How can we affect the world from home? Is the home easy to defend? How is the home like a battleground? Christmas has come early, as we release this year's Christmas-themed episode a few sleeps before Tim Allen's arrival!

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How does history unfold? How do certain states of affairs become commonsensical? How should we prescribe new social norms? Drawing on some key philosophical ideas posited by Hegel and Gramsci, this week's episode contemplates the tension between a fixed and a fluid sense of history.

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Is it ever desirable to delay romantic gratification? Is it ever desirable to completely avoid serious romance? How can discipline both help and hinder romance? Focusing on an interesting interplay between two seemingly unrelated concepts, this week's episode contemplates how delayed gratification and anonymity affect our romantic relationships.

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What do we traditionally envision when we think about weakness in a man? Do the most powerful men have weaknesses? Who suffers when men can't control their weaknesses? This week's episode examines three distinct cinematic references to Napoleon Bonaparte in order to illuminate potentially forgotten forms of masculine weakness.

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What is our natural response to greed and gluttony? Why does affluence frustrate us in the real world? Who is responsible for our constant hunger for more? This week's episode looks at films in which motifs of food and consumption are used to explore exploitation, affluence and the consolidation of power.

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How quickly can things fall to pieces? How easy is it to dissect a tragedy in its aftermath? Do new eras always improve on the failures of past eras? This week's episode builds on last week's discussions about the the relationship between the past and present by exploring how individuals, relationships and political entities experience their own ends.

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Can we ever sympathise with those who abandon others? How does the constant pursuit of novelty bring about suffering? Can we simultaneously cherish and abandon the past? Focusing particularly on films depicting contemporary cosmopolitan culture, this week's episode explores the various effects of abandoning important people and parts of ourselves in search of a better future.

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Are we capable of seeing beauty in everything? Can romanticising ever be dangerous? What is true love, if not pure and perfect? Following our recent conversations on relationships and companionship, this week's episode explores the various cultural attitudes and movements that have blossumed from the ancient concept of romance.

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Why do we often mistake villains for heroes? Can a person's heroism be determined by time? How do we often find our bearings in morally confused scenarios? In reflecting on current geopolitical events, this week's episode contemplates the relationship between time and heroism.

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