The Partially Examined Life Transcripts
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PEL Presents NEM#248: Lande Hekt: Lucky to Be Indie
Mar 12, 202671 min11,389 wordsEp. 386: Hegel on Society (Part Two)
Mar 9, 202660 min10,762 wordsPEL Presents PvI#113: Mary and Mark Pick Their Battles
Mar 7, 202654 min10,433 wordsPEL Presents PMP#216: Oscars So Black?
Mar 5, 202657 min11,849 wordsEp. 386: Hegel on Society (Part One)
Mar 2, 202650 min8,938 wordsPEL Presents NEM#247: John S. Hall (King Missile): Daily Poet
Feb 28, 202681 min14,634 wordsEp. 385: Guest Graham Harman on Object vs. Continuum (Part Two)
Feb 23, 202661 min12,318 wordsPEL Presents PvI#112: Musical Zoom w/ Jerome Kurtenbach
Feb 22, 202663 min12,830 wordsPEL Presents PMP#215: Hamnet Dramatizes Shakespeare
Feb 19, 202664 min12,485 wordsEp. 385: Guest Graham Harman on Object vs. Continuum (Part One)
Feb 16, 202647 min9,437 wordsNEM#246: Robert Deeble in His Talking Voice
Feb 13, 202679 min11,378 wordsEp. 384: Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology (Part Three)
Feb 9, 202644 min8,407 wordsPEL Presents PvI#111: God Smites Elijah Dann
Feb 8, 202653 min10,698 wordsPEL Presents PMP#214: South Park Resurgence
Feb 5, 202654 min10,917 wordsEp. 384: Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology (Part Two)
Feb 2, 202655 min9,887 wordsPEL Presents Closereads: Hegel's "Unhappy Consciousness"
Feb 1, 202657 min9,826 wordsEp. 384: Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology (Part One)
Jan 26, 202650 min9,285 wordsPEL Presents PvI#110: Memories of 2026 w/ Mark and Mary
Jan 23, 202647 min9,100 wordsEp. 383: Freud on Love and the Primal Horde (Part Two)
Jan 19, 202655 min9,853 wordsNEM#245: Darren Michael Boyd's Guitar Instrumentals Beyond Metal
Jan 17, 202668 min11,560 wordsPEL Presents PMP#213: Stranger Things Grown Familiar
Jan 15, 202652 min11,241 wordsEp. 383: Freud on Love and the Primal Horde (Part One)
Jan 12, 202642 min7,401 wordsPEL Presents PvI#109: Choose Your Own Failure w/ Rich Baker
Jan 10, 202648 min9,480 wordsPEL 2026 Kickoff Nightcap
Jan 5, 202642 min8,154 wordsEp. 382: Freud on Group Psychology (Part Two)
Dec 29, 202548 min9,025 wordsPEL Presents PvI#108: Guess Who's Coming to Christmas Dinner... Lawrence Ware!
