Escaping the Cave

Nevin joins the show to help explore what individuals ought to be held responsible for and how we might be freed from some of our most common enclosures. Along the way, they touch on a range of related topics including:

- intentions vs outcomes

- reevaluating nature vs nurture

- the historical disenfranchisement of Indigenous Americans

- systemic vs institutional racism

- limits of the adversarial nature of law

- the incarcerated population vs lawyers

- stop-and-frisk

- the value of enlightenment ideals

and much more!

If you've found this project valuable, check out the new extension of Impostors Anonymous at impostorsanonymous.substack.com where you can find additional content and even submit your own work to be shared, anonymously of course, with the IA community.

A brief profile of Thomas Sowell, the economist and social theorist mentioned - https://www.hoover.org/profiles/thomas-sowell

The international nonprofit distributing enlightenment literature in authoritarian states - https://www.ideasbeyondborders.org/

Republic: "The Allegory of the Cave" by Plato