Steven Pinker on Moral Panics, Media Bias, and Why We Hoarded Toilet Paper During Covid

Is independent thinking sustainable for humans? Or will people always collapse into tribes, mandating beliefs and excommunicating heretics? Is Josh a delusional optimist for believing in humanism, lib...

3 Marras 1h 33min

Noam Dworman is the owner of comedy’s most revered venue, the Comedy Cellar, sometimes referred to as the "Harvard” of comedy clubs. He transformed it from a single 1980s room in Greenwich Village int...

29 Loka 25min

As we hold our breath to find out whether Israelis will finally spurn Netanyahuism, Yael Bar Tur joins Josh to definitely NOT discuss the Israeli election. Yael majored in counterterrorism in Israel a...

27 Loka 58min

This episode is part of The Best Of series and was originally posted in 2024. Few Britons are as iconic as Stephen Fry. On TV, he’s an Emmy-winning comedy legend immortalised in shows like A Bit of F...

26 Loka 1h 14min

Is the exhausted majority stuck choosing between two extremes that can’t be satisfied, and what happens when the far left and far right go head to head? Josh chats with comedy writer and author of I M...

22 Loka 24min

Is it more ethical to prosecute your moral beliefs, or to understand people who disagree? Who, exactly, is fomenting polarisation? Who is capable, potentially, of political violence? Is it, perhaps, a...

21 Loka 25min

This episode is part of The Best Of series and was originally posted in 2021. Tim Urban’s first appearance on this show remains one of my all-time favourites. Why are you here? Are we alone in the uni...

19 Loka 1h 52min

This episode is from the You’re A Good Kid podcast, featuring your humble host, Josh Szeps. This is a candid look into the life and mind of a boy who grew up in Sydney's inner suburbs and how love, fa...

15 Loka 1h 49min