Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:51:39 +0800WeeblyFri, 27 Feb 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/march-2025-february-2026TV Shows
The thick of it, S1–S4 (2005–2012)

Movies

• The passion of Joan of Arc (1928) CT Dreyer
• Odd man out (1947) C Reed
• The treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) J. Huston
• The lower depths (1957) A. Kurosawa
• Black sunday (1960) M. Bava
• Pale flower (1964) M Shinoda
• Le deuxieme souffle (1966) JP Melville
• The merchant of four seasons (1972) RW Fassbinder
• Outland (1981) P. Hyams
• The hit (1984) S Frears
• Withnail and I (1987) B Robinson
• Alien3 (1992) D Fincher
• Demolition man (1993) M. Brambilla [Nostalgia]
• The fugitive (1993) A. Davis [Nostalgia]
• Tombstone (1993) GP Cosmatos
• Sexy beast (2000) J. Glazer
• Sweet sixteen (2002) K. Loach
• Down terrace (2009) B. Wheatley
• The bikeriders (2023) J Nichols
• Furiosa (2024) G Miller
• Alien Romulus (2024) F Alvarez
• One battle after another (2025) PT Anderson

Papers

• The history of art as a humanistic discipline 1938 E Panofski
• Self-defense 1991 J. Thomson
• Killing in self-defense 1994 M Otsuka
• Self-defense and the problem of the innocent attacker 1994 J McMahan
• A distinction in value 1999 W Rabinowicz & T Ronnow-Rasmussen
• The basis of moral liability to defensive killing 2005 J McMahan
• Headaches, lives and value 2009 D Dorsey
• On the nature and significance of organic unities 2015 M Zimmerman
• But is it science fiction? 2015 S Evnine
• Worse than the best possible pessimism? 2021 C janaway
• Beyond categorical definitions of life 2021 C Malaterre & J Chartier
• Bernard Williams and the relativism of distance 2024 P Sagar

Books

• The birth of tragedy 1872 F Nietzsche​
  
• Principia Ethica 1903 G Moore
  
• A philosophy of computer art 2010 D Lopes
• Value theory 2015 F Orsi

Literature

• Bacchae Euripides
  
• Tonio Kroger 1901 T Mann
  
• E Ionescu 1954 Amedee
• G Bassani 1968 L'airone
• The last feast of Harlequin 1990 T Ligotti 

]]>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/march-31st-2025From January 2025 to March 2025, I liked these:

TV Shows & Movies

• In the Mouth of Madness 1994 J Carpenter
• Drifting Clouds 1996 Aki Kaurismaki
• Black Mirror: San Junipero 2016
• Black Mirror: Hang the DJ 2017
• Black Mirror: Metalhead 2017
• Alita Battle Angel 2019 R Rodriguez
• Nosferatu 2024 R Eggers

Papers

• R Chang 2004 All things considered
• R Rini 2020 Deepfakes and the epistemic backstop
• C Thi Nguyen 2021 How Twitter gamifies communication
• B Hedden & D Munoz 2024 Dimensions of value
• C Thi Nguyen 2024 Value capture
• E Borg 2025 LLMs, Turing tests and Chinese rooms
• C Anscomb Forthcoming AI artistic collaborator? 

Books

• J Levin 2022 The Metaphysics of Mind
• J Borg, W Sinnott-Armstrong, V Conitzer 2024 Moral AI

]]>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/december-31st-2024From June 2024 to December 2024, I liked these: 

TV Shows & Movies

• The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 CT Dreyer
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston
• Alien 3 1992 David Fincher
• Sexy Beast 2000 Jonathan Glazer
• Sweet Sixteen 2002 Ken Loach
• Down Terrace 2009 Ben Wheatley
• Alien: Romulus 2024 F Alvarez
• Furiosa 2024 G Miller

Papers

• R Chang 2002 The possibility of parity
• R Chang 2013 Incommensurability (and incomparability)
• S Kagan 2014 Introduction to ill-being
• G Kahane 2014 Our cosmic insignificance
• R Bader 2016 Conditions, modifiers and holism
• D Parfit 2016 Can we avoid the repugnant conclusion? 
• D Parfit 2017 Future people, the non-identity problem and person-affecting principles
• J Thoma 2023 Taking risks on behalf of another
• G Bradford 2023 Uniqueness, intrinsic value, and reasons
• G Bradford 2024 Irreplaceable value