Dec 26, 202551 min10,881 wordsPEL Presents PMP#212: Holiday Romance Films
Dec 24, 202557 min11,562 wordsPEL Presents PMP#211: Slow Horses and Predecessors
Dec 10, 202549 min10,615 wordsEp. 381: Aquinas on Ethical Psychology (Part One)
Dec 8, 202549 min9,286 wordsPEL Presents Subtext: Erin's New Book "Avail"
Dec 7, 202560 min10,391 wordsEp. 380: Josiah Royce on Community (Part Two)
Dec 1, 202554 min10,176 wordsEp. 380: Josiah Royce on Community (Part One)
Nov 23, 202546 min8,468 wordsPEL Presents NEM#242: Marshall Crenshaw Subtracts
Nov 20, 202566 min10,477 wordsEp. 379: Egyptian Philosophy with Chike Jeffers (Part Two)
Nov 17, 202571 min13,325 wordsEp. 379: Egyptian Philosophy with Chike Jeffers (Part One)
Nov 10, 202543 min8,704 wordsPEL Presents NEM#241: Humor in Music Discussion
Nov 9, 202561 min12,251 wordsPREMIUM-Ep. 378: Aquinas on God and Mind (Part Four)
Nov 8, 20258 min1,776 wordsEp. 378: Aquinas on God and Mind (Part Three)
Nov 3, 202549 min9,378 wordsPEL Presents PvI#104: The Hippie Code w/ Vickie Hayley
Oct 31, 202554 min11,008 wordsEp. 378: Aquinas on God and Mind (Part Two)
Oct 27, 202548 min9,333 wordsPEL Presents NEM#240: Jonathan Rundman, Multi-Branded
Oct 24, 202581 min13,901 wordsEp. 378: Aquinas on God and Mind (Part One)
Oct 20, 202548 min9,162 wordsPEL Presents PvI#103: Post-COVID Mary and Mark
Oct 17, 202538 min7,296 wordsEp. 377: Emil Cioran's Pessimism (Part Two)
Oct 13, 202545 min8,263 wordsPEL Presents PMP#207: Spinal Tap and Other Fake Bands
Oct 12, 202551 min10,298 wordsEp. 377: Emil Cioran's Pessimism (Part One)
Oct 6, 202552 min9,572 wordsEp. 376: Plato's "Laws" (Part Two)
Sep 29, 202552 min9,975 wordsPEL Presents PMP#206: Abbott Elementary w/o Emmys
Sep 28, 202553 min11,114 wordsPEL Presents NEM#238: Eric Andersen Endures
Sep 26, 202565 min10,789 wordsEp. 376: Plato's "Laws" (Part One)
Sep 22, 202547 min8,694 wordsPREMIUM-PEL Back-to-School Nightcap 2025
Sep 20, 202510 min1,755 wordsPEL Presents PvI#101: Co-Hostery: Season Five Premiere with Mark and Mary
Sep 18, 202554 min10,142 wordsEp. 375: Luce Irigaray's Feminism (Part Two)
Sep 15, 202556 min10,367 wordsEp. 375: Luce Irigaray's Feminism (Part One)
Sep 8, 202544 min8,327 wordsEp. 374: Discussing Liberalism (Lincoln, et al) with Walter Sterling (Part Two)
Sep 1, 202548 min8,563 wordsEp. 374: Discussing Liberalism (Lincoln, et al) with Walter Sterling (Part One)
Aug 25, 202546 min8,149 wordsPEL Presents Closereads: Peter Railton's "Moral Realism" (Wrap Up)
Aug 23, 202558 min11,002 wordsEp. 373: Michael Walzer on Just Wars (Part Two)
Aug 18, 202560 min10,822 wordsEp. 373: Michael Walzer on Just Wars (Part One)
Aug 11, 202547 min8,743 wordsEp. 372: Kant's Ethics Lectures (Part Two)
Aug 4, 202547 min8,367 wordsEp. 372: Kant's Ethics Lectures (Part One)
Jul 28, 202549 min8,764 wordsPEL Presents PvI#97: Peep Dome Pets w/ Merry Mary Hynes
Jul 27, 202560 min12,044 wordsEp. 371: Christine Korsgaard on Normativity (Part Two)
Jul 21, 202555 min10,329 wordsEp. 371: Christine Korsgaard on Normativity (Part One)
Jul 14, 202547 min8,614 wordsEp. 370: Christine Korsgaard on the History of Ethics (Part Two)
Jul 7, 202549 min9,320 wordsEp. 370: Christine Korsgaard on the History of Ethics (Part One)
Jun 30, 202548 min9,288 wordsEp. 369: Philippa Foot's Naturalistic Ethics (Part Two)
Jun 23, 202547 min8,438 wordsEp. 369: Philippa Foot's Naturalistic Ethics (Part One)
Jun 16, 202547 min8,609 words
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