Parenting
The lived experience and practice of raising children — bonding, identity change, and the way becoming a parent reshapes a person's preferences and values in ways their pre-parent self could not predict. A perennial theme in literature about meaning, sacrifice, inheritance, and the limits of self-knowledge — and an area where philosophical disagreements about autonomy, nature vs nurture, and the proper aims of education tend to surface most starkly.
Episodes
- 74. James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues: That Scotch and Milk Goes Down Smooth
- 63. American Pastoral, part 1: Baby's First Lit Fic
- 31. The Moviegoer: In which we escape a deep existential malaise
- 11. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 3: Was David Foster Wallace a hideous man?
- 1. Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 1: Memeing big fat juicy asses into reality