Books

• B Christian 2020 The alignment problem

]]>Thu, 30 May 2024 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/may-31st-2024This month I liked these: 

TV Shows & Movies

• The Thick of It, Season 4
  
• Demolition Man 1993 Marco Brambilla
• The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis

Papers

• L. Bergstrom 1978 The Consequences of Pessimism
• P. Voorhoeve 2014 How Should We Aggregate Competing Claims?
• A. Schwenkenbecher 2014 Joint Moral Duties
• J. Neksky 2015 Fairness, Participation and the Real Problem of Collective Harm
• D. Benatar 2015 Anti-natalism
• G. Arrhenius & W. Rabinowicz 2015 Value Superiority
• J. Nefsky 2017 How Can You Help Without Making a Difference
• K. Ludwig 2020 From Individual to Collective Responsibility
• A. Schwenkenbecher 2020 The Possibility of Collective Moral Obligations
• J. Horton 2021 Partial Aggregation in Ethics
• R. Pettigrew 2024 Should Longtermists Recommend Hastening Extinction Rather Than Delaying it?

Podcast​

• This Means War: NATO isn’t perfect (but it isn’t going badly either)
• Gone Medieval: Joan of Arc
• In our Time: Edgar Allan Poe
• In our Time: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

]]>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/april-30th-2024This month I liked these: 

TV Shows

• The Thick of It, Season 1, 2 and 3

Papers

• D. Dorsey 2009 Headaches, Lives, and Value
• T. Hurka 2010 Asymmetries in Value
• R. Crisp 2022 Pessimism about the Future
• D. Pallies, Pessimism and Procreation

Books

• A de Shalit 1995 Why Posterity Matters
• D. Benatar 2006 Better Never to Have Been

Podcast​

• Not Just the Tudors: Erasmus
• American History Hit: Ulysses S. Grant & the Civil War
• Hear this Idea: Anna Alexandrova on Measuring Well-Being
• American History Hit: NATO: 75 Years Deterring Armageddon
• In Our Time: Victorian Pessimism
• Philosophy Bites: David Bather Woods on Arthur Schopenhauer on Compassion
• Hermitix: Zapffe, Kierkegaard, and Anti-Natalism with Roe Fremstedal
• Hermitix: The Philosophy of Philipp Mainländer with Roel Theeuwen
• Hermitix: The Philosophy of Peter Wessel Zapffe – Part 1

]]>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/march-31st-2024This month I liked these: 

TV Shows

• Stranger Things, Season 1 & 2.
• The Bear, Season 1

Books

• Nandi Theunissen 2020 The Value of Humanity
• A. Gosseries 2023 What is Intergenerational Justice? 

Podcast​

• History of Philosophy in China: HPC 01
• Hermitix: Nihilism in the 19th Century with Jon Stewart
• Philosophy Bites: Yascha Mounk on the Identity Trap
• Betwixt the Sheets: The Celebrity Sex Worker of Ancient Greece

]]>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/february-29th-2024This month I liked these: 

Movies

• P.M. Glaser 1987 The running man

Papers

• J. Mosquera 2022 Rule-consequentialism, procreative freedom and future generations

Books

• J. Raz 2001 Value, respect, attachment

Podcast​

• Social Sciences Bites: Gerd Gigerenzer on Decision Making
• Social Sciences Bites: Tejendra Pherali on Education and Conflict
• New Books in Philosophy: Lisa Herzog. Citizen Knowledge
• Modern War Institute: From Hezbollah to the Houthis
• Military History: Timothy Sayle, Enduring Alliance
• New Books in Philosophy: Michael Devitt, Biological Essentialism
• Elucidations: Michael Devitt discusses reference
• Legacy: Gorbachev, The Boy from Stavropol
• Empire: Hezbollah, The Party of God
• New Books in Philosophy: Alessandra Tanesini, The Mismeasure of the Self
• Military History: Paul Scharre, Four Battlegrounds

]]>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/january-31st-2024This month I liked these: 

Papers

• F. Jackson 1991 Decision-theoretic consequentialism and the nearest and dearest objection
• D. Sobel 2007 The impotence of the demandingness objection
• S. Wolf 2016 Two concepts of rule utilitarianism
• M. Croce 2019 Exemplarism in moral education
• D. Sobel 2020 Understanding the demandingness objection
• D. Copp 2020 The rule worship and idealization objections revisited and revitilised
• B. Hooker 2020 The role(s) of rules in consequentialist ethics
• D. E. Miller 2021 Moral education and rule consequentialism

