Shaun Cammack recently earned his Masters in Sociology from the University of Chicago. His thesis concentrated on the civil unrest at The Evergreen State College in the spring of 2017—which, if you are aware of my youtube channel, you will know I'm somewhat concerned with, myself. Shaun's Masters Thesis: https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2540?&ln=en Follow Shaun on Twitter @shaunjcammack Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce Follow me on twitter @BenjaminABoyce...
Aug 22, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Season 2Ep. 65
Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) is an editor for The Economist and studied critic of the gender ideology that is so impacting young people today. In this conversation we discuss her research into gender ideology for her forthcoming book, and also touch upon what a more stable and constructive discussion around gender and sex might look like. Support this podcast https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 64
A year and a half ago, I sat down with @chiaracanaan to speak about her obsession with and transition from of the tumblr-trans worldview. She returns to update us on her journey—and to share the wisdom she's learned from horses. Follow her on twitter @chiaracanaan And myself @BenjaminABoyce Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Aug 15, 2020•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 63
Christopher Rufo (@realchrisrufo) is a journalist and documentarian exposing the ways that tolerance is undoing west coast cities. Follow Christopher on twitter for breaking stories @realchrisrufo Watch his documentaries at https://christopherrufo.com Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce Follow me on twitter @BenjaminABoyce
Aug 12, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 62
Buck Angel (@BuckAngel) is a world-renown transman. In this interview we speak about his experiences growing up, his transition, and his current quest to reshape the dialogue around transsexualism to be more honest, better researched, and mature. His website for transmen's health: https://ftmhealth.com Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Aug 06, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 61
I speak with Professor Erec Smith (@Rhetors_of_York) about how the field of rhetoric is being taken over by a loud minority which has no problem silencing a black man for the cause of antiracism. We also speak about his experience with racism and why critical thinking is his jam. Erec's articles: https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2020/08/skin-folk-arent-always-kin-folk-opinion.html https://www.newsweek.com/why-i-still-talk-white-people-about-racism-opinion-1516309 Erec's book: https://www.amazon....
Aug 05, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 60
Helena joins me for the third time to discussion the embattled detrans online communities, her emotional development and the transgender ideology's role in her decision, and what makes letish communities prone to cancel culture. Find her on twitter @mentalhellcat Support this channel https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Aug 04, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 59
Corinna Cohn speaks to me about the need for better care, research, and information available to transitioning or transition-questioning patients. Find out more about her advocacy group at https://www.gccan.org Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Jul 29, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 58
Scott Newgent (@NewgentTGA) is a transman who is very concerned that the current fast-track of childhood medical transition is going to lead to some dire and unintended consequences. Find out more on Scott's Work: https://www.trevoices.org Find him on twitter @NewgentTGA Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Jul 27, 2020•48 min•Season 2Ep. 57
Roderick Graham (@RoderickGraham) is an assistant professor of Sociology—specifically of the criminology sort. He weighs in on the recent discussions on police, discrimination, and race, with a decidedly nuanced point of view. Find him on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7yofOWy-IrERYjfkONF3Tw Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 56
Cedrick-Michael Simmons is a doctoral fellow and instructor at Ithaca college, studying the outcomes of Diversity training in higher ed and the corporate sector. We speak about the limits of current "Anti-Racist" training and how they play more into the hands of upper management and against common interests, despite its claims to solve deep seated human problems. Learn more about Class Unity: https://classunity.org And follow him on twitter: @nomoreracecraft If you've enjoyed this program, consi...
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 55
@SarahADowney and I speak about the core liberal principles that are being tested in the era of cancel culture—and how capital, wisely conceived, still has much work to do to lift up the marginalized. Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Jul 17, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Jonathan Pageau and Paul Vander Klay discuss with me the existential crisis occurring in popular—and actual—culture. Paul's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/paulvanderklay Jonathan's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/jonathanpageau Tip Jar: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Jul 15, 2020•1 hr 32 min
Adrian (@AdrianLeeOliver) speaks about his childhood growing up as a black foster kid in rural Kentucky; and what troubles him about current dialogue around race. Find his twitter thread archived here: https://archive.is/Kd3y1 support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Eric (@EricsElectrons on twitter and instagram) is a believer in critical thinking based on evidence. We talk about why that's not so fashionable, and how to participate in honest, rigorous discussion in the face of pressure to conform to emotional narratives. Support this podcast https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Jul 09, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Christopher Paslay is an english teacher and coach at a vocational high school in Philadelphia. He sees "anti-racist" doctrine as essentially divisive and counter to the progress of Civil Rights and racial harmony. In this discussion we talk about the goals, means, and values that animate Robin Diangelo's seminal texts, and discuss how three are different from what have so far been useful for a multicultural society. Links to Christopher's work: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCON9vFaGhqkgR4Fds...
