Andrew Doyle: Trapped Between Woke Dogma and Right-Wing Populism
What began as a call for justice has, in many cases, become an engine of conformity. In this searching conversation, Andrew Doyle (author, satirist, and cultural critic) joins Michael Shermer to unpac...
10 Jun 20252h 13min
The Myths of American Capitalism Explained
Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism has unleashed unimaginable growth in opportunity and prosperity. And yet, at key points in American history, economic disruption has led to a gr...
31 Mai 20251h 45min
The Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning? Exploring Cosmic Origins
By most popular accounts, the universe started with a bang some 13.8 billion years ago. But what happened before the Big Bang? And how do we know it happened at all? Cosmologist Niayesh Afshordi and s...
27 Mai 20251h 34min
Believing Is Seeing: Inside the Modern Paranormal Movement
In 2010, in a small New Hampshire town, next door to a copy center and framing shop, a ghost lab opened. The Kitt Research Initiative's mission was to use the scientific method to document the existen...
24 Mai 20251h 22min
Inside the CIA's Mind Control Experiments
This is the inside story of the CIA's secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves. Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's most cunning chemist. As h...
20 Mai 20251h 33min
Neanderthals and Us: A Complex Story of Coexistence and Hybridization
In this eye-opening episode, Michael Shermer chats with evolutionist Telmo Pievani about the surprising coexistence—and hybridization—of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. They discuss recent scientific d...
17 Mai 20251h 33min
AI, Trade Wars, Degrowth: What's Next for the Global Economy?
Amid rising concerns about AI, inequality, trade wars, and globalization, New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist John Cassidy takes a bold approach: he tells the story of capitalism throu...
12 Mai 20251h 11min
Is Modern Life Making Us Miserable? What's Fueling the Mental Health Crisis & What Can Help?
What does your diet have to do with your mood? Is mercury in fish really dangerous? Psychiatrist Dr. Drew Ramsey joins Michael Shermer to discuss the science behind nutritional psychiatry and how food...
10 Mai 20251h 23min
