Played

  • Chas & Dr Dave discuss Stealing A Dolphin, The Forced Labor Penguins, and Why You Must Suffer The Consequences!
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave and George
    4:29 - Grateful (Kennedy Centre, FIRE, Marx)
    27:57 - Updates (Alabama, USAID)
    41:52 - Iran: This Week In Bullshit
    1:07:30 - Stats Nug (Women's Jobs)
    1:15:15 - Freedom 250
    1:35:30 - Slush Fund, We Hardly Knew Ye
    1:55:42 - Midterm Primaries (Alaska, Alabama)
    2:00:41 - Platner Sexting Controversy
    2:16:14 - Return of the Tariffs
    2:27:27 - Unleashed: Housekeeping
    2:30:04 - Unleashed: Platner Cont.
    2:53:23 - Unleashed: Insider Trading
    3:11:48 - Unleashed: E. Jean Carroll Investigation
    3:19:25 - Unleashed: Pulte Time

    Homework:
    * Crime in DC thinkpiece: https://www.niskanencenter.org/washington-dc-crime-decline-and-its-lessons-for-american-policing/
    *Jim Carrey's Vanilla Ice impression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdtKBe7sM48
    *Justin Wolfers' Platypus Economics substack: https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    Danny Funt - Everybody Loses (Mentioned 3:13, Ep 262)
    David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258)
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula


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    Simon Critchley is a British philosopher, author and professor at The New School in New York. He is best known for his work on existentialism, mysticism, ethics and continental philosophy, and is the author of books including The Book of Dead Philosophers, Faith of the Faithless and Mysticism. Get Simon's book Mysticism ⁠here⁠.

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    (7:52) What is Mysticism?

    (18:58) Unification With the Divine

    (29:58) Mysticism and the Self

    (40:38) Why Are So Many Mystics Women?

    (48:41) The Limits of Language

    (59:54) Was Pascal a Mystic?

    (01:03:21) Where Does Simon Stand on Mysticism?

    (01:11:22) Where Should We Start With Learning About Mysticism?

    (01:15:36) Imagery in Simon’s Book

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