Jul 08, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 50
Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) is an author and frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal. Her book, Irreversible Damage is—I kid you not—excellently composed and a very timely investigation into how young women are being swept up in an ideology that ferries them toward irreversible body modification. Find her book wherever you can—I won't link to major book stores here because they've been sketchy with their treatment of her work. Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce...
Jul 04, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 49
Dr. Borysenko is an organizational psychologist and neophyte to the internet discourse arena. In this discussion, we cover mindfulness practices, corporate and business culture, and the ways in which hyper vigilant far leftism is eroding productivity and community. Follow her on twitter @DrKarlynB, on Parler @Karlyn, and on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGTrP78wxs0OmJVxsDInVFw Support this channel: https://www.paypla.me/benjaminboyce
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 48
Anderson Todd is a Jungian therapist and and instructor at the University of Toronto. This conversation is so wanderlusty that I'm just not gonna try to summarize it. Find his youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Hrwd_CHQ78oBocLCVUp2g Support this podcast via https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Jun 24, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 47
John R. Wood Jr. (@JohnRWoodJr) is a founding member of The Braver Angels Project, a bipartisan think tank focused on bringing Red and Blue (Republican and Democrat) Americans together, to work toward a stable and lasting society. In this episode, John details the history of Black Americans, and answers why he thinks a reaffirmation of America's founding values—and not its dissolution—is the path forward. Find his work at https://braverangels.org support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benja...
Jun 18, 2020•56 min•Season 2Ep. 46
Infrequent guest Lisa Marchiano joins me to speak about current activism and uprising through a Jungian lens. She is a co-host of This Jungian Life (a brilliant listen!) and runs a private practice of her own. Find her work at thisjungianlife.com and on twitter @LisaMarchiano Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce
Jun 17, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 45
Kneeling, washing of feet, public confessions, racism as original sin... many aspects of the current moral code are evocative of religious rites and theological doctrine. Where did these ideas come from? What is their eventual effect? James Lindsay, Mike Nayna, and myself have been studying these phenomena before they went mainstream, and in this conversation we detail the origins and outcomes of the New American Religion that calls itself "antiracism." James' work: https://newdiscourses.com Mik...
Jun 13, 2020•2 hr 34 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Chris Shelton (@sheltondesigner) is an ex-Scientologist who has been spending the last few years detailing how cults operate. In this conversation we use his research to explore how the current moral climate is allowing opportunists to gain control of people's thoughts and actions. Find his work at https://mncriticalthinking.com Support this podcast: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce Follow me on twitter @BenjaminABoyce
Jun 11, 2020•2 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 43
Chloé Valdary (@cvaldary) is the author of The Theory of Enchantment education course and an all around talented dame. We speak about her take on the black American experience, and how she is optimistic that the current civil unrest will lead to lasting change. We talk our way through the hitches and snags toward a better country and world—if only our common values can win out over our all too common temptations. Find her work on theoryofenchantment.com Support this channel: https://www.paypal.m...
Jun 03, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 42
In the spring of 2017, two weeks before I was to graduate from The Evergreen State College, a series of protests erupted on campus, ostensibly regarding racial inequities. Students blockaded buildings, rounded up staff and faculty, verbally harassed anyone who disagreed or questioned their methods, took administration hostage, and went so far as to roam the campus with baseball bats, in an extracurricular attempt to "community police." The first individual they targeted was Evolutionary Biology ...
May 26, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 41
Carl Benjamin (also known as Sargon of Akkad) is an intellectual public figure who got his start in mid-2010's youtube. We explore the tensions between left and right ideologies, and the ethics that are driving modern day political discourse. Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminaboyce
May 16, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce In this episode I speak with Chris, from Minnesota. He shares his history of hardships—from undiagnosed autism, to eating disorders, bipolar disorder, and his experience was Hormone Replacement Therapy. His resilience of spirit and gentlekindness are evinced in this deeply personal and honest story. Find him on twitter at @elderago
May 10, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce Claire and I speak about activism, gender, and trying not to be trying not to offend people all the time. Read Claire's thoughts on intersex conditions, and life in general, at https://mrkhvoice.com
May 08, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Wherein I speak with a logistics professional about the current state of the economy, amazon's rise to prominence, and how we can shape the future... of shopping. Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce Follow me on twitter @BenjaminABoyce
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Support this channel: https://www.paypal.me/benjaminboyce Further resources on Lisa Littman's research: “Parent reports of adolescents and young adults perceived to show signs of a rapid onset of gender dysphoria”, is available open access: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330 Letter to the Editor describing the methodology used in research articles that support (or are consistent with) the gender-identity affirming approach: https://t.co/A2pZo8nYMB?amp=1 Fol...
Apr 10, 2020•1 hr 34 min•Season 2Ep. 36
