How Come "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny"? (w/ R.S. Benedict)
R.S. Benedict is a speculative fiction writer whose popular 2021 essay "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny," published in Blood Knife, argued that the disappearance of sex from movies is linked...
20 Nov 202344min
How the U.S. "War on Terror" Spread Islamophobia Around the World (w/ Khaled Beydoun)
Khaled Beydoun is a professor of law at Wayne State and the author of two books, American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear and The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War o...
17 Nov 202346min
Where "Effective Altruism" and "Longtermism" Go Wrong (w/ Émile Torres)
Émile P. Torres is an intellectual historian who has recently become a prominent public critic of the ideologies of "effective altruism" and "longtermism," each of which is highly influential in Silic...
15 Nov 202355min
How to Manipulate The Public Into Believing Corporate Lies (w/ Jennifer Jacquet)
Jennifer Jacquet is not actually an evil corporate consultant. She's a professor in NYU's Department of Environmental Studies and deputy director of the school's Center for Environmental and Animal Pr...
13 Nov 202342min
How U.S. Foreign Policy Is Making War With China More Likely (w/ Van Jackson)
Van Jackson is a dissident among foreign policy intellectuals, a harsh critic of the infamous "Blob." His Un-Diplomatic newsletter is essential reading (and its accompanying podcast essential listenin...
10 Nov 202350min
How to Spot Pseudoscience About Sex Differences (w/ Cordelia Fine)
Cordelia Fine is a psychologist and philosopher of science whose work brilliantly demolishes myths about the "nature" of differences between men and women. Prof. Fine has written three books, A Mind o...
8 Nov 202350min
How to Respond to The Right—Introducing Nathan's New Book!
Today on the podcast: Nathan takes a turn as the guest, to discuss his new book Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments. Get your copy now! Responding to the Right goes thr...
6 Nov 20231h
What Living Under Jim Crow Was Like In New Orleans (w/ Adolph Reed)
“What I didn’t realize at the time was that what I was living through was the death paroxysms of the Jim Crow order.” — Adolph ReedProf. Adolph Reed Jr. has been called (by Cornel West) “the towering ...
3 Nov 202348min
