In her debut appearance at Le Bistro Remnant, Rebecca Newberger-Goldstein serves up a philosophical Smörgåsbord for Jonah Goldberg, including the four forms of mattering, the distinction between humans and other animals, the brilliance and depression of William James, and the principle of entropy, all with a little bit of Spinoza sprinkled in.

Shownotes:
—The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
—Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
—36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
—Steven Pinker’s essay on entropy
—Jonah’s most recent book
—Dominion by Tom Holland
—Steven Pinker’s appearance on The Remnant
—Megan McArdle—“The Brother I Lost”

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