Culture

This episode traces how the Enlightenment's liberation of reason also unraveled the shared moral scripts that once bound societies together. From the Milgram experiment to the algorithms of social media, it examines how obedience and signaling replaced conviction as the engines of moral behavior.

A look at how modern art and academia often turn into status loops, where signaling and shared rituals overshadow genuine insight.

A look at how today's political rifts run deeper than ideology, shaped by fundamentally different ways of engaging with reality.