Enjoy, and check out the Political Philosophy Podcast for longer interview-style podcasts all about political philosophy. If you'd like to request an episode, or even do an episode yourself, please contact me on Instagram (@fiveminutephilosophy) or Twitter (@fiveminutephil1).
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.
Who's up for some philosophy? COVID is shaping up as a crucible for the very idea of freedom – and an ultimate test for populism and libertarianism. Ian Dunt talks to TOBY BUCKLE of the Political Philosophy Podcast about what freedom means, who owns it, what the lockdown is doing to international notions of liberty, and whether Boris Johnson is, if possible, even worse than Trump. “Look at the evidence. Don't look at your intuition. What seems obvious to you won't be obvious to someone from another part of the country.” “Politics isn't about policies. It's about disagreements about the meaning of words.” Presented by Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Now, something a little different for The Poplar Tapes. This time around, Kiegan Irish joined a roundtable with other creators to discuss left media, free speech, contemporary American politics, the differences between socialism and liberalism, and more! A big thank you goes out to Toby Buckle from the Political Philosophy Podcast for organizing the roundtable and to everyone else who took part! Check out their projects here: Jerb: https://twitter.com/Jerbivore https://www.spreaker.com/show/jerb-th... Political Philosophy Podcast: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcas... https://twitter.com/PolPhilPod Chrisiousity: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1b... https://twitter.com/chrisiousity Embrace the Void: https://voidpod.com/ https://twitter.com/ETVPod
Toby Buckle of the Political Philosophy Podcast organized a series of online creators for the purpose of heterodox discussions about philosophy, politics, and progress. In the inaugural episode of this project, Toby, Aaron, Chrisi, Kiegan, and I unpack what we really mean by free speech when we appeal to it. Towards the end, we discuss leftist and liberal conflict and how to move forward.Reminder- most of my content is on the channel and not uploaded to the podcast feed.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmE8jnO-2WwKYjSpRXEu2HwSupport me here!https://www.patreon.com/JerbCheck out and support the projects of the other panelists:Political Philosophy Podcast:https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/https://twitter.com/PolPhilPodChrisiousity:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn1bhOC69Z4TplynafVv7ng/videoshttps://twitter.com/chrisiousityThe Poplar Tapes:https://thepoplartapes.podbean.com/https://twitter.com/ThePoplarTapesEmbrace the Void:https://voidpod.com/https://twitter.com/ETVPod
THOMAS HOBBES With Arash Abizadeh by Toby Buckle
RIGHTS & NEO - LIBERALISM With Samuel Moyn by Toby Buckle
DIVERSIFYING THE CANNON With Elizabeth Anderson by Toby Buckle
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE FREEDOM by Toby Buckle
This week I'm joined by Toby Buckle of the Political philosophy podcast to discuss a particularly depressing theory of politics from his Machiavelli series centered around the desires to dominate/humiliate and the desires to avoid domination/humiliation. It feels very relevant to our current voidy moment.Invocation: Void Goddess Marianne Williamson's actual tweets.Political Philosophy Podcast: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/Editing by Brian Ziegenhagen, check out his pod: http://youarehere.libsyn.com/s02e02-rex-manning-day?fbclid=IwAR2L2_YIJvQpcw0nx6nTSfz0GmyJ1DtWsF--vvdI9W1ug3XW7IAtU6dQ36sMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidNext Week: Indian Philosophy with @SomeStingray
This week I'm joined by the verbose socialist Ben Burgis to discuss his book Give them an Argument: Logic for the Left. We talk best practices, the limits of discourse, and why we wish it were true that leftist teachers were actually rising up and seizing the means of education.Give the Right an Argument: https://www.amazon.com/Give-Them-Argument-Logic-Left-ebook/dp/B07RD8MZ4L/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2K0B9OIP1DZLO&keywords=give+them+an+argument&qid=1561561925&s=gateway&sprefix=give+them+an+%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-1Invocation: The endless debate in Aaron's headEditing by Brian Ziegenhagen, check out his pod: http://youarehere.libsyn.com/s02e02-rex-manning-day?fbclid=IwAR2L2_YIJvQpcw0nx6nTSfz0GmyJ1DtWsF--vvdI9W1ug3XW7IAtU6dQ36sMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidNext Week: Domination and Humiliation with Toby Buckle
MACHIAVELLI 3 Chaos, Freedom, and Glory by Toby Buckle
IDEOLOGY & BREXIT A conversation with Helen Thompson by Toby Buckle
This week we're joined by Toby Buckle of the Political Philosophy Podcast. We discuss the role of language in political debate. Special thanks to Toby for supplying us with his backup audio and special thanks to Brian Ziegenhagen for editing the show.Opening Invocation:Jake the Fake JakePolitical Philosophy Podcast: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/
MORAL LUCK A Conversation With ETV's Aaron Rabinowitz by Toby Buckle
VFU welcomes Toby Buckle from the Political Philosophy Podcast to the show to discuss record breaking performances at the NFL combine, debate whether comic book movies good cinema, and get into some SJW topics. Are Christians who believe homosexuality is immoral hateful? Is the Left hypocritical on Gender? How does race play into politics? Join us for a fun & thoughtful discussion.
