How to Support David and Paul Bloom's Podcast

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You can support the podcast in a variety of ways. At $1 an episode, you get all ad-free episodes plus seven volumes of Pizzarro's Beats Without Rhyme series. For $5 and up, you get access to our mini series on the Brothers Caramatsa with Robert Wright called Overton Windows. And if you really want to be nice, you can leave us a five star review on Apple podcasts. All of this is at the very bad wizards support page.

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 universe? Does he represent a new kind of evil or is Sheriff Bell just getting old? What elements, if any, in the film are more dream than reality?

And speaking of moral decline, a new Nature study claims that we have the illusory belief that people are getting worse - but can they really establish that it’s an illusion?

Mastroianni, A. M., & Gilbert, D. T. (2023). The illusion of moral decline. Nature, 1-8.

Mastroianni blog post about the illusion of moral decline

No Country for Old Men (movie) [wikipedia.org]