258 - Richard Wolff: Donald Trump’s Tariff War Dissected
Support our sponsor, FarmKind, to fix factory farming: https://www.farmkind.givingThe code “ROBINSON” will increase your donation by 50% with a bump from large donors.Richard Wolff is Professor Emerit...
31 Aug 20252h 7min
257 - Carl Hart: The Neuroscience of Drugs and Their Role in the Good Life
Carl Hart is Mamie Phipps Clark Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, where he researches the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of psychoactive drugs in humans. In this wide-rangin...
17 Aug 20251h 45min
256 - Tim Maudlin: A Masterclass on the Philosophy of Time
Tim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. This is Tim’s eighth appearance on the show. His second to last appea...
3 Aug 20253h 8min
255 - Michael Hudson: Trump, China, AI, and the Untold History of Economics
Michael Hudson is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and President of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends. He researches dome...
20 Juli 20252h 37min
254 - The Yale US-China Forum: Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, Yannis Varoufakis, Robin Visser, Yascha Mounk, Pei Wang, Daniel Mattingly
In this special episode, Robinson and Karl Zheng Wang co-host at the Yale US-China Forum. Return guests from the show include Slavoj Žižek, Richard Wolff, and Yascha Mounk. Slavoj Žižek is internation...
6 Juli 20252h 4min
253 - Peter Zeihan: China’s Fall, America’s Rise, and the End of the World Order
Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical analyst, futurist, and best-selling author who researches and strategizes around demography, economics, energy, politics, technology, and security. In this episode, Pete...
22 Juni 20251h 7min
252 - David Kipping: Alien Civilizations, Megastructures, Spacecraft, and Artificial Intelligence
David Kipping is a Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University, where he runs Cool Worlds Lab and researches planets and moons that revolve around stars other than our own, in addition to his own wo...
8 Juni 20253h 5min
251 - Eliezer Yudkowsky: Artificial Intelligence and the End of Humanity
Eliezer Yudkowsky is a decision theorist, computer scientist, and author who co-founded and leads research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He is best known for his work on the alignmen...
25 Maj 20252h 51min
