Humanize Me

712: Thoughtful meandering with William Deresiewicz

Sep 2, 2022

01:07:26

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The Little Practice Now We Call Wokeness

01:48

Essays Are the Most Interesting Way to Read a Book

02:40

The Social Media Group Is Just a Bunch of Crap

02:55

Introduction

4min

Essays Are the Most Interesting Way to Read a Book

3min

Do You Feel Like You're Trying to Be Good?

2min

Face Reality and Try to Think

2min

Per Sevorate

2min

The World Is Our Relationship With the World

2min

What's the Tone of Your Essays?

2min

I Love the Arts and I Love Science and the Arts

1min

Is Science the Only Way to Answer All Questions?

2min

10.

The Art of Expression

2min

11.

Is Your First Thought Your Best Thought?

2min

12.

Your Definition of Solitude Is Best Known Through the Way It Feels

2min

13.

What Is Concentration?

2min

14.

Book Review - Invisible Dragon by Dave Hickey

2min

15.

First Thought Best Thought

2min

16.

Backslash Humanize Me Podcast

2min

17.

I'm Not a Christian Christian Say Many Gifts One Spirit

2min

18.

The One Best Way of Being a Good Person Without Any Supernatural Nostalgia

2min

19.

Is There a Difference Between a Therapeutic and a Morally Challenged Friendship?

2min

20.

Are You Making It? Yeah, Boy, I'm Making You Better.

3min

21.

Are You Challenging Me?

2min

22.

The Social Media Group Is Just a Bunch of Crap

3min

23.

You Know, I'm Not a Therapist, You're a Compassionate Person, Right?

2min

24.

Is Your Interest Around Goodness?

2min

25.

The Good Life of Goodness

2min

26.

Is There a Necessary Extinction?

2min

27.

I Want More Life

5min

28.

The Little Practice Now We Call Wokeness

2min

29.

The Third Dimension of Humanity, Right?

2min

30.

You Don't Know What You're Doing, but You Know What It Is

5min

31.

We've Got to Thank Marianne Wendling, Mark Allen, Matthew Wipert, and Mark Rogers

2min

Bart enjoys a wide-ranging conversation with Bill Deresiewicz that touches on solitude, moral goodness, the value of the arts, the interplay of power, rituals and practices, fundamentalisms and friendship. Bill is a world-class literary critic and a former professor of English at Yale University whose latest book of essays - The End of Solitude - is available now.