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Liberals Against Identity, Round 2 (w/ Yascha Mounk)
Listen now (57 mins) | The chickens come home to roost.
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Adaam James Levin-Areddy
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Vanessa Quirk
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The Identity Infection, Round 1 (w/ Yascha Mounk)
Listen now (70 mins) | What the Fou-cult hath wrought.
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Big Tech VS Democracy (w/ Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, & Jeremy Weinstein)
Listen now (65 mins) | Not everything can be optimized.
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What We Lose When We Break Free (w/ Yuval Levin)
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'I'm a Liberal Who Lost His Faith' (w/ Tom Holland)
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Marxism vs. The Media (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)
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To Our Supporters: You Rock & More.
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Why Everything Is a Culture War Thing (w/ Katie Herzog)
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LOCKED: James Kirchick on The End of Europe
From Viktor Orban to Sohrab Ahmari
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The Pros and Cons of 'Queer' (w/ Jamie Kirchick)
Listen now (111 mins) | What the gay movement got right.
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Adaam James Levin-Areddy
Uncertainty #13: Out of Service
After our conversation with Peter Turchin, Vanessa reflects on our culture of selfishness and concludes: we're doomed.
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A Huge Outpouring of Human Misery (w/ Peter Turchin)
Listen now (71 mins) | America’s averted catastrophe before — can we again?
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ROUGHT TRANSCRIPT: David Krakauer
We talk to the Santa Fe Institute President about the history of complexity science, artificial intelligence and the other technologies making us…
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Vanessa Quirk
Uncertainty #12: The Expert Paradox
In which Adaam can’t stop asking experts for help understanding why experts have gotten so terrible.
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Adaam James Levin-Areddy
The Long Shadow of Complexity (w/ David Krakauer)
Listen now (95 mins) | Down with academic disciplines.
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