Episode 74: Cheap Liberal Arts Relativism

Back to Work

English - July 02, 2012 20:30 - 1 hour - 39.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 2K ratings
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TOPIC: How Much Honesty Can We Stand?

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about how ridiculously complex "Honesty" can be. Do "Candor," "Transparency," "Frankness," and all those other Capital Letter Nouns mean the same thing?

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Radical Honesty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946
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Neighbors | This American Life
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TOPIC: How Much Honesty Can We Stand?

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about how ridiculously complex "Honesty" can be. Do "Candor," "Transparency," "Frankness," and all those other Capital Letter Nouns mean the same thing?

Links for this episode:

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