Conversations with Peter Boghossian

I pressed Laurence Vardaxoglou on the disinformation panic after Brexit and Trump. Were voters tricked by fake news, or did elites build an industry around refusing to accept defeat? More Laurence Vardaxoglou LinkedIn Find more Peter Boghossian.

Peter Boghossian and Oliver Hartwich examine difficult immigration questions. Can the West protect liberal values if it cannot screen for Islamism? Can education protect liberal democracy when some worldviews despise gays, Jews, and don't accept Western rules of law? More From Oliver Hartwich • Website: https://oliverhartwich.com Follow Peter Boghossian For More.

Florence Bergeaud-Blackler travels with armed guards. Her crime? Explaining what's halal and what's haram, and why that question is now deciding the future of Western Europe. More from Florence Bergeaud-Blackler • Website • Substack Find Peter Boghossian.

What can't you say about Russia in Western Europe? A lot, apparently. Former French military officer Philippe Baillé joins me to discuss information warfare, fake hate crimes, and the reality nobody will acknowledge. Find Peter Boghossian.

Peter Boghossian talks with Kevin Dahlgren, who spent thirty years in Portland social services. They cover open-air shoplifting in San Francisco, catch-and-release policing, the homeless industrial complex, and why progressive nonprofits treat addicts as untouchable victims instead of people who need treatment. Follow Peter Boghossian for more.

Western schools teach students that America is the villain while ignoring Stalin, Mao, and the gulags. Author Elizabeth Rata tells Peter Boghossian that a rigorous world history curriculum is the only way children learn to recognize totalitarianism for themselves. https://elizabethrata.com/ Follow Peter Boghossian on X.

Peter Greste spent 400 days in an Egyptian prison on fabricated terrorism charges. What solitary confinement does to your mind. Find Peter Boghossian.

California's governor candidates were asked if truck drivers should be able to read road signs. Most of them said no. Anyone who believes truck drivers don't need to understand road signs is a moron. I go through their answers so you don't have to. Follow Peter Boghossian for more.

Munz is the President of New Zealand's Black Power gang. He's been a Black Power elder for 40 years, married to the same woman for 42, and is currently banned by court order from sleeping in his own home. This is our candid conversation.  Follow Peter Boghossian for more.

Grub is the Vice President of New Zealand's Black Power gang. We discussed his prison experience, morality, and what it takes to keep young men from throwing their lives away. Follow Peter Boghossion.

Denis is an elder in Black Power, one of New Zealand's oldest gangs. He trained to be a Catholic priest, built work cooperatives for thousands of gang members, and watched the govt dismantle them. He leads this series of candid interviews with leaders of the Black Power gang. Follow Peter Boghossian for more.

I talked with Iranian activist Morteza who watched Islamism dismantle a secular government from the inside. He thinks he sees the same patterns in NYC with Mamdani and he wants Americans to ask themselves whether they are paying attention before it is too late. More from Morteza YouTube More from Peter Boghossian 

Why nobody is talking about the one thing everything depends upon. Peter Boghossian puts that question to Doomberg, the famous anonymous analyst who appears as a green chicken. He's built an extraordinary following by being honest about what the establishment won't. They cover the US dollar, the AI arms race, the Iran war, the renewables fantasy, and end on a question Doomberg is turning into a book: How do you find the truth when everything looks like propaganda? More from Doomberg Substack X Instagram Click here for more Peter Boghossian 

If you cannot name one statistic supporting your position, you do not have a position. You have a feeling you are too afraid to examine. Peter Boghossian walks through two viral clips of politicians defending claims about immigration and antisemitism while knowing nothing, and saying less. Ideology does not just distort thinking. It replaces it. Viral Clip 1: https://tinyurl.com/nf283vsm Viral Clip 2: https://tinyurl.com/6msnnb5e Click for more Peter Boghossian.

I spent an hour with Bryan Caplan, who argues that education has become a religion; most people inside it are too compromised to admit it. More from Bryan Website: http://www.bcaplan.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bryan.caplan.1/ X: https://x.com/bryan_caplan Substack: https://substack.com/@betonit YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BryanDCaplan Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Bryan-Douglas-Caplan/author/B001JSCEV0 Click here for more Peter Boghossian.

