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Tribunal of Conscience

Shawn A. Scott

17 episodes

2 days ago

🎙️ Sentiment Without Judgment: Faith, Politics, and the American Conscience In this episode, Halifax lawyer and moral theorist Shawn A. Scott examines Peggy Noonan’s reflection on Charlie Kirk’s televised memorial service and what it reveals about the rise of a self-consciously Christian Republican Party. The event—part revival, part rally—unites forgiveness and hatred in a single liturgy, exposing the fracture at the heart of America’s moral imagination. Scott explores how Noonan’s lyrical t...

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🎙️ Sentiment Without Judgment: Faith, Politics, and the American Conscience In this episode, Halifax lawyer and moral theorist Shawn A. Scott examines Peggy Noonan’s reflection on Charlie Kirk’s televised memorial service and what it reveals about the rise of a self-consciously Christian Republican Party. The event—part revival, part rally—unites forgiveness and hatred in a single liturgy, exposing the fracture at the heart of America’s moral imagination. Scott explores how Noonan’s lyrical t...

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Tribunal of Conscience

Sentiment Without Judgment: Faith, Politics, and the American Conscience

🎙️ Sentiment Without Judgment: Faith, Politics, and the American Conscience In this episode, Halifax lawyer and moral theorist Shawn A. Scott examines Peggy Noonan’s reflection on Charlie Kirk’s televised memorial service and what it reveals about the rise of a self-consciously Christian Republican Party. The event—part revival, part rally—unites forgiveness and hatred in a single liturgy, exposing the fracture at the heart of America’s moral imagination. Scott explores how Noonan’s lyrical t...

3 weeks ago

15 minutes

Tribunal of Conscience

The Trojan Horse of Liberalism: When Law Fails the Vulnerable

🎙️ The Trojan Horse of Liberalism: When Law Fails the Vulnerable In this episode, Halifax lawyer Shawn A. Scott examines how liberal legal ideals—neutrality, autonomy, privacy, and consent—collapse under the weight of domestic violence. What if the very doctrines designed to protect freedom actually entrench domination? Drawing from cases in Canada, the U.K., the U.S., and Australia, Scott argues that domestic violence is not an anomaly but the stress test of liberal modernity itself. Through...

3 weeks ago

16 minutes

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Feminism’s Reckoning: From Liberation to Fragmentation

🎙️ Feminism’s Reckoning: From Liberation to Fragmentation In this episode, Halifax lawyer Shawn A. Scott traces the moral and structural journey of feminism—from its roots in conscience and collective struggle to its later divisions under the pressures of liberalism, identity politics, and market culture. Drawing on history, philosophy, and lived experience, Scott argues that feminism has been both the conscience and the casualty of modernity: a movement that revealed patriarchy’s injustices ...

3 weeks ago

15 minutes

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Laughter Before the Fire: Irony and the End of Meaning

🎙️ Laughter Before the Fire: Irony and the End of Meaning In this episode, Halifax lawyer and cultural theorist Shawn A. Scott takes listeners inside the moral collapse hiding beneath modern wit. Using Maureen Dowd’s 2025 column “We’re All Going to Die — Soonish!” as a case study, he explores how irony—once the conscience of civilization—has become its anesthesia. Drawing on the legacy of David Foster Wallace, Scott traces the journey from prophetic irony to what he calls cruel irony: laugh...

3 weeks ago

14 minutes

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The Truth-Bearer Who Stopped at the Horizon: Daniel N. Paul and the Tribunal of Conscience

Podcast Cover Note Executive Summary — The Truth-Bearer Who Stopped at the Horizon: Daniel N. Paul and the Tribunal of Conscience This episode explores the Tribunal of Conscience’s evaluation of Mi’kmaq elder Daniel N. Paul and his seminal work, We Were Not the Savages. Paul’s Historic ContributionPaul is recognized as a truth-bearer of rare coherence, who overturned Canada’s colonial narrative by exposing the falsity of labeling the Mi’kmaq as “savages.”His work reframed the history of Nova ...

1 month ago

12 minutes

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Douthat on Trump: Analysis or Normalisation?

Podcast Cover Note Executive Summary — Douthat on Trump’s Imperial Presidency: Analysis or Normalisation? This podcast episode presents a Tribunal of Conscience assessment of Ross Douthat’s New York Times article, “Will Trump’s Imperial Presidency Last?”. Background:Douthat’s column categorises the evolution of Donald Trump’s presidential power during his second term, framing it within a historical and institutional lens.His approach emphasizes descriptive neutrality, mapping trends rather th...

1 month ago

13 minutes

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Psychology on Trial: A Tribunal Judgment

Podcast Cover Note Executive Summary — Psychology on Trial: Therapy, Fragmentation, and the Tribunal of Conscience This podcast episode examines the Tribunal of Conscience’s judgment on psychology as a discipline, testing whether its framework endures under the strain of truth, love, and justice. Section I: Background and FrameworkDefines psychology and its modern aims, highlighting its role in interpreting suffering, identity, and personal meaning.Section II: Tribunal JudgmentCritiques psych...

