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From Episode 1: Digging at the Universal Substrate with Cody Moser

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From Episode 2: Towards a New Science of Progress with Jason Crawford

Full episode: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics/ep2-towards-a-new-science-of-progress-with-jason-crawford

Join the Agora Politics community and support the show: https://agorapolitics.locals.com

Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics.

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Stephen Hicks is Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford University.

We talked about his work outlining the history of Postmodernism in his book "Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault", Postmodern epistemology, power, multiculturalism, the Paradox of Tolerance, the objective-subjective split, Metamodernism, and of course, Modernism.

Per Bylund is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Records-Johnston Professor of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. He is also a fellow at the Mises Institute and associate fellow of the Ratio Institute in Stockholm. His research focuses on issues in entrepreneurship, strategic management, and organizational economics.

We talked about the school of Austrian Economics, the centrality of the price mechanism, the theory of the business cycle, the so-called Socialist Calculation Debate, and the ripple effects of lockdowns on the economy.

Roy Barzilai is an independent scholar and author of The Testosterone Hypothesis: How Hormones Regulate the Life Cycles of Civilization and Sex Wars: How Hormones Drive Gender, Race, & Culture Conflicts.

We talked about his hypothesis of how hormones regulate the life cycles of civilization, how the sun effects growth cycles, chronobiology, and individualistic vs. collectivist societies.

As always this show welcomes independent thinkers presenting novel ideas and Roy’s hypothesis represents one of the most interesting and wholistic theories of the rise and fall of civilizations coming from outside mainstream institutions.

Alex Parsell is a Development professional in major gifts and donor relations at Michigan Radio. We talk about the role of public media coming into the start of the 21st century, the funding of public radio, public media bias, the niche of public radio in the age of internet journalism, what's changed now that everyone can talk, and the difficult problem of maintaining institutional trust in an increasingly noisy information ecology.

I am joined by Pepperdine University clinical psychology graduate student Victor Rivera (@cognitivicta) to discuss maintaining mental health in quarantine, how to engage with people you disagree with, how to deal with strong political disagreement with those closest to you, the importance of maintaining mental flexibility in conversation, getting through to the ideologically possessed, whether you have responsibility to speak with those you disagree with, and how to stay sane during this tumultuous time.

James is the president and founder of New Discourses.com, an author, and one the most essential voices for making sense of the absurdity that has become our state of political discourse. Some of you may know him for his pioneering work in the Sokal Squared Hoax. We talk about critical social justice, the intellectual evolution of marxist, postmodern, and postcolonial ideas into intersectionality strain, White fragility, a new social justice encyclopedia, reflexivity, and how to confront creeping identity politics in everyday life.

I speak with Benjamin A. Boyce, who witnessed firsthand and is documenting the fallout from the Evergreen State College controversy. Boyce is a Youtuber and host of the Boyce of Reason podcast. We talk of how he has evolved through documenting the controversy, Intersectionality, and the wicked problem of moving past tribalism.

Justin Murphy is a political scientist, political theorist, and author of the new book, "Based Deleuze".

We talk about the life of Gilles Deleuze, what it means that he is based, the Deleuzian concept of Lines of Flight, Disciplinary vs. Control societies, Libertarian Communism, and Diogenes defacing the currency.

You can find Justin's writings at: https://theotherlifenow.com/

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On Twitter: @jmrphy

Other Life podcast: https://jmrphy.libsyn.com/