Books

• E. Wiesel 1960 Night

Podcast​

• Higher Ed Now: Colin Diver: Breaking ranks with the college ranking system
• The Rest is History: The Mystery of the Cathars
• Gone Medieval: The Rise of Christianity (Peter Heather)
• The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: 209 It’s the Thought that Counts – Abelard’s Ethics
• New Books in Philosophy: Cristina Bicchieri, Norms in the Wild
• American History Hit: New Orleans Voodoo
• Economics: John Qiggin, Economics in Two Lessons
• The Ancients: Cicero
• Brain in a Vat: Why Israel’s Response to Hamas was Justified|Natasha Hausdorff
• In Our Time: Vincent Van Gogh
• Empire: China’s Greatest Admiral: The Story of Zheng He
• Gone Medieval: Harold Godwinson
• Gone Medieval: Harald Hardrada
• Gone Medieval: William the Conqueror
• Gone Medieval: The Battle of Hastings

]]>Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/december-31st-2023This month I liked these: 

Movies

• B Singer 1995 The Usual Suspect
• S Jones 1999 Being John Malkovic

Papers

• B Williams 2000 Philosophy as a humanistic discipline
• J McMahan 2013 Causing people to exist and saving people's lives
• T Mulgan 2014 Utilitarianism and our obligations to future people
• T Mulgan 2018 Answering to future people
• J McMahan 2021 Climate change, war and the non-identity problem

Books

• T Mulgan 2006 Future People
• T Mulgan 2011 Ethics for a Broken World
• T Mulgan 2020 Utilitarianism

Podcast​

• In Our Time: Hegel’s Philosophy of History
• History Extra Podcast: Du Fu: China’s greatest poet
• The Inquiring Mind Podcast: 14. The Ravine with Wendy Lower
• In Our Time: Catharism
• Military History: Martin C. Dean, Investigating Babyn Yar
• History Extra: Nazi Germany: the myth of the innocent bystander
• History Extra: The Holocaust: a 21st-century view
• New Books in Philosophy: Luke Russell, Being Evil
• The Ancients: Homer
• New Books in Philosophy: Elijah Millgram, JS Mill and the meaning of life

]]>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/november-30th-2023This month I liked these: 

Movies

• P Verhoeven 1997 Starship Troopers
• D Fincher 2023 The killer

Papers

• T Mulgan 2014 Ethics for possible futures
• D. Pritchard 2015 Risk

Books

• T Mulgan 2006 Future People
• T Mulgan 2011 Ethics for a Broken World
• T Mulgan 2020 Utilitarianism

Podcast​s

• Hermitix: In defence of the humanities with Eric Adler
• Empire: 95. The History of Putin’s War
• New Books in Philosophy: Michael Gill, A Philosophy of Beauty
• Brain in a vat: David Benatar on the Israel Palestine Conflict
• The Ancients: Origins of Gaza
• The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: 351. Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli
• Modern War Institute: Understanding Hamas
• In Our Time: Machiavelli and the Italian City States
• Not Just the Tudors: Oliver Cromwell
• Betwixt the Sheets: Ancient Goddesses of Sex and War
• This Means War: Future War, Technology and Strategy

]]>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/october-31st-2023month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies/Tv Shows

• Blackadder Goes Forth (S4) 1989
• The Vicar of Dibley, Season 1 – 2 1994–7

Papers

• P Foot 1978 Virtues and vices

Books

• D Thomas 1954 Under Milk Wood

Podcast

• Dan Snow’s History Hit: Roman Emperors with Mary Beard
• BBC In Our Time: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Military History Books: Gwendolyn Sasse, Russia’s War Against Ukraine
• In Our Time: The Venerable Bede
• Philosophy Bites: Roger Crisp on Virtue
• Empire: 41. The Rise of Ataturk
• History Hit Extra: Slave traders
• Philosophy Bites: Michael Lamb on Augustine on Hope
• Military History: The Gaza War in Military-Historical Perspective
• Modern War Institute: Combined Arms in Gaza
• Old China Books: Lawrence Zhang on Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China
• Modern War Institute: What Was Hamas Thinking
• In Conversation, An OUP Podcast: Jonathan Leader Maynard, Ideology and Mass Killing
• The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: 409 One to rule them all – Jean Bodin

]]>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/september-30th-2023This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies/Tv Shows

• The last of the Mohicans 1992 M Mann
• Top Boy, S3 & S4.
  

