Episodios

  • Daniel Boyarin: Talmud as Anti-Theology S2 E20

    Daniel Boyarin: Talmud as Anti-Theology S2 E20
    Dec 13 2023
    This week, Zohar is joined by Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin to discuss the intellectual and spiritual legacy of the rabbis, Talmud as the irresolvable pursuit of truth, Christianity, sophistry, antisemitism, Maimonides, the fact/value distinction, academic vs. religious methodology, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please give us a rate and review. You may also enjoy The Lightning Podcast.
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    1 h y 20 m
  • Trae Stephens: Choosing Good Quests S2 E19

    Trae Stephens: Choosing Good Quests S2 E19
    Nov 30 2023
    This week, Zohar Atkins joins Trae Stephens, investor, serial entrepreneur, and faith-based public thinker, to talk about what makes for a good quest, the ethics and theology of doing things that scale and things that don't, political theology, why optimism is rational, and how to make life-altering decisions.
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    1 h y 10 m
  • Rohit Krishnan: Building God S2 E18

    Rohit Krishnan: Building God S2 E18
    Nov 15 2023
    This week Zohar joins Rohit Krishnan, investor, blogger at Strange Loop Canon, and author of Building God, to talk about Edge, AI, Sabbaticals, Mastery and Generalism, Investing, Creativity, P-Zombies, Techno-Optimism, Conviction, and Forgetting. If you enjoyed this episode, please rate and review the show to help us grow. You might also enjoy The Lightning Podcast.
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    1 h y 11 m
  • Seth Kaplan: Reviving the Neighborhood S2 E17

    Seth Kaplan: Reviving the Neighborhood S2 E17
    Nov 1 2023
    This week Zohar is joined by public intellectual Seth Kaplan to discuss his new book Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time. Kaplan takes his analysis of Fragile States and applies the same lens to American neighborhoods. Zohar and Seth talk about what makes for good neighborhoods, why culture can't be reduced to economic or political analysis, the role of religion in community, and whether loneliness and failing neighborhoods are a driver of radicalism.
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    1 h y 44 m
  • David Bashevkin: The Case for Inconvenience S2 E16

    David Bashevkin: The Case for Inconvenience S2 E16
    Sep 27 2023
    This week, Zohar is joined by David Bashevkin, Rabbi, scholar, author of Sin*a*gogue, and founder of 18Forty to talk about the meaning of community, why holiness and inconvenience are often linked, whether being small in number is an essential part of Jewishness, the legacy of Hasidism, and the spiritual search as a fundamental structure of existence.
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    1 h y 17 m
  • Eric Linus Kaplan: Philosophy as a Way of Life S2 E15

    Eric Linus Kaplan: Philosophy as a Way of Life S2 E15
    Aug 23 2023
    This week, Zohar is joined by Eric Linus Kaplan, podcast host ("Terrifying Questions") and TV writer ("The Big Bang Theory," "Futurama," "Flight of the Concords," and "Malcolm in the Middle") to talk about whether God has a body, whether we should listen to physicians who have rashes, the value of Heidegger's thought, the meaning of sophistry, and the feeling of the "whoosh."
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    1 h y 11 m
  • Ari Lamm: Partnership and Rebellion S2 E14

    Ari Lamm: Partnership and Rebellion S2 E14
    Aug 9 2023
    This week, Zohar is joined by Rabbi Ari Lamm, host of The Good Faith Effort podcast, to talk about the theology of human independence, self-deception, the philosophy of language, what makes interpretation faithful or deviant, the rabbinic concept of the bat kol (divine echo), and what it means to be a rabbi.
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    1 h y 49 m
  • Tara Isabella Burton: Self-Making from Albrecht Dürer to Kim Kardashian S2 E13

    Tara Isabella Burton: Self-Making from Albrecht Dürer to Kim Kardashian S2 E13
    Jul 28 2023
    This week, Zohar is joined by return guest Tara Isabella Burton to discuss her most recent book, Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians. They discuss renaissance humanism, the theological origins of postmodernity, irony, commitment, transhumanism, Oscar Wilde, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Edison, and Grimes.
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    1 h y 14 m