Designer Babies and AI Jobs Are No Longer Sci-Fi
Jamie Metzl is a former national security official, biotech futurist, and one of the earliest public voices to argue that Covid likely came from a lab accident. Today he talks about why that possibili...
2 Feb 1h 14min
Why Liberal Religion is Losing Ground
Our guest today is Rabbi David Wolpe. He’s spent decades debating atheists, leading one of the country’s largest synagogues, and thinking seriously about what holds a moral society together once tradi...
26 Jan 1h 4min
The Real Reasons Greenland Matters
This week we hear from Arctic geopolitics expert Heather A. Conley, before President Trump made a speech at The World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. Heather speaks about a place most of us bare...
22 Jan 39min
YOU'RE INVITED: Michael Shermer LIVE with Coleman Hughes!
In a world where AI can recreate our voices, half the internet thinks the moon landing was staged, and every group chat has a cousin who’s “just asking questions,” the perceived line between fact and ...
20 Jan 29s
Niall Ferguson: What Happens Next in Iran Will Change the Middle East Forever
This week we're joined by historian Niall Ferguson to help me make sense of Iran’s unprecedented wave of protests. We talk about why this moment feels different to previous uprisings, the regime’s gro...
15 Jan 1h 6min
Maduro Is Gone. The Mafia State Remains.
Thor Halvorssen is a Venezuelan-born human rights campaigner and the founder of the Human Rights Foundation. His life as an activist began after his mother was shot and wounded by pro-regime forces fo...
12 Jan 51min
How Cuba Propped Up Maduro
Gelet Martínez Fragela is a Cuban activist and journalist and a close watcher of Venezuela who’s tracked how authoritarianism hollowed out a once prosperous country. Gelet talks about the warning sig...
8 Jan 1h 12min
Is There a Science to Finding Love?
Dr. Anna Machin is a British evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Oxford who studies the neuroscience and psychology of love. Anna and I talk through what science actually says about attra...
5 Jan 1h 21min
