All Episodes

Claude Finds a New Genetic Mystery: AI Meets the Unknown (Debate)

Shadowing a Satellite: How War Reaches into Orbit (Debate)

The Price of Silence: Musk, NDAs, and Billionaire Power (Debate)

Russia's Invisible Election Campaign: The Machinery of Manufactured Division (Debate)

WeatherNext 3: AI Weather Forecasting Goes Hourly and Local (Debate)

The Sucky Supremes and the One-Way Ratchet of Religious Liberty (Debate)

The Bug in OpenAI's Boardroom: Inside an AI Lab Security Scare (Debate)

DOGE's Disaster: How Trump and Musk Hollowed Out Government (Debate)

When AI Decides Who Lives and Dies (Debate)

Trump's Nobel Grievance: Peace Claims Under Scrutiny (Debate)

Forecasting 21st Century Global Health Threats (Debate)

Who Gets to Teach AI Right from Wrong? (Debate)

financialcandy - Can a Citizens' Assembly Break the Social Security Deadlock? (Debate)

Ghost: Can Orbital Cargo Deliver Supplies Anywhere in 90 Minutes? (Debate)

Who Sets the Fall Vaccine Rules? (Debate)

How Russia Won: Trump's Dismantling of Election Defenses (Debate)

financialcandy - Will Bonds Blow Up? The Sovereign Debt Squeeze (Debate)

Russian Diesel, American Prices: What Happens When Sanctions Become Negotiable? (Debate)

When a Transplanted Heart Changes Age (Debate)

What If Consciousness Is the Wrong Question? (Debate)

The Return of Public Executions: America and the Spectacle of State Killing (Debate)

The Golden Bear: From Merchant Marine Training to a Proposed Deportation Ship (Debate)

One Death, No Confirmed Plague: How an Information Vacuum Fuels an Outbreak Rumor (Debate)

AI's Math Firehose: 372 Results, 722 Papers, and Who Checks the Work? (Debate)

Does Gravity Have to Be Quantum? Oppenheim's Radical Alternative (Debate)

The IceCube Nobel: How Neutrinos Opened a New Window on the Universe (Debate)

Agent of Whom? When AI Acts on Your Behalf (Debate)

When the Government Buys the President an Ad Campaign (Debate)

Can UBI Save America From the AI Jobs Crisis — Or Is the Social Contract Already Broken?

Could a Greenland Iceberg Really Send a Tsunami to Norway? (Debate)

When Does Distrust in Medicine Become Distrust of Science? (Debate)

Canada's 300,000 Reserve Goal: Separating Readiness from the U.S. Invasion Rumor (Debate)

Your Earbuds Need a Privacy Policy Now. That Should Bother You (Debate)

Bill Gates Isn't an AI Doomer. So Why Is He This Worried? (Debate)

The AI Fear Premium: Safety Warning, Engineering Failure, or Regulatory Strategy? (Debate)

Venezuela’s Vanishing Gold: What Happened to the Reserves—and Why New Bars Are Turning Up in America (Debate)

Greenland After the Annexation Threats (Debate)

Ukraine's New Long-Range War (Debate)

When AI Writes, Do We Stop Thinking? (Debate)

The Quiet ICE Surge: Immigration Enforcement in Everyday America (Debate)

Can We Hear the Northern Lights of a Distant Planet? (Debate)

Chasing the Shadow: Why People Cross the Earth for Six Minutes of Night (Debate)

Do Drone Boats Save Lives—or Normalize Robot War?

Is Trump Just Trolling, or Is the Trolling Itself Politically Dangerous?

Should We Tax AI That Replaces Human Workers?

Did Washington Delay Juneau's Flood Fix?

Do Podcasters Owe You the Truth?

Can a Missile Shield in Space Ever Work?

Debate: Independent Medical Society Guidance vs. Federal Vaccine Policy

The AI Homeschool Debate: Can AI Tutors Replace Direct Academic Instruction?

Should Any Job Be Off-Limits to AI?

Should Police Need a Warrant to Buy Your Location Data?

Digital Dollar, Private Hands

Are Shorts Training Us Not to Read?

Did Life Really Begin Twice?

Was William Barr’s Mueller Rollout a Political Cover-Up?

AI Escape or Experimental Failure? What the Evidence Actually Shows

Does the Age of the Galaxy Make Cosmic Silence Truly Strange?

Is Procrastination a Personal Failure?

Is the United States Already a Surveillance State?

Should Smartphone Privacy Be the Default?

After the Sandbox Escape: Can AI Labs Still Police Themselves?

The Genius Defense: Does Building Rockets Excuse Building Oligarchy?

Presidential Security or Presidential Vanity?

Would Repulsive Gravity Prove Gravity Is Quantum?

Should America Charge the World for Guarding Hormuz?

Can a Junta Save a Nation Democracy Couldn't?

Can Washington Own AI Without Owning Our Thoughts?

Are Ghost Ships Already Testing Europe?

Is Russia’s Wartime Social Contract Breaking?

Should We Engineer the Doomsday Glacier?

Is Disclosure Enough?

Is NSPM-7 Public Safety or Political Prosecution?

Horizon of Hope: The First Autonomous Maritime Rescue Debate

Is the Iran Deal a Sovereignty Trap?

Is America Driving Its Scientists Away?

Should the World Cup Become a Protest Stage?

Does Focus Training Really Work?

Is the Atlantic Cold Blob Proof the AMOC Is Weakening?

Should We Believe Helion’s Fusion Timeline?

Is Quantum Computing Mostly Promise—or Mostly Hype?

Sovereign Wealth Funds: Critiquing the AI Equity Proposal Debate

Should Presidents Get to Remodel the People’s Monuments?

Guardrails of Democracy: Stress-Testing the 2026 Midterms Debate

Is the White House Octagon Harmless Populism or National Humiliation?

Does SpaceX Prove Billionaires Build the Future?

Are EV Subsidies Worth It?

Should We Trust the Godfather of AI?

The Fifth Force: Discovery or Mirage?

Has Technology Made War Easier to Start and Harder to Win?

Is Modern Surveillance Too Dangerous for Democracy?

The Roberts Court and Presidential Power

Should Autonomous Drone Swarms Be Banned?