Papers

• MP Golding 1972 Obligations to future generations
• G Cullity 1995 Moral character and the iteration problem
• J Raibley 2010 Well-being and the priority of values
• K Ritche 2015 The metaphysics of social groups
• B Eggleston 2017 Mill's moral standard
• R Crisp 2014 Taking stock of utilitarianism

Books

• J. S. Mill 1861 Utilitarianism
• B Hooker 2000 Ideal code, real world
• J Broome 2012 Climate matters

Podcast

• History Extra: Rome v Carthage
• The Ancients: Messalina, Empress of Rome
• The Ancients: Athena, Goddess of Wisdom
• Philosophy Bites: Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality
• BBC In Our Time: Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality
• History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: Not Matter, But Me – Michel de Montaigne
• History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: Don’t Be So Sure – French Skepticism
• History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps: Henrik Lagerlund on Renaissance Skepticism
• Philosophy Bites: Paul Boghossian on Moral Relativism
• Philosophy Bites: Simon Blackburn on Moral Relativism
• MCMP: John Broome, The public and private morality of climate change
• BBC In Our Time: Dylan Thomas

]]>Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/august-31st-2023This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Papers

• N Oreskes 2007 The scientific consensus on climate change
• B Hooker 2013 Egoism, partiality and impartiality
• R Gifford & A Nilsson 2014 Personal and social factors that influence pro-environmental concern and behaviour
• S Caney 2018 Justice and posterity

Books

• T McPherson 2020 Epistemology and methodology in ethics
• S Gardiner 2011 A perfect moral storm

Podcast

• Warfare: Tito President of Yugoslavia
• BBC In Our Time: The May Fourth Movement (2021)
• Modern War Institute: Securing NATO’s Baltic Front
• Warfare: Putin’s rise to power
• New Books in Philosophy: C. Andreou, Choosing Well
• New Books in Military History: M. Edele, Russia’s War Against Ukraine
• New Books in Military History: S. Ramani, Putin’s War on Ukraine
• History Extra: Big questions of the Crimean War
• History Extra: The lost world of Dickens’ London
• BBC In Our Time: Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem
• Social Science Bites: Raffaella Sadun on Effective Management
• Warfare: Napoleon’s Greatest Victory, Austerlitz
• Risk Management Show: Risk Intelligence vs Risk Management
• Risk Management Show: Human Risk in Cybersecurity with Ed Sleiman

]]>Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/july-31st-2023This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Books/Short Stories

• G. Eliot 1871/2 Middlemarch
• A. Reynolds 2005 Beyond the Aquila Rift
• A. Reynolds 2005 Zima Blue

Podcast

• The President’s Inbox: The Future of US Foreign Policy with R. Haas
• Warfare: Wagner & Putin: The Russian Coup?
• Warfare: Oppenheimer (with Kai Bird)
• Warfare: Robert Mugabe
• Not Just the Tudors: Ivan the Terrible 
• Battlegrounds: Russia's war on Ukraine 

]]>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/june-30th-2023This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Series/Movies

• Bullitt 1968 P. Yates
• Waco American Apocalypse 2023 T. Russell
• The Covenant 2023 G. Ritchie

Academic papers (Philosophy)

• Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice 1998 B. Barry
• The Nature of Testimony 2006 J. Lackey
• Intergenerational Justice and the Non-reciprocity Problem 2009 H. McCormick 
• The Structure of Intergenerational Cooperation 2013 J. Heath 
• Massively Shared Agency 2013 S. J. Shapiro
• Value Pluralism 2015 R Chang
• Game Theory and the Self-fulfilling Climate Tragedy 2017 M. Kopec
• Future Generations 2018 R. Kumar
• Weighing the Risks of Climate Change 2019 L. Buchak
• Cooperation 2022 J. Salomone-Sehr
• Global Climate Governance, Short-termism and the Vulnerability of Future Generations 2022 S. Caney
• Intergenerational Ethics, Moral Ambivalence, and Climate Change 2022 M. Hourdequin
• Climate Change and Decision Theory 2023 A. Asker & O. Stefansson

