The Michael Shermer Show

511 Episodes

1. 245. Frank Sulloway on How Lives Turn Out: Genes, Environment, Pluck, and Luck

   Published: 1/29/2022
2. 244. Johnjoe McFadden — Life is Simple: How Occam’s Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the UniverseMcFadden — Life is Simple: How Occam’s Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

   Published: 1/25/2022
3. 243. Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke

   Published: 1/22/2022
4. 242. Jonathan Gottschall — The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down

   Published: 1/18/2022
5. 241. Jeff Maurer — I Might Be Wrong

   Published: 1/15/2022
6. 240. Leonard Mlodinow — Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

   Published: 1/11/2022
7. 239. Richard Firth-Godbehere — A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know

   Published: 1/4/2022
8. 238. Brian Klass — Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us

   Published: 12/28/2021
9. 237. David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

   Published: 12/21/2021
10. 236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World

    Published: 12/18/2021
11. 235. Thomas Sowell: The Life and Work of the Legendary Social Theorist (Jason Riley)

    Published: 12/14/2021
12. 234. Matt Ridley on the Search for the Origin of COVID-19

    Published: 12/11/2021
13. 233. Goodbye Pat Linse, Skeptic Co-founder and My Best Friend…

    Published: 12/7/2021
14. 232. Amishi Jha on Learning How to Pay Attention to Your Attention

    Published: 12/4/2021
15. 231. Jason Hill on What White Americans Owe Black People

    Published: 11/30/2021
16. 230. Bart Ehrman — Did the Christmas Story Really Happen? The Birth of Jesus in History & Legend

    Published: 11/27/2021
17. 229. Fritjof Capra on Patterns of Connection: Is there a Tao of physics? Is life a web? Is humanity at a turning point?

    Published: 11/23/2021
18. 228. Steven Koonin on what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters, based on his book Unsettled

    Published: 11/20/2021
19. 227. Richard Nisbett on Thinking & Reason

    Published: 11/16/2021
20. 226. Suzanne Nossel on defending free speech for all, based on her book Dare to Speak

    Published: 11/13/2021