533 Episodes

  1. 187. Robert Cialdini — Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

    Published: 6/8/2021
  2. 186. William Nordhaus on the Economics of Global Warming, Pandemics, and Corporate Malfeasance

    Published: 6/2/2021
  3. 185. Stephen Meyer — Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe (and why Shermer remains skeptical)

    Published: 5/29/2021
  4. 184. Alexander Green on Money & Why It Matters

    Published: 5/25/2021
  5. 183. Bari Weiss & Bion Bartning — The Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism

    Published: 5/22/2021
  6. 182. A Conversation With UFOlogist Alan Steinfeld on How Believers and Skeptics Think About UFOs

    Published: 5/18/2021
  7. 181. David Buss — When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault

    Published: 5/15/2021
  8. 180. Andy Norman — Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think

    Published: 5/11/2021
  9. 179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

    Published: 5/8/2021
  10. 178. James Hunter & Paul Nedelisky on religious vs. secular morality — Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality

    Published: 5/4/2021
  11. 177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

    Published: 5/1/2021
  12. 176. Minouche Shafik — What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society

    Published: 4/27/2021
  13. 175. Brian Keating — How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof

    Published: 4/24/2021
  14. 174. Jordan Peterson — Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

    Published: 4/20/2021
  15. 173. Naomi Oreskes — Why Trust Science?

    Published: 4/17/2021
  16. 172. Andrew Doyle — Free Speech: And Why it Matters

    Published: 4/13/2021
  17. 171. John Mueller — The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency

    Published: 4/10/2021
  18. 170. Michio Kaku — The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

    Published: 4/6/2021
  19. 169. Jeff Hawkins — A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

    Published: 4/3/2021
  20. 168. Daniel Dennett & Gregg Caruso — Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (moderated by Michael Shermer)

    Published: 3/30/2021

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The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.