New Zealand's based Deputy PM legalized assisted dying, pushed back against government housing, and went to war with media editors. I asked the great David Seymour if the welfare state has failed. He said we've had a century of evidence. Draw your own conclusions.   More From David Seymour Facebook Instagram YouTube   Follow Peter Boghossian for more.

Peter Boghossian presses Dr. Drew on the treatments medicine won't touch, including ibogaine for opioid addiction, peptides, GLP-1 risks, and hormone replacement therapy. Dr. Drew doesn't hedge. What emerges is an argument for evidence-based medicine in an era of regulatory timidity, and with Trump's executive order on psychedelics, that conversation just became more urgent. The discussion ends where it should, not with longevity hacks, but with the question of what makes a life worth living. For more Dr. Drew Website Follow Peter Boghossin for more.

I engage Physician and author Aaron Stupple on whether children deserve full sovereignty, and why the answer exposes a contradiction in how we raise our kids. More From Aaron Articles: The Techno Optimist's Guide to Futureproofing Your Child Books: The Sovereign Child Follow Peter Boghossian.

Craig Biddle makes the case that Objectivism is not simply Ayn Rand's philosophy but the only philosophically defensible foundation for individual rights, reason, and a free society. Peter Boghossian pushes back, probing the epistemological claims, the treatment of altruism, and whether a closed system can survive genuine philosophical scrutiny. What emerges is a collision between a defender of a complete moral framework and a skeptic who refuses to let any idea off the hook. If you think philosophy is abstract, this conversation will change your mind. More From Craig Biddle YouTube Twitter Website Follow Peter Boghossian for more.

Project Hail Mary is rare: A science fiction film that refuses to talk down to its audience, built on hard physics, curiosity, and two characters solving problems through reason rather than force. Peter Boghossian, Reid Nicewonder, and Brett Hall dig into what the film gets right about how knowledge is actually created, why scientific progress may require open societies, and what it would mean to encounter a civilization that evolved entirely different physics. The film's quiet optimism turns out to be its most radical feature. More From Brett Hall Twitter: @ToKTeacher YT: @bretthall9080   Follow Peter Boghossian for more.

Is eating animals a moral duty? Philosopher Nick Zangwill says yes, and the argument is more rigorous than you'd expect: Farm animals are created for a purpose, and failing to eat them is a failure to respect that purpose. More from Nick YouTube Read His Essay on Moral Duty to Eat Animals Follow Peter Boghossian Here.

When a Sydney mother posted a video questioning a primary school queer club, the government moved to silence her. She fought back and won. Celine Baumgarten's story covers free speech, government censorship, and what happens when a parent decides not to back down. More from Celine Twitter Youtube  Instagram Follow Peter Boghossian here.

I asked Michael Shermer why the institutions built to find truth became its greatest liability. From alien life to Islamic immigration to the death of expert credibility, our institutions have betrayed public trust. More Michael Shermer Website Youtube Book: Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters  See more from Peter here.

Britain is being transformed beyond recognition and nobody voted for it. I asked Matt Goodwin whether the mechanisms to stop it have already been dismantled. More from Matt Goodwin Writer, nearly 100k readers http://mattgoodwin.org  Author Suicide of a Nation https://shorturl.at/WHCLV  LinkTree https://linktr.ee/mattgoodwin More from Peter Boghossian.

Peter Boghossian walks through Central Park with poet, tarot reader, and bird whisperer Enrique Enriquez. They discuss augury, devotional joy, the language of birds, and the crisis of meaning plaguing young men. Contact Enrique here. Follow Peter Boghossian for more.

Hunter Ash left the left not out of disillusionment but logic. He and Peter Boghossian trace the path from progressive true believer to post-rationalist: Why language became a weapon, what the "progressive stack" is really doing, and whether liberal institutions can survive their own tolerance. See more Peter Boghossian here.