Podcasts

• Military History: Jonathan Abel, Guilbert’s General Essay on Tactics (2023)
• Military History: Drone: Remote Control Warfare
• In Our Time: Sun Tzu and the Art of War (2018)
• Big Brains: Why We Fight with C. Blattman
• EconTalk: C. Blattman on Why We Fight (2022)
• East Asian Studies: Andrew Small, No Limits
• Modern War Institute: World Order in the Drone Age (Paul Lushenko)
• Warfare: Ukraine: The Counter Offensive Explained
• Warfare: 5 Assassinations that Changed History

]]>Tue, 30 May 2023 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/may-31st-2023
​This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Series

• Slow Horses, Season 1 & 2

Academic papers (Philosophy)

• J. Lenman 2002 On becoming extinct
• G. Oddie 2013 Value realism
• E. Finneron-Burns 2017 What's wrong with human extinction?
• J. Frick 2017 On the survival of humanity
• N. Theussinen 2023 Explaining the value of human beings

Academic paper (International relations)

• J. Snyder 2004 One world, many theories

Podcasts

• Warfare: Duke of Wellington (2023)
• Warfare: The Dambusters Raid with Max Hastings (2023)
• Warfare: Henry Kissinger (2023)
• War in Ukraine: Alexander Titov on Russian imperialism, and mechanisms of territorial appropriation.
• Let’s talk risk: Misinformation on social media
• The History of China: Origins 1: The mythical origins of the Middle Kingdom

]]>Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/march-31st-2023This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies

• The Dogs of War (1980) J. Irvin

Academic papers

• The Justification of National Partiality (1994) T. Hurka
• Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism (1999) S. Scheffler
• Is Humanity Getting Better? (2016) L. Wenar
• Humanity as an Object of Attachment (2021) R. J. Wallace
• On Value Dependence and Meliorative Projects (2021) T. Rulli

Podcasts

• In Our Times: Just War (1999)
• Carnegie Council – Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics & Political Responsibility, with Stephen Gardiner (2019)
• Philosophy Bites: William MacAskill on Longtermism (2023)
• Warfare: 1917 Russian Revolution (Antony Beevor) (2023)
• Warfare: The US & the Iraq War (2023)
• Warfare: The 1954 Guatemalan Coup D’Etat (2023)
• Warfare: What Happened at Yalta? (2023)
• Future of Life Institute: Connor Leahy on AI Safety and Why the World is Fragile (2023)

]]>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/february-28th-2023This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Academic papers

• N. Kolodny 2003 Love as valuing a relationship
• O. Horta 2010 Debunking the idyllic view of natural processes
• A. Jaworska & M Wonderly 2017 Love and caring
• C. Benn & S. Lazar 2020 What's wrong with automated influence
• T. Christiano 2022 Algorithms, manipulation and democracy

Book 

• S. Scheffler 2018 Why worry about future generations?

Podcasts

• Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society: Samuel Scheffler on Partiality, Deference, and Engagement (2022)
• New Books in Philosophy: Sanford Goldberg ‘Relying on Others’ (2011)
• New Books in Philosophy: Simon Keller ‘Partiality’ (2013)
• EA Radio: Giving what we can (Theron Pummer) (2016)
• Rationality Speaking: Death of Despair/Effective Altruism (Angus Deaton) (2020)
• War in Ukraine: Lucan Way on Revolution and Dictatorship (2023)
• War in Ukraine: Keir Giles on Russia’s war on everybody and the war in Ukraine (2023)
• Warfare: Mussolini’s Rise and Fall (John Gooch) (2022)
• Warfare: Tactical Nuclear Weapons (Jean-Francois Belanger) (2023)
• Warfare: Irish Revolution (Fearghal McGarry) (2022)
• Warfare: J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI (Beverly Gage) (2023)
• Warfare: Oil & War (Emma Ashford) (2022)
• Warfare: Mikhail Gorbachev & the Fall of the Soviet Union (Susan Colbourn) (2022)
• Warfare: Killer Robots: AI at War (Emilia Javorsky) (2022)
• Warfare: The CIA: Secret Drone Wars (Chris Fuller) (2022)
• Warfare: Lenin’s Rise and Fall (Victor Sebestyen) (2023)
• Warfare: Stalin’s Secret Operation: The Katyn Massacre (2022)
• Warfare: Origins of Modern Iran (Ali Ansari) (2022)
• Warfare: War Crimes (Oona Hathaway) (2022)
• Warfare: Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine: 1 Year on (Michael Clarke) (2023)