Toby Buckle is the host of the appropriately named Political Philosophy Podcast, as well as someone who has had many years of experience working for social justice organizations. Jeremiah probes him on some of the content in the recent episodes dealing with the history of Libertarianism, ideology, and language in a modern political context. The two discuss how politics becomes a battle over language, and why nobody is ever going to agree on what freedom or socialism mean. Toby unpacks the vacuous foundations of political libertarianism. Jeremiah probes Toby on where he sits politically, which leads to a brief discussion of radical vs. reformist politics and where either lead in light of looming existential threats.Follow Toby on Twitter:https://twitter.com/PolPhilPodListen to Political Philosophy Podcast:https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/
Bonus episode! In this joint edition of Elucidations and the Political Philosophy Podcast, Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle sit down and have a freeform conversation about why we do podcasts, the nature of moral disagreement, and the existence of political divides. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
CIVIL RIGHTS FROM NIXON TO OBAMA A Conversation With Mary Frances Berry by Toby Buckle
ROME, CHRIST, AND THE WESTERN MIND A Conversation With Orlando Patterson (3) by Toby Buckle
THE POINT OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY A Conversation With Tamler Sommers (2) by Toby Buckle
In this 70th episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio talk with Toby Buckle about "Human Rights and Political Philosophy." Toby works for Amnesty International, but in this episode he is representing only his own point of view. Toby is also the founder and host of the Political Philosophy Podcast, which, according to his Web site, is "a weekly 45-50 minute interview with a philosopher or public figure that digs deep into questions of ethics, intuition, introspection and political morality." Early episodes have covered topics like "Black Atheism," "Neo-Republicanism," and "Corruption and Citizenship." Check out the show and consider subscribing. Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.
COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT A conversation with Tamler Sommers by Toby Buckle
CIVILITY AND TONE POLICING A Conversation With Teresa Bejan by Toby Buckle
EARLY AMERICAN RELIGION A conversation with Teresa Bejan by Toby Buckle
CONTAINMENT AND DETERRENCE A conversation with Gregg Caruso (2) by Toby Buckle
THE ILLUSION OF FREE WILL A conversation with Gregg Caruso by Toby Buckle
S2 Ep 1 THE FIRST PHILOSOPHERS A conversation with Peter Adamson by Toby Buckle
S1 Ep 19 Review and Recap by Toby Buckle
THE LIBERTY PRINCIPLE A conversation with professor John Skorupski by Toby Buckle
BLACK ATHEISM A conversation with Mandisa Thomas by Toby Buckle
POSTMODERN CHRISTIANITY A conversation with Dale Martin (3) by Toby Buckle
FROM CHRIST TO CONSTANTINE A conversation with Dale Martin (2) by Toby Buckle
PAUL AND THE RESURRECTION A conversation with Professor Dale B Martin by Toby Buckle
ASK ME ANYTHING Q&A with the host by Toby Buckle
MORAL UNCERTAINTY A conversation with Professor Will MacAskill by Toby Buckle
GAY LIBERATION A conversation with Peter Tatchell by Toby Buckle
NEO-REPUBLICANISM A conversation with Philip Pettit by Toby Buckle
ATHEIST HYPOCRISY ON FEMINISM A conversation with Aron Ra by Toby Buckle
A GUARANTEED JOB A conversation with Richard D Winfield by Toby Buckle
UTILITARIANISM A conversation with Roger Crisp by Toby Buckle
EXECUTION, TORTURE, AND WAR A conversation with Cecile Fabre by Toby Buckle
V.2 CORRUPTION AND CITIZENSHIP A conversation with Zephyr Teachout (Better audio) by Toby Buckle
WITTGENSTEIN VS. RAWLS A conversation with Dr. Rupert Read by Toby Buckle
SOCIAL JUSTICE WITHOUT CALLOUT CULTURE. A conversation with Kalaya'an Mendoza by Toby Buckle
THOUGHT, IDEOLOGY, AND SILENCE A conversation with Michael Freeden by Toby Buckle
CORRUPTION AND CITIZENSHIP A conversation with Zephyr Teachout by Toby Buckle
1. SEX WORK, ORGAN SALES, AND INTUITION A conversation with Cecile Fabre by Toby Buckle