Best Racial Segregation Podcasts (2026)

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A Perfectly Simple God and Our Complicated Lives - The 2008 St. Anselm Lecture, part 1 21:18

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This is part 1 of the the recording of my invited Saint Anselm Lecture, given in 2008 at Saint Anselm College. Here is the abstract of the paper:One important divine attribute Saint Anselm examines and treats is that of simplicity. His treatment brings out some surprising features of simplicity itself which escape the frameworks of the logic of cre…

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What Divides White & Black Americans? Everyday Americans Get Real… 25:09

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How do Black Americans balance their experiences of prejudice with their experiences of inclusion when it comes to how they interact with White Americans? Do their negative experiences hold more sway and create caution and wariness, or do their positive experiences lead them to trust others until proven otherwise? In this conversation, our guests d…

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Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue - Emotivist Culture & Characters - Sadler's Lectures 13:14

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's work After VirtueIt focuses upon chapter 3, specifically on his discussion of on the types of "characters" - social roles emblematic of a culture -- typical of late modern Emotivist culture. These are the rich aesthete, the manager, …

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Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue - Emotivism as a Moral Theory - Sadler's Lectures 13:23

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's work After VirtueIt focuses upon chapter 3, specifically on his discussion of MacIntyre's analysis of the key and distinctive aspects of Emotivism as a moral theory. Emotivism was presented originally as a meta-ethical theory, but as…

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Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue - Meaning and Use of Language - Sadler's Lectures 6:25

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th and 21st century philosopher and moral theorist, Alasdair MacIntyre's work After VirtueIt focuses upon chapter 2, specifically on his discussion of the distinction between the meaning and the use of moral language, using several examples. This will become particularly important in his analysis of Emoti…

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Best of Stanford Legal: Trump's Pardons 30:37

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What are the legal implications of the unprecedented mass pardoning of the January 6th rioters? What does it say about American rule of law? President Biden’s DOJ prosecuted nearly 1,600 of the January 6, 2021, rioters—many for acts of shocking violence against police and government offices. On January 20, newly sworn-in President Trump, in one of …

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Racial Bias? White Privilege? Overblown or Major Problems? 28:41

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What happened when a black girl’s school was integrated, and she was moved from gifted and talented classes to basic classes? What happened when a black girl was bused to a faraway all-white school after attending a more mixed school the year before? What happened when a high school black girl was turned down because she was black when she asked ou…

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Martin Luther King, Letter From A Birmingham Jail - Racial Justice As An End 20:24

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century African-American philosopher, theologian, and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.'s work "Letter From A Birmingham Jail"This episode examines King's conception of "racial justice" as a goal or end for non-violent action.To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com…

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Martin Luther King, Letter From A Birmingham Jail - Non-Violent Action As A Means 25:59

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century African-American philosopher, theologian, and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.'s work "Letter From A Birmingham Jail"This episode examines King's discussion of how non-violent direct action is supposed to work, and what effects it is intended to have on aggressors, the larger public,…

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Martin Luther King, Letter From A Birmingham Jail - Just And Unjust Laws 27:47

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century African-American philosopher, theologian, and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.'s work "Letter From A Birmingham Jail".This episode examines King's discussion and reinterpretation of the classical distinction between just and unjust laws. To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon s…

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Martin Luther King, Letter From A Birmingham Jail - Racism, Inequality, and Segregation 19:18

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century African-American philosopher, theologian, and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.'s work "Letter From A Birmingham Jail"This episode examines King's depiction and analysis of racism and segregation as fundamentally wrong and illegitimate forms of inequality in AmericaTo support my ongoi…

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Best of Stanford Legal: Suing DOGE 28:38

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A coalition of privacy defenders led by Lex Lumina and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit on February 11 asking a federal court to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). As the federal …

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3 Philosophers Walk Into A Bar Fight: Understanding & Managing Anger Using Ideas From Philosophy 16:40

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This is the recording from my invited talk on philosophical resources for understanding and managing anger, which was part of my alma mater Lakeland University's Thinkhaus talk series, given up at the Mead Public Library in Sheboygan, WI. The original recording from 2017 was made by a local high school AV club, which unfortunately didn't do a great…

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Is America Too "Woke" OR Is Racism Still Prevalent? 27:08

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What happened when white grandparents told their daughter they had a problem with her son having a black girlfriend? What happened when a black girl wasn’t allowed to go to her best friend’s church because she was black? Are these stories from a bygone era of discrimination? Or are they remnants of our prejudicial history that still remain with us …

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How Difficult Is It To Find An Aristotelian Friend? - Sadler's Lectures 18:45

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This is my relatively short talk given during the 2025 Plato's Academy multidisciplinary conference: The Philosophy of Love And Relationships. I was invited to approach the topic of the difficulties involved in the highest, fullest, and most paradigmatic form of friendship that Aristotle In the course of my presentation, I discuss the importance an…

