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​​• The Overexamined Life (audio, April 2025)​

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 Pismo: How to Live Well (Polish text, November 2024)​

​• Food for Thought; SRF Kultur: Loneliness and Grief (video, June 2024)​

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 Philosophy Hour; SRF Kultur: What to Do When Life is Hard? (video, June 2024)​

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 The Gray Area: Life is Hard. Can Philosophy Help? (audio, April 2024)​

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 Why Philosophy? How Philosophy Can Creatively Engage with the World (text, April 2024)​

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 Think Act Be: How to Think More Clearly About What Life Can and Cannot Offer (audio, March 2024)​

​• The Pocket Contemplative: How Philosophy Helps (audio, February 2024)​

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 Filosofie Magazine: There is no Cure for the Human Condition (Dutch text, December 2023)​

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 România literară: Life is Hard (Romanian text, December 2023)

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 DeMorgen: Living with Adversity (Dutch text, November 2023)​

• Kathimerini: What Does Philosophy Have To Do With Self-Help? (Greek text, November 2023)


​• Caţavencii: How to Live with Suffering without Being a Masochist (Romanian text, October 2023)

• Smart People: Life is Hard (audio, October 2023)

• Terrifying Questions: Is Almost Everyone a Failure? (audio, October 2023)

• The Morality of Everyday Things: Life is Hard; Part 1; Part 2 (audio, August 2023)

• The Philosopher's Zone: Philosophy for Tough Times (audio, June 2023)

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 Shrink Rap Radio: Life is Hard (video, June 2023)

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 The Dissenter: Life is Hard (audio, June 2023)

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 WNPR The Colin McEnroe Show: Life is Hard (audio, April 2023)

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 Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda: Facing up to Life (audio, March 2023)

• WHYY The Connection: Life is Hard (audio, March 2023)

• Family Action Network: Life is Hard (video, March 2023)

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 Ukraine Benefit Conference: What Good is Philosophy? (video, March 2023)

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 DeMorgen: Philosophy as Self-Help (Dutch text, March 2023)

• Philosophy Bites: Loneliness (audio, March 2023)

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 Pulled Up Short: Is Hope Worth Hoping For? (audio, February 2023)

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 Sábado: Happiness is a Selfish Goal; Self-Help Sells an Illusion (Portuguese text, February 2023)

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 Beyond the To-Do List: How Philosophy Can Help Guide Us Through Life (audio, February 2023)

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 Cambridge Forum: Living a Good Enough Life (video, January 2023)

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 Mujer Hoy: On Self-Help, Hope, and Happiness (Spanish text, January 2023)

• Veja: We Have to be Realistic (Portuguese text, January 2023)

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 Meditations with Zohar: Philosophy, Self-Help, and AI (audio, January 2023)

​• Lead From The Heart: How to Live Well When Life is Hardest (audio, January 2023)

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 WGN Chicago: Life is Hard (video, December 2022)

• Long Now Boston: Longtermism at the Crossroads (video, December 2022)

• Through Conversations: Life is Hard (video, December 2022)

• Bounce! Conversations with Larry Weeks: Life is Hard (audio, December 2022)

​​• Next Big Idea Club: Five Insights from Life is Hard (audio, text, December 2022)​​​

• Rabbithole: Is Effective Altruism Right? (audio, December 2022)

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 Crusoé: Living Well Means Facing The World As It Is (Portuguese text, December 2022)

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 Christian Science Monitor: Beyond 'Positive Thinking' (text, December 2022)

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 Nautilus: Life is Hard. And That's Good (text, November 2022)

​​​• In Search of Wisdom: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way (audio, November 2022)

• Shepherd: The Best Books for Finding Solidarity in Suffering (text, November 2022)

​​• Prospect: Philosophy and Self-Help (text, November 2022)

​​• Thought Economics: Life is Hard (text, November 2022)

​​• Boston Globe: Working On It (text, November 2022)

​​• A Need to Read: Philosophy for Hard Times (audio, November 2022)

​​• Anxiety Book Club: Life is Hard (audio, November 2022)

​​• La Vanguardia: Pain, whatever it is, we have to go through (Spanish text, November 2022)

