Quantum mechanics is an unsettling set of discoveries about the nature of reality. But for the Dalai Lama, quantum mechanics is much closer to the Buddhist understanding of the world, where appearance and reality never quite converge. ministryofideas.org/illumina…

Illuminations, a new @ministryofideas series, is now live! Episode 1 is about the first scientific bestseller, how the fall of Adam led to the scientific revolution, and how the original meanings of science and religion can guide us to a better future. ministryofideas.org/illumina…

On Oct 24th, @ministryofideas is launching Illuminations, a new podcast series about the untold friendship of religion and science. For those in the New England area, please join us for a launch party at @HarvardDivinity 10/24 5:30pm. More info here 👇 ministryofideas.org/illumina…

A crisis of meaning can be painful and wrenching, but as @platospodcasts beautifully describes, these encounters with the abyss can also be moments of rebirth and expansion, where we give up our smaller selves and become something more. ministryofideas.org/episodes…

Making Meaning Episode 3: The Weight of the World The ideology of capitalism breaks our hearts and blinds us to the source of our most abundant meaning—relationships and solidarity with other people. Feat. Kathryn Lofton, Dean of Humanities at @Yale. ministryofideas.org/episodes…

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is famous as a play about nothing, but it has endured because it is in fact a play about life. For what is life but a sequential collection of waitings? New Writ Large episode featuring the wonderful Peter Connor. writlarge.fm/episodes/godot

I'm happy to announce a new podcast series I've been working on the last couple of years: Making Meaning Like many people, the pandemic made asking the big questions of existence feel newly urgent. Especially the big question: what is life for? How can my life be meaningful?

Writ Large released its 100th episode today! A centennial episode has to be special, and it was an easy choice at the end: Hamlet. (Harold Bloom would've haunted me otherwise) I'm joined by the great Michael Dobson of the @ShakesInstitute. writlarge.fm/episodes/hamlet

Don Quixote is the funniest book you will ever read. 400 years old and it still busts a gut! But as Timothy Hampton discusses in our new @writlargepod episode, it's also a brilliant exploration of the seductive and transformative power of fiction. writlarge.fm/episodes/quixot…

New @ministryofideas episode on the changing nature of national borders and the moral tragedy of America's arbitrary implementation of international refugee laws. Featuring interviews with @DeborahAnker, @adrian_rennix, and @chowmak. ministryofideas.org/episodes…

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a story about life, death, endings, and beginnings. It invites its readers to think about their own past, and accept the complex and mysterious forces that have shaped them. New Writ Large feat. @stanford’s Hector Hoyos. writlarge.fm/episodes/100yea…

Writ Large will publish its 100th episode in a few weeks. To celebrate, we're throwing a party. All welcome. Thank you for supporting the show, it's been the most wonderful intellectual experience of my life to learn from the extraordinary scholars featured in the series.

Martin Jay is one of the great scholars of our time. In our new Writ Large episode, he teaches one of his favorite books, Hans Blumenberg's The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, a challenging & rewarding exploration of the meaning & character of modernity. writlarge.fm/episodes/legiti…

In our latest @writlargepod episode, @UCBerkeley's @dora__zhang discusses Virginia Woolf's pioneering and captivating modernist masterpiece, Mrs. Dalloway, writlarge.fm/episodes/dallow…