]]>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/january-31st-2023This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies, TV Shows, etc

• P. Brickman 1983 Risky Business
• J. Hughes 1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• J. Hughes 1987 Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• J. Hughes 1989 Uncle Buck
• D. Webb Peoples 1989 The Blood of Heroes

Academic papers

• E. Harman 2011 The Moral Significance of Animal Pain and Animal Death

Book 

• S. Scheffler 2013 Death and the Afterlife
  

Podcasts

• New Books in Philosophy: David Estlund ‘Utotophobia’ (2020)
• In Moscow’s Shadows 87: War, Politics and Putin’s New Year’s Address (2023)
• HistoryExtra Podcast: Sabotage, Cyberwar and Assassination (interview with Rory Cormac) (2023)
• New Books in Philosophy: Cecile Fabre’s Spying Through a Glass Darkly (2022)
• Warfare: Escape from Colditz with Ben Macintyre (2022)
• Hear this Idea: Dan Williams on Political misinformation, self-delusion and signalling (2020)
• LSE Events: The Origins of Mass Killing: the bloodlands hypothesis (Prof. Timothy Snyder) (2014)

]]>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:00:00 GMThttps://andreasauchelli.weebly.com/taste-matters/december-31st-2022This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies, TV Shows, etc

• O. Preminger 1944 Laura
• E. Ulmer 1945 Detour
• T. Garnett 1946 The postman always rings twice
• O. Welles 1947 The lady from Shanghai
• D. Daves 1947 Dark passage
• R. Wise 1949 The set-up
• B. Wilder 1950 Sunset Boulevard
• J. H. Lewis 1950 Gun crazy
• S. Imamura 1961 Pigs and battleships
• L. de Clermont-Tonnere 2022 Lady Chatterley's lover

Academic papers

• T. Cowen & D. Parfit 1992 Against the social discount rate
• J. Broome 1994 Discounting the future
• E. Harman 2004 Can we harm and benefit in creating?
• S. Scheffler 2010 Valuing
• J. Broome 2016 The well-being of future generations
• H. Greaves 2017 Discounting for public policy
• K. Mintz-Woo 2021 A philosopher's guide to discounting 
• S. O. Hansson 2010 Risk: objective or subjective, fact or value
• L. Wenar 2011 Poverty is no pond
• S. Caney 2018 Justice and future generations

Book reviews & other articles

• A. Lake 1993 From containment to enlargement 
• S. Glosser 2019 Putin the great
• A. Applebaum 2019 The false romance of Russia
• M. Matthijs 2020 The right way to fix the EU
• L. Freedman 2020 Britain adrift
• N. Bugayova 2022 Target Russia's capabilities

Podcasts

• BBC, Putin, ep. 11. To the brink
• Conversations with Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer on his career in writing and ideas
• 80,000 Hours Podcast, 86 – Hilary Greaves on Pascal’s mugging, strong longtermism and whether existing can be good for us.
• HistoryExtra Podcast, The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Oct 2022)
• Brain in a vat, Interview with Andrew Sepielli (We should be more pragmatic about ethics).
• New Books in Philosophy, Igor Douven, The Art of Abduction 2022
• Gone Medieval, interview with Peter Heather: The rise of Christianity (Nov 2022)
• History Extra Podcast, The Cuban Missile Crisis: Tension mount (1 Dec 2022)
• The Ancients, Virgil (interview with Anne Rogerson)(20 Oct)
• The Korea Now Podcast, Blaine Harden – Spies, pilots, and Gulags (14 Mar 2018)
• BBC 4 Analysis, Samuel Scheffler on the afterlife (30 Jun 2015)
• In conversation: An OUP podcast, Ofer Fridman ‘Russian ‘Hybrid Warfare’’ Resurgence and politicization (6 Oct 2022)
• New Books in Russian and Eurasia studies, Andrew Monaghan ‘Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition’. (20 June 2022)
• Warfare, Authoritarianism, interview with Timothy Snyder (18 Dec 2020)
• History Extra Podcast: New views on the Holocaust and 1980s Britain.
• Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep.1 Russia defeats America
• Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 3 What is oligarchy? 
• Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 4 Sadopopulism
• Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 8 Cybercolony USA

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