113. Dave Rubin — Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
The left is no longer liberal. Once on the side of free speech and tolerance, progressives now ban speakers from college campuses, "cancel" people who aren't up to date on the latest genders, and forc...
28 Apr 20201h 25min
112. Ann Druyan — Cosmos: Possible Worlds
In this sequel to Carl Sagan's beloved classic and the companion to the hit television series hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, the primary author of all the scripts for both this season and the previou...
21 Apr 20201h 32min
111. Scott Barry Kaufman — Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow's unfinished theory of transcendence, sprinkled throughout a cache of unpublished journals, lectures, and essays, he felt a deep resonance...
14 Apr 20201h 36min
110. Bart Ehrman — Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
According to a recent Pew Research poll, 72% of Americans believe in a literal heaven and 58% in a literal hell (more evidence of the over-optimism bias and self-serving bias). Worldwide, over two bil...
31 Mars 20201h 27min
109. Neil Shubin — Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth — a new view of the evolution of human and animal l...
24 Mars 20201h 30min
108. Brian Greene — Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find meaning in the face of this vast expanse. Greene takes us on a journey from the big bang to the...
17 Mars 20201h 12min
107. Fred Kaplan — The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war — and Presidents' actions in nuclear crises — from T...
10 Mars 20201h 19min
106. Daniel Chirot — You Say You Want a Revolution? Radical Idealism and its Tragic Consequences
Why have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times ended in bloody tragedies? What lessons can be drawn from these failures today, in a world where political extremism is on the rise and ratio...
3 Mars 20201h 37min
