Hotel Bar Sessions podcast
@hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social
Three philosophers. One bartender. Pouring wisdom straight into your earbuds.
Co-hosts: @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @jenhkling.bsky.social and @philosophymatters.bsky.social
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Co-hosts: @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @jenhkling.bsky.social and @philosophymatters.bsky.social
www.hotelbarpodcast.com
www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions
What does it mean to be “well-adjusted” in a society that might itself be profoundly unwell? Does therapy help or hurt?
Check out our newest episode and reply in the comments!
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Check out our newest episode and reply in the comments!
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Episode 205: Therapy - Hotel Bar Podcast
What problems arise when "therapy speak" becomes our default social vocabulary?
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November 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
What does it mean to be “well-adjusted” in a society that might itself be profoundly unwell? Does therapy help or hurt?
Check out our newest episode and reply in the comments!
hotelbarpodcast.com/therapy
Check out our newest episode and reply in the comments!
hotelbarpodcast.com/therapy
ICYMI: Our conversation with Laura K. Field about her recent book *Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right* is now live on our YouTube channel!
@drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @jenhkling.bsky.social
@philosophymatters.bsky.social
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@drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @jenhkling.bsky.social
@philosophymatters.bsky.social
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Episode 204: Furious Minds (with Laura K. Field)
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November 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
ICYMI: Our conversation with Laura K. Field about her recent book *Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right* is now live on our YouTube channel!
@drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @jenhkling.bsky.social
@philosophymatters.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixa...
@drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @jenhkling.bsky.social
@philosophymatters.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixa...
Check out our newest episode with special guest Laura K. Field, author of the new book *Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right* (Princeton UP, 2025)!
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Episode 204: Furious Minds (with Laura K. Field) - Hotel Bar Podcast
How do we tame the fury of today's "furious minds"?
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November 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Check out our newest episode with special guest Laura K. Field, author of the new book *Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right* (Princeton UP, 2025)!
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Episode 203 is live and we've got a guest with us! Check out our fanciful conversation with Stephen T. Asma about imagination!
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Episode 203: Imagination (with Stephen T. Asma) - Hotel Bar Podcast
How can we recover not only the power, but the importance, of imagination for philosophy?
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November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Episode 203 is live and we've got a guest with us! Check out our fanciful conversation with Stephen T. Asma about imagination!
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Episode 202 is live and this week we're digging into the philosophy behind comedy. Listen and laugh with us!
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Episode 202: Comedy - Hotel Bar Podcast
What's so funny about comedy, anyway?
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October 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Episode 202 is live and this week we're digging into the philosophy behind comedy. Listen and laugh with us!
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We're really excited about our new line-up of HBS co-hosts @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social, @jenhkling.bsky.social, and @philosophymatters.bsky.social!
If you haven't yet signed up to support Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon, no time like the present to do so!
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If you haven't yet signed up to support Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon, no time like the present to do so!
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October 31, 2025 at 6:14 AM
We're really excited about our new line-up of HBS co-hosts @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social, @jenhkling.bsky.social, and @philosophymatters.bsky.social!
If you haven't yet signed up to support Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon, no time like the present to do so!
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If you haven't yet signed up to support Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Patreon, no time like the present to do so!
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Episode 201: "The Hills We Die On" is now LIVE on our YouTube channel:
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Episode 201: The Hills We Die On
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October 31, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Episode 201: "The Hills We Die On" is now LIVE on our YouTube channel:
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A new episode of Hotel Bar Sessions is out! This one’s cool—we talk about what hills we’re willing to die on, what it means to be willing to die on a hill, pedagogy, and more. Check it out! @philosophymatters.bsky.social @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social
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Episode 201: The Hills We Die On - Hotel Bar Podcast
How do we choose the hills where we make our stand?
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October 24, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A new episode of Hotel Bar Sessions is out! This one’s cool—we talk about what hills we’re willing to die on, what it means to be willing to die on a hill, pedagogy, and more. Check it out! @philosophymatters.bsky.social @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social
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Episode 201 just dropped and this week our co-hosts @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social, @jenhkling.bsky.social, and @philosophymatters.bsky.social are drawing their lines in the sand!
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Episode 201: The Hills We Die On - Hotel Bar Podcast
How do we choose the hills where we make our stand?
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October 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Episode 201 just dropped and this week our co-hosts @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social, @jenhkling.bsky.social, and @philosophymatters.bsky.social are drawing their lines in the sand!
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Exciting new changes are happening at the hotel bar! Welcome to the podcast, Bob and Jen!
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@jenhkling.bsky.social
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Meet the NEW CO-Hosts! - Hotel Bar Podcast
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October 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Exciting new changes are happening at the hotel bar! Welcome to the podcast, Bob and Jen!
@jenhkling.bsky.social
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@jenhkling.bsky.social
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Check out our 200th episode, which dropped today. This week we're talking about "eternity"... but only for an hour!
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Episode 200: Eternity - Hotel Bar Podcast
Because forever is a long time to buy the next round.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Check out our 200th episode, which dropped today. This week we're talking about "eternity"... but only for an hour!
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Episode 199 is now live and this week we're thinking about what is gained and lost when “we” become something more than the sum of our parts. Check it out!
