Addicted to Dopamine
Why is addiction (booze, drugs, and more) on the rise in the United States? Dr. Anna Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, and chief of the Stanford Addiction ...
23 Feb 20231h 14min
The Dictator's Handbook
Alistair Smith proposes that the only real thing governments differ on is how many selectors are needed for a leader to gain and keep power–everything is window dressing. He advocates for understandin...
15 Feb 202351min
Bonus: Ukraine Counterpoint with Kristaps
Kristaps Andrejsons is the host of "Eastern Borders" podcast, which formerly explored Soviet History, and is now an in-the-field news report on the conflict in Ukraine. Kristaps is a big NATO propone...
13 Feb 202351min
The Cost of Ukraine
We're almost a year into the conflict in Ukraine. What does a conclusion look like? How much is costing in terms of money and lives, and to what end? Author Ben Abelow joins to discuss the situati...
9 Feb 20231h 25min
Why America Can't Europe
What's the optimum size of a country? As countries get bigger, does the nature of governance necessarily change? In this episode, we explore scaling—how an increasingly large nation-state adapts, ...
1 Feb 20231h 30min
Stanford's Forbidden Words of Hilarious Evil
Stanford's Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative includes everything from the words "brave" to "crazy." The World's Smartest Podcast Network assembles to read the list and mercilessly laugh at it...
25 Jan 20231h 16min
ATA: Hollywood Sermonizing vs. Good Storytelling
CROSSOVER EPISODE from Alienating the Audience When does science fiction get "too political"? What separates a film with a strong point of view from stale publum or Woke pulpitry? Josh Jennings joins ...
23 Jan 20231h 17min
Fix Teenagers By Putting Them to Work
America has one educational path: go get a university degree! If you stray from it, you're in trouble. Could shifting the education system towards apprenticeships be a more effective way to help prepa...
18 Jan 202347min
