The Weekly Eudemon

Episode 82: Three Lesser-Known Figures in the Zen Tradition

Episode 81: Did We Just See a Red Swan?

Episode 80: What is that Twitter Imp Up To?

Ask yourself: “Do I think the government’s goals or aims should take priority over human nature?” Put another way: “Do I think the government’s noble end justifies a bad means?”

Episode 78: Five Dispositions that Can Make Your Life More Productive and Happy

First Segment: Modern conservative thought. Second Segment: English history, 1649 to 1688. Third Segment: Ranters and Other Freak Religious Groups in the 17th Century. Fourth Segment: Lightning Segments.

A lecture I delivered in 2017.

First Segment: Overview of English history until 1649. Second Segment: Lightning Segments, with emphasis on Medium dot com. Third Segment: Bars. The good and the bad.

This interview took place on April 21st and originally uploaded on April 22nd. For some reason, it has since disappeared from the RSS feed. I am re-posting it now. InspireWord is still going strong. FOCUS’ Curtis Martin is tonight’s guest.

First Segment: Brief riff off Charles MacKay's 1841 book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and deplatforming in American history. Second Segment Lightning Segments. Third Segment: The Reformation, with focus on the Radical Spiritualists.

This is the last episode in our attempt to help you establish an historical perspective. The focus: 1492 and three events: Moors kicked out of Spain, Columbus and the new world, Alexander VI. Lightning Segments: Bocephus, Casual Lawyers, J.D. Vance, Siege of Vienna.

First Segment: We continue our historical review. In this second-to-last episode, we look at the 1400s. Second Segment: Florence and the invention of the Bill of Exchange. Third Segment: Money, currency, gold, stimulus. Fourth Segment: Is every person in the medical field a hero? Fifth Segment: The Left is claiming states rights. It's a topsy-turvy time.

First Segment: The 1300s. The rise of the Ottomans, The Avignon Papacy, the Great Papal Schism, the 100 Years War, the Black Death, the Renaissance. Second Segment: How medieval wars were like NFL games. Third Segment: Lightning Segments.

Michigan's capricious COVID shut down order. Literary short stories are like scripture: both are dense with significance. The years 1190 to 1274: Crusades, Robin Hood, Mongols, Thomas Aquinas

Episode 70: 1000 AD to 1200ish: Seljuk Turks, Crusades, St. Francis, Cluny