Hotel Bar Sessions

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The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good (with Jennifer Kling)

October 23, 2026

 Most of us know what it’s like to want to do something good and then, on realizing we can’t do it perfectly, do nothing at all. You put off calling a struggling friend until you can give them your undivided attention, and the call never happens. In this Minibar episode, Jennifer Kling pulls up a stool on her own to take a hard look at advice so familiar we’ve stopped hearing it: don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Jen draws on Alexis Shotwell’s critique of moral purity and Iris M...

MINIBAR: AI's Alien Mind (with Leigh M. Johnson)

October 16, 2026

In early September, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra. Most of the headlines were about benchmarks and the model's unsettling talent for finding and exploiting security flaws on its own. A smaller story got far less attention. Days before its launch,The Information reported that Astra uses a technique called "recurrent depth," which lets the model do some of its reasoning in internal loops that never get written down anywhere a human can read. AI safety researchers have spent the past year treating...

MINIBAR: Derrida's First Lecture Series (with Bob Vallier)

October 09, 2026

In this very special "Minibar" episode of Hotel Bar Sessions podcast, co-host Bob Vallier gives us both a sneak peak into and the historical context surrounding the recent English translation (by Michael Naas and Pascale-Anne Brault) of Jacques Derrida's very first lecture series from academic year 1960-1961-- before Derrida became "Derrida"-- entitled To Think is To Say No (Fordham UP, 2026). In this new book, over the course of four lectures, Derrida considers a short aphorism from French p...

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What is the email for Hotel Bar Sessions?

The publicly listed email for Hotel Bar Sessions: deleighmjohnson@gmail.com.

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Hotel Bar Sessions typically books rising experts. Typical guest background: Academic philosophers, humanities scholars, and authors with specialized expertise in ethics, political philosophy, religion, social theory, or related areas. Common among recent guests: University faculty appointment; Authorship of a scholarly book or major intellectual work; Published research in philosophy or related humanities fields. Recent guests include Keshav Singh and Landon Frim.

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Medium. Guests usually need solid credentials in the topic and an idea that fits the show.

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Recent episodes cover Philosophy, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Social Theory, and Religion. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.

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