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#403 — Sanity Check on Trump 2.0

#402 — The Geopolitics of Trump 2.0

#401 — Christian Nationalism and the New Right

#400 — The Politics of Information

#399 — The Politics of Catastrophe

#398 — Thoughts Without a Thinker

#397 — A New Year's Message from Sam

#396 — The Way Forward

#395 — Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents

#394 — Bringing Back the Mammoth

#393 — Is History Repeating Itself?

#392 — Technology & Culture

#391 — The Reckoning

#390 — Final Thoughts on the 2024 Presidential Election

#389 — The Politics of Risk

#388 — What Is Life?

#387 — Politics & Power

#386 — Information & Social Order

#385 — AI Utopia

#384 — Stress Testing Our Democracy

#383 — Where Are the Grown-Ups?

#382 — The Eye of Nature

#381 — Delusions, Right and Left

#380 — The Roots of Attention

#379 — Regulating Artificial Intelligence

#378 — Digital Delusions

#377 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2

#376 — How Democracies Fail

#375 — On the Attempted Assassination of President Trump

#374 — Consciousness and the Physical World

#373 — Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism

#372 — Life & Work

#371 — What the Hell Is Happening?

#370 — Gender Apartheid and the Future of Iran

#369 — Escaping Death

#368 — Freedom & Censorship

#367 — Campus Protests, Antisemitism, and Western Values

#366 — Urban Warfare 2.0

#365 — Reality Check

#364 — Facts & Values

#363 — Knowledge Work

#362 — Six Months of War

#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism

#360 — We Really Don't Have Free Will?

#359 — Getting Used to It

#358 — The War in Ukraine

#357 — America & World Order

#356 — Islam & Freedom

#355 — A Falling World

#354 — Is Moral Progress a Fantasy?

#353 — Race & Reason

#352 — Hubris & Chaos

#351 — 5 Myths about Israel and the War in Gaza

#350 — Sharing Reality

#349 — Generosity, Cynicism, and the Future of Doing Good

#348 — The Politics of Antisemitism

#347 — Finding Sanity in 2024

#346 — The Best Kept Secret In History?

#345 — Resilience

#344 — The War in Gaza

#343 — What Is "Islamophobia"?

#342 — Animal Minds & Moral Truths

#341 — Gaza & Global Order

#340 — The Bright Line Between Good and Evil

#339 — The Infernal Logic of Jihad

#338 — The Sin of Moral Equivalence

#337 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine

#336 — The Roots of Identity Politics

#335 — A Postmortem on My Response to Covid

#334 — The Low-Trust Society

#333 — Sanity Check on Climate Change

#332 — Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence?

#331 — A Golden Age for Assholes

#330 — The Doomsday Machine

#329 — What Happened to the Republican Party?

#328 — Health & Longevity

#327 — Transformative Experiences

#326 — AI & Information Integrity

#325 — A Few Thoughts About RFK Jr.

#324 — Debating the Future of AI

#323 — Science & Survival

#322 — Predicting Reality

#321 — Reckoning with Parfit

#320 — Constructing Self and World

#319 — The Digital Multiverse

#318 — Physics & Philosophy

#317 — What Do We Know About Our Minds?

#316 — Self-Defense: Reality and Fantasy

#315 — The Great Derangement

#314 — The Cancellation of J.K. Rowling

#313 — Apocalypse

#312 — The Trouble with AI

#311 — Did SARS-CoV-2 Escape from a Lab?

#310 — Social Media & Public Trust

#309 — Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth

#308 — The Long Game

#307 — Twitter, Elon, & Free Speech

#306 — Psychedelics & Mortality

#305 — Moral Knowledge

#304 — Why I Left Twitter