Episode 19 - Social Science: Historicism, Social Engineering, and the Case of Edward Bernays

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Who was right? Plato, Aristotle, neither, or both? Tough questions deserving a lifetime of study, or so thinks MoFo. What did Karl Popper think? (Hint: It wasn’t Plato!) Once Popper distinguishes historicism from social engineering as two strains within social thought, the strange case of Edward Bernays may make your skin crawl. As Bernays may have intended it! Listen in . . .

Episode 17 - The Declaration of Independence and the "Founding Fathers" Who Did Not Sign It

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Be it known to all that MoFo has indeed read the Declaration of Independence, and that he has noted that four of the so-called “Founding Fathers” did not sign the Declaration of Independence by reason of the exculpatory conditions articulated herein.