In this podcast, I examine the mental health consequences of the COVID19 pandemic and their embeddedness in entwined economic, cultural/ideological and ecological systems. [Free. 26 minutes.]

This podcast is a commentary on Eyes which is a verse from Songs of No and Yes explicating a meditation on the human face. [Free. 15 minutes.]

This episode in our Lao Tzu series deals with Chapter 52 of the Tao Te Ching in which Lao Tzu discusses the benefit of contemplative alignment with the Tao and the modest comportment it induces. [Free. 15 minutes.]

This podcast is the first in an ongoing series on Freud and psychoanalysis which is meant to be useful to our series on fascism and reason, as well as to our many considerations of the workings of propaganda and ideology. Here, give some background to Freud's intellectual journey and elucidate the notion of 'the unconscious' and its significance for humanity's self-image. [Free. 34 minutes.]

This short podcast offers some preliminary reflections on questioning and curiosity. [Free. 13 minutes.]

In this podcast we examine El Salvador's recent decision to make Bitcoin legal tender. [Free. 28 minutes.]

This podcast deals with Chapter 53 of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. We draw out resonances between this chapter and our current state of affairs and explain Lao Tzu's contemplative communism. [Free. 17 minutes.]

In this podcast, we attempt to identify the covert thinking behind the Tory Party's implementation of post-Brexit arrangements. We arrive at the conclusion that a nihilistically destructive agenda that can only benefit the global oligarchs is being forced through despite the fact that its supporting neoliberal cock-and-bull story is now running out of momentum. We find some grounds for optimism in  the fact that the government's wish to greenwash itself in direct contradiction to its attempt to install techno-feudalism in the UK, as well as signs of progressive consolidation. [Free. 34 minutes.]

In this podcast we discuss Chapter 51 of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. This chapter deals with Lao Tzu's vast vision of the cosmos and its origins. We suggest that this vision is acquired through a particular meditation which we recommend as both useful to us collectively in our current situation and as a beautiful and sublime good in its own right for individuals. [Free. 15 minutes.]

This podcast gives our immediate reaction to Dominic Cummings' answers to question put to him by the Commons Committee on Health and Science. [Free. 26 minutes.]