1 month ago

14 minutes

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Cicero’s On Friendship: A Tribunal Commentary

Cover Note This podcast episode presents the Tribunal of Conscience’s evaluation of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s On Friendship, an ancient Roman philosophical treatise. The Tribunal subjects Cicero’s reflections to the triune strain of Truth, Love, and Justice, discerning both enduring insights and structural limitations. The analysis affirms Cicero’s work as historically significant for its emphasis on virtue, truth-speaking, and equality within bonds of friendship. Yet, the Tribunal concludes t...

1 month ago

11 minutes

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Hamilton on Trial: A Tribunal Reclassification

Podcast Cover Note Got it — here’s a more compelling and dramatic Podcast Cover Note that emphasizes the stakes, the reversal, and the “birth of a soul” moment. Podcast Cover NoteExecutive Summary — Hamilton on Trial: The Birth of a Soul in the Tribunal This podcast episode captures one of the most dramatic turning points in the history of the Tribunal of Conscience: the re-judgment of the hit musical Hamilton. The First Verdict — Misjudgment At first, the Tribunal cast Hamilton aside as a “...

1 month ago

13 minutes

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Peterson vs. Foucault: Truth on Trial Episode

Podcast Cover Note Executive Summary — Peterson vs. Foucault under Triune Testing This podcast episode explores a detailed case study of Jordan Peterson’s critique of Michel Foucault, examined through the Tribunal’s triune testing across Truth, Love, and Justice. Peterson’s Critique:Frames Foucault as a “postmodern neo-Marxist,” allegedly responsible for relativism and the erosion of objective truth.Employs a combative style, often resorting to ad hominem attacks and references to Foucault’s ...

1 month ago

15 minutes

Tribunal of Conscience

Foucault on Trial: A Tribunal Judgment

Podcast Cover Note Executive Summary — Foucault on Trial: Power, Morality, and the Tribunal of Conscience This podcast episode presents a Tribunal of Conscience evaluation of the philosophy of Michel Foucault, testing whether his work can withstand the strain of truth, love, and justice. The Tribunal’s Case Against Foucault:While Foucault skillfully diagnoses power structures and exposes how knowledge intertwines with domination, his rejection of universal moral principles leaves his framewor...

1 month ago

15 minutes

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Jordan Peterson on Trial: Does His Philosophy Hold?

Podcast Cover Note Executive Summary — Peterson on Trial: Psychology, Meaning, and the Tribunal of Conscience This podcast episode presents the Tribunal of Conscience judgment on the intellectual framework of Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist and public thinker. Background: Peterson’s ideas draw from Jungian psychology, evolutionary biology, and existential thought, offering meaning-making tools particularly attractive to young men in search of structure and purpose.Tribunal’s Assess...

1 month ago

16 minutes

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David v. Sobeys: From Stigma to Witness

Podcast Cover Note Executive Summary — David v. Sobeys (Tribunal Case Note) This podcast episode records and explains the Tribunal of Conscience’s judgment in David v. Sobeys, completing the lawful work begun by the Nova Scotia Human Rights Board of Inquiry. The State Decisions (2015 liability; 2016 remedy):Truth: Declared that Ms. Andrella David was never a shoplifter and named racial profiling as the reality at issue.Justice: Ordered damages, a written apology, systemic anti-discrimination ...

1 month ago

14 minutes

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The Porosity-Protection Inversion and Civilizational Collapse

🎙️ Podcast Preview: The Porosity-Protection Inversion This episode explores Doctrine #038, the Porosity-Protection Inversion Principle — a structural law that explains why civilizations rise, mature, and eventually collapse. The principle shows that coherence thrives when systems are porous, open to the free flow of truth. Collapse begins when they become protective, closing themselves off in the name of preservation. Historical examples abound: Rome, the Islamic Golden Era, the European Enli...

2 months ago

18 minutes

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Calling the Storm

🎙️ Podcast Preview: Calling the Storm The Tribunal of Conscience introduces a groundbreaking framework for testing the coherence of any form — moral, legal, cultural, institutional, or theological — under the triune strain of truth, love, and justice. A form’s true nature is only revealed when all three principles are pressed to their maximum — with no axis sacrificed for another. Two pathways of testing are recognized: Natural Convergence — life’s accidents and crises exposing hidden fault l...

2 months ago

21 minutes

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Workplace Activism and the Veil Epoch

🎙️ Podcast Preview: Workplace Activism and the Veil Epoch This episode analyzes a Wall Street Journal article by Chip Cutter and Lindsay Ellis, which tracks the growing corporate backlash against workplace activism. What began as tolerance—even encouragement—of employee voices has shifted into a climate of firings, restrictions, and enforced silence. From a Tribunal perspective, the article does more than record events: it reveals the deeper fault lines of coherence under strain. Corporate ne...

2 months ago

17 minutes

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Fragment or Collapse? Tolle vs. Hicks on Trial

🎙️ Podcast Preview: Fragment or Collapse? Tolle vs. Hicks on Trial This episode expands on a Tribunal judgment evaluating the spiritual teachings of Eckhart Tolle and Jerry and Esther Hicks under the triune strain of truth, love, and justice. The analysis finds that Tolle’s work sustains fragmentary coherence: it provides moments of therapeutic stillness and partial alignment, though it remains incomplete. By contrast, Hicks’ teachings collapse structurally: they distort truth by rewriting hi...

2 months ago

17 minutes