Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Playful Fucking Institutional Analysis An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde

Not Only Money Talks Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with. Alain de Botton

Sophisticated Backtalk We love the opportunity to disagree and I think that's something that's at risk of being quashed to too much of an extent. And really, I think over the last couple years we've been in listening mode — I don't think any of us listen enough, I don't think we listen enough as a culture.. Marcus Mumford Mumford and Sons address their photo with Jordan B. Peterson CBC

Switchyard For Trains Of Thought To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul-  would you understand why that's much harder? Roark, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead The Outer Courtyard, where pain is... where our ego selves play out their funny little dramas... Frank Sims in the 1970's

Gifts Of Gab For You! What we do, in English, and in the humanities more broadly, what we teach, what we celebrate and investigate, is human particularity. That is why we become obsessed with individual authors, why we savor specificities of phrasing, why we pounce upon and explore a single word. It’s why we value, above all, writers capable of telling many different stories, populated by many varieties of being, articulated in a kaleidoscope of styles. It’s why I, personally, have always been most fascinated by playwrights, from Aeschylus to August Wilson: Dialogue releases us from the monologues of one mind, clan, tradition. Death of an English major By Gary Taylor, Special to the Tampa Bay Times November 9, 2018

Men and War From the audio series, The World Owes You A Living #remembranceday

Not Chitchat Harnessing social oblique is a massive part of effective manipulative propaganda. C Cawley