241. Jeff Maurer — I Might Be Wrong
Michael Shermer speaks with writer, comedian, and five-time Emmy winning Senior Writer for John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, Jeff Maurer, about the nature of creativity, comedy, politics, culture, and ...
15 Jan 20221h 36min
240. Leonard Mlodinow — Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
xtraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have proven that emotions are as critical to our well-being as thinking. In this conversation, Shermer and Mlodinow explore the new science of feel...
11 Jan 20221h 52min
239. Richard Firth-Godbehere — A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know
We humans like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, who, as a species, have relied on calculation and intellect to survive. But many of the most important moments in our history had little to ...
4 Jan 20221h 57min
238. Brian Klass — Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us
Does power corrupt, or are corrupt people drawn to power? Are entrepreneurs who embezzle and cops who kill the result of poorly designed systems or are they simply bad people? What sort of people aspi...
28 Des 20211h 40min
237. David Wengrow on The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike — either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrifi...
21 Des 20211h 33min
236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their diverse visions for...
18 Des 20211h 28min
235. Thomas Sowell: The Life and Work of the Legendary Social Theorist (Jason Riley)
Shermer speaks with Jason Riley about Maverick — the first-ever biography of Thomas Sowell, one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, Sowell has writ...
14 Des 20211h 36min
234. Matt Ridley on the Search for the Origin of COVID-19
A new virus descended on the human species in 2019 wreaking unprecedented havoc. Finding out where it came from and how it first jumped into people is an urgent priority, but early expectations that t...
11 Des 20211h 16min
