Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: this was recorded in November of 2022. In the latest episode of Elucidations, Greg Salmieri (University of Texas) joins us once again, this time to discuss freedom of speech. Click here to download Episode 154 of Elucidations. Free speech talk has been in the air, on the internet, for the past decade....
Transcript: Episode 151 with Witold Więcek on statistics and academic research
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Magallanes. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Witold Więcek, Consulting Director for Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago, and he’s here to discuss statistics and academic research. Witold Więcek, welcome....
Transcript: Episode 153 with Sam Enright on lifelong learning
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Gavin Leech. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Sam Enright, editor-in-chief of The Fitzwilliam, which is an online publication about Ireland, policy, philosophy, and literature. He is also a non-resident fellow at the policy think tank Progress Ireland and an Emergent Ventures fellow....
Episode 153: Sam Enright discusses lifelong learning
Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: this episode was recorded in March of 2025. Full transcript here. In the latest episode of Elucidations, Sam Enright (Progress Ireland, The Fitzwilliam) instructs us in the delicate art of learning forever. Click here to download Episode 153 of Elucidations. If you’re one of those people who responds well to formal education, chances are you’ve spent 10-20 years of your life as a student....
Episode 152: Luca Gattoni-Celli discusses the housing crisis
Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: this episode was recorded in March of 2024. This time around, Matt talks to Luca Gattoni-Celli about why it’s so expensive to buy a house. Click here to download episode 152 of Elucidations. In the 80s, people from all sorts of socioeconomic backgrounds were able to afford apartments and houses in places like New York City, San Francisco, or London....
Connecting to the UChicago VPN with networkmanager-openconnect
Hello, party people. This is a blog post explaining how to connect to the University of Chicago VPN using Network Manager and openconnect from an Arch Linux machine with no desktop environment installed. Prerequisites This post assumes an “I run Linux on my computer” level of tech-savviness. If you don’t know what any of those words mean, or if this post employs concepts that you don’t understand but would like to, please feel free to get in touch with me and I’ll be happy to write a follow-up post explaining whatever you’d like to know about....
Transcript: Episode 150 with Shruti Rajagopalan on talent in India
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Miranda Abainza Magallanes. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Shruti Rajagopalan, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, Fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University School of Law, host of the Ideas of India podcast, which I recommend you check out, and author of the Get Down and Shruti substack, which I also highly recommend you check out....
Episode 151: Witold Więcek discusses statistics and academic research
Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: this episode was recorded in August of 2022. Full transcript here. In the latest Elucidation, Matt talks to Witold Więcek about the difficulties that come up for researchers who would like to draw upon statistics. Click here to download episode 151 of Elucidations. Lots of academic fields need to draw heavily on statistics, whether it’s economics, psychology, sociologym, linguistics, computer science, or data science....
Episode 150: Shruti Rajagopalan discusses talent in India
Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: this episode was recorded in April of 2023. Full transcript here. In this episode, Matt sits down with Shruti Rajagopalan (Mercatus Center) to talk about what the future holds for India. Click here to download episode 150 of Elucidations. We often have a tendency to think of the current economic and geopolitical situation as simply the way things are....
Are Philosophers Comedians?
The philosopher Wittgenstein famously said in Culture and Value: “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” My interest in this article is to analyze what Wittgenstein here means. In the Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein described the task of philosophy as being “to show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.” Humor has a certain way of cutting through language, of getting to the truth of whatever game is at hand....