LIVING IN THIRD GEAR (E69)
A conversation with entrepreneur Dave Howlett about selfishness, reciprocity, and altruism.
Sep 26, 2019•2 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 69
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Episodes
YOUR MOVE (E68)
A conversation with Quillette editor Jonathan Kay about his new book: Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life (2019)
Sep 11, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 68
FAIRIES, REFUGEES, & CELEBRITIES (E67)
A conversation with writer Stephen Marche about heroic refugees, holographic celebrities, and countercultural fairies.
Sep 10, 2019•56 min•Season 1Ep. 67
WHO FARTED? (E66)
A conversation with filmmaker Albert Nerenberg about climate change, the upcoming Wild X conference (Oct. 5, 2019), and his new movie: Who Farted? (2019).
Sep 04, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 66
DEFENDING INJUSTICE (E65)
A conversation with philosopher Mike Huemer about social justice activism’s problematic relationship to justice, willingness to punish the innocent, and troubling lack of interest in the truth.
Aug 14, 2019•2 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 65
THE FEMALE ORGASM (E64)
A conversation with evolutionary psychologist Robert King about human sexuality, reproductive reductionism, and the female orgasm.
Aug 09, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 64
GENOCIDE (E63)
A conversation with historian and genocide expert Frank Chalk about the history and sociology of genocide, the countries most likely to erupt in genocidal violence in the near future, and the significance of AOC’s concentration camp comment.
Aug 03, 2019•2 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 63
ARKANGEL (E62)
A conversation with philosopher Patrick Lee Miller about parenting in the age of studies have shown, safety culture, and the award-winning Black Mirror episode entitled “Arkangel”.
Jul 30, 2019•3 hr 52 min•Season 1Ep. 62
TRANSHUMANISM (E61)
A conversation with writer Libby Emmons about transhumanism, cancel culture, and the end of the world.
Jul 18, 2019•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 61
POLITICAL EVOLUTION (E60)
A conversation with writer Alex Knepper about embracing liberalism and religion, and leaving the Republican Party, Ayn Rand, libertarianism, and market fundamentalism.
Jul 12, 2019•2 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 60
PREHISTORIC-LEVEL OLD SCHOOL (E59)
A conversation with lawyer turned Brazilian jujitsu expert Alexander Boldizar about Harvard Law School, fatherhood, and his debut novel: The Ugly (2016).
Jun 22, 2019•3 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 59
HIGH TIME (E58)
A conversation with philosopher Daniel Weinstock about the epidemic of anxiety and depression, the decline of liberalism, and his new book on the legalization of marijuana in Canada: High Time (2019).
Jun 12, 2019•2 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 58
MIND THE GAP (E57)
A conversation with writer and filmmaker George Tombs about Conrad Black’s pardon, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, and his debut novel: Mind the Gap (2019).
Jun 05, 2019•2 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 57
FAVORED SON OF ISRAEL (E56)
A conversation with classicist Joseph Miller about leaving Mormonism, finding the classics, and living with stoic dignity amidst the crumbling ruins of American Academia.
May 31, 2019•3 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 56
EXPLAINING BRAZIL (E55)
A conversation with entrepreneur Bernard Asagai about leaving America, learning a new language, converting to Islam, starting a business, and raising a family in twenty-first-world Brazil.
May 24, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 55
INFORMATION SECURITY (E54)
A conversation with cybersecurity expert Ceri James Charlton about Facebook, Google, Cambridge Analytica, Russian hacking, internet privacy, fatherhood, philosophy, and the future.
May 13, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 54
POST-APOCALYPTIC HELLSCAPE (E53)
A conversation with political theorist Jacob T. Levy about accepting political life for what it is, holding fast to your ideals, and making the best of it in a fallen world with people who are not your friends.
Apr 25, 2019•3 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 53
THE POST MILLENNIAL (E52)
A conversation with journalist Ali Taghva, editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial, about Justin Trudeau, Canadian conservatism, and the future of journalism.
Apr 09, 2019•2 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 52
HYPNOTIZE ME (E51)
A conversation with hypnotherapist Dominique LaRoche about the importance of focus and attention, the nature of consciousness, and realm of the possible.
Apr 01, 2019•2 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 51
THE HALLELUJAH EFFECT (E50)
A conversation with philosopher Babette Babich about Leonard Cohen, Nietzsche, Plato, Jordan Peterson, gender politics, music, sex, feminism, desire, and men’s fashion.
Mar 25, 2019•2 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 50
OUR MESSY AND BEAUTIFUL DEMOCRACY (E49)
A conversation with writer Genevieve Weynerowski about managing a political campaign, dealing with difference, and bridging the divide between Jordan Peterson fans and progressive trans activists.
Mar 17, 2019•2 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 49
THE SAFECRACKER (E48)
A conversation with safecracker Rodney Rourke about being your own boss, working with your hands, and staying free.
Mar 11, 2019•2 hr 37 min•Season 1Ep. 48
GAIA’S PROBLEM CHILDREN (E47)
A conversation with anthropologist Helga Ingeborg Vierich about toxic masculinity, the domestication of dogs, keystone species, and humanistic environmentalism.
Feb 28, 2019•3 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 47
R-E-S-P-E-C-T (E46)
A conversation with philosopher Patrick Lee Miller about Francis Fukuyama’s new book: Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (2018).
Feb 23, 2019•2 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 46
WHO SPEAKS FOR WOMEN (E45)
A conversation with columnist Barbara Kay about feminism, the institution of marriage, and the resurgence of Victorian ideas about men and women.
Nov 12, 2018•2 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 45
MUNDIA AND MODIA (E44)
A conversation with polymath David Boxenhorn about the two worlds we simultaneously live in: Mundia, the natural world of immutable laws, and Modia, the ever-changing social world.
Nov 06, 2018•3 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 44
MURDER IN CANADA (E43)
A conversation with criminologist and sociologist Tanya Trussler about how and why Canadians kill each other.
Oct 29, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 43
FATHERS AND SONS (E42)
A conversation with men’s rights activist Christopher “Wally” Wallace, a gangster turned therapist, about what’s wrong with men and boys in the twenty-first-century West.
Oct 22, 2018•2 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 42
COMPLEX SYSTEMS (E41)
A conversation with polymath Yaneer Bar-Yam, president of the New England Complex Systems Institute, about markets, pandemics, ecosystems, climate change, uncertainty, and invasive species.
Oct 15, 2018•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 41
A MAN IN FULL (E40)
A conversation with entrepreneur Andrew Mcclymont, a larger than life character who grew up on a farm in rural Australia, and then went on to harvest crocodile eggs, fly helicopters, put out forest fires, work on oil rigs, and start a health-food business.
Oct 08, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 40