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The Pill Pod is hosted by a group of PhDs offering their irreverent (and unsolicited) takes on critical theory, philosophy, culture, and politics.

Notable Guests

A.C. GraylingA.C. Grayling1×Peter SloterdijkPeter Sloterdijk1×Claude Levi-StraussClaude Levi-Strauss1×WWalter Charnas1×

Episodes (533)

Death Cult Logic | Plastic Pills on Religion I

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Pill Pod 200 - Why has America Gone Insane?

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Philosophy of Freedom // 198

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Pill Pod 197 - "Never were we freer than under Nazi Occupation..." (preview)

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Finally! New Translation of Marx's CAPITAL is out! Interview w/ Paul Reitter

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Althusser: Marxism vs. Ideology // 192

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Marxism vs. Humanism (ft. Diego Ruzzarin) // 191

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Ideology: What it is // 190

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Pill Pod 195 - Luigi's Mansion

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Althusser // 115

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Pill Pod 189 - Theorizing America's Trump Vote

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Pill Pod 186 - The Post-Political Singularity Everywhere (preview)

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Bataille on Fascist Psychology (preview) // 185

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MAGACommunism does Philosophy // 184

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Carl Schmitt on the Friend/Enemy (preview) // 183

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Bataille on Sacrifice // 182 (preview)

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Hegelian E-Girl Council (ft. Jreg) // 181

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Pill Pod 180 - The Gift by Marcel Mauss (preview)

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Pill Pod 179 - The Mana Principle (Preview)

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Pill Pod 178 - We Solved the World with Diego Ruzzarin

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Durkheim: Society as Magic, Society as Religion // 177

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Vance & The Dork Conservatives (Preview)

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Pill Pod 175 - The Straussian Plot Against America

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Trump v. United States (preview)

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Pill Pod 173 - Biden v. Trump & The Economy of Fear

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Dark Academia (preview)

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Zizek Goes Monarchist? // 171

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Charles Taylor on The Malaise of Modernity // 96

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Pill Pod 170 - The Ethical Dilemma of Killing Nazi Children (Preview)

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Existentialism is un/ethical // 169

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PP168 - Ecomarxism (preview)

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Schopenhauer: Christianity is the Worst Religion // 167

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Yarvin vs. Rufo: Dissident Right Fight Night // 165

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Pill Pod 163 - How to Control a Democracy ft. 1Dime

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Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction // 162 (p...

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Pill Pod 161 - Andy Warhol and the End of Art

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Walter Benjamin on Leftist Content Creators // 160 (Preview)

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Pill Pod 159 - The End of the University

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Walter Benjamin & The Idea of History // 158 (preview)

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Pill Pod 157 - Progressive v. Reactionary Christianity ft. John Hamer

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Christofascism or Liberalism // 165

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Jean Baudrillard & The Disappearance of History // 155 (preview)

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Pill Pod 154 - Christian Intellectuals at the End of History

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Fukuyama on The End of History // 152 (preview)

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The End of History // 151

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Pill Pod 149 - Gothic Horror: Edgar Allen Poe & The Fall of The House of Usher

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Badiou: Philosophy & Antiphilosophy // 148

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Pill Pod 147 - Authenticity & Existentialism (preview)

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Heidegger on the Anaximander Fragment // 146 (preview)

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Metamodernism is just bad // 145

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