Broken but Readable

society, culture, philosophy · EN

This is a podcast with short episodes for people who feel vaguely insane watching the news but still believe moral seriousness is possible.Each episode runs 10-20 minutes. I usually start with something human: a stray thought, a joke that maybe goes too far, a glimpse of my interior life. Then I pivot, as cleanly as I can, into a morally serious argument about power, politics, institutions, or whatever fresh confusion the world has served up that week. I’m less interested in taking sides than in asking why so many arguments collapse the moment more than one thing is allowed to be true.I’m not here to sound authoritative, or neutral, or soothing. I’m here to think out loud in good faith, to name the pressures operating behind the scenes, and to ask what kind of people we become when fear, ambiguity, and convenience start doing the work that principles used to do. If it sparks disagreement, good. If it sparks reflection, even better. Mostly, this is an attempt to stay human while takin