Global macro strategist Michael Every of Rabobank joins Peter Boghossian to dissect how conflict in the Middle East is fracturing global energy markets, exposing the fatal flaw in mainstream economic models: They assume everything returns to normal. From the Strait of Hormuz and dollar dynamics to "reverse perestroika" and the Taiwan question, Every builds a geopolitical and financial framework most analysts refuse to confront. This is the kind of conversation that makes the comfortable assumption of stability look like willful blindness. Click here for more Peter Boghossian.

Is Islam compatible with liberal democracy? Peter and French economist Ferghane Azihari follow the data where it leads. See what Peter's been up to here.

How did queer theory move from a deranged academic ideology to popular, received wisdom? Anita Bartholomew joins me to trace the ideology's rise and the cost to children. Watch full video here. Read more from Peter Boghossian

Philosophy professor and elite climber Bill Ramsey argues that a life without struggle cannot be fulfilling. The same honesty demanded by a rock face should be demanded of us by reason. Watch full video here. Follow Peter Boghossian

Angela Todd is the founder of PDX Real, a Portland Oregon based citizen journalist covering politics, crime, and the realities facing the city. Watch full video here. Follow Peter Boghossian

Europe is sleepwalking into a demographic crisis it may not survive. Jan Vandebeek, Dutch researcher and data scientist, joins Peter Boghossian to lay out the hard numbers behind mass immigration into Europe, the failure of multiculturalism, and what happens to liberal democracy when the population replacing it doesn't share its values. This is not a conversation about feelings. It's a conversation about data, sovereignty, and civilizational survival. Watch full video here. Follow Peter Boghossian

Hakim El Karoui is head of the Paris office of Brunswick, a UK-based communications consultancy. He has authored the report on Islam in France, Un islam français est possible, and Nouveau monde arabe, nouvelle politique arabe pour la France (the New Arab world, a new "Arab policy" for France). We discuss Islamism in France, the Far-Right and Far-Left, assimilation, and more. Watch this episode on YouTube. Follow Peter Boghossian

Nicolas Pouvreau-Monti is director and co-founder of the Observatoire de l'Immigration & de la Démographie (OID), a French think-tank that provides objective facts and data as well as legal recommendations for sensible immigration policies and effective border control in France and Europe. We discuss immigration data, integration challenges, the rise of Islam and anti-Semitism, political constraints, and more. Watch this episode on YouTube. Follow Peter Boghossian

Thibault de Montbrial is a prominent French lawyer, security expert, author, and public intellectual known especially for his work on internal security, counter-terrorism, and public order in France. He spent over 30 years working against radical Islam and its growing threat in France and Western Europe. He shares his firsthand experiences, insights on the socio-political dynamics, and the challenges of addressing radical Islam while confronting societal denial and political inertia.  Watch this episode on YouTube. Follow Peter Boghossian

Franklin Camargo has a number of radioactive beliefs. He thinks America's incarceration rate is too low. That Trump is the most pro-gay president in American history (I baited him on that one). We get into his beliefs and I challenge him with arguments from left, right, center, and stratosphere. Franklin is a political commentator who fled Venezuela after the Maduro regime accused him of terrorism for the crime of debating a professor in class. As he tells it, the director of his university said to him, "This is a communist and revolutionary university. If you don't like it, go to Harvard." If only he knew!  Watch this episode on YouTube and read more on Substack. Follow Peter Boghossian

Shabbos Kestenbaum is a 26-year-old Orthodox Jewish Harvard graduate who sued his university for failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment and violence on campus. A week earlier, we'd had Raymond Ibrahim on the show. During that taping, our cameraman, a young man, got heated enough about what he was hearing that he interrupted the recording to challenge Raymond's claims. So when Shabbos came on the following week, I decided to give the cameraman a proper seat at the table.  Watch this episode on YouTube and read more on Substack. Follow Peter Boghossian      

Peter Boghossian, Reid Nicewonder, and Brett Hall review the show "Pluribus." Watch this episode on YouTube. Listen to Part 1 of this conversation. Follow Peter Boghossian

Eric Meder is a privacy advocate who teaches people how to escape the "surveillance state." Watch this episode on YouTube. Follow Peter Boghossian

