The first episode of Fight Club is…
The first of your hosts' two episodes on the significance and genius of David Fincher's 1999 masterpiece Fight Club. In this episode: experiencing the...
Living in the End Times
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Whether the subject in question is democracy, climate change, biomedical engineering, or the American university, it is clear that the society we have known will soon no longer be. As humankind stares into an abyss the bottom of which we cannot yet see, the producers of Living in The End Times thought it prudent to discuss the tumult around us and our species’ prospects for the future. We hope you will join in the conversation.
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