Thinking Small About Alternate History
Are optimistic alternate histories blasphemy? And why do alternate histories have to be about world changing events, instead of say, condiment choices?
Religion on Overthinking It
Overthinking Eurovision 2017: All Things Flow
Can Francesco Gabbani reconcile western materialism with eastern spirituality in Italy’s 2017 entry in the Eurovision Song Contest?
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What Does it Take to Get Into The Good Place?
What do we actually know about what it takes to get into the Good Place? A deep dive into the sitcom afterlife.
Episode 244: An Alternative To Rock
On the TFT Podcast, we tackle Tori Amos’s solo debut, “Little Earthquakes.”
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Episode 442: Success Has Many Darth Vaders; Failure is an Orphan
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
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Episode 235: I’m Leonard and You’re God, and I’m Outta Heeeeeeere
On the TFT Podcast, we listen to and discuss Leonard Cohen’s “You Want It Darker.”
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San Junipero is a Place on Earth: Black Mirror and the Afterlife
Can your consciousness–and your immortal soul–be uploaded into the cloud?
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Episode 229: The Naked Baby is Now an Uber Driver
On the TFT Podcast, we listen to and discuss Nirvana’s unexpected 1991 hit, “Nevermind.”
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Episode 214: A Hip Hop Figure on a Gospel Background
On the TFT Podcast, we listen to and discuss “Coloring Book,” the new full-length mixtape by Chance the Rapper.
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Penn Station and the Nine Circles of Hell
Hell as described by Dante’s Inferno is actually a terrible metaphor for Penn Station. But let’s humor the Governor and try to map Penn Station’s sins to the nine circles of hell.
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