Does Reading Harry Potter Make You Moral? (with Will Wilkinson)

Does Reading Harry Potter Make You Moral? (with Will Wilkinson) is the 34th episode of the Very Bad Wizards podcast, released on October 28, 2013.

Show Notes

Special guest Will Wilkinson joins the podcast to talk about whether fiction makes us better people, and to discuss his recent Daily Beast article that trashed Dave's profession and livelihood. Also, Dave and Tamler try to make sense of Ancient Greek justice in a myth about incest, adultery, daughter-killing, husband-killing, matricide, cannibalism, and trash talking to disembodied heads.    

• Agamemnon
  
• Will Wilkinson
  
• article that hurt David's feelings
  
• Does great literature make us better?
  
• Reading literature makes us smarter and nicer
  
• Want to learn how to think? Read fiction
  
• In Pursuit of Happiness Research
  
• Support Very Bad Wizards