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Podcast: Audience of One
Episode: #008 - Zohar Atkins on Bridging The Secular & Religious
Description: Zohar Atkins is a rabbi and thinker. He’s the author of the blogs “Etz Hasadeh” and “What Is Called Thinking?”, and host of the "Meditations with Zohar" podcast. Zohar and I talk about academia, Judaism, content creation, and bridging philosophy and religion.
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(00:27) Background
(05:24) Thoughts on academia and the peer review process
(08:56) What Substack & podcasting offer compared to academia
(13:18) How he's such a prolific creator
(17:15) Why Judaism?
(18:41) Is there any conflict between obligation & the pursuit of truth?
(21:45) The decline of religion
(27:04) Knock-on eff...