- 197
- Episodes
- 11
- Transcribed
- 60
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About Sophomore Lit
John McCoy and a guest host read books you might have been assigned in high school, or college, or other stuff you might have read when you were a kid. The theming is loose!
- Publisher
- John McCoy
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Jan 2015
- Latest episode
- 29 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
11 of 197 episodes have a transcript.
29 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
197: The Lathe of Heaven
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
196: Dorothy Parker Stories
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
195: Tennyson Poems
Inside a recent episode
197: The Lathe of Heaven
Published 29 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] He doesn't have the character to do the dreaming he needs to dream. He's going to make George, on the one hand, dream that he no longer can effectively dream, and he's also going to use the equipment to make it so that he himself, Haber, can start dreaming his grand schemes about the way that the world should be. And it's at this point that the book becomes very, I think, explicit in its themes. The Haber Institute has over the top of like the door, it says the greatest good for the greatest number, which is a famous phrase of utilitarianism, which is a ethical system that says that what matters about the ethical choices we make is the effects that they have in the world. […]
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- Bill O'Donnell
- Shaenon K Garrity
- Jill Hoffman
- Ross Cleaver
- Rosalynde Vas Dias
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 58 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100
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- Quality
- 47
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 90
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