42: Cashing Out My Trump & IDW Positions
In this solo episode, Eric shares three related audio essays. In the first essay, Eric admits that he has spent the last four years asserting that Donald Trump represented an Existential Risk, but wit...
2 Dec 202054min
40: Introducing The Portal Essay Club - What if everyone is simply insane?
If you have ever wondered whether you were crazy when everyone else claims to see things differently than you do, this is the episode for you.Book clubs are everywhere and we are always asked for book...
12 Aug 20201h 11min
39: Admission To Sugar Baby U.
One of the pillars of the American Dream has been that of seeing your children go to college. And, for the many families that can't afford the cost of soaring university tuitions, a new controversial ...
30 Juli 20201h 51min
38: Mass Media, Markets, and Human Malware: A Portal Q&A
With this release, we try something a little different on The Portal. We begin an initiative to search for ways to feature members of the vibrant Portal sub-communities as part of the podcast itself, ...
10 Juli 202058min
37: Andrew Marantz - Surfing the Wake of The Woke
New Yorker writer and book author Andrew Marantz and Eric became friends shortly before the 2016 election when Andrew set off to write the first profile of Eric and Geometric Unity, his theory of Phys...
1 Juli 20203h 13min
36: Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz
Stephon Alexander is a first class jazz musician as well as a first rate physicist and a professor at Brown University. As the New President of the National Society of Black Physicists, Eric sits down...
11 Juni 20203h 12min
35: Balaji Srinivasan - The Heretic & The Virus
Investor Balaji Srinivasan is a highly original thinker in Silicon Valley on Biotech to Blockchain and everything in between. Most recently, he was quite early in warning us about the Corona virus and...
22 Maj 20203h 21min
