All Episodes

Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Simmel, Philosophy of Money, Ch. 1 (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Seeing Like A State (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Esotericism (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Oliver Traldi)

Can We Change Values? (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Continuing Education (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)

War (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

The Crisis of Culture (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

The World of Yesterday (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Taylor Swift's Engagement (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Orwell and Socialism (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Weird (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Plato's Republic (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Arnold Brooks)

Ritual (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Bullsh*t (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Kafka's 'The Castle' (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Fertility again (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Lyman Stone)

On woke (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Werner Zagrebbi)

Two Cultures again (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Alok Singh)

Open Socrates (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Perfection vs. greatness (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Fighting vs. arguing (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Activism (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Potential vs. achievement (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Polls vs. prediction markets (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Arnold Brooks)

Modernism (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Fear of persuasion (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Cancel culture (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Romantic validation (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Cryonics (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Taylor Swift (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Love triangles (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Color (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Power (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Experts vs. elites [Revisited] (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Protest (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Internet culture (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Katherine Dee)

Meta (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

The Two Cultures (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Multiculturalism (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Cultural evolution (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

3 Body Problem (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)

Corpses (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Nostalgia (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Resentment (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Social miracles (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Consumerism (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Disagreement and alienation (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Berislav Marušić)

Evidence order bias (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Theoretical vs. Practical Reason (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Laura Deming)

Psychoanalysis (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Jamieson Webster)

Inspiration (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Respect (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Fighting (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Contrarians (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Aella)

Robin's Birthday (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)

Fertility (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Advice (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Interpretation (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Arnold Brooks)

vibecamp (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

God (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Moore's Paradox (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

AI Risk (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with David Duvenaud)

Partiality (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Alignment and Competition (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

The Urge to Rebel (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

The Etiquette of Equality (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Transformative Choices (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Edgelord Energy (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Rory from The Violet Hour)

Management (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Apology (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Experts vs. Elites (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Sarcasm (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Who Must Be Persuaded By Explanations (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Utopia (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

The Intellectual vs. The Social (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Passion (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Joshua Fox)

Intellectuals (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Wanting to be Wanted (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

For Its Own Sake (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Why is Truth Good? (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with William Eliot)

The Sacred (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)

Is Life Worth Living? (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with William Eliot)

What is Sex? (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Audrey Pollnow)

Human Sacrifice

Glory

Frontstage / Backstage

Free Speech

Fraud

William James vs William Clifford

Belief Constraints

'Inadequate Equilibria'

'The Sentiment of Rationality'

Asceticism

Autodidact

Rot

Foreplay

Reform

Aliens

Purposes