533 Episodes

  1. 2024 Election Postmortem

    Published: 11/14/2024
  2. Fentanyl and the Opioid Epidemic

    Published: 11/12/2024
  3. Stories From the Front Lines of Abortion Care (Dr. Warren Hern)

    Published: 11/8/2024
  4. The Most Important Election of My Lifetime … Again (Michael Shermer)

    Published: 10/31/2024
  5. The Future of Global Order and America’s Influence

    Published: 10/29/2024
  6. Faith, Politics, and Power: Talia Lavin on the Christian Right’s America

    Published: 10/26/2024
  7. The Social Reset: Big Tech, Mental Health, and the Future of Connection

    Published: 10/22/2024
  8. Neal Stephenson on Predicting the Metaverse, Crypto, and AI Decades Ahead

    Published: 10/19/2024
  9. The Future of AI: Consciousness and Ethical Dilemmas

    Published: 10/15/2024
  10. Words, Actions, and Liberty: Tara Smith Decodes the First Amendment

    Published: 10/12/2024
  11. Psychogenic Illness and the Nocebo Effect

    Published: 10/8/2024
  12. How Religions Compete for Money, Power, and People

    Published: 10/5/2024
  13. Why Ronald Reagan Wanted to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Max Boot)

    Published: 10/1/2024
  14. Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

    Published: 9/28/2024
  15. Gray Matters: Exploring the Frontiers of Neurosurgery

    Published: 9/24/2024
  16. Biology vs. Gender Ideology: The Science Behind the Debate

    Published: 9/21/2024
  17. Taming Silicon Valley: AI’s Perils and Promise

    Published: 9/17/2024
  18. Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, and Michael Shermer Challenge Conventional Narratives

    Published: 9/13/2024
  19. Slavery, Enlightenment, and America’s Refounding

    Published: 9/10/2024
  20. How to Think About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything

    Published: 9/7/2024

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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.