Jul 25, 2023
The Summer of Cormac McCarthy continues – this time we dive into his one piece of non-fiction, the short essay “The Kekulé Problem.” How does our unconscious mind solve problems that conscious deliberation can’t crack? Why does it often work elliptically, in code, rather than giving us the answer directly in...
Jul 18, 2023
A new mini-series with Tamler Sommers and Robert Wright on the
range of politically acceptable discourse for a given topic
and how this “Overton window” changes over time.
This episode is available for free for everyone, the
remaining episodes will appear at the Very Bad Wizards
Patreon and Robert
Wright’s...
Jul 11, 2023
David and Tamler dive into the Coen brothers’ bleak and beautiful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel "No Country for Old Men." What’s the underlying philosophy that animates Anton Chigurh? Does he have a code of any kind, or is he just a ghostly symbol of human brutality and a pitiless indifferent...