19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC
All of our Mice are Broken. On this episode of The Portal, Bret and Eric sit down alone with each other for the first time in public. There was no plan.There was however, a remarkable story of science...
18 Jan 20202h 17min
18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal & Chapter 2020
This "housekeeping" (cough cough) episode of The Portal is only for the hard core listeners who launched this experiment with us. This year we begin to take on the idea of the Distributed Idea Suppres...
15 Jan 20201h 8min
17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique”
Somewhere on the road between Stalingrad and Forever21, something essential got misplaced amidst the bathos. Eric works through a bottle of Red wine on air with social, literary and artistic theorist ...
21 Des 20192h 21min
16: Tyler Cowen - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized
In this episode, Eric sits down with Tyler Cowen to discuss how/why a Harvard educated chess prodigy would choose a commuter school to launch a stealth attack on the self-satisfied economic establishm...
17 Des 20192h 19min
15: Garrett Lisi - My Arch-nemesis, Myself.
Garrett Lisi, the so called "Surf Bum with a Theory of Everything (or T.O.E.)", is a PhD theoretical physicist who has refused to be captured by the theoretical physics community. By making shrewd inv...
6 Des 20191h 47min
14: London Tsai - The Reclusive Dean of The New Escherians
What happened to the Mathematical and Scientific art movement after MC Escher? It went underground. In this episode of the Portal, Eric begins tracking down the leaders of this hidden movement; one th...
1 Des 20191h 4min
13: Garry Kasparov - Avoiding Zugzwang in AI and Politics
In this cordially combative episode, Eric sits down with Russian chess legend, multiple-year champion and (inarguably) one of the greatest players of all time, Garry Kasparov. The two discuss transcen...
23 Nov 20191h 36min
12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine
In this episode, Vitalik Buterin sits down with Eric to discuss ethereum, the wider world of crypto and heterodox economics.Taking note of the new development of blockchain in 2010, Eric wrote an essa...
21 Nov 20191h 30min
