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. Joseph Diller: And I’m Joseph Diller. Matt Teichman: With us today is Oliver Traldi, postdoc at the James Madison Program at Princeton University, and visiting assistant professor at the University of Tulsa Honors College....
Transcript: Episode 155 with Rebecca Lowe on speaking freely
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Prexie Magallanes as Trans-Expert. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today is Rebecca Lowe, Philosophy Senior Research Fellow and Director of Emerging Scholars at the Mercatus Center, and she’s here to discuss speaking freely. Rebecca Lowe, welcome to Elucidations....
Transcript: Episode 148 with Christos Lazaridis on brain death
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 Christos Lazaridis, a neurointensivist at the University of Chicago, and he’s here to discuss brain death. Christos Lazaridis, welcome. Christos Lazaridis: Thank you so much for having me, Matt....
Transcript: Episode 149 with Lainie Ross and Christos Lazaridis on defining death
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 are Lainie Ross, Carolyn and Matthew Bucksbaum Professor of Clinical Ethics at University of Chicago Medicine, and Christos Lazaridis, Associate Professor of Neurology at University of Chicago Medicine....
Episode 156: Oliver Traldi discusses political expertise
Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: episode 156 was recorded in June of 2024. Full transcript here. For this episode, Matt Teichman and Joseph Diller sit down with Oliver Traldi (University of Toledo, Mercatus Center) to talk about political expertise. Click here to download Episode 156 of Elucidations. What does it mean to be an expert in something?...
Emacs, GPG Agent, and SSH Agent as user-level daemons
Greetings, earthlings. This is a blog post explaining how to run Emacs, GPG Agent, and SSH Agent as user-level daemons, mostly using systemd. I do so on Arch Linux, but in principle, this setup should work fine on any Linux distribution that uses systemd. Prerequisites This post assumes an “I run Linux on my computer” level of tech-savviness. The portions of this post that pertain to Emacs also assume that you are an Emacs user....
Episode 155: Rebecca Lowe discusses speaking freely
Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: episode 155 was recorded in October of 2025. Full transcript here. Last episode, we talked about free speech, and this time, we sit down with Rebecca Lowe (Mercatus Center) to discuss the related but slightly different topic of speaking freely. Click here to download Episode 155 of Elucidations. Speaking freely: the thing you feel entitled to do when a superior says to you: “you may speak freely....
Transcript: Episode 152 with Luca Gattoni-Celli on the housing crisis
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 us today is Luca Gattoni-Celli, founder of YIMBYs of Northern Virginia and author of the Cornerstone Substack about housing, urbanism, and the world we build for each other. He is here to discuss the housing crisis and how to fix it....
Transcript: Episode 154 with Greg Salmieri on free speech, 'cancel culture,' and 'academic freedom'
Subscribe to Elucidations: Episode post here. Transcription by Farjan Halim. Matt Teichman: Hello and welcome to Elucidations, an unexpected philosophy podcast. I’m Matt Teichman, and with me today (once again) is Greg Salmieri, Senior Philosophy Scholar at the Salem Center, at the University of Texas at Austin. He’s here to discuss free speech, “cancel culture,” and “academic freedom....
Episode 154: Greg Salmieri discusses free speech, 'cancel culture,' and 'academic freedom'
Subscribe to Elucidations: Note: this was recorded in November of 2022. Full transcript here. 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....