The TLS Podcast

February Highlights

Games function as a "flight simulator for agency," providing disposable goals that offer a temporary, structured escape from the existential confusion of everyday life. Beyond gaming, cultural socialization operates as a higher-level game, embedding inherited values and desires that often remain invisible to the indivi...

Darkness Visible

A Cortège of Snails

Great Balls of Fire

The Game's Afoot

January Highlights: Conversations That Started 2026

Now You See Me

This Be The Verse

Mind Games

Exclusive: Doubting Thomas

Merry Christmas!

Altogether Elsewhere

Beyond the bonnet

In Transit

Foundation course

Books of the Year

Devices and Desires

Motherload

Scare Stories

Escape Artists