Phlogiston: idiosyncratic and out of context

Will Pflaum, of sunshineonthehudson.com
Phlogiston: idiosyncratic and out of context

Aux: Audio-on-Audio podcast is produced by Will Pflaum.

Episodes

  1. Aux 5: Should Martin Delany have been cancelled?

    02/01/2022

    Aux 5: Should Martin Delany have been cancelled?

    Martin Delany was the would-be founding father of a West African colony who secretly supported John Brown’s treasonous raid on Harpers Ferry—only to ally himself with Southern Confederates after the Civil War. Why did endorse a Democrat for governor? Should he have been canceled from history?

    11 min
  2. Aux 4: Idiotic Controversies of the Past

    01/31/2022

    Aux 4: Idiotic Controversies of the Past

    Looking into the distant past, we see people fighting over arcane differences. Are our fights any less trivial?

    20 min
  3. Aux 3: Warrior Culture

    01/29/2022

    Aux 3: Warrior Culture

    In this episode we consider Warrior Culture.

    11 min
  4. Aux 2: Moderates Are Dangerous

    01/24/2022

    Aux 2: Moderates Are Dangerous

    Edmund Burke (18th century) and Karl Popper (20th century) were two political philosophers who failed to see the danger of the status quo and moderation. Audio on audio.

    27 min
  5. Aux 1: Generosity to the Opponent

    01/21/2022

    Aux 1: Generosity to the Opponent

    The principle of generosity in a debate or dialogue: don't ignore or mischaracterize your opponent's argument. In this podcast, we consider Churchill and the Bengal famine of 1943-44 versus Stalin and collectivization. Here are some of the sources we consider: Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age Arthur Herman 2008 - A History of British India By: The Great Courses, Hayden J. Bellenoit 2017 - Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II Book by Madhusree Mukerjee - Rise and Fall of the British Empire Patrick N. Allitt - Churchill, J. Rufus Fears - Churchill, Paul Johnson/Simon Prebble - David Stafford - Roosevelt & Churchill - Stalin New Biography of a Dictator by Oleg V. Khlevniuk- Churchill Walking with Destiny (Audiobook) - Shashi Tharoor - Inglorious Empire_What the British Did to India - 2018

    43 min

  6. 08/10/2020

    Federal Reserve Main Street Lending

    A call about the Federal Reserve's Main Street lending program.

    10 min
  7. CMV Podcast Crosspost

    12/06/2018

    CMV Podcast Crosspost

    in the subreddit r/changemyview I battled an army of neoliberal billionaire's boots lickers and whooped them. They had no argument, just a bunch of irrational hypotheticals and nonsensical arguments about something being "arbitrary" and in fact eliminating all science and law as "arbitrary" in the process without realizing. No argument. The revolution is the answer and no one can explain why it isn't.

    37 min
  8. Commentary on the French Revolution - phlogiston - 5:9:18

    05/09/2018

    Commentary on the French Revolution - phlogiston - 5:9:18

    BBC History Extra Podcast interview with Steven Clark critiqued. If you want to debunk myths of the French Revolution, beating up the Jacobins is not the way to do it. Rather, if the French revolution failed, the flaw was the increase in state power.

    14 min
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