The resurgence of Nazi sympathizers on the American Right demands unflinching scrutiny. That's why I sat down with John Kirbow, a US Army PSYOP veteran and counter-extremism expert, to dissect "Hipster Nazism". Hipster Nazism is a slick, social media-savvy strain of Jew hatred that's infiltrated conservative circles. Our conversation cuts straight to the core: How do these narratives spread? Why do societies fail to counter them effectively? Kirbow draws on behavioral science, psywar tactics, and real-world examples, including screenshots of Nazi doublespeak, to reveal the psychology of radicalization. We explored meme warfare, satire as a weapon, and the need to transcend tired Left-Right binaries in favor of defending liberty, dignity, and the Constitution against all threats. It's a dialogue that equips viewers with tools to spot and dismantle this poison before it metastasizes further.  Watch this episode on YouTube and read more on Substack. Follow Peter Boghossian

There's really only one question for any economist or political scientist to be asking right now: What will we be post-Trump? An imperialist dictatorship rampaging across the world? An industrial superpower? Impoverished and corrupt? Michael Every and I took our stabs at answering the question.  Watch this episode on YouTube and read more on Substack. Follow Peter Boghossian

During my in-person interview with Raymond Ibrahim in LA, both of the cameramen freaked out and walked off the set. Two out of two! Our conversations touched on various aspects of Islam. Raymond's book Raymond's YouTube channel & X Watch this episode on YouTube and read more on Substack. Follow Peter Boghossian

Author and friend of the show Lionel Shriver comes on to discuss the immigration topics in her new novel, "A Better Life." Buy Lionel's new novel, "A Better Life"  Watch this episode on YouTube.  Follow Peter Boghossian

Kevin Dahlgren covers what's going on on the streets of Portland, Oregon. His work covers homelessness, addiction, policy, and other factors that have led to the decline of this city. Truth on the Streets Substack Watch this episode on YouTube.  Follow Peter Boghossian

Author Steven Goldman comes on the show to discuss Albert Einstein's impact on philosophy. Watch this episode on YouTube.  Follow Peter Boghossian

I'm very grateful that British Muslim apologist Subboor Ahmad came on the show. Subboor is a debater, writer, and podcaster who engages topics in philosophy, atheism, and evolutionary biology from a staunchly Islamic perspective. He has a master's degree in philosophy from Birkbeck, University of London, and he focuses on critiquing evolution and atheism while traveling globally to teach Muslims how to articulate Islam to non-Muslims. Watch this episode on YouTube and read more on Substack. Follow Peter Boghossian

Dave Silverman remains the most uncompromising atheist I've ever met (coming from me, that's quite the statement), and we've been friends for over a decade. Even when we've been on opposite sides of culture-war issues, we've never traded a harsh word. In this conversation, we talk about why identitarian leftists are unwilling to defend their beliefs, the Atheist movement, #MeToo, and more.  Watch this episode on YouTube and read more on Substack. Follow Peter Boghossian

Matt Thornton is one of my closest friends. We have, as Aristotle describes, a friendship of virtue—one I'm profoundly grateful for. It was a genuine pleasure to sit down with Matt and discuss violence, Jew hatred, and the strange idea that has gained so much traction lately: "Silence is violence."  Watch this episode on YouTube and read the accompanying Substack post. Follow Peter Boghossian

Lubna is a YouTuber covering political and social affairs in Britain. As a British woman with Pakistani and Indian heritage, she facilitates discussions about Islam in Britain, current events, and more. Find Lubna's latest book here: https://amzn.eu/d/3R8p662 Watch this episode on YouTube.  Follow Peter Boghossian

Eliah Overbey is an Assistant Professor of Bioastronautics at the University of Austin. (She also co-founded the Space Omics and Medical Atlas, a biobank that's generated over 90% of publicly available astronaut omics data, and integrating samples from missions like Inspiration4, NASA's Twins Study, and JAXA projects. She specializes in studying genomic and molecular changes in astronaut health during spaceflight. I had the opportunity to ask every question I've ever had about astronaut health, and then some more on top of those!  Watch this episode on YouTube and read the accompanying Substack post. Follow Peter Boghossian