533 Episodes

  1. 287. Bobby Azarian — Life, the Universe, and Cosmic Complexity

    Published: 7/12/2022
  2. 286. Kevin McCaffree — How Societies Change and Why

    Published: 7/9/2022
  3. 285. Helen Joyce — Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

    Published: 7/5/2022
  4. 284. Yoram Hazony on Traditional Conservatism vs. Enlightenment Liberalism

    Published: 6/28/2022
  5. 283. Michael Strevens — The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

    Published: 6/25/2022
  6. 282. Anil Seth on the Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Self, and the Essence of Volition

    Published: 6/21/2022
  7. 281. Moneyball For Your Life: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on Using Data to Get What You Really Want

    Published: 6/18/2022
  8. 280. Sam Rosenfeld on Party Polarization in the Postwar United States

    Published: 6/14/2022
  9. 279. Ian Morris on Deep Time and Big History

    Published: 6/11/2022
  10. 278. “Big Historian” David Christian on Time, the Near and Far Future, Transhumanism, Interstellar Migrations, the Fate of Our Species, and the End of Time

    Published: 6/7/2022
  11. 277. Michel Gagné — How to Think About Conspiracy Theories

    Published: 6/4/2022
  12. 276. Andrew Yang — Not Left. Not Right. Forward.

    Published: 5/31/2022
  13. 275. The Disrupted Mind: Noga Arikha on What Happens to Identity When the Brain Is Assaulted by Disease and Injury

    Published: 5/28/2022
  14. 274. Frans De Waal on Sex and Gender Across the Primate Spectrum

    Published: 5/24/2022
  15. 273. Cathy Young — The Russian Riddle Wrapped in a Ukrainian Mystery Inside an American Enigma

    Published: 5/21/2022
  16. 272. Stuart Vyse — The Uses of Delusion: Why It’s Not Always Rational to Be Rational

    Published: 5/17/2022
  17. 271. Peter Ward — The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever

    Published: 5/14/2022
  18. 270. Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrationality (Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli)

    Published: 5/10/2022
  19. 269. Richard Dawkins — Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution

    Published: 5/7/2022
  20. 268. Douglas Murray on The War on the West: Race, Politics, and Culture

    Published: 5/3/2022

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