Meditations with Zohar

Jay Tolson: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air S2 E1

Feb 1, 2023

01:10:29

Highlights

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Episode notes

The Ends of Capitalism Are Inevitable

01:09

Is There a Rents View of the Aurora?

03:41

The Origins of the Field

02:36

Introduction

2min

Is America the Oldest Country in the 20th Century?

2min

Modernity Is Liquid

4min

The Ends of Capitalism Are Inevitable

1min

What's the Utility of Lateness?

5min

Can a Secular Person Hope or Is Hope Fundamentally Religious?

2min

Transcendence

2min

I Don't Think We Have Elites Today

4min

The Bottlenecks Deforming the Elites That You Want

3min

10.

Is There a Real Meritocracy?

4min

11.

The Revolt of the Public

3min

12.

Is the COVID Crisis a Crisis?

5min

13.

We're Not Going to Appease This Bully

2min

14.

The Issue of Suspicion

5min

15.

Is the Deep State Akin to the Panopticon or the Workings of Capital?

6min

16.

The Problem With Elites Is the Remoteness of a Certain Kind of Dominant Class

2min

17.

Why Should I Read on Quixote in My Free Time?

4min

18.

Is There a Rents View of the Aurora?

4min

19.

What I Learned From My Father's Military Service

2min

20.

Do You Think Combat Brings Out the Best in People?

2min

21.

How Do You Make Sense of Free Speech in College?

4min

22.

The Origins of the Field

3min

This week, Zohar is joined by Jay Tolson, editor of the Hedgehog Review, to discuss the meaning of modernity and "late" modernity, the communal spirit of religion and the military, the rising threat of authoritarianism, conspiracy theory, and the promise of moral education.