Hormones, Ideology, and the Cost of Dissent with Carole Hooven
My guest today is evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven. If you’ve followed her story, you know she was effectively pushed out of Harvard for articulating a basic biological fact—and doing it politely....
3 Marras 20251h 36min
Inside Cuba’s Police State: From Ration Cards to Black Berets with Gelet Martínez Fragela
My guest today is Gelet Martínez Fragela, a Cuban journalist and political refugee whose outlet is banned on the island. We trace Cuba’s path from independence to dictatorship, and separate myth from ...
27 Loka 202558min
Trailer | Spiral: Murder in Detroit
On October 21, 2023, beloved Detroit community leader Samantha Woll was found brutally stabbed to death outside her home—two weeks to the day after the October 7 attacks on Israel. It looks like an op...
21 Loka 20251min
When Empathy Goes Too Far with Dr. Gad Saad
Dr. Gad Saad is a visiting scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom in Mississippi and an evolutionary psychologist. We discuss his forthcoming book, Suicida...
20 Loka 20251h 3min
Can Evolution Explain Our Politics? Nicholas Wade Thinks So
Nicholas Wade is a former science writer for The New York Times and author of several books on human evolution, including A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History and his new book, Th...
13 Loka 202559min
A Debate with Dave Smith: Israel, Iran, and American Power
Note that this conversation took place before Hamas addressed some conditions of President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan and said it agreed to release all remaining hostages. This was the most...
4 Loka 20253h 32min
Steven Pinker on How Common Knowledge Rules Our Lives
Recorded live at the Comedy Cellar in New York City: I sat down with Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist, best-selling author, and world-class debunker of doom, to talk about his new book, When Everyo...
29 Syys 202556min
Politics for the Exhausted American Voter with Jane Coaston
In this episode, I’m joined by Jane Coaston, a journalist and former host of The Argument podcast at The New York Times who is now a host at Crooked Media. We talk about how she became a libertarian, ...
22 Syys 20251h 21min
