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One professor’s account of the recent changes at New College of Florida.
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Incompossible with Florida
HINTERNET EXCLUSIVE: The Bonfire of the Humanities at New College
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November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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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
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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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Episode 191: Public Philosophy (with Kate Manne)
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September 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Check out this week's MINIBAR episode from our co-host @talia-mae.bsky.social, who reflects on her recent cancer diagnosis and the existential crisis it inspired.

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MINIBAR: Cancer - Hotel Bar Podcast
Talia Mae Bettcher talks about her cancer diagnosis and a dark night of the soul.
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September 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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New MINIBAR episode just dropped and this week our co-host @rickleephilos.bsky.social is talking about why metaphysics matters to him... and should matter to you, too!

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MINIBAR: In Defense of Metaphysics - Hotel Bar Podcast
Rick Lee explains what metaphysics is and why it's worth defending.
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August 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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"The militarization of civic space is the *literal* end of democracy. Once we accept soldiers as "ordinary," we have already lost as citizens."
- Leigh M. Johnson

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MINIBAR: Living in Occupied D.C. - Hotel Bar Podcast
What it's like to live with a President who is too extra.
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August 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Ami Tallman: Senator Padilla being forcibly removed from Christy Noem’s speech wherein she promised to “liberate” us from those we’d elected by military force
Ink, gouache, and acrylic on polypropylene
9” x 12 inches
June 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Stockton Rush is the administrator of DOGE
Ink, colored pencil, gouache and acrylic on rice paper
30 cm x 23 cm
#WITAOD
July 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Ami Tallman: Moscow, Idaho—the home where four students were murdered by a phd candidate is demolished, as though it could remove all trace of their brutal deaths from the face of the earth.
gouache, ink, and colored pencil on paper
12” x 12 inches
July 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Ami Tallman: New York comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander being detained by ICE, June 18, 2025
gouache, ink, and acrylic on polypropylene
9” x 12 inches
June 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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there are moments when heroin is the ideal medicine
July 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Ami Tallman: still life at 2:51
Ink on paper
9” x 12 inches
June 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Ami Tallman: when a drone hunts dissent in a suburb, what it sees
Ink on poster board
28 cm x 35 cm
June 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
June 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Take off your blindfold, honey, the game’s over. Everyone’s gone home.
February 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM

Ami Tallman: pardon 1 of 1500, January 21, 2025
pastel and acrylic on paper
10” x 14 inches
January 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Los Angeles city residents can get free trees from the city.
You can have them delivered to you to plant in your yard, or you can request them for the sidewalk, and they will come plant them for you.
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City Plants | Yard Trees
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December 14, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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Inspired by the demand that they more greatly resemble the German generals, they embarked upon a quest to do their own research. Having been inexplicably stranded in 1945 by their Cybertruck time machine, J. Alito and Gen. Flynn attempt to blend in with the prisoners being liberated from Dachau.
November 19, 2024 at 4:35 AM
Twitter got fracked.
November 25, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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ART I LIKE #7: American stained glass c.1900 is the best there ever was: mass immigration meant many new churches. Tiffany did the Protestant ones, but John La Farge did the Catholic ones just as well. His 1904 "Christ Between the Apostles" (at Boston College), is a real stunner. #stainedglass #art
November 20, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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while ordinary Utopians are unable to actually produce what they are able to visualize, we are unable to visualize what we are actually producing.”— Günther Anders
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Welcome to the Anderscene | The Brooklyn Rail
Günther Anders (Stern)—first husband of Hannah Arendt; second cousin of Walter Benjamin; student of Husserl and Heidegger; roommate of Marcuse; friend of Brecht; rival of Adorno; attendant of Kojève’s...
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November 20, 2024 at 6:25 AM
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I am so dismayed by and ashamed of my country this week.

Ami Tallman: Diddy and the Don take Ivana cruising
ink, acrylic, gouache, and colored pencil on paper
14” x 10 inches
November 13, 2024 at 8:51 PM