​​• Bad at Keeping Secrets: Life Is Hard (video, October 2022)

​​• ABC Wellness: Failures Do Not Exist (text, October 2022)

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 The Growth Equation: Life is Hard (audio, October 2022)

​​• El Mundo: The New Philosophy of Happiness (Spanish text, October 2022)

• Wild with Sarah Wilson: How to Love Living a Hard Life (audio, October 2022)

​​• Philosophy Break: Life Is Hard (text, October 2022)

​​• Philosophy Live: Coping When Life Is Hard (video, October 2022)

• Keen On: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way (audio, October 2022)

​​• Brookline Booksmith: Life Is Hard, with John Kaag (video, October 2022)

​​• Waking Up: Philosophy for Troubled Times (audio, October 2022)

​​• Practical Stoicism: The Value of Philosophy (audio, October 2022)

​​• The Philosopher/Boston Review: How Philosophy Helps Us Find Our Way (video, text, October 2022)

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• ​Wisconsin Public Radio: Life is Hard (But Philosophy Can Help) (audio, October 2022)

• Re:Considering: Life is Hard (audio, October 2022)


• ​The Tully Show: Life is Hard (audio, October 2022)

• Philosophy Talk: Climate Change and Collective Action (audio, October 2022)​​

• Boston Globe: The Story Behind the Book (text, September 2022)​​

• KCRW Life Examined: A Philosopher's Guide to Life's Hardships (audio, September 2022)

​​​• EconTalk: Kieran Setiya on Midlife (audio, September 2022)

​​• Making Sense: Philosophy and the Good Life (audio, September 2022)

• KCRW Life Examined: A Philosopher's Guide to the Midlife Malaise (audio, July 2022)

​​• Re:Considering: Navigating Midlife (audio, April 2022)

​​• Derren Brown's Boot Camp For Life: As Time Goes By (audio, March 2022)

​• Art of Manliness: Midlife Malaise (audio, February 2022)

​• Hi-Phi Nation: The Selfless Kidney Donor (audio, November 2021)

​• Two Pages with MBS: Aristotle's Ethics (audio, August 2021)

• Forum for Philosophy: The Importance of Not Being Earnest (video, May 2021)

• ​Cows in the Field: Groundhog Day (audio, January 2021)

• ​Wisconsin Public Radio: Good Riddance, 2020 (audio, December 2020)

• ​The Tully Show: Midlife (audio, November 2020)

• The Iris Murdoch Podcast: Iris Murdoch for Beginners (audio, September 2020)

• Der Spiegel: Turning the Midlife Crisis into an Opportunity (German text, March 2020)

• MIT Alumni Association: Getting the Most From a Midlife Crisis (video, May 2019)

• New York Intitute of Philosophy Lecture: Public Philosophy (video, May 2019)

• ​HBR IdeaCast: How to Cope With a Mid-Career Crisis (audio, February 2019)

• Donna Moderna: The Midlife Crisis: how to deal with it (Spanish text, December 2018)

• NRC Handelsblad: The Midlife Crisis (and how to deal with it) (Dutch text, April 2018)

• Philosophy in Public Life: The Midlife Crisis (audio, February 2018)

• Five Books: The Best Books about the Midlife Crisis (text, January 2018)

• New Books in Philosophy: Midlife (audio, January 2018)

• The Wright Show: Philosophy for Midlife (video, December 2017)

• Contemplify: A Handbook to Midlife (audio, December 2017)

• Philosophy Talk: Midlife and Meaning (audio, December 2017)

• The Reading Lists (text, December 2017)

• Jefferson Exchange: The Midlife Crisis (audio, November 2017)

• The Philosopher's Zone: Getting Stuck (audio, November 2017)

• Hi-Phi Nation: The Bottom of the Curve (audio, October 2017)

• ​Wisconsin Public Radio: The Midlife Crisis (audio, October 2017)

• ​The Page 99 Test: Midlife (text, October 2017)

• Give and Take: Midlife (audio, September 2017)

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• Faculti: The Midlife Crisis (video, November 2016)

• Philosophy Bites: The Midlife Crisis (audio, July 2016)

• 3:AM Interview (text, March 2012)
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