Rationally Speaking Podcast

A podcast by New York City Skeptics

Categories:

Society & Culture

263 Episodes

  1. Is cash the best way to help the poor? (Michael Faye)

    Published: 12/23/2021

  2. Humanity on the precipice (Toby Ord)

    Published: 12/10/2021

  3. Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt)

    Published: 11/30/2021

  4. Why we're polarized (Ezra Klein)

    Published: 11/5/2021

  5. The genetic lottery (Kathryn Paige Harden)

    Published: 10/15/2021

  6. How to reason about COVID, and other hard things (Kelsey Piper)

    Published: 9/14/2021

  7. "Price gouging" in emergencies

    Published: 8/19/2021

  8. How to be a data detective (Tim Harford)

    Published: 6/10/2021

  9. Are Uber and Lyft drivers being exploited?

    Published: 4/9/2021

  10. Unfair laws / Why judges should be originalists (William Baude)

    Published: 3/19/2021

  11. Intellectual honesty, cryptocurrency, & more (Vitalik Buterin)

    Published: 3/4/2021

  12. Understanding moral disagreements (Jonathan Haidt)

    Published: 2/18/2021

  13. The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias)

    Published: 2/3/2021

  14. What’s wrong with tech companies banning people? (Julian Sanchez)

    Published: 1/20/2021

  15. The case for racial colorblindness (Coleman Hughes)

    Published: 1/5/2021

  16. Are Democrats being irrational? (David Shor)

    Published: 12/22/2020

  17. The moral limits of markets / The problem with meritocracy (Michael Sandel)

    Published: 12/8/2020

  18. Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton)

    Published: 11/24/2020

  19. Are Boomers to blame for Millennials' struggles?

    Published: 11/9/2020

  20. Rationally Speaking #244 - Stephanie Lepp and Buster Benson on "Seeing other perspectives, with compassion"

    Published: 11/30/2019

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Rationally Speaking is the bi-weekly podcast of New York City Skeptics. Join host Julia Galef and guests as they explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely from unlikely, and science from pseudoscience. Any topic is fair game as long as we can bring reason to bear upon it, with both a skeptical eye and a good dose of humor! We agree with the Marquis de Condorcet, who said that in an open society we ought to devote ourselves to "the tracking down of prejudices in the hiding places where priests, the schools, the government, and all long-established institutions had gathered and protected them."Rationally Speaking was co-created with Massimo Pigliucci, is produced by Benny Pollak, and is recorded in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village.