Episodes (Page 2)
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Philosopher Agnes Callard explores the limits of courage and meta-cognition in the examined life, examining how reason can detach from feelings and social taboos
Agnes Callard
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Ben Greenfield explains how to navigate contradictory medical literature and fitness claims by cutting through press distortion and non-standard study reporting
Ben Greenfield
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Ashley Mathews (Riley Reid) discusses legal attacks on erotic businesses through Operation Chokepoint, obscenity law, and modern censorship mechanisms beyond traditional arrests
Ashley Mathews
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Roger Penrose discusses the current status of unified field theory and his Twistor Theory as one of the few surviving rivals to string theory from the physics wars of the 1980s-2000s
Roger Penrose
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Bret and Eric reconstruct a remarkable story of science at its best and worst involving broken experimental models, shared for the first time in raw, unpolished form
Bret Weinstein
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Eric introduces the concept of the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC) as a framework for understanding modern censorship beyond explicit banning
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Anna Khachiyan articulates an anti-woke left intellectual project reconstructing the feminine by combining intellectual dominance with valuing motherhood, informed by Soviet and American heritage
Anna Khachiyan
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Tyler Cowen discusses how he launched a stealth intellectual attack on economic establishment orthodoxy through his widely-read Marginal Revolution blog since 2003
Tyler Cowen
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Garrett Lisi discusses his E8-based theory of everything and the current state of theoretical physics as intellectually unmoored after abandoning unified field theory research
Garrett Lisi
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London Tsai represents the underground mathematical and scientific art movement continuing MC Escher's legacy by smuggling higher-level science into transcendent art forms
London Tsai
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Garry Kasparov discusses AI-induced demotivation and the perilous state of global democracy, reflecting on IBM's Deep Blue defeating him in 1997 as a watershed moment for mankind's role with rising AI
Garry Kasparov
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Vitalik Buterin and Eric discuss ethereum, blockchain, crypto economics, and heterodox economic paradigm shifts enabled by virtual machines and smart contract systems
Vitalik Buterin
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Eric pushes neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris out of his comfort zone by highlighting genuine disagreements despite their general alignment on most issues
Sam Harris
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Julie Lindahl shares her extraordinary story of investigating family history to break cycles of intergenerational dysfunction and German shame stemming from her heritage
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Bryan Callen and Eric navigate difficult topics including the Holocaust, gender dynamics, and Enlightenment legacy through oscillation between levity and philosophical intensity
Cracking Wise
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Andrew Yang's insurgent 2020 candidacy represents a challenge to complacent political processes and media establishment gatekeeping through genuinely different ideas and platform
Andrew Yang
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Bret Easton Ellis and Eric reflect on Gen X identity, disaffected 1982 Los Angeles, and Ellis' debut novel 'Less Than Zero' based on their rival high school experiences
Bret Easton Ellis
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Jocko Willink demonstrates how cerebral military discipline and extreme ownership principles translate from Navy SEAL combat experience to civilian personal freedom and development
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Rabbi David Wolpe and Eric explore possibilities for constructive adult relationship between atheism and religion beyond New Atheism's antagonistic framework
David Wolpe
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Economist Timur Kuran's theory of preference falsification explains worldwide surge toward populism, dictatorship, and revolution as Economics 101 assumptions collapse
Timur Kuran