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The Morality of Everyday Things is a philosophy podcast (top 0.1% most listened to, in fact!) that guides you through the moral questions we may all wonder in life, from "Should billionaires exist?" to "Is God a good thing?" Join Jake and Ant, two friends who studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford before founding Stasher.com together, as they still find time to enjoy philosophy in their sparetime when they break down the key arguments on these and other everyday ethical issues.This podcast is for anyone who wants to learn more about philosophy and morality in a fun and...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Everyday controversies become approachable moral arguments through Jake and Ant's mix of economic context, philosophical frameworks and conversational humor.
Jake and Ant take moral questions out of the seminar room and put them into animated, good-humored conversation. Their discussions move from NFT speculation and football wages to medicine pricing, happiness and suffering, testing personal intuitions against economics and…
NFT prices get a philosophy workout, and your snap judgment may need a second draft.
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A focused debut that turns billionaire ethics into a disciplined conversation.
The episode on The Morality of Everyday Things stays centered on one question: should billionaires exist? It moves through moral philosophy and economic theory, then uses Rawls and Nozick to separate concern for the worst off from arguments about property rights and fair…
A basic income discussion that stays focused on justice and fairness.
The episode treats universal basic income as more than a policy pitch. Jake and Guy Standing move between the economic case and the moral one, with Standing coming back to justice, including the burden pollution places on poorer people.
A sharp look at who decides what counts as news.
The episode treats the Titan disaster off Newfoundland less as spectacle than as a case study in how news becomes legible. It moves cleanly from the incident into news values, agenda setting, and framing, keeping the focus on how an event gets selected, packaged, and made to…
A practical look at how universal basic income could be funded, with Standing favoring wealth and pollution taxes over big income tax rises.
After the case for universal basic income is laid out, the talk moves into the harder question of who pays. Guy Standing pushes back on large income tax rises in a globalized system and leans instead toward wealth taxes, eco-fiscal policy, and levies that make pollution…
A clear argument about religion as a moral tool, with the social and cultural case carrying the most weight.
The discussion asks a plain but tricky question: whether religion still matters when belief is no longer the point. It works best when it treats religion as a moral and political instrument, not only a matter of faith.
A philosophy chat that treats pain as a lived, ordinary problem.
Ant and Jake talk with Kieran Setiya about Life Is Hard, and the episode is at its best when it keeps returning to a plain but unsettled question: what pain does to the mind, and why relief rarely arrives in the shape people expect.
A sharp look at fear, truth, and the damage bad management does to a culture.
This episode starts with Dominic Raab and a Jacob Rees-Mogg quote, then keeps circling back to a simpler concern: what fear does when the person at the top is the one causing it.
A practical, unsentimental discussion of how philosophy can meet suffering.
The episode treats philosophy as something that has to hold up once pain, sickness, and death stop being abstract. It opens with a joke about the philosopher who can answer almost anything except CPR, then uses Life Is Hard to make the case that clarity can be more honest than…
Ryan Holiday pairs daily Stoic lessons with long-form guest conversations at his Texas bookstore.
Philosopher Barry Lam turns reported stories — gig algorithms, AI music, vampires — into philosophical inquiry.
Economist Glenn Loury interviews one guest at a time on race, religion, and geopolitics.
Peter Boghossian applies street epistemology to guests debating free speech, immigration, and belief.
Vox's narrative reporting on factory farming, pandemic risk, and its Good Robot AI safety series.
Jake and Anthony pick up the conversation after the why of universal basic income and move straight into the awkward question of implementation.
The Morality of Everyday Things episode “Are NFTs a Scam?
The hosts kick off with the noise of a final-day football run-in and use it to ask what sport is really for.
The Morality of Everyday Things episode links The Matrix, the Brain in a Vat, solipsism, and Descartes' 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy.
The first official episode starts with a reset.
Ant and Jake open with Kieran Setiya, the MIT philosopher behind Life Is Hard.
The hosts open on Dominic Raab's resignation over bullying accusations.
The conversation opens on universal basic income and the old question underneath it.
Jake and Ant open with Daraprim and the Martin Shkreli price hike.
The hosts analyze the Titan submarine accident to explore what makes stories newsworthy, discussing frameworks like Galtung and Ruge's criteria, Baudrillard's hyperreality, and Chomsky's propaganda model.
In part three of their series on whether God is a good thing, hosts Jake and Ant explore the source of moral authority in religion, focusing on divine command theory and the Euthyphro dilemma.
Kieran Setiya says injustice is easier to recognize in cases like dispossession of Indigenous people, chattel slavery, Jim Crow, police brutality, and voter suppression than to define in one theory.
The Morality of Everyday Things episode “Is God a good thing?
Jake and Ant discuss Kieran Setia’s 2022 book Life is Hard, which is organized around pain, loneliness, grief, failure, injustice, the absurd, and hope.
The Morality of Everyday Things episode on happiness opens with the Mexican fishing captain anecdote, then uses it to question whether “the purpose of life is not to be happy” or to build an empire.
The Morality of Everyday Things episode "Is 'God' a good thing?
The hosts explore absurdism, using Albert Camus' philosophy and the myth of Sisyphus to discuss how to find meaning in a seemingly meaningless life.
Jake and Ant tackle the question of whether footballers are overpaid.