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What Is Aristotelian Prohairesis? - Sadler's Lectures 20:17

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This lecture, discussing the nature of "moral choice" or "deliberate choice" in Aristotle's moral theory, was delivered during the 7th Felician Ethics Conference at Felician College (Rutherford, NJ). In it, I discuss what I label the "Standard Interpretation" of prohairesis, which ties it explicitly to deliberation about means towards ends -- an in…

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Epictetus on Keeping Prohairesis in Accordance With Nature - Sadler's Lectures 24:48

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This is the invited presentation I provided for the attendees of the Stoicon-X Brisbane conference in Australia held in October 2019. It discusses Epictetus' advice to remind ourselves that we want to maintain or keep our "prohairesis" - our faculty of choice - in accordance with nature.For those who would like more information about Epictetus' con…

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How Does A Stoic Deal With Grief? A Modern Stoicism Conversation - Sadler's Lectures 20:14

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This is the recording of my short presentation and the Q&A at the second Conversations With Modern Stoicism event, hosted in June 2025 by Phil Yanov. Asked to give a short and provocative presentation about an issue that arises in the everyday applications of Stoicism, we decided on the topic of grief and grievingI first discuss what we can call a …

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The Real Barrier Between Black & White Americans 33:39

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What happens when a black woman in the military has her white friend’s mother ask to touch her black curly hair? Are such experiences based in racism or simply based in ignorance and curiosity? Is White American curiosity about Black people based in a failure to see their humanity, or is it more often just a genuine desire to connect with them as p…

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Real Workplace Stoicism - Virtues, Duties, Fitting In, & Fixing Things - Sadler's Lectures 26:55

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This is the talk I was invited to provide for Stoicon-X New England 2020. I take the recent case of a fired Lidl communications worker who claimed that he was unjustly fired on account of his Stoicism. I use this case as a starting point to discuss what sorts of conduct would actually be characteristic of a follower of Stoicism in the workplace, an…

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Nationwide Injunctions After CASA 43:38

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When a single federal judge can freeze a president’s policy nationwide, it raises big questions about checks and balances and democratic accountability. That’s one reason nationwide injunctions have become central to some of today’s most consequential legal battles—and why the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Trump v. CASA matters. At a live reco…

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Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto - Communist Criticism Of Other Socialisms 22:42

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosophers and social theorists, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, articulated in their work The Communist Manifesto.This episode examines the Marxist critique of other forms of Socialism articulated in the third part of the Communist manifesto, as well as the Marxist argument that only their p…

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Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto - Party, Proletariat, & Communist Project 26:41

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosophers and social theorists, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, articulated in their work The Communist Manifesto.This episode examines what Marx and Engels envision the role of the Communist Party to be in relation to leadership of, and the development of class consciousness in, the Proleta…

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Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto - The Emergence Of The Proletariat 20:38

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosophers and social theorists, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, articulated in their work The Communist Manifesto.This episode examines Marx and Engel's description of the formation and emergence of the revolutionary class in industrial capitalism, the ProletariatTo support my ongoing work, …

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Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto - Class Conflict & The Rise Of The Bourgeoisie 19:39

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This lecture discusses key ideas from the 19th century philosophers and social theorists, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, articulated in their work The Communist Manifesto.This episode examines what Marx and Engels envision the role of the Communist Party to be in relation to leadership of, and the development of class consciousness in, the Proleta…

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Why Do Black & White Americans Still Segregate? 31:31

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Are Black & White Americans socialized to fear each other? Are we taught to segregate from each other because of the stereotypes we learn growing up? Does cancel culture play a role in preventing Americans from engaging more deeply with one another? Do white Americans hold back because they're too afraid to be called "racist?" What keeps Americans …

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Divine Justice, Mercy, and Intercession: The Innovative Structure of Anselm’s Prayers 25:26

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Divine Justice, Mercy, and Intercession: The Innovative Structure of Anselm’s Prayers by Lectures on classic and contemporary philosophical texts and thinkers by Gregory B. SadlerBy Lectures on classic and contemporary philosophical texts and thinkers by Gregory B. Sadler

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Is God's Justice Unmerciful in Anselm's Cur Deus Homo? - Sadler's Lectures 20:23

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This is my portion of a panel discussion, reading my paper a panel presentation, "Is God's Justice Unmerciful in St. Anselm's Cur Deus Homo?," delivered at the 2014 American Catholic Philosophical Association, hosted by the Institute for Saint Anselm StudiesCan God be entirely and supremely just and also entirely merciful, without these twocharacte…

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St. Anselm on Marriage, Conjugal Love, and Sexual Desire - Sadler's Lectures 23:30

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This lecture is a talk given at the 5th Saint Anselm conference, sponsored by the Institute for Saint Anselm Studies at Saint Anselm College in April 2014.I discuss Anselm's views on marriage, conjugal love, sexual desire, activity, and pleasure. Anselm lives and writes just before a flowering of monastic writing upon marriage and conjugal love, an…