Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

A leaked opinion from the US Supreme Court suggests that women's right to an abortion may be overturned in America. Who gets to decide hot-button cultural issues? What would this bombshell tell us abo...

5 Mai 202230min

How do taboo words develop, and why do we seem to be getting worse and worse at understanding each other? N. J. Enfield is a professor and the chair of linguistics at the University of Sydney, and a r...

27 Apr 20221h 15min

Jonathan Haidt is considered one of the world's most influential living psychologists. He's just penned a piece for The Atlantic titled Why The Past Ten Years Of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupi...

20 Apr 20221h 3min

Eric Fiegl-Ding is a Harvard epidemiologist and health economist. In January of 2020 he became one of the first prominent scientists to raise the alarm about the potential of a Covid catastrophe throu...

12 Apr 20221h 24min

Nathalie Tocci is a political scientist, Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen, and international relations expert specialising in the EU's role in peacekeeping. She also directs the Istitu...

7 Apr 20221h 13min

Lee Jussim is an American social psychologist and distinguished professor leading the Social Perception Laboratory at Rutgers University. He joins Josh for this fifth instalment of Permission To Think...

30 Mar 202258min

Michael Kimmage held the Russia/Ukraine portfolio in President Obama's State Department. He's an expert on international affairs, U.S.-Russian relations and American diplomatic history. Hosted on Acas...

24 Mar 202231min

Scott is the founder of the Center for the Science of Human Potential and the host of the #1 psychology podcast in the world. His latest book is Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization. Host...

22 Mar 20221h 11min