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Episode 199: Crowds and Mobs - Hotel Bar Podcast
What, if anything, distinguishes a crowd from a mob?
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October 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Episode 199 is now live and this week we're thinking about what is gained and lost when “we” become something more than the sum of our parts. Check it out!
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Book 138: ‘Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle: On How to Read the Tradition’ by Sean D. Kirkland
H/t to @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social for having Sean on as a guest a while back — led to me putting several of his books on my reading list.
#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky
H/t to @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social for having Sean on as a guest a while back — led to me putting several of his books on my reading list.
#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky
September 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Book 138: ‘Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle: On How to Read the Tradition’ by Sean D. Kirkland
H/t to @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social for having Sean on as a guest a while back — led to me putting several of his books on my reading list.
#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky
H/t to @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social for having Sean on as a guest a while back — led to me putting several of his books on my reading list.
#booksky #bookchallenge #philsky #academicsky
Hey Hotel Bar Sessions listeners, this is Leigh.
I have some important news to share.
[You should sit down for this...]
I have some important news to share.
[You should sit down for this...]
September 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Hey Hotel Bar Sessions listeners, this is Leigh.
I have some important news to share.
[You should sit down for this...]
I have some important news to share.
[You should sit down for this...]
Once again, alas, HBS is looking for new, smart, engaging "talent" to fill our recently (and abruptly) vacated co-host seats.
Think you have what it takes to carry an interesting conversation? Know someone you'd recommend to fill the open barstools?
Just email us at hotelbarpodcast@gmail.com!
Think you have what it takes to carry an interesting conversation? Know someone you'd recommend to fill the open barstools?
Just email us at hotelbarpodcast@gmail.com!
September 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Once again, alas, HBS is looking for new, smart, engaging "talent" to fill our recently (and abruptly) vacated co-host seats.
Think you have what it takes to carry an interesting conversation? Know someone you'd recommend to fill the open barstools?
Just email us at hotelbarpodcast@gmail.com!
Think you have what it takes to carry an interesting conversation? Know someone you'd recommend to fill the open barstools?
Just email us at hotelbarpodcast@gmail.com!
Episode 198 is now live and this week we're chatting with Mark Balaguer about free will. Check it out!
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Episode 198: Free Will (with Mark Balaguer) - Hotel Bar Podcast
One bar, three philosophers, infinite choices... or none at all.
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September 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Episode 198 is now live and this week we're chatting with Mark Balaguer about free will. Check it out!
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Great piece by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
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me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Great piece by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
Podcasts may be the last medium semi-immune to corporate/fascist censorship.
Hotel Bar Sessions is independent, listener-funded, and ad-free.
Thanks, y'all.
Hotel Bar Sessions is independent, listener-funded, and ad-free.
Thanks, y'all.
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
September 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Podcasts may be the last medium semi-immune to corporate/fascist censorship.
Hotel Bar Sessions is independent, listener-funded, and ad-free.
Thanks, y'all.
Hotel Bar Sessions is independent, listener-funded, and ad-free.
Thanks, y'all.
Episode 197 just dropped and this week we're joined by @robinjames.bsky.social to talk about how tech bros and manosphere influencers are through being "cool."
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Episode 197: How the Manosphere Killed Cool (with Robin James) - Hotel Bar Podcast
Robin James explains how tech bros and manosphere podcasters made "cool" obsolete.
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September 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Episode 197 just dropped and this week we're joined by @robinjames.bsky.social to talk about how tech bros and manosphere influencers are through being "cool."
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Hold your trans/GNC loved ones extra close right now. Things are ugly and looking to get much worse.
September 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Hold your trans/GNC loved ones extra close right now. Things are ugly and looking to get much worse.
ICYMI: Our episode on "The War on Radical Ideology" is now live on the HBS YouTube channel!
Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions!
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Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions!
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Episode 189: The War on Radical Ideology
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September 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
ICYMI: Our episode on "The War on Radical Ideology" is now live on the HBS YouTube channel!
Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions!
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Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions!
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ICYMI: Our episode on "The Future of the University" is now live on the HBS YouTube channel!
Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions!
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Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions!
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Episode 184: The Future of the University
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September 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
ICYMI: Our episode on "The Future of the University" is now live on the HBS YouTube channel!
Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions!
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Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions!
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ICYMI: Our episode with Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social is now available on the HBS YouTube channel!
Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions!
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Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions!
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Episode 191: Public Philosophy (with Kate Manne)
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September 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
ICYMI: Our episode with Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social is now available on the HBS YouTube channel!
Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions!
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Listen, Subscribe, and support Hotel Bar Sessions' work on Patreon at www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessions!
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First episode of Season 14 just dropped! We're kicking off this new season with a conversation about the "expertise crisis."
Trust us. It's a great episode!
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Trust us. It's a great episode!
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Episode 196: The Expertise Crisis - Hotel Bar Podcast
What happens when nobody trusts experts anymore?
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September 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
First episode of Season 14 just dropped! We're kicking off this new season with a conversation about the "expertise crisis."
Trust us. It's a great episode!
hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/the-...
Trust us. It's a great episode!
hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/the-...