Dec 14, 2023
In this very special episode, author Daniel Quinn’s wife Rennie Mackay Quinn joins us for her first ever interview: sharing untold stories, new insights, and reflections on her life and journey with her beloved late husband & Daniel Quinn.
Rennie tells us about the 15 years it took Daniel to write Ishmael, the...
Nov 16, 2023
In this climactic culmination of the Ishmael series, we ask the question : how do we transform an entire society?
Ishmael doesn’t give us the “10 Simple Steps to Save the World” instead, he offers us a map and compass to navigate our intergenerational civilizational transformation ourselves. Where we go from here...
Oct 5, 2023
Is it possible to build a civilization that flies? (metaphorically speaking of course)
How did we eventually learn to fly? It wasn’t by defying gravity and disobeying aerodynamics but by learning how to work with them.
Daniel Quinn, in his novel Ishmael, argues there are laws of nature that we have to learn to live...
Sep 7, 2023
Who first told the story of the Garden of Eden? Could it have been a way to explain the unfolding Agricultural Revolution from the perspective of the people who were there?
The Garden of Eden has been told and retold for thousands of years. Why do we keep telling it? With insight from modern biblical scholarship, we...
Aug 10, 2023
In this episode we take a step back from Ishmael to better view the philosophical context it was written in.
We explore the history of the terms “civilized” and “primitive” and how their definitions have evolved over time.
Topics include: Rome’s influence on Western European colonization, noble savage theory,...