17 August 2018
“Down Goes Socialism”?
Bill Scher explains why his recent Politico piece received a hostile reception.
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A counternarrative on microaggressions
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter consider the effects of minor racial insults.
The weirdest thing in physics
Robert Wright and philosopher Tim Maudlin discuss quantum non-locality.
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Yielding to belief
Stephen Asma, author of the new book Why We Need Religion, says the positive effects of religion in one’s life are more important than verifying its eternal truths.
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What ’90s kids did and didn’t learn about sex
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Eve Fairbanks, author of a recent essay on how the 1990s shaped #MeToo, discuss the messages they were taught growing up about sex.
Trickle-down metaphysics
Gary Lachman, author of Dark Star Rising, says Nietzsche predicted the post-truth reality that made Trump’s presidency possible.
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Is DSA the Tea Party of 2018?
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and James Martin Cole, secretary of the Austin chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, compare the two political movements.
Is corporate diversity a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
Philosophers Dan Kaufman and Brian Leiter discuss the capitalist motivations behind diversity initiatives in business and academia.
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Vietnam as a cause of right-wing extremism
Historian Kathleen Belew discusses her new book about the origins of the modern white power movement, Bring the War Home.
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Modern male stereotypes: Homer Simpson vs. Harvey Weinstein
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Philip Christman, author of the recent essay “What Is It Like to Be a Man?”
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Are philosophy departments in danger?
Philosophers Daniel Kaufman and Justin Weinberg consider.
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Liberal Islamism?
New York Times correspondent David Kirkpatrick, author of the new book Into the Hands of the Soldiers, describes the diversity of Islamist thought seen during and after the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
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The real story of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Journalist Ben Blum discusses new findings that raise big doubts about one of the most famous studies in the history of psychology.
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Is Jordan Peterson peddling bunkum?
