William Engels

The Lessons of History feat. Dr. Roy Casagranda - Henry Kissinger, the Iraq War, Esoteric Platonism and the Neocons, Cycles in Political Power, Education Reform, Hiroshima, Anarchism, and State Power

I interviewed Roy Casagranda about Henry Kissinger, the Iraq War, the lessons of history, and how to fix everything that's wrong with the world.
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To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Part 1)

I'm reading Virginia Woolf's novel To The Lighthouse and making a free audiobook as I go! Listen on Spotify.
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The Ballroom feat. William Sanchez of Philosophical Rebellion NEW EPISODE OUT NOW ON SPOTIFY AND APPLE PODCASTS

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW ON APPLE AND SPOTIFY

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HEMLOCK HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: HAUNTOLOGY - Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, Left Melancholia, the Arab Spring, Walter Benjamin, and the Slow Cancellation of the Future (H33) | Hemlock Get more from Hemlock on Patreon

NOTHING IS SPOOKIER THAN A DEAD REVOLUTION
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

This article helps to clarify a dark vision against which we must rally. It unifies what otherwise seem like discombobulated chaotic spasms under a shockingly un-American, hopelessly depressing world view necessary for promoting fascism. Excellent synthesis

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Ode to Mark Fisher Part 1: Introduction to Fisherology

New piece out about the late, great Mark Fisher and Capitalist Realism.

"The kind of nostalgia that is now so pervasive may best be characterized not as a longing for the past so much as an inability to make new memories. The past keeps coming back because the present cannot be remembered."

Shadow Ticket rocks, by the way.

Machines of Loving Grace - Palantir, Alex Karp, Alchemy and Science, Brute Force Mimetic Objects, Atomic Poetry, the Automation of Violence, and the Endless Empire of Perpetual Advantage Hemlock #32

New podcast out now about Palantir, Lucky Palmer/Anduril, AI bloomers and doomers, and the neverending quest for technological domination, culminating in Dolby Atmos Surround generative AI slop Labubu terrordomes.

YouTube video by Sabrina Jennings Trump's 20-point "peace" plan for Gaza

There's a ceasefire. Yay! Not so quick. Let's break this down and see what it's really about.

PS. I used the same art for the thumbnail that I had made when Biden made the deal with Bibi. It's the same thing. Bunch of weasels.
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Wow you really did me like that

DD5 - Eichmann in Jerusalem, a review of "Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt" The Banality of Evil, Between Past and Future, Totalitarianism in Democracy, Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger, the ... Get more from Hemlock on Patreon

@notetoselfzine.bsky.social and I thought we would kick the hornet's nest by talking about the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, and the Banality of Evil. Check out our review of Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (public link)
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Hemlock #29 - Welcome to the First Crusade Feat. American Prestige and We're Not So Different: Magic Spears, Starving Franks, Holy Massacres, Historical Himbos, and Why Only the First Crusade Worked History of Philosophy Audio Archive · Episode

Delighted to have discussed the First Crusade with @werenotsodiff.bsky.social and @amprestigepod.bsky.social on my podcast, History of Philosophy Audio Archive. Click here for the primal scene of Western Civilization, talismans, and quirked-up white bois (Normans). open.spotify.com/episode/4Gv9...

YouTube video by Artforum David Lynch (1946-2025) on his lifelong devotion to artmaking | INTERVIEWS

Posting this in advance of my upcoming series on David Lynch. A fantastic interview. The art life is coffee and cigarettes...
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Hemlock #27 - Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025): My Talk w/ Greg Sadler on Virtue Ethics, Zizek and Lacan, Modes of Rationality, Effective Altruism /Bentham, After Virtue, Thomism, Mill, & Heavy Metal History of Philosophy Audio Archive · Episode

Thrilled and honored to have remembered Alasdair MacIntyre's life and philosophy with Greg Sadler!
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Hell yeah, thank you!

DocDocs #3 - Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat: Patrice Lumumba and the CIA, Dizzy Gillespie for President, Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, The Great Nina Simone, Frantz Fanon, Congo Liberation, Uranium, IMF, Jazz History of Philosophy Audio Archive · Episode

The latest episode of Documentary Doctors with me and my friend @william-engels.bsky.social ! There's jazz. There's bad ass women. There's a grown man banging his shoe on the table. Check it out!

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Excellent. That same TS Eliot gut punch.

How to fix problems in your life.

If you are interested in coming on the show or collaborating in any way please use the contact form or use my Substack email

13 Two-Sentence Film and Book Reviews Art and Literature Lightning Round from January to February

Needs some reviews and recommendations? Here's my reader's digest for the last few months:
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Happy 4th my fellow Burgers:
w burger, w jazz, L racism, L heart disease rates, L highest greenhouse emitter, w sick rollercoaster parks, L fascist serial rapist reality tv president, w polio vaccine, L RFK jr banning vaccine research, w right to revolution, L corndogs, L CIA still exists, w Costco

Yeah Jimmy Baldwin said that in 1959 dude and he was late even then

Hemlock #24 - Countdown: Journalist Sarah Scoles on Nuclear Weapons Safety, Jill Tarter and SETI, Nuclear LARPing, the Golden Dome and Missile Defense, and What Really Happens at Los Alamos | Hemlock Get more from Hemlock on Patreon

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Hemlock #24 - Countdown: Journalist Sarah Scoles on Nuclear Weapons Safety, Jill Tarter and SETI, Nuclear LARPing, the Golden Dome and Missile Defense, and What Really Happens at Los Alamos History of Philosophy Audio Archive · Episode

Very happy to release my episode on government labs, nuclear weapons safety, nonproliferation, UFOs and more with @sarahscoles.bsky.social - had a blast (in the non-literal sense, luckily) and highly recommend.
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Hemlock #22 - Congratulations to the Neocons: We're Now At War with Iraq - Also the Effective Altruist/AI Grifters, Because That's What I Wanted To Talk About Before The Bombing Began History of Philosophy Audio Archive · Episode

We're now bombing Iran and I just wanna say...don't.
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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...

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[A] lone protester was at last present... At the deportation officer recruiting table, he asked the agent, “Have you read Eichmann in Jerusalem?”

“Do you know what the Nazis said?” he asked. “They said they were just following orders. How do you think of your own work in this context?”

Hemlock #21 - Iran in the Modern World: Five Sideways Reflections, Operation AJAX, FDR and the Yalta Pact with Saudi Arabia, Oil and the AIOC, Mossadegh, Israel, Nuclear Blackmail, and the Great Satan History of Philosophy Audio Archive · Episode

New episode about Iran. Featuring the CIA.
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