Matthew Gasda - Playwright and Novelist
Matthew Gasda is a playwright and novelist based in New York City. He is the founder of the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, and the author of The Sleepers .
Jun 29, 2025•47 min•Ep. 197
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Jean-Pierre Isbouts - The Historical Jesus
Jean-Pierre Isbouts is a Biblical scholar, the author of "The Fractured Kingdom," and the host of the Amazon Prime show "Searching for the Historical Jesus."
Mar 31, 2025•55 min•Ep. 196
William Basinski - Experimental Composer
William Basinski is an American experimental composer.
Feb 26, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 195
James Fallon - Memorial Show
James Fallon was a neuroscientist and author. Sadly, he passed away, but he was a frequent guest on the show, so please enjoy this memorial episode, a compilation of some of my favorite moments of his on the show.
Dec 27, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 194
William Deresiewicz - Solitude in Modern Life
William Deresiewicz is a former English professor at Yale, and the author of numerous books, including "The End of Solitude."
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 193
Kevin Knight - 2024 Election
Kevin Knight is the Chief of Staff of Congressman David Schweikert.
Nov 01, 2024•54 min•Ep. 192
Jonathan Mann - Super-Forecaster
Jonathan Mann is a security architect, a Good Judgment Super Forecaster, and a faculty member in the Computer Science department at NYU. He writes at https://abstraction.substack.com/
Sep 07, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 191
Michael Jelen - Replay, AI, Web3
Michael Jelen is the CEO of Replay, a web3 video streaming service.
Jul 09, 2024•50 min•Ep. 190
Jan Swafford - George Gershwin
Jan Swafford is an American composer and the author of several musical biographies.
Jun 12, 2024•56 min•Ep. 189
Thomas Barfield - Nomadic People
Thomas Barfield is an anthropologist at Boston University, and the author of several books, including The Nomadic Alternative .
May 27, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 188
Stuart Reid - Patrice Lumumba
Stuart Reid is an executive editor at Foreign Affairs, and the author of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination .
May 12, 2024•59 min•Ep. 187
Robin Hanson - Health, AI and More
Robin Hanson is an economist at George Mason University. His Substack is Overcoming Bias , and he is the author of multiple books, including The Elephant in the Brain .
Apr 14, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 186
Ellen Bass - Poet
Ellen Bass is a poet, the winner of three Pushcart Prizes, and the author of several collections, including Indigo .
Nov 20, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 185
Nicholas Krohley - Warrior Diplomats
Nicholas Krohley is a founder of FrontLine Advisory, and the co-author of Warrior Diplomats: Civil Affairs Forces on the Front Lines .
Oct 29, 2023•58 min•Ep. 184
Michael Katz - Dostoevsky
Michael Katz is a professor of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He is a translator of several works of Dostoevsky, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov .
Oct 07, 2023•48 min•Ep. 183
Dave Rearick - Sailing Around the World
Dave Rearick circumnavigated the globe, and is the author of Spirit of a Dream: A Sailor's Ultimate Journey Around the World Alone .
Sep 18, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 182
Michael Joyce - Electronic Literature
Michael Joyce is a novelist, poet, critic and the author of works of electronic literature, including afternoon, a story.
Sep 03, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 181
Milan Ćirković - Aliens and Fermi’s Paradox
Milan Ćirković is a professor at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, and the author of The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox .
Aug 19, 2023•52 min•Ep. 180
Robert Kelly - Hunter-Gatherers to Today
Robert L. Kelly is an archaeologist at the University of Wyoming, and the author of several books including The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future .
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 179
Andrew Walder - The Cultural Revolution
Andrew Walder is a political sociologist at Stanford, and the author of several books on Mao and the Cultural Revolution. His latest book is Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery . The podcast now has a Patreon! Available here: https://www.patreon.com/dunctank
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 178
Matt Simon - Plastic Poison
Matt Simon is a writer at Wired Magazine , and the author of A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies .
Jul 10, 2023•47 min•Ep. 177
Warren Motte - Experimental Literature
Warren Motte is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of several books, and an editor of Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature .
Jun 23, 2023•57 min•Ep. 176
Robert Beachy - Gay Berlin
Robert Beachy is a history professor at Yonsei University and the author of Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity .
Jun 02, 2023•50 min•Ep. 175
Malcolm Harris - Silicon Valley
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May 17, 2023•58 min•Ep. 174
Derrick Jensen - Soup on Paintings
Derrick Jensen is an author and environmentalist. He is the author of several books, including The Myth of Human Supremacy .
Apr 30, 2023•52 min•Ep. 173
Alan Mikhail - Ottoman Empire
Alan Mikhail is a professor of history at Yale, and the author of God's Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World .
Apr 11, 2023•59 min•Ep. 172
Steve Fuller - AI & The MetaVerse
Steve Fuller is a professor of sociology at the University of Warwick. He is the author of several books, including Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game .
Mar 15, 2023•59 min•Ep. 171
David Yaffe - Joni Mitchell
David Yaffe is a professor of humanities at Syracuse University and the author of Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell. His Substack is: https://davidyaffe.substack.com/
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 170
Adam Hochshild - Red Scares
Adam Hochshild is a historian and the author of, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis .
Feb 12, 2023•36 min•Ep. 169
Dave Andrews - Christian Anarchy
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Jan 17, 2023•